Life Karma and me

David Cameron has talked a lot about how he is going to get tough on the rioters who caused chaos and destruction to UK cities last week.

However, the truth is that for all his talk, the reality will be that half of what Mr. Cameron is proposing will never make it passed the European Courts. Already we read in the newspapers that a woman facing eviction due to her son being caught looting is threatening to sue the police for brutality against her son! And the scary thing is that she will probably win and walk away with even more of our money accompanied by a smiling kid.

In another more serious case where a boy raped a thirteen-year-old girl, people were already making excuses for his actions and claiming that he had ‘problems’. Yes, he does have a very big problem and that is he raped a thirteen-year-old girl! If he is old enough to loot and rape then he is old enough to face the consequences of his crimes.

And that’s where the problems of our modern day society start – Facing the consequences of your crime or not facing them at all!

Time and time again we read in the newspapers that it was society’s fault, the fault of the individual’s upbringing, poverty, alcohol, drugs, mental-health problems, the government, and so on.

Then there are a whole host of professionals who tell the perpetrators that it wasn’t their fault, which results in these ‘sick’ people believing that it really wasn’t their fault!

This on its own is enough to create a generation who will grow up thinking that it’s ok to do what they want because it ‘isn’t their fault’.

But when you combine this with the fact that parents, teachers and the law cannot chastise children for doing wrong, you are sitting on a time-bomb that will repeatedly explode until the feral start to realise there are penalties for breaking society’s laws, and that these penalties will be painful.

As with everything, we tend to go from one extreme to another before we find the middle-ground, and society as a whole is now seeing the product of going from a past situation where children had no rights, to modern day where now they have all the rights, which means that they have become the new ‘untouchables’.

This swing has had over twenty years to mature, and now we see parents and their offspring growing-up with no discipline, coupled with the belief that society owes them everything.

In our zeal to be liberal, we have successfully created a society where to under-achieve, be antisocial or repeatedly commit crimes is actually rewarded with holidays, day-trips, and computers, yet those that obey rules of society get nothing. Where having a large family gets you a big house despite the fact that you have never worked a day in your life. Where dishwashers and Sky TV are common in households that have never worked, yet people who work forty hours per week can’t afford them. Where to have children by different fathers actually pays out more benefits than staying with a single partner, and to live together actually reduces your benefits… the list goes on.

Yet this could all have been prevented by some simple common sense and a long-term strategy by policy makers who have the power to fight the minority parties who make so much noise and trouble for society as a whole, just because they can scream the loudest.

What do I mean by common sense?

Well, that part is easy and it starts by rewarding the good people and punishing the bad.

1)      Rather than send the top offenders on day-trips etc., it would make far more sense to reward the top ten achievers, and this does not have to be based on an academic level only. I would far rather see taxpayers’ money reward adults and children for their positive contribution to society and charitable work as opposed to those who choose to destroy our society. Why not set aside a percentage of the National Lottery, backed with taxpayers money to reward society’s angels?

2)      Stop giving people houses and flats just because they exist! Council owned houses should go to those who work and have low incomes first, and not to immigrants and people who have never worked a day in their lives or not contributed towards society. We need to house people, but I would rather see simple boarding houses where those who have arrived in our country and are looking for a better way of life can stay, along with our own nationals who have not yet worked or contributed. Would this not then encourage people to go out and find work if they want a better way of life? And, when they do find work, they then have earned their right to move on into a Council owned property.

3)      Stop rewarding large families with bigger State benefits – Everyone has the right to have children, but it is not society’s responsibility to pay for people to have as many children as they want without ever having to have worked. Benefits should be capped at two children and any more have to be financed by that money.

4)      Come down harsh on guns and knives – Anyone caught walking the streets with a knife or gun should get a minimum of fives years and repeat offenders should get life. That would make a person think twice if they knew that getting caught meant a lengthy sentence.

5)      Bring back strong discipline – I, like many millions of other people, grew-up during an age where to swear at a copper meant a clip ‘round the ear by the copper, followed by the belt from my mum or dad. To be unruly in a class meant dodging a piece of chalk or a getting the cane from the headmaster, and whilst this didn’t work for everybody, the IMPORTANT factor was that it worked for MOST of us and it kept MOST of us in order. No method of punishment will work 100% of the time, but that is not the point. The point is that it works 90% of the time which means that 90% of us will abide by the laws because we fear the retribution of doing wrong.

6)      Make parents take responsibility for their children – Just what is going on at home when a nine year old is out on the streets on their own or with their mates after eight o’clock at night? Police should be dragging these kids back to their parents and if their parents can’t keep them in, then the kids should be put into care homes until the parents can show they are capable of parenting!

7)      Those that hold positions of power in our society and then abuse that power through corruption and hypocrisy should face stiff punishment so that we can see the same laws bind us all, rather than watch sections of our society escape justice based on wealth and power.

8)      Stop being hypocritical when it comes to alcohol and drugs. If you are going to allow one and regulate it, do the same for all. It has been proved time and time again that alcohol causes far more damage to society than most soft drugs do, and yet we force drugs underground and into the hands of gangsters whilst we openly sell and promote alcohol – this brings nothing but trouble to cities and towns throughout our land every day of the week. By legalising drugs, or decriminalising drugs, we would immediately free up our jails for the serious offenders, generate tax revenues from the sales, remove the power of the gangsters that control the trade, bring peace to our streets, and reduce crime on our streets by supplying junkies with their fixes rather than see them rob to supply their habit.

9)      Punish violent people – People who repeatedly use violence or intimidate others should face long prison sentences, and the more they do it, the longer each term becomes.

10)  And finally, we need to see policies supported by both parties and seen through to the end, despite the objections of the minority parties that constantly seem too manipulate the system at cost to all of us.

The truth is that the ‘Sick’ part of our society is going to take up to two maybe even three generations to heal, and if current and future governments don’t find the strength to see it through to the end, then anything they do in the short-term will be like sticking a plaster over a hole in a dam. Yes it will stop the leak for a while and bring immediate results, but in the end the water will gush through and the dam will burst making it much harder for those caught up in the ensuing flood to survive.