Rage

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When I look around at my local community, talk to neighbours and attend public meetings, I notice a rage simmering under the surface. I live in a rural area that's up to now escaped the worst of the inner-city difficulties of crime, violent gangs, drugs and similar depressing problems. Lately I've been feeling that these troubles have caught up with us out in the country, and ordinary people who normally remain silent are getting increasingly angry about it.

The government in it's wisdom has allowed longer drinking hours in pubs and bars, which means we now have groups of troublemakers wandering our streets all through the night, disturbing the peace and smashing things. After recent incidents where members of the public have been battered to death for intervening, we are advised to stay in our houses at night and leave the streets to the thugs. The police and local council seem powerless or unwilling to do anything about it. Meanwhile every criminal seems to have their human rights lawyer in tow, no doubt funded by the taxpayer, ready to leap into court at moments notice to ensure that their precious rights are not infringed.

So yesterday I was busy repairing my smashed fence for the umpteenth time, and some of that simmering rage started to boil over. One of the advantages of having sadistic inclinations is the rich store of suitable fantasies to draw on - corporal punishment in prisons, a whipping post on the village green, the tables turned.

Now I'm not fundamentally a violent person, and I'm not sure that I'd really want to live in a society where the state inflicted corporal punishment, but when I saw this video clip of a Malaysian drug dealer getting some human rights education from a prison officer with a big stick my first reaction was YESSSSS!!! And judging by the comments that follow the article, most people are in agreement.

The big danger as I see it is that the underlying rage in our society could easily be tapped by a charismatic leader with extreme political views promising to put things right. And it doesn't take much knowledge of history to know where that leads!

Comments

  1. Anonymous27 January 2008 at 05:07

    This is an issue that sorely needs to be explained in economic, class, educational and ethical terms.

    No one is saying why they think 'the thugs' are the way they are, let alone doing anything to try to change it.

    Someone *is* going to come along and take advantage of this, precisely by utilizing our fear of being harmed by promising to protect us - and our civil liberties are going to go out the window permanently.

    Serious minds are needed now to define the causes of these worsening problems in the U.K., and I hope yours will be one of them.

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