Sadly the events I will be discussing today are becoming all too common. In many of our major cities gangs of roving feral children are terrorizing the residents. I am not over-stating the problem when I refer to them as feral. They are for the most part young, often minorities, vicious, uncaring, and deadly. They are totally devoid of any human compassion.
Just this past week in
Unfortunately when and if arrests are made, these animals will be treated as deprived, misunderstood children and will no doubt be unleashed back on the community to terrorize again and again. Make no mistake, they are terrorists.
This is not exclusively a minority problem. Very recently two young girls from an upper middle class neighborhood in
You can also view the response of these girls by going to my daughter Heather’s blog and clicking on her video of the interview of the girls. http://lessonsforliving.blogspot.com/ dated Friday Aug 1st, “Teens from good homes steal Girl Scout’s money”.
I was saddened and shocked by their reaction to being caught. There is no doubt in my mind that these young ladies will make the news again. They will probably become wards of the state and live on prison food for most if not all of their lives.
I am sure that we could present case after case of these kinds of stories. So why is it happening? Having been accused of simple mindedness, I offer a few thoughts.
First and foremost I believe these are prime examples of rotten parenting. I suspect that these children have been seen by their parents as interruptions of their otherwise selfish lives. I also suspect that in many cases the father is absent if he is even known. These parents are usually members of the “me” generation, and “me” doesn’t include anyone else especially a child with all the responsibility that entails.
Secondly the judicial system is failing these children miserably. In their zeal to show liberal leniency they delay and defer judgment and punishment. They prove time and again that not only does crime pay it also does not cost.
Schools have lost all authority in dealing with miscreants. Truant officers are things of the past. Dress codes and decency have been thrown out of the window. Students reach graduation without even the most basic education. After all we are told you cannot give a failing grade to a child for fear that you hurt his self image.
To all the so-called elite liberals who believe this is a societal problem I say possibly, but, the solution I believe is far simpler than they advocate. Spending more millions on their ridiculous fixes will continue to offer the same results. We just need to get tough. There must be real punishment for real crimes. Parents must be held to account for their delinquent offspring. If they don’t make sure their kids are in school, they should be liable. There should be a cost to the parents for the misdeeds of their minor children. Being able to procreate doesn’t make anyone a mother or a father. Today I am told that over seventy percent of black babies are born to unwed parents and most of them are teen-agers themselves. This is a recipe for disaster.
We have tried it the ways the liberals wanted and it has obviously failed. It is now time for a different approach. Swift and sure punishment for crimes and misdeeds. Tougher educational standards. Holding parents responsible for their offspring. Maybe even re-institution of the draft. It worked when I was a kid and it would probably work now. You screw up and you either go to jail or into the military. Trust me, the military would know how to handle these young thugs.
It is past time for some of these simple solutions.
Ron Scarbro August 4, 2008
Posts
3 comments:
I am adding a post script to the blog. I have recently learned that the older of the two girls in Fla. has turned 18 and was re-arrested for running out on a Denny"s bill. She has been sentenced to three years in jail. Hooray for the judge. I also just learned that there was another bat attack in St. Paul Mn. but this time three of the teenagers was caught and arrested. They are probably the same morons who attacked the lady with cancer. I will follow thew progress of this case and report back to you.
Not too long ago I served the Hennepin County Grand Jury. The Grand Jury as you probably know is involved with murders and white color crime. It was a 6-month stint and all the cases we reviewed had a similar make up. All involved a problem with drugs or alcohol abuse. They all came from broken or homes with less than 2 parents. The majority of them involved minorities from the lower socioeconomic levels. In other words the world of these people often involve neglect, poverty, broken homes and substance abuse. The question is why can't we have a stronger presence in their lives. Where are support systems for these people? I disagree with your thoughts of giving them to the military. The military can't deal with them either because of a legal system that's gone south on us. Just try and discipline in today's military. We rely on law enforcement and social services to take care of the problems. They haven’t got a chance. We allow our courts to take God out of our solutions and wonder "why" we have problems. The whole world has an IQ of 6 or less. Truth be known we all have more thoughts about greed than love in our hearts for the problem fixes that vex our world.
The "anonymous" post should be signed Arne.
Post a Comment