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Ben,
at last someone who actually has a name to respond to. Because the majority of users to this site are hiding under the moniker "anonymous" you may be under the impression that only one person from the village is up in arms, that is not the case. In the same way that some of the people who camp on the moor do not mistreat it, not all the people in the village are anti pagan. Whilst this country still has some freedoms left, how someone wants to spend time on the moor is up to them and their God, but when that time on the moor is spent damaging nature and leaving rubbish, then they become less welcome. I was up there this afternoon and I found two recent camps both with freshly axed branches in fires, one I know was left by a camper last night. Yes the trees that are being cut down do not look good but the trees were originally introduced for felling purposes and they have become too prolific but that does not mean that campers have the right to chop away at the trees that remain. Both of the branches that I found today were green wood, they would have never burnt in a month of Sundays but their removal puts at risk the health of the remaining trees.
As I said earlier today, it puzzles me why people can carry a full can of beer or tin of hot dogs, eat/drink the contents but not have the ability to carry the empty and lighter receptacles off the moor. It is also clear that some campers are carrying knives and axes onto the moor which I would have thought is a criminal offence and remember that if tyres are being slashed then a knife is the tool to do it with.
Personally I have not been rude to campers except for the toe rags from Manchester way a couple of years ago who lifted gates off the hinges and drove just about the edge of the moor and proceeded to drive round on a quad bike toting a couple of airguns. The campers I spoke to last weekend were pleasant but it appears that they were some of those who have cut down a tree and tried to burn it. They may have been educated but so was Tony Blair and who wants people like him on the moor?
There are over 120 households in the village and most of us have the knowledge to use the internet, do not assume that only one person is posting.
If users of the moor were to leave it as they would expect to find it, it would be better for all but that is clearly not the case but there is no evidence to suggest that anyone from the village is slashing tyres. Whilst I can fully understand why someone who has been a victim would be annoyed, the comments of some of the posters from the camping side does nothing to help the situation.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road