What has the world come to? As I write this it seems that we are in a society where children are killing children. Only this week we hear of an eleven year old child shot for no reason what so ever, other than he seemed to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time - broad daylight, going home after his football practice, murdered as he walked across a pub car park.
What has happened to society, now that there are seemingly no deterrents to thugs and murderers? The vast majority are made miserable by the few who seem to get away with Murder - literally. Our Members of Parliament do not seem interested in representing our views, every time I write to my MP the reply I receive always ends with ''these are my views". But what of the views of their constituents? Are MP's not elected to represent the views of the electorate?
Until we get some serious punishment in place, we are going to have these crimes of violence recurring over and over again. Sadly, we no longer administer corporal punishment as a form of correction - no doubt it violates the human rights of those who violate the human rights of their victims.
I recall a BBC phone in a couple of years back on this very subject. Two ''hard men'' called in, one an ex Sargent in the army, another an ex teddy boy. Both had received the birch as punishment for violations, one in The Ilse of Man, the Sargent in Singapore. I will never forget the Sargent's comments on the pain he suffered, and that if the delinquents today had a dose of what he experienced, it would cure them instantly. I am afraid humiliation and violence is the only language these thugs and murderers understand. Yet, the PC brigade prevent one of the very things that would help the situation. I once wrote into the Huddersfield Examiner's letter page that we should bare the backside of such miscreants half an hour before the football match started at the stadiums in each city in the country, and in front of several thousand people give them a taste of the Birch rod. I for one would stump up the cost of a ticket to see that happen, and I am pretty sure that some of the lower league clubs would increase their revenue.
However, it isn't going to happen, but until this problem is dealt with severely, what is going to happen is continued violence on our streets.
