Thursday, 22 January 2009

Teenage Gangs, Knife crime UK

A friend was lamenting the state of the streets today. It made me realise the problem we have today.

A kid here in Reading stole my bike a few years ago. I told the local kids that he could have the bike, but he shouldn't steal. He came and found me to confirm that he could really have it. I repeated yes, but he should have asked before taking and added how would he feel if someone stole from him. That affected him deeply and he started to tell me how bad it was having things always taken. The point is that the kids today are suffering from the lawlessness. Why is this?

The law in this country I believe means that kids below a certain age are beyond the law. They are considered too young to take responsibility. This protects them from their own actions. It does not however protect the other kids from their actions. Thus to protect themselves they form gangs.

I've analysed before the nature of gangs. What is happening is that the largest gang (the government) is effectively refusing to include children in its law system. Naturally they are forming their own groups and laws.

Now there is no difference between the government launching weapons in Iraq and kids fighting with knives. There are brutalities in national gang battles (like the Israelis only last week) and their are brutalities in the smaller battles that occur on the streets now.

I've argued at length in this blog that the true solution is for people to understand the inpact of their actions and realise that we live in an anarchy.

But failing this the government must realise that to be the big gang it must incorporate all people. Kids cannot be left out of the legal system - they have grown up these days and the system hasn't.

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