The Daily Mirror web site is publishing an item saying this:
“Peter Fahy said adults who turn a blind eye as youngsters roam streets tanked up on drink are as much at fault for the lawlessness blighting towns as the yobs themselves.”
“Peter Fahy said adults who turn a blind eye as youngsters roam streets tanked up on drink are as much at fault for the lawlessness blighting towns as the yobs themselves.”
By© Muhammad Haque
1010 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 15 August 2007
The Daily Mirror web site is publishing an item saying this:
“Peter Fahy said adults who turn a blind eye as youngsters roam streets tanked up on drink are as much at fault for the lawlessness blighting towns as the yobs themselves.”
The same line has been beamed across the UK [and beyond] by the BBC and other UK-based satellite and electronic media over the past 24 hours.
Does the evidence support Mr Fahy?
Is it just the parents and booze?
Or do schools and the ‘local education authorities’ in the UK have any responsibility?
What about the anti-social agenda being followed by the time-serving members of the local councils and those parts of those councils that make it their priority to IGNORE what local people say should be done?
Perhaps the Home Office research units and those who set the agenda for the Home Secretary [of the day] to make pronouncements on law and order and society have a lot to answer for?
May be even the Rupert Murdoch SUN and those that ape it in their own grubby way are to blame?
How much responsibility does the BBC - the multi media mega propaganda corporation that is openly exposed as a faker, carry for debasing the universal standards and values concerning behaviour and attitude?
How often do the Police look at the differences between good people in society and the bad?
And how often do the so-called ‘Police Authorities’ – such as the newly created London MPS actually examine all the key issues and correlate the needs with the service impartially?
Those issues together with the contents of the revisionist stuff about universal morality must be looked at and urgently.
And every time a Prime Minister or a former one or a Minister or a member of parliament makes a stupid statement, or sets or encourages a corrupting example, they must be exposed immediately as doping that rather being shielded. And the task of restoring respect for the neighbours must begin by restoring respect for all human lives.
At home and abroad.
Today and in retrospect and in prospect.
All bodies, institutions and entities in society and about society must be seen to be actually showing respect and recognition. Not just the parents, not just the booze merchants.
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Well that was pointless
15.08.2007 13:55
Which aspect of the BBC do you think causes yob violence and drinking? (personally, I'm not going to the pub tonight so I can be home in time for Heroes, but that' s just me....)
What do you think politicians should be doing about it? Introducing yet more policies designed to tackle antisocial behaviour, like ASBOs? Raising the drinking age to 21? Making police take a "zero tolerance" approach to kids seen with bottles of Strongbow? I'd love to see what response you'd get to those ideas on here....
As for schools - they teach about the dangers of drinking in PSHE already on many occasions during pupils' times in school. Do you want them to spend more time on it and less time on other subjects?
The only solution I can see is to push for some kind of tipping-point where idiotic and threatening behaviour by groups of teenagers - and, I stress, other members of the public too - becomes taboo. Smoking in a pub is now taboo, saying you're going to drive home after you've had a few drinks is taboo, casual racist comments are taboo. These changes have happened in society.
What we need is the guts to be able to turn round to the kid on the bus who is playing music through their mobile phone and tell them politely to stop - and know that the other people on the bus will back us up, rather than look away because they are frightened. Sadly, in London, people are still too scared because of a handful of incidents where that kind of intervention has led to retaliation (such as the guy in Islington who told the bloke to stop chucking chips at his girlfriend and got stabbed as a result).
We need to get to that stage. And when we are there The Mirror will be right - it will be our fault if we are not willing to step in and ask people who are being wanker-ish or threatening to stop.
In the meantime whingeing about the media, politicians and schools won't really help.
PS) Shame you can't blame America too, but they have stricter rules on alcohol...
Norville B