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on Sat 19 Sep 09, 12:54 PM to AlexCobra's blog.
The proposed vetting and barring law, which ostensibly will keep the kids of this sceptred nation safe from paedos, is the subject of a current thread. While there is little I could add to the many good contributions I do think it's all part of a deeper malaise.
About four years back I took my twenty-month-old daughter to the local playground where she happily scaled everything climbable, including a whacking great slide. There she was, ascending with good, strong technique - as taught - while I attentively played fielder. Down she came with great glee, buzzing with achievement and off to the next attraction. She had over the preceeding six months fallen off things, got stuck, got frightened, needed helping down - all part of understanding the associated risks and the limits of her own ability, much as previous generations have done with trees and other natural challenges.
The sad bit came with a lull in activity and a hubbub of voices from the primary school next door. I peeked over the fence and saw an arbour with a little tight rope about knee high to the sprogs in the area. All the dozen or so kids were wearing crash helmets. This safety culture of ours (doubtless due to the litigious attitude imported from the USofA) is reducing people's ability to assess everyday risks and is stifling personal development.
There is more... The pussification of the nation's boys ("don't do that, it's not nice. Girls don't do that etc etc") flies in the face of nature and, I reckon, can be damaging to society. OK, I've no PhD in this area but what I see are boys now grown up to the point where they can acquire alcohol and there's this burst of innate male characteristic which has had no education or channelling resulting in random violence. Allied to this is a lack of appreciation of consequence. Video games and films centred around violence do not deal with this and I challenge the world to prove that kids do not ape what they routinely see - I gather that in Japanese "learn" and "copy" are the same word.
Another part of this sickness is the institutional obfuscation of reality: knife crime, gun crime - not violent crime. The emphasis is always on hardware rather than behaviour. The epitome was a headline "Boy killed by knife" like it jumped up of its own accord and did the deed. So, ban this, ban that and the problem will go away. Those of us in possession of brains and opposable thumbs will always have access to weapons, either manufactured or spontaneously improvised - what is important is the will to use them.
Then there is the lack of proportionality. "Possibly" in the press or courtroom turns into "undoubtedly" while "probably" is never quantified. Wed that to the fad for Zero Tolerance - which has never been a human condition - and fantasy reigns.
It used to be a legal principle that the Man on the Clapham Omnibus - neither saint nor demon - was regarded as good and competent unless proven otherwise. The boot has shifted to the other foot and suspicion and condemnation are rife, unless one can, even without specific accusation, prove one is innocent. All this from a government which couldn't, in broad daylight, find its arse with both hands and the assistance of a very patient proctologist.
Tsk! Typos...
Edited Sat 20 Mar 10, 11:24 PM by AlexCobra
| 20 Sep 09, 12:35 PM Degenerate  UK(M), 5 yrs   |
This is a really great post Alex. Would have made a great discussion in the Activism forum too. I agree with much of what you say. Soon we'll have no sense left, as we'll be too busy following the regulations. I have always been suspicious of rules.. so many of them are unnecessary and avoidable. I rarely obey without believing something to necessary myself. The state has many reasons to teach us to obey instead of to think and it's technique improves fast. I find it all pretty alarming. De Sign up to CAAN's statement www.caan.org.uk | |
| 21 Sep 09, 10:12 AM AlexCobra UK(WC), 6 yrs |
Oh, there's more. With this bunch of clowns at Westminster where do you stop? | |
| 21 Sep 09, 10:49 AM AlexCobra UK(WC), 6 yrs |
I believe that all laws should repeatedly be tested to breaking point to find if they're good or not, and the bad ones chucked out or repaired, if possible. A 'government' which thinks it's there to pass laws rather than govern will of course come up with a pile of crap which needs a lot of sifting by the populace at large. Or we are not governed by consent and live in a dictatorship. Yours twooly, | |
| 21 Sep 09, 1:25 PM DarkLordDredd UK, 10 yrs |
What I have found fascinating about this governments legislation is that if we were ever fully intergrated into the EU, a good 95% of what they've introdcued would be __"illegal"__ under the EU's own rules and human rights legislatiopn which would take precident. I read a newspaper article translated into english that Bild published a couple of years back on the sex offenders regsiter. The Germans looked at it and dismissed it as ineffectual and not fit for purpose. It was alsp ointed out that it was also contrary to part of the ECHR, and the EU's own human rights legislation. Now we have the latest debacle introduced to keep the tabliods happy. This countrys administartors are far too busy with spin, rather than dealing with the real problems. The upcoming Operation Ore appeals will start to expose this bunch of clowns fro what they are, especially the ring master himself, Tony Blair. It seems that all NuLabour have done little, infact probably nothing to deal with the various problems, but it all looks good for the Daily Wail etc etc. Now the very people they hoped to appease are starting to have a go at them, and personally I hope that the first person wromngly barred under this new vetting system will take this lot of the Human Rights Court and sort them out! Never ever accused of knowingly ever doing anything nice! |
