As two boys aged just 12 and 13 have been arrested in Yorkshire England for the bashing murder of a 17 year old youth just two days ago, one over-riding thought occurred to me – the United Kingdom is saddled not just with the problem of a culture of youth violence, but rather something far more sinister.
We have produced a generation of kids who have no feelings whatsoever. No conscience, no conception of right or wrong. Having said that they sure do know that kicking a persons head like a football for several minutes is going to result in that persons death…yet they happily lay in to their victim with often several pairs of feet at a time.
The frightening thing is that these kids do not care. They care not one bit about inflicting suffering or even death on an innocent person; they have no fear of arrest – the reason being there are so very few consequences, certainly no serious ones, to punish them for what they do. They are a feral generation of unfeeling, cold, uncaring robots.
The blame lies in so many obvious places. However for every valid reason which clearly explains why this social catastrophe has happened, there are dozens of excuses thrown in to deny and avoid the truth.
* You cannot blame those single mothers who exist solely on welfare doing no work at all other than to produce successive babies to successive ill-chosen, inadequate men…
* You cannot blame violent films or ultra violent computer games where the focus is on shoot, bash and kill in order to score points and win…
* You cannot blame the liberal 24 hour licensing laws or the easy availability of cheap alcohol to underage kids…
* You cannot blame the homes these kids come from; no decent male role-model and often no idea of who ‘Dad’ even is…
* You cannot blame the overabundance of rights these kids have which in turn excuse them from responsibility…
* You cannot blame a media which rewards drug addicted, alcoholic young celebrities with endless publicity and hero status…
No, you cannot use any of these examples to explain why the United Kingdom is a nation in the grip of teen-terrorism because, behind all these reasons, is far too much truth for the Govt and society to cope with. A Govt that has actively encouraged entire households to sit on their backsides and collect money for doing nothing. A Govt that has bought millions of votes by actively encouraging and rewarding poor quality people to breed excessively. A Govt that has sanctioned far too many rights for these people and not balanced the scales with any responsibilities.
Caring parents have no right to discipline their children; teachers have no right to enforce discipline at school; irresponsible parenting has replaced responsible parenting; police have few to no adequate powers of authority.
Right now a huge mirror is being held to the face of British society and the reflection is ugly in it’s honesty.
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Yes, this is how the British Commissioner for Children, Sir Al Aynsley Green, would like to see young knife-carrying thugs dealt with by police.
or giving them a taste of their own medicine…
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