They’re just kids and can’t vote!

To be a civilized society isn't just how we see ourselves but how others objectively judge us as well.

By Stanley Collymore

 

Hardly a month goes by without my hearing some horror

story or other of abusive neglect towards and even the

callous and barbaric murder of young children, some

just toddlers or babes in arms, at the hands of their

own mothers or others, generally blood relatives

and their partners, who are entrusted to look

after them, and ought to have instinctively

done so as any civilized and caring

person would. But reality, I’m

afraid, is quite often very

different from what’s

logically expected.

 

However, even more disturbing than these insane killings

is the ritual passing the buck by so-called professional

practitioners, civic and social agencies, misnomer

terms to say the last in my view, burdensomely

financed by already hard-pressed now suitably

outraged at what’s going on taxpayers in

what to these cynical retards and useless

parasitical jobsworths are evidently

and expediently nothing more than

lucrative sinecure positions that

ironically in their case they are

neither competently suited

for nor should they have

been appointed to

these jobs in

the first

place.

 

Yet their principal responsibility and the crucial element of

their job description is that of unreservedly protecting

children; a legal and moral task they’ve miserably

and consistently failed to do while routinely

and with consummate impunity getting away

with their criminal negligence and brazen

irresponsibility amidst the pervasive

and pernicious backdrop of their

unconvincing, meaningless and oft stated

platitudes each time another needless

tragedy occurs that lessons must be

learnt and measures will be put

in place to ensure nothing

like it ever happens

again. Until the

next time!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

5 October 2013.

 

 

Footnote:

It’s my honest belief and fervent contention that not only the sadistic murderers of innocent, highly vulnerable and utterly defenceless children should do significant jail time, regardless of whether these killers are men or women, but also those that run and oversee the essentially barbaric and wholly unaccountable system, which cavalierly allows this dastardly travesty to happen in a supposedly civilized country, should do too.

 

Concomitant with this there must, as a matter of urgency, be meaningful and well-thought out reforms put in situ to replace the manifestly existing shambolic system that’s not only a hazard to all children but also a blight on our society, with those appointed to jobs looking after children up to the task and the organizations or agencies they work for fit for purpose. And in this equation politicians and government departments with specific responsibility for the welfare of children shouldn’t be let off the hook of culpable liability either, particularly when something goes horribly wrong.