Why does the British Government care more about protecting civilians in Libya than it does about protecting them in Britain?
In this week alone a tiny little girl and an innocent shopkeeper have been shot and badly wounded in the London suburb of Stockwell, within sight of the Palace of Westminster.
They were caught in the crossfire of a gang war.
About 50 criminal gangs are said to be active in this area, and many of them are armed with guns, which our vaunted strict firearms laws have somehow failed to keep out of their hands.
And no help comes. The police sit on their fat backsides waiting for bad things to happen and then rush round too late. The courts strain to avoid sending wrongdoers to prison.
The prisons are run by the criminals, who get angry when warders try to deny them drugs and alcohol.
Ultra-violence and homicide are now so common that its perpetrators are often free after a few short years detained with a pool-table and lots of free methadone at the taxpayer’s expense.
The idea of protecting us – the civilians of Britain – with a proper patrolling police force, severe justice and the effective deterrent of the death penalty is rejected with shuddering horror by the comically misnamed Conservative Party that dominates the Government.
And such suggestions are regarded as positively wicked by the Liberal Democrats who sustain the Coalition.
Even those of them who pretend to believe in the death penalty will say: ‘But what if
an innocent person got killed by mistake?’
Yet when it comes to Libya the same people suddenly lose all their doubts.
They’ll protect Libyan civilians by dropping tons of high explosive on anyone who attacks them. If innocent people are killed by mistake, and they have been and will be, that is ‘collateral damage’, sad but acceptable.
They have obviously discussed killing Colonel Gaddafi because of his undoubted crimes against humanity. But they won’t hang a British murderer for his crimes against us.
Why do this miserable bunch of vain poseurs have to go to North Africa to do justice?
Why are they more interested in helping an Islamic mob in Benghazi than in protecting the British people who pay their huge wages? Why can’t justice begin at home?
A snarling menace, let off the leash by liberal ‘justice’
The liberal elite like to think that they have made Britain more civilised by being kinder to bad people. They think that the days of ugly mobs baying round the Tyburn gallows are over for good.
Let them examine the scenes in Swindon last week, as a man accused of a rather nasty murder, but not convicted of it, was brought to court. I lived and worked for some years in Swindon and still sometimes visit it. It is not specially worse than anywhere else in the New Britain, reasonably prosperous and certainly far more so than when I first knew it nearly 40 years ago.
But the inflamed crowd, with its tattooed faces and furious rage, was as close to a lynch mob as anything we have yet seen in the 21st Century. As I believe in justice rather than vengeance, in the presumption of innocence and the rule of law, I thought the crowd was frightening. I do not think it will be that long before such a mob gets hold of its victim and horrible things follow. I hope not. I will do what I can to prevent it. But I will not be surprised.
This scene would have been unthinkable in the early Seventies Swindon I knew. At that time, Britain had only recently begun on Roy Jenkins’s great liberal experiment – divorce on demand, subsidised one-parent families, covert legalisation of drugs, vast ill-disciplined comprehensive schools, abolition of beat policing, abolition of the death penalty, relaxed prison regime, easy bail and the rest.
The trouble with this experiment is that the consequences are horrible, but only for the people who live in Swindon and not – yet – for those who still think it was all a jolly good idea. By the time the tattooed mobs are raging in their nice villages and comfy suburbs, it will be too late to put it right.
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According to the Sentencing Guidelines Council, you can now be found with a bag of dope big enough to pull your arm out of its socket and not be considered a serious criminal. Cue outrage.
But not from me. I do not understand why we treat drug-dealers as wicked, vicious criminals, while treating moronic, self-destructive drug-users as victims. It is users who bring misery to their families by wrecking their mental health. It is users who commit crime to pay for their pleasure. It is users who become a danger to their fellow creatures. If there were no users, there would be no dealers. Yet their numbers grow because possession of cannabis, cocaine and heroin is now effectively legal.
This is a limitlessly stupid and irresponsible policy, and the cause of endless misery and crime. The sooner we realise the extent of the Government’s surrender to drugs, the sooner we may come to our senses and reverse it. But will we?
The senior levels of politics are full of people who have taken drugs, or have friends who take drugs. What would happen if a mid-level Minister were revealed as a recent user of cocaine, or a Cabinet Minister found to have attended a recent party where cocaine was openly snorted?
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Let us hope and pray that some good comes from the unbearable death of
ten-year-old Harry Hucknall, found hanged at his Cumbria home last September. Somebody had ‘diagnosed’ this little boy with clinical depression and ‘ADHD’ and had prescribed an anti-depressant and Ritalin. The poor child had been horribly bullied at school.
His parents were separated. He had moved home 14 times. It is hardly surprising that he was unhappy. Why on earth would anyone think that drugs were the answer?
West Cumbria Coroner Ian Smith said that Harry had been given ‘two powerful, mind-altering drugs’. He urged doctors to be ‘extremely careful in prescribing such medication’. I congratulate him on his understatement.
Harry’s case became known because his cousin is a rock star. How many other tragedies like this are going unreported? We are long overdue for a proper inquiry into the prescribing of such drugs, especially to children. Let it come soon, please.
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