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?

Where Does The Law Stand?

Sometimes you really do have to question where the law stands in this country, and just whom it aims to serve.

Over the weekend in Bristol, a batch of pure heroin reportedly caused the deaths of two drug addicts while leaving another two seriously ill in hospital after near fatal overdoses.

Subsequently, the police issued a city-wide warning to help raise awareness by calling for all Bristol drugs users to remain vigilant and take extra precautions when injecting themselves.

Since, in fact, the use of heroin is illegal, why are the police calling for criminals to be ‘careful’ when breaking the law? Perhaps the police should also be warning people to pay special attention when they speed on the motorway, or advising would-be murders to take extra care with knives or firearms in case they accidentally injure themselves in the course of a criminal act?

Will either bed-ridden Bristol addict be prosecuted for drug abuse? Highly unlikely, since the law no longer seems to condemn individual users, and quite often indulges them in their ‘illness’ as if it were similar to a common cold which can be caught without any individual responsibility.

Comparably, if you wish to break the law by using or selling drugs, then the likelihood of any retribution is so slim as to be almost negligible. On the other hand however, should you wish to stage a peaceful protest outside the home of Government in the nation’s capital, then you’ll be met with unbridled force and the full fury of the criminal legislative system.

So long as the authorities and the Government continue to believe that drug abusers, like criminals, are themselves victims of social problems caused by relative poverty and the state’s inadequacy to nanny them into submission, then Britain’s drugs problems will only grow, and public trust in the police will only decline yet further.

Heathrow Eco-loonie Camp

The CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) flags fluttering in the breeze signalled the arrival of the unwashed and matted-hair brigade gathering for their latest climate change camp on the outskirts of Heathrow.

Yesterday, fifty of its filthy occupants decided to march towards the airport, banging their drums like primitives and protesting loudly about the supposed current and future environmental impact of air travel.

Okay, so I generally do not agree with the neo-hippies’ claims of impending doom and disaster. However, what really vexed me about this particular protest was not the sight of a group of left-wing nutters masquerading as a friendly bunch of tree-huggers, but the fact that three hundred police officers were posted to supervise their protest and squalid anti-capitalist camp.

This seems to me to be overly excessive, especially at a time when most people in Britain will probably never see that many police in their entire life. I bet the grieving families of poor Garry Newlove and Evren Anil, who I mentioned yesterday, are wishing that at least one of those officers had been patrolling nearby when they were most needed.

Our Increasingly Violent Society

It seems that rarely a day goes by without another senseless and preventable murder taking place in Britain.

Yesterday, a man died in a London hospital a week after being stabbed and punched by two youths he confronted over throwing litter through his car window. At the weekend, Garry Newlove, died of injuries sustained when he approached a gang of teenagers who were damaging property in the road outside his house.

Sadly, it would seem that these attacks are becoming far more frequent and in certain areas almost common place. This is especially true of the big cities such as London, Nottingham, Manchester and Birmingham.

It is arguable that the increase in violence could be perceptive; that because the media now reports on these cases more widely and regularly than in the past, then people fear a threat which is, in reality, not actually increasing. However, I do not accept that to be true. Independent crime surveys continue to show a substantial increase in violent crime, with even the Government’s own manipulated figures showing a worryingly rapid rise.

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