Bollocks. What a load of absolute liberal twuntage. Tell it to the kids who play football, barefoot, in real slums overseas.
How fucking dare certain people in this country – the 'trendy' liberal wankers who think the mere fact that they read the Guardian and automatically diss the Mail makes them right – attribute the cause of murders to young people being alienated by the rest of us? Who are they alienated from? Their parents? Oh, well, that's OK then. That makes sense – there's a solid reason, so let's dish out a 100-hour community sentence for a life taken, shall we?
You tell me why members of my own family who don't have a roof over their heads that never leaks and who have queued for bits of food, and waited patiently, and seen (too many) deaths, but get on with it, and remain human and humane and retain their integrity... you tell me why it is that they – who have nothing – behave with dignity when our 'poor', 'needy', murdering fools value nothing and no one.
People carry out mindless actions because they are mindless. They don't have 'nothing'. They have too much. It's too fucking easy. They value jack shit. So, mired in their self-pity, in a world that proves that 'discipline' is just something they moan to their human rights lawyer about while bringing a case against a teacher, they become devoid of imagination, intellect, gumption, foresight, ambition or love for (or any concept of) their fellow man, and they regress. It's evolution in reverse, doing a handbrake turn en route.
And don't turn round to me, Ms Lilly-Livered, and bleat, 'well, they have never known love etcetera'... People have come out of orphanages and concentration camps and care homes, and all sorts of places far, far worse than the towns mentioned above, and have challenged themselves.
We do not have ghettos in this country. I have been to ghettos and no, we do not have ghettos in this country. We have a welfare state and we run our justice system in a manner that will surely make people laugh at our stupidity in generations to come. I hope.
There are people I know who have suffered in childhood (violence, sexual abuse, parental divorce, bereavement, bullying) who have not sunk into the gutter but instead get on with life. They are deeply decent people. So, don't you dare, Mr and Ms Liberty, pretend that those who cannot be arsed to do something are somehow our victims.
There is an abundance of liberalism that has gone so far up its own arse that it is giving itself a blow job as it peers around the other side.
Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.
This is a world where a Jehovah's Witness who abused many children is walking the streets because the judge said, well, he was a religious man, among other reasons, so it's OK, no need for jail, Mr Pervert. Pardon? So, if you are a religious person, who is surely meant to have a conscience, you can walk around and carry on living the life you lived before, having ruined the lives of so many? Is this really 2007? Are the judges sitting in padded rooms at the Maudsley Mental Hospital?
What use is it to endlessly debate the reasons in the way that Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith pledge to do? Come on. What? Another promise that we need to look into gun and knife crime? You don't say... Miss Smith has been in tears, talking about Rhys Jones, who was only 11 when a bullet landed in the back of his neck. Do something then. Change the laws of this land – make it law not laughable. If the much-quoted 'breakdown of the family' is what you believe is the cause, then provide the discipline that is by default so utterly lacking. Go on. Look at the judiciary and its rampant idiocy. DO SOMETHING.
The looks on the faces of the friends of poor dead Rhys Jones (pictured) are simply heartbreaking. I couldn't find the picture to post here but if you do see it, you'll know. It's the one where the boy in the middle, in the red shirt, is particularly bereft. He looks down, his eyes are fixed on the flowers laid on the ground for his friend. He has a small teddy in one hand and a small bunch of flowers clutched in the other. These are boys who still shared sweeties.The boy in red seems so puzzled, he is obviously deeply shocked and upset. He has lost his friend. He has also lost his childhood. Bang, bang. Will he have to also learn that the killer will be sentenced leniently because he came from a broken home/ was abused/ is 'young' or is religious? Well?????
I run a specialised holiday club. Many of our kids come from some of the worst backgrounds you could imagine.
ReplyDeleteWe are now in week 6 of our summer holiday and the kids are waiting at the door at 8am. Why?
Simple, they banned themselves from electronic entertainment, got into self-made fun and restored my faith in the true nature of kids.
Funnily enough they hold 'court' if someone breaks the rules and they are far harsher at dealing out a consequence than any of the staff!
So what's the answer? Stiffer punishments? What about children killing children---lock em up for life?
ReplyDeleteI understand your anger and frustration, but I don't understand what you propose should be done.
Minx, they sound like great kids, and what a good thing it is that you do. They have that spark about them that takes them from their deprived and awful backgrounds and makes them proactive and positive. That's brilliant work that you do.
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ReplyDeleteAs I said in my post, we need to stop pandering to people who commit crimes, we need to pass laws that are proper deterrents, build more rehabilitative jails, and create a justice system that has consistency and is not a regular laughing stock.
It is pathetic that discipline – and by that, I do not mean whipping children – is frowned upon by PC liberals whose eyes are so far off the ball that all they see are the human rights of the perpetrators rather than the people that have to put up with their idiocy and mindlessness.
I know teachers who are scared to tell kids off due to what they may get in return – they'll be hauled up (the teachers not the pupils) for wrongdoings and smacked in the mouth by feral parents. What kind of stupidity is that? What does that teach children?
Many things need to be done (as I said)! Change the law, start not tolerating anti-social behaviour, and stop using paltry excuses such as 'poverty' and 'an underprivileged childhood' when wrongdoers are caught, if indeed they are ever caught. It's utter rubbish. Impoverishment does not automatically breed bad people and it is tremendously insulting and patronising to say otherwise.
And, what about children killing children? Children are very capable of committing serious crimes and, in such cases, the punishment would depend on the crime. I haven't suggested locking anyone up for life; you have jumped on an extreme there that completely misses the points I made and it's not especially helpful.
We can wax lyrical and blame 'society' until we are, literally, blue in the face. But things are certainly not working at the moment, are they?