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The principal excuse from government spokesmen commenting on the our poor showing in the recent Unicef report on children was that the data was out of date. It’s the excuse they make fro every derogatory report. In this case did they really believe that the public would say, “But, of course, in the last year or so I have noticed how suddenly all the young people look so happy and how they are suddenly so polite to others”. There are just one or two who have taken to shooting their peers in their own homes.

Jane Godley said something on Radio 4’s Saturday Live which made me think. She was talking about her husbands family using guns and hse stressed that they were not something they felt big or proud about carrying; they were just a tool, only to be fired in extreme situations. And that is the big difference with the young people in South London. Their guns define their status. They are their “emperor’s clothes”. And that is what makes them so dangerous.

Where were the police?

A newspaper report tells us that a woman has been convicted for having ten children in her car.

She was collecting her small daughter from a party when a gang of thugs attacked them and the little girl’s friends. The woman dragged all the kids into the car and drove away from the thugs. The police stopped her and charged her with overloading the car. This happened 600 yards from where the incident occurred.

Why on earth did the police not rescue her and the kids from the gang instead of waiting safely to arrest her?

Pensioner Terrorists

I suggested in a previous post that there was no such thing as an elderly suicide bomber, but it is often the mature extremist who influences youth to commit the atrocities. There is a report today of a resurgence of organised soccer violence here in Scotland. The participants are under 20s whereas there is evidence that the organisers are in their 40s.

If the middle-aged or elderly can influence young people to evil and violence, why cannot parents and teachers produce a more benign influence?

Youth

It has always been true that young people are rebellious, but surely it is getting worse.

Why are young people so out of tune with their communities? Just two examples. Most crime in the UK is committed by the under 25 age group, especially minor violence and civil disruption. And who has ever heard of an elderly suicide bomber?

Surely before we can do anything about this, we need to discover the cause or causes. Is it their upbringing in the family, the lack of proper education or what?