Whither the Lion?
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. -Churchill
What has gone awry in Britain? A complete loss of self-respect?…
Brit dad takes kids to park after school…a few punks block the swingset, he asks them to move so his daughter can swing…they grudgingly move, only to say something “horrible” to the daughter as soon as the dad steps away…all of which apparently leads to a personal trauma of epic proportions for Brit dad…
I have dreaded something like this since I became a dad. As a young man I got into fights but since having children I have tried to mellow, to demonstrate to my kids that violence is not the answer (and because I’m a 5ft 7in 42-year-old who never was particularly good at the whole scrapping malarkey). On the other hand, what message am I sending to my children by being pushed around? How can I tell my son to stand up for himself if I won’t stand up for him against bullies?
Life as a modern dad is full of these dilemmas. Working from home, I get to spend time with the children — and the dishwasher. As the son of a militant feminist, I was brought up thinking that this was A Good Thing. Yet recently I read a letter in The Times from a woman whose husband had lost his job; she found having him moping around the house all day very unsexy. Is there some deep part of my psyche that feels somehow emasculated?
So Brit dad summons up the stones enough to “confront” the punks and say “did you say something to my daughter?” Wow…coming up with that caused a major trauma did it? Eventually punks back down and say “no” they didn’t.
The Mayor of London recently advised Londoners — including his own four children — to walk away from trouble rather than get involved. But what would Boris Johnson do if someone picked on his children? I ask the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) what I should have done. The response is predictably anodyne: “The MPS recognises the concern residents have regarding antisocial behaviour. We work closely with other agencies to tackle the problem of youth crime. If anyone witnesses possible offences by youths, we advise them to contact police.”
The result? How about this video. You see it is best to walk away, just call the police. How could anyone stand by and watch this happen? This should tell you how…
Here lies my difficulty: were the youths committing an offence or simply being offensive? As I didn’t hear what they supposedly said maybe I should have backed off. But that’s what people do all the time: walk away, surrender our open spaces. The more I think about my actions, the more convinced I am that I did the right thing.
Gee? Yah think? So he is so conflicted he calls the police? Predictably they counsel pacifism…”antisocial behaviour” it is…I guess even more conflicted now our protagonist then…
Just to make sure, I consult the clinical psychologist Linda Blair, whose book The Happy Child is published next month. “By approaching those youths you were placing your needs before those of your children,” she says. “By walking away you would have been protecting them and also providing a role model for the future.
“In this sort of situation you need to breathe in, hold it, then let the air out of your mouth. Ask yourself: is my child in immediate danger? If the answer is no, walk away. If they are in danger, you will do the right thing every time to protect your DNA, to preserve your own genetic material.”
What?!? He calls a shrink…the author of yes, that’s right “The Happy Child” to get another opinion on what he did. Walking away would have been the proper role model don’t you see. Take a deep breath?! WTF? “Preserve your genetic material”!?!?!?!? Yes it’s funny but truly sad. Protect your genetic material are you kidding me?
Of course Britain has long since surrendered their right to own a handgun, and are well on their way to giving up the right to defend themselves much less their property or genetic material.
Self-respect, it’s a terrible thing to lose.
Dealing with “anti-social behaviour” apparently means surrendering the streets to every punk and hoodlum in sight. For God sakes don’t stand up to them, let evil win at all costs. Could this possibly be the same people who stood tall and alone during the blitz?
Britain has now given us this, yes the “anti-stab knife”, in a society that is now on it’s way to banning knives. How do you eat your boiled meat without a knife? Knife registration? Joking you say?
The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon…It was invented by industrial designer John Cornock, who was inspired by a documentary in which doctors advocated banning traditional knives.
Do you think these Brit doctors want to ban surgical knives? Of course not, they are the only ones who can use a knife…not you commoners.
The Times did manage to report that…here
Police recorded more than 26,000 serious knife attacks in the financial year to March 2009, an increase of six per cent on the previous year’s total. The figures have brought calls for tougher punishments for youths caught carrying knives. Police leaders admitted last night that the findings demonstrate that knife crime is “spreading”.
David Codrea over at the War on Guns keeps pretty good track of the doings in Sarah Brady Paradise, where all is peaches and cream…er strawberries and cream.
In recent years governments have even felt it necessary to prevent the public from defending themselves with imitation weapons. In 1994 an English home-owner, armed with a toy gun, managed to detain two burglars who had broken into his house while he called the police. When the officers arrived, they arrested the home-owner for using an imitation gun to threaten or intimidate. In a similar incident the following year, when an elderly woman fired a toy cap pistol to drive off a group of youths who were threatening her, she was arrested for putting someone in fear. Now the police are pressing Parliament to make imitation guns illegal.
More here from a violent American. And speaking of violence?
Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed. Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa – widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries.
But never mind that, you still will get a Euro-lecture if you suggest there is anything fundamentally wrong with the Brit view on crime and punishment much less guns. Gun-crazed cowboys like Americans just aren’t sufficiently evolved to take the high road…and before you get too upity…the U.S. still has more homicides, a source of pride for Euro gun grabbers. You see it is better to be stabbed to death, and unable to defend yourself with an effective weapon, than having those nasty handguns around. Such the barbarians are we.
Think it can’t happen here? Why is it that schools punish everyone for “fighting” regardless of who started it, who the aggressor was or any consideration of right or wrong. Defending yourself is will not get you subjected to punishment in most American schools. Why do people stand by and watch a 90 year old man be beaten? I wonder. How could those people stand there? Because they have been conditioned to. Why do we stand by and watch horror and attrocity in the world? Because to do something about it would require some determination of moral rights and wrongs, verboten in the politically correct world.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! -Churchill
