Private Thoughts Made Public

I’m becoming increasingly sickened by the news stories I’m reading these days about the behaviour of young people in this country. To be more specific, gangs of youths within, say, a 20-mile radius of my house. These stories have made the national press, and the more I read the more I’m convinced drastic action is needed.
For example, there’s the story that a 16-year-old girl was beaten unconscious and the attack recorded on mobile phone cameras. Her brother was shown a video of the attack at school.
A father of two lies critically ill in hostpital after being attacked by a gang of youths who threw a stone at his car. A senior police officer describes these gangs as “feral” .
Last weekend 60 headstones at a cemetery were vandalised. And within walking distance of my home a man who was sleeping in a bus shelter after missing the last bus home was covered in cardboard and set on fire.
I’m worried about the kind of world we live in, the kind of world my son is growing up in. There seems to be more criminal support then victim support in this country. You can’t fight back, because you’re then the criminal. Recently a teacher fired an air gun near a gang of youths after suffering two years of vandalism at her home. She was jailed, then released after the story became political, then she lost her job.
However if someone breaks into our home, we are allowed to use reasonable force to defend our property, although what “reasonable force” actually means is still a matter of hot debate.
Last month a shopping centre banned people wearing hoodies and baseball caps, and saw an increase in the number of shoppers visiting the centre as a result.
All we need to do to make this country a better place to live in is to teach children to respect authority. If they don’t respect authority, a short sharp shock should be applied. Now, what sort of short sharp shock? Here’s my own (maybe rather extreme) idea. I reckon we should set up our own government-sponsored “brat camps”, located on remote islands off the north cost of Scotland, and all the troublemakers would be rounded up and carted off to there. They’d be made to fend for themselves without the aid of drugs and alcohol. A few weeks of having to build their own shelter and hunt for their own food should sort them out.
But what if they still cause trouble when they return to society? Well, I think we should take one of the worst estates in the country, remove all the honest and decent people from it and put them in decent housing away from vandals and thugs, and build a big wall around the estate. Then we should fill it with seized drugs, seized alcohol, siezed firearms and cars that are no longer road-legal. In go the worst trouble-makers and their families. Each day a helicopter would drop in supplies of food and medicine. My guess is that they will either overdose on drugs or shoot each other. Anyone who is still alive after three months can come back into society.
And if they cause any trouble after that, if they fail to get themselves back into education or get themselves a job, then they should face a firing squad. Enough is enough.