Don’t blame the parents

So, the latest victim of a gang is on my home patch, and the first thing I hear is the liberal elite wankers going on about the parents and how it’s all their fault.

It has very little to do with the parents. I wish it was that simple.

A lot of these boys do have ‘good’ parents who are struggling to control them, however the kids know they have freedoms and rights to just walk away and do their own thing, regardless of what a parent says. Most parents are running scared and are ignored by their children. A parent has very limited powers of control without ‘society’ actually punishing them (the parents) for trying to rein-in their feral children. The kids know this.

There’s a multi-pronged set of reasons why WE (the people) have grown these children to be like this. I’ve watched it with horror, unable to do anything to stop it, and, I suppose, knowing that it was realistically unstoppable until the ‘do-gooders’ and over-liberal elite that run things see what they are actually doing to our kids. Most of them are too blind too see – hence why they still blame ‘parents’ and yet remove all powers from ‘parents’.

So, what about the kids?

Firstly, we give them no hope for the future. We tell them the world is going to end – not enough jobs – global warming – over population – religious wars – whatever – and so they have no future. This is something constantly re-inforced and fed to them until they believe they can only live for the here and now and instant gratification. WE teach them that.

Secondly, we constantly tell them that ‘authority’ actually has no real authority over them – that ‘authority’ can be a parent, their school teachers, the police, or society as a whole. Indeed, WE teach them this from a very early age in school! They know their ‘rights’ and how to use the system against others, including their parents and schools.

Thirdly, WE do nothing to stop them using skunk – which, similar to the cannabis the older elite generations have now liberalised and all but legitimised – causes paranoid psychosis and bi-polar reactions, but a thousand times worse than the ‘bit of puff’ the elite were used to. So, the kids minds are pretty fucked-up with no real grasp on reality and what’s morally right and wrong. Fantasy merges into reality, and extremes of anger and paranoia rule and become their norm. Ok, not all members of a gang are heavily on skunk. As long as some of them are, that’s all that’s needed.

Fourthly, they are desensitised to acts of extreme violence through games like Vice City and those that came after. These games include the ability to randomly go up to strangers and beat them to a bloody pulp despite their screams and the graphic accuracy of what happens when you do that to a person. And you get no extra points for doing these random acts, you can just do them for fun in these games. So, the moral bounds that stop people doing this for real are deconstructed at this very early age.

Well, there’s a lot more than just these four points, of course, and anybody with a gram of sense can deconstruct them with ease. Well, except the liberal elite, of course.

For those who don’t know, the lads were stabbed ‘defending’ their patch. The big gang is the ‘Cathall estate’ gang, and ‘Hellrazor’ (the lad who died) and ‘Decoy’ (the lad who’s critical) are ‘Thatch boys’ and they were defending their territory.

It all works like this: You attack other people’s territory firstly by ‘spitting’ (rapping) lyrics slagging them off, and they do the same about your territory.

Most of this war and tension is played out via the internet, typically Youtube and My Space, with one-on-one aggression via MSN Messenger.

Lyrics typically suggest killing members of the rivals in graphic torturous detail and then raping their mothers and sisters (also in graphic torturous detail). All of this is ‘spat’ in an extremely menacing way and designed to get a reaction. No reaction means you are a ‘pussy’ and lose the respect of other gangs and lads within your own.

It then becomes physical with ‘gangs’ visiting each other’s territory to disrespect it – that might include picking on locals (from the local gang) and mugging them or hurting them as a message – but commonly includes shouting obscenities about the area and being aggressive and ‘anti-social’ towards anybody who lives there.

This is then of course reciprocated after a small period of time of posturing via lyrics on the ‘net. Acts of aggression are nearly always video-recorded on mobile phones, and then appear on websites mocking the gang (or area) that was targeted. This sometimes includes showing a kid being mugged or beaten, or even stabbed. I would imagine a video
record of the killing we are reacting to will soon appear on the net. (It hasn’t as yet, but rumours say it will.)

Some ‘gangs’ will affiliate with each other, and some ‘gangs’ get weaker as estates are pulled down, people move or go to prison. Unfortunately the Cathall gang is very strong right now, despite a lot of them now not actually living there, and the ‘Thatch boys’ are quite small, yet pretty hot when it comes to aggressive lyrics.

The tension has played out via Youtube for some while, and the fact that the Cathall gang was going to invade and ‘shank-up’ Thatch has been openly discussed for a good week or so.

However, gangs do not involve the police in this sort of thing. Mainly, because they realise the police are powerless and don’t even bother responding to anything until there’s an actual death. So, upholding justice is down to the gang ‘olders’ who are protecting the ‘youngers’ because the police (and ‘our’ society which has excluded most of these gangs) can’t or won’t.

I’m afraid I find the whole thing extremely upsetting, and the reality is that the whole of the gang culture is there because it’s a fairly natural instinctive reaction to being abandoned and ignored and no longer protected by US, all of us. That’s what we’ve effectively done to the youth over the last 10 years.

So, don’t blame the parents. Blame those that empower the youth with a wrong emphasis on their ‘rights’, blame the lack of ‘intelligence’ about what’s going on, blame the ineffective policing, blame the middle class liberal elite who don’t actually live in these areas, blame Blair, but certainly don’t blame the parents.