Bag's Rants

You reap what you sow.

Police investigating the accidental running over of a seven year old girl had stones and missiles thrown at them by youths. A police car was damaged and they retreated. It seems that community workers tried to defuse the situation but other adults did nothing. Read here.

There are two things here. The first is that the youths threw the stones and the police retreated. I was surprised that was seen as a problem. Nowadays the youths can't be stopped because it denies them their basic rights or something and our police always seem to back off if it comes to butting heads. A policy that emboldens these people and makes these scenes more likely.

The second is that adults stood by an did nothing. I don't think I would do anything either. If you did you would end up being stabbed or shot as the police were racing away. You don't have a right to self defence and the capability is removed as the police are supposed to look after you and they can't even look after themselves. In addition the police would be looking for you ten minutes later to arrest you for crimes against humanity if you shouted at them. The community workers probably went around saying 'Don't do that' as anything else would have been too risky. Again policy encourages people not to get involved.

You reap what you sow. And Labour have sown a lot over the last decade.

posted by Bag @ 6:57 pm