Monday, February 04, 2008
Just Another Day
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Most of us have been to a place like this.
The neighbourhood is in decline, though only because of his family; the carcasses of toys are strewn all over the front lawn.
He lets us into his council-provided, three-bedroom end-of-terrace house with reluctance: for once, there are more than enough of us to enter with reasonable force if necessary.
Everyone is rounded up into one room to search. Officers trip over each other to avoid standing on kids, toys and pets. We turn to the buggies. They need looking at before the children can leave with mum.
The missus says, “What kind of mother do you think I am? Do you really think I would hide anything in my baby’s buggy?”
Dogs secured, women and youngsters out of the way, the search begins.
A colleague and I get the upstairs as our area. What a joy.
Downstairs, the oppressive cloud has cleared and my colleagues are already making substantial finds of cannabis and paraphernalia.
Upstairs, we’re battling mould and condensation not usually found indoors in such quantities since heating was invented. All the clothes, bedding and cuddly toys (of which there are hundreds) stink, and they weigh far more than they should, having absorbed gallons of water from a losing battle with damp over the winter.
I try not to laugh too much as I correctly predict the answer. “I’m unemployed.”
Back downstairs.
He’s moaning to the social services we have called out after being appalled by the children’s living conditions. He says it’s damp because he can’t afford to heat the place. I just want to grab him from his newly-purchased leather sofa and throw him through his flat screen 28in telly, and then force him to have the vasectomy he should have had before puberty.
The floor is lettered with hundreds of DVDs, videos, UMD movies and games for the Xbox and Playstation. I spy what looks like a Wii as well. He has Sky+, a home cinema system, two iPods on charge and the latest Nokia in his hand.
There’s a BT hub glowing in the corner next to a PC (a computer, I mean) and a mixing deck connected to speakers the size of hatchbacks. And on the wall, the ever-present Samurai sword. Outside, his well-fed dogs sit in the mud next to several weeks’-worth of faeces.
How can this be allowed to continue? How can such an irresponsible person be allowed to have as many kids as he likes, and fail to bring them up properly, whilst being entirely funded by the State?
I can hardly afford the mortgage on my little flat. I don’t smoke and rarely drink. I go out maybe once a month. Fuel prices and ever-spiralling interest rates mean I’m going to have to move to somewhere cheaper, smaller and closer to work.
If I’d chosen not to work and just had four or five kids, I could have had a better life paid for by others, and never have had to pay a penny back.
I don’t regret my career choice. I do regret that as part of mine I have to pay for his.
Maybe it’s time cannabis was taxed?
No, you're right. Let's all piss our dough up the wall on computer games... then we'll all be happy, won't we?
Unfortunately i ran into what i now term the "Comprehension Gap." It seems that no matter how i tried i could not get her to understand that a 42" Plasma TV connected to a ridiculous number of speakers and amps was not a necessity and this was a few years ago when Plasma screens that big were four times the the still huge price they are now and that's bad enough.
Its not that she didn't want to understand, i could see her trying, but she just couldn't.
Anyway after a little conflab with my partner we just took the kids into Police Protective Custody.
Social Services supported us initially but with 48hours they were back at home. THe Council had paid for a deep cleaning team to come around and the social services had supported her as a fit parent. Apparently raising three kids with only her partner for help and having no free time despite being unemployed is a social problem we all need to tackle.........
It was not the first time the kids were taken by us, not the first time they were given back as well.
How is it that a Judge can ban someone from keeping animals if they mistreat them but any arsehole in the world can have kids despite having mistreated the ones they have.
I've lost count of the number of addresses I've been to like this. Solution? Scrap the dole, adopt ration books like in WWII. Instead of giving the underclass cash to spend on fags and Nintendos, give them weekly vouchers for fresh food.
Or simply give the contract to Gregg's Bakers and everybody's happy...
A: Aww, poor little mites! Of course they should be helped, so that they can turn into productive members of society like theatre directors or pet therapists.
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Q: So, do you want to look after those kids?
A: Oooh, I'd love to, but Jocasta and I have such a busy dinner party schedule that it wouldn't be fair on them.
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Q: Should the state forcibly prevent the parents of rescued children from spawning more offspring?
A: You monster! You are a thousand times worse than Hitler.
The people you describe have the horror of living amongst people just like themselves, we have the pleasure of kicking their doors in at 5am and dragging them out of bed. There "wives" are normally ugly and smelly too. They have a miserable existance and will probably die early from alcoholism or drug usage.
...leaving a horde of feral offspring who will demonstrably repeat the cycle, earlier and more often than those of us stupid enough to pay our own way.
I say 'stupid' advisedly. When you cut to the heart of it, the only meaningful measure of evolutionary fitness is the number of surviving offspring. By that measure, the welfare state has turned those who contribute least to society into the most 'fit' to survive.
We are quite literally breeding ourselves dumberer. The only questions are: how quickly will the parasite-aristocracy increase their numbers, and what happens when we reach the inflection point where the burden of supporting them becomes too much for the last remaining workers?
When we finally can't afford to give them handouts any longer, will they simply take whatever they want, and more importantly, who will be left to stop them?
Except they already take what they want and there are not enough people willing or able to stop them. Or enough prison spaces available when they do. Factor in mass, unchecked immigration and the tipping point accelerates ever closer.
Bring back 'Prison Ships' and incorporate a cruise which faithfully recreates the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
Give my regards to Bjorn
In the old days, the plague, starvation or mass warfare would take many of them and the rope or transportation took care of the rest.
Now we feed their addiction with tax money and give 'em tickets they can't pay when they steal and riot.
You couldn't make it up!
You make the presumption that if they HAD an NHS dentist they would use it. It's not about dentistry, for most of these people it's about simply not caring. You can see it in the build up of that white scuzzy crap around the gum line, the deeply stained stumps of teeth jutting out all over the place. No, availability of a dentist plays a minor role, these people simply don't have a toothbrush or toothpaste, or the will to spend two minutes twice a day cleaning them. They'd probably have a fit at he prospect of flossing or using mouthwash!
Sorry, the teeth and oral hygiene are one of the things that always scream "underclass!" to me.
I suggested to a "client" recently that she cancelled her Sky subscription to save a bit of money. She looked at me like I'd asked her to sell her kids.
I have to agree with Rogerborg, the cycle is just going to continue. And we all know who breeds the quickest.
It takes an incredibly strong willed child to break out of this cycle, especially when they rarely know any different.
If you can afford a car and sky+ on benefits they you are getting too much money.
Blast off and nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Yes it is about time cannabis was legal and SKUNK got rid of. People should be able to grow their own beneficial herb, which is less harmful than booze.
If the dad in the above story is the "problem" WHY punish the kids by taking them off their mother?
That strikes me as rather arrogant. Living like that may not be ideal, but it is love that counts the most in a childs life. Social workers are not the solution and often CAUSE more trouble than do good. Fact.
And unless you are willing to either i) sterilise by force or ii) let the children die, nothing will improve.
I don't like either solution, but that is what it takes. So, in the meantime, look after your own, and get prepared for the dictatorship that will eventually have to arise to cope with the scumderclass.....
Because the mother has put the kids in this position too. Because the mother isn't able to see that kids being cold, hungry & filthy is neglect. Because the mother condones the way the father chooses to fund their 'lifestyle', & she is as negative an influence on their lives as he is.
It certainly isn't the worst example, but the most recent:
We recently attended a flat which was relatively clean, usual gadgets-a-plenty (not a toy to be seen) & was certainly warm (like a furnace). But the fog of cigarette smoke was choking, & the young kids had to sit there listening to their foul-mouthed mother haranguing us about a complaint over an issue that was an unsuitable subject for children. Her latest boyfriend sat silently, patently too scared to intervene (or leave!). When I suggested that she might want to put her kids in another room while we 'discussed' the matter, she went off on another expletive-laden shouted tirade, which ended with 'why should I?'. When I could finally get a word in, I ventured 'Because you're obviously upset, & the subject & your language isn't really appropriate for their ears'.
'Don't you tell me how to look after my babies, I know what's best for them'.
Quite, you've made that quite clear. You're also obviously teaching them a life-lesson in how to deal with all the agencies you encounter - swear, shout, & act like a petulant 5 year old.
I spoke to Social Services about the family, & surprisingly they had known her since she was a child. So it goes.
You can see the prospect of a lot of love in these children's lives, can you..?
Doesn't love mean paying the heating bills and not letting your children live in sqalour..?
First: how much of all this is funded by benefits, how much by crime and/or cash-in-hand work?
Second: do these people vote, and if so, which way?
(I've done some poitical canvassing in my time, and when we found people like this, we'd usually assume they'd fail to get to the polling station, so we'd ignore them.)
Where can we go for a sensible informed debate about the options and moving forward...
In a nutshell it seems to me that if we:
1) Remove benefits from able bodied people.
2) Alter child benefit and carers benefit so those in need get what they need ( as ration books if necessary.)
There will be a huge social fallout from this. Crime will increase, more police and prisons will be needed.
Children will suffer because the money is not coming in. (yes I know the are suffering now.)
To turn it around you need to be able to deal with the consequences.
Many of these people are unemployable. Would you want to employ these effin women?
National service...we would require training camps, trainers, facilities etc and we need to think about what happens after national service.
Acknowledge the problems but how can we work together to create a sensible thought out solution rather than a government panic reaction.
You and people like you appear to make a lot of assumptions about other people and their lives. For all you know their family may have provided the toys, the telly etc and the leather sofa. They most certainly would not have been able to afford them on just dole money.
People seem to overlook the fact that ABUSE in all its forms often drives people to use alcohol and drugs to gain some sort of relief from the mental pain. Yes cannabis is illegal, BUT it does LESS harm than alcohol.
It is very arrogant of authority to set in motion, steps to remove kids from loving parents and place them "in care", which is NO guarantee of "parental" love. It would be better and a great deal cheaper to give the family PROPER support workers, to try to inject some positivity into their lives.
I assume that the parents bedroom and bedding was equally damp and the room unheated. This is quite common in older type council houses. The government, past and present do not have a problem with exposing the children of the poor to toxic pollution from a variety of sources and industries. I don't hear anyone saying how awful that is and taking steps to remove those kids from a harmful environment. Oh no, they just find experts to say that "there is no proof" that the toxic pollution damages people's health, and also target anyone who tries to stop the pollution of their environment!
HYPOCRISY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS, AGAIN!
Who will be left to stop them? I guarantee you, if that ever did happen, the police would act to help them, not stop them. Because here's what would happen - the savages would rise up and spark a wave of violence so vicious and so dangerous you would see people banding together to provide a common defence against it. And then the police would act to smash the common defence either because they want their monopoly dammit the public can just go to hell, or because their masters (who aren't us) expect them to smash the potential threat to their power.
We can look forward to being brutalized by both the underclass and the police acting in concert against us. Like the present situation times 100.
Having read an article in Saturday's Daily Mail about TOXIC AIRLINES, somebody should set the Social Services on to them about exposing children to harmful substances....much more harmful than the "cloud of class C" the unenlightened cop considers justification for taking kids from their mother. Time it was legal and that TOXIC POLLUTION FROM FUEL ETC WAS BANNED.
Government and the system needs to get its priorities straight.
It goes on to posit the situation that the scrotes take over the World so we had all better watch out
Britains Social security benefits for the poorest people are the lowest in Western Europe. But the poorest people make the softest targets for cowards.
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One of the strongest arguments against putting more people in prison is that we already have a greater percentage of our population in prison than any other country in Western Europe - about 6 times as many as in West Germany where the crime rate is far lower. With our number of CCTV cameras, and the number of agencies allowed to bug us, we are the most watched nation in the world. The uncomfortable truth is that the crime rate is much more closely related to the distribution of wealth. As the gap between rich and poor widens, the crime rate increases. You can see the correlation between that in every free country in the world where there is reliable data, but its something most politicians prefer to ignore when they have got their own snouts in the trough.
Canada will remain the way it was even after this, unfortunately.
Ever heard the phrase "There but for the grace of God go I"? It applies to the Queen, her family and indeed ALL of us.
Debretts has confirmed that Edward IV was illegitimate, and therefore every crowned English monarch after him is illegitimate. They say real King Michael of England lives in Australia. http://www.channel4.com/video/britains-real-monarch/series-1/episode-1/the-missing-link_p_1.html
Incidentally;
If the Unelected Royals really do attract tourists, why do democratic countries like France get far more foreign tourists than Britain. Is it because their Royal Palaces are all open to visitors?
What work do they do. We are told the Prime Minister benefits from Her Unelected Majesty the Queen's Valuable advice, but we are not told what advice that is. Did she advise Blair to illegally invade Iraq? Or are we expected to believe she only gives good advice, which he ignored?
The Royal family have had a bad press over a number of years, by deliberate intent, by people with a spiteful and ignorant attitude.
I am not in a position to discuss the ins and outs of what Her Majesty did or did not advise BLiar to do. But what I DO know is that the "security service" made some mistakes, BIG ones!
We are "souls" incarnate in a "shell" which is our body. God decides WHO shall be born to who, where and what kind of life path they will have. As you will find out when you eventually pop your clogs! Until then, do have a nice life, and thank God if it's a good one, free from hassle and nit picking busy bodies.
The Royal family live in a "fishbowl" and Her Majesty IS still working at the age of 80.
She deserves some respect for a life of service to this country, as do the other working Royals. The grass really isn't greener James. They have very little privacy, which Diana highlighted, proved yet again by the inquest and every personal detail of her life reported by the press. She CERTAINLY deserved and deserves a LOT more respect than has been given to her.
There but for the grace of God go we all. But Diana is not their only victim. Is she?
Ever heard of "live and let live"?
Stop bitchin' please and be grateful that they are there doing the good that they do.
The proven fact is that the current bunch in Buck House are the descendants of an impostor who murdered his opponents. (and they are renting out our housing to their cronies and hangers on for far less than the market value) Who says crime doesn't pay?
This Monarchy ARE there by Divine will and intention. End of.
Please think about that honestly before replying.
But please do forgive my irritation which you kistook for arrogance. Recalling the event of a rape induced heart attack at the age of 4 years old, which sent me to the gates of Heaven, is actually rather stressful....despite being revived to live my life in the FULL knowledge that God really does exist, and so do Angels.
Peace and Love.
Well I'm very sorry to hear that. But the fact that you are basing all this on your childhood dreams after a traumatic experience (why did your God let that happen?)instead of any fact, confirms what I thought. I dream lots of impossible things when I am asleep, and my memory of when I was aged 4 is far from reliable.
You ask why did "my" God let that happen to me. Well, because I was chosen to "get" the bastard Beast that did that to me and countless other children. Job Done! And I guess, to inform others that heaven really does exist. I have nothing more to say on this matter now James. [That is if you even read this post]
Peace and Love.





