Rising Violent Disorder

Today brings yet more news of the growing violent crime problem in this country, with two men in Hertfordshire reportedly having been shot, leaving both lying critically ill in hospital.

This is just the latest in a long series of brutal and completely unacceptable assaults which are reaching seemingly epidemic proportions, and unfortunately becoming more common by the day.

Yesterday there was the tragic news that an eleven year old boy, Rhys Jones, had been shot dead on his way home from evening football training. Today, more shootings. Tomorrow it will be someone else.

Yet, what do the Government and the Police have so say about these incidents? Very little is the answer, and when they do eventually remark upon these cases, it is of small comfort to families like those of Garry Newlove, Evren Anil, or Rhys Jones.

I found this selective quote featured at the end of a BBC report particularly telling of the liberal establishment’s attitude: ‘He died because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time’. This apparently neutral statement in actual fact suggests that somehow the blame falls, in part, upon the shoulders of poor Rhys Jones, rather than the sickening thugs that murdered him – that being in the wrong place by his decision, he died, whereas being in the ‘right’ place, he would have survived.

Like those signs in car parks which tell you to hide your valuables, lest you tempt the poor criminal to steal them; this statement makes out that the victim is as much to blame for the crime as the perpetrator.

How many more people will be condemned to die; how many more families must suffer until something is done?

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