Re: more ASBO bull***

On Fri, 5 May 2006 07:49:43 +0100, "Peter McLelland"
<peter.mclelland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Yes children have always experimented with pushing at the boundaries to
learn where the edge of acceptable behaviour lay, the problem today is that
we seem to have lost the ability to show them when they have reached those
boundaries. The result is that many more than in the past leave childhood
believing that the use of aggression and violence allows then to do what
they want and will often save then from legal sanctions for their petty
criminal activities. They have in other words been taught by society that
being a thug pays.


They have been shown that for the last quarter of a century by
politicians 'cracking down hard' and a police force which treats
almost every incident as an excuse to don flak jackets and armour.

There was shock and horror in our local press when a kid was killed on
the railway line. There was little discussion of why dozens of teens
were travelling miles to get to this area to congregate. I suspect it
is because they have been driven from the streets in their own
locality by threats of ASBOs and curfews from adults who have
forgotten they were that age themselves once and had more freedom to
play.
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