Altho'
Im not wi' Scripture cram'd,
I'm sure the Bible says
That
heedless sinners shall be damn'd,
Unless they mend their ways.
Robert burns
CHAPTER 46 OPPOSITION
Dear Charles.
Possible Opposition To Aurora
In response to your e-mail.
This is just a rough outline of who I believe will oppose Aurora. I'm not going to cite any authorities and I haven't done original research, so don't quote me. I'm sure the Home Office have plenty of proper research into the area.
One group are those directly affected by the scheme. Who's work may be affected. Those who fish the seas, farm the land or guard nature reserves directly affected.
Also those who's leisure is affected. Holiday home owners. Hoteliers. Sportsmen.
The media will be sympathetic to lost livelihoods if the victims are perceived of as honest but poor working men struggling to support a family.
The left wing liberal media types will be against greedy plutocrats, landlords, rich holiday home owners etc.
It is these richer people who will probably be the best organised and funded and they will attempt to mobilise the poorer affected groups.
We should try to influence the media against the rich landowning types and try to get them pointing out new job opportunities for the workers.
We must ensure plans include new housing, schools, hospitals. We must play up the construction jobs. Broadcasts must include the unemployed or school kids who want to work there. Maybe a few older folk with interesting faces who remember the decline of some former industry and how this will take its place. We must ensure that the launch site itself becomes a tourist attraction from the outset. If tourists come to see the track being built, then local hoteliers etc. will have less to moan about. Can we run open days? Competitions? Free tours etc? Maybe free on line video games of Aurora. Can we influence chat rooms without being found out?
Small 'c' conservatives will be uneasy and mistrustful about change. They could be mobilised by special interest groups seeking to preserve nature, views, peace and quiet or anything else that might impinge slightly on their perceived way of life.
I say perceived way of life because you'll find a lot of city types who've never watched a bird in their lives, will gladly support a nature reserve financially because they would like to be a thought of as nature lovers, not because they actually are.
We need to separate their idealistic notions from their reality. Again we should agree it's a shame about some nature reserve or whatever, but a lot of folk just like them will be getting new homes and jobs out of the scheme. Maybe we can say their own pension schemes will benefit from increased national wealth. their own children may be directly or indirectly employed by the scheme.
These people get a lot of their nature via TV. So we must have programmes on the brave, interesting work making new nature reserves in the security areas round the sites. Try and get some known personalities on side. Landscape gardeners. Fishing programmes. Maybe water colour competitions
Violent opposition will come from young men who feel themselves to be excluded from normal society.
As you
know we evolved as a hunter gatherer society and have not yet learnt
to deal with agriculture or industry properly. It was normal and
proper for young men to bond with each other as a hunting gang, and
to encourage each other to greater feet's of daring, trying to
increase their self confidence and status in the gang by showing off
their strength, daring and initiative. At the same time boys would be
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