public safety
Posted Mar 2, 2011 by anonymous | 138 views | 0 comments
2007: BRITISH STUPIDITY EPIDEMIC CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM ................... God knows why, but I'm watching Question Time on the BBC and a rather attractive young lady has opined thusly: 'People aren't scared of the police, this country is a pushover, you can get away with practically anything!' The young lady on Question Time is speaking for millions of Britons* who seem to believe that the nation has descended into sub-Mad Max ultraviolence. Can I be the first to ask, where are the teddy boys, punks, razor gangs, ice-cream warriors, mods, rockers, football casuals, blackshirts, paramilitaries, rioters, yardies, bovver boys and every other violent subculture that has terrified the country in the past hundred years? Which woolly liberals were running the country when Glasgow's hospitals were treating dozens of stab victims every Saturday night? When London's East End was rank with gangsterism, which faint-hearted sap coddled the Krays? Considering this, I've come to a realisation. It's not the government that's soft, and it's not the justice system that's stained with the ugly yellow streak of cowardice. It's the citizenry. Terrified by tales of roving bands of feral children, held housebound with horror as you watch the last dregs of British decency gurgle down the plug-hole? Well, that's life - ugly, dirty, coarse and dangerous. If you tremble in dread every time a gang of kids walk past, you're a pant-pissing jessie. Can anyone pinpoint the exact moment when Britain tired of stiff-upper-lips and decided to bolt the doors, quivering in dread in front of the TV
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