Sod
your Anti Social Behaviour Orders, and stuff your
restorative justice – its about time our 108
MLAs demonstrated some true grit, formed an Executive
and passed really hard-hitting Assembly laws which
will make parents pay through their pockets for
the disruptive actions of their guttersnipe, ill-bred
brats.
The
Blair Government, for all its patriotic drum beating
over Iraq and Afghanistan, clearly lacks the courage
to take on the hoods, thugs and bullies who have
turned many streets and estates in Britain and the
North into virtual no-go areas or human prisons
for the law-abiding, tax-paying, respectable people
in our society.
And
top of the hypocritical Pharisee list is the DUP.
For 35 years since its formation in 1971, the Paisleyite
party has mouthed off about being the champion of
law and order and wanting a devolved Stormont back
so draconian security policies can be introduced.
Then
what do the Paisleyites do when they become the
lead voice for unionism? Form a legislative government
and give the cops real powers to clean up the criminals?
Not
a chance! It seems the great bravehearts of the
DUP are really chicken littles when it comes to
taking positive decisions which would protect the
Northern community.
And
you Shinners needn't put on your pious hats. When
will you get off your backsides and do the decent
thing and join the Policing Board?
How
many more grannies have to be mugged? How many more
retired pensioners will be robbed? How many more
kids will commit suicide because of playground thugs?
How many more 12-year-old brats will fire BB guns
at people's homes because their parents are too
lazy to check up on their siblings?
We
can talk about hanging convicted child killers and
medically neutering convicted sex offenders until
the cows come home, but the changes won't realistically
happen at the top end of the law – we must
start at the bottom, in the homes with the parents.
Too
many parents see their kids as golden children,
not the tormenting brats who pitch apples at the
roof of a pensioner with a heart condition.
When
the psychopathic UVF killer Lennie Murphy –
the leader of the notorious Shankill Butchers gang
who tortured and mutilated many of their victims
- was himself shot dead by the Provos in November
1982, his mother, Joyce, said of him: “My Lenny
would not have hurt a fly.”
Okay,
so the majority of teenage joyriders, vandals and
playground bullies will not become the North's next
Lennie Murphy, but their parents must start paying
literally for their kids' destructive phases. If
the brats do the crime, the parents pay the fine.
But
some parents are as big a liars as their brats –
with the mothers the real offenders. If you complain
about their child's bullying, these super-bitches
will probably tell you to 'eff off'.
The
real shock is the behaviour of some of the so-called
'good living' mummies nowadays. They will quite
happily lie through their teeth rather than admit
their little darlings are intimidating elderly residents.
The
churches also face a moral dilemma. They have a
spiritual duty to reach out to hoods of all ages
in a bid to show them the Biblical Christian way
of life.
But
they must avoid the pitfall of becoming so caught
up in their crusade to convert such thugs that they
unwittingly ignore the spiritual needs of the existing
good families in their own flocks.
And
Young Offenders Centres should be more like the
nightmare world of the old fashioned borstals as
portrayed in the gruesome flick, Scum.
Modern
prisons are more like holiday camps with too much
cash wasted on facilities for inmates and fruitless
rehabilitation schemes. You are in jail to pay for
your crimes – not get fit in state-of-the-art
gyms at the taxpayers' expense.
If
these jailbirds want to stay fit, then put them
to work on Yank-style chain gangs mending the North's
pot-holed roads.
And
what's really amazing and amusing is how liberal,
do-gooders magically convert into raging fascists
demanding action from the heavy hand of the police
when its their kids who are being bullied, or their
homes that are being peppered with BB pellets.
There
is a perception the law is heavily weighted on the
side of the thugs. If you try to physically defend
yourself, family, or property from these vermin,
you will be the one most likely to suffer in court.
The
modern day hoods may break the law – but they
certainly know their own rights under the law.
A
fully operational Assembly could help right this
injustice by passing legislation giving judges more
power to hand out tougher sentences, especially
to morons who think its fun to attack emergency
ambulances and fire engines.
But
what is more worrying is that if the Assembly does
not work, and policing budgets are cut even more
under British Irish joint authority – how long
will it be before upright, educated, middle class
families adopt the battle cry – Up The Vigilantes!
