Posted by
Greg England on Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:44:14 PM
The UK Tory Leader, David Cameron, has at last done something right by blowing the whistle on the rise of violent crime in the UK. Now, I’m not a great fan of David Cameron, in fact I am looking forward to the day when the Tories ditch him and choose a conservative instead of a liberal as their leader. I don’t even trust his motives; I believe that he is talking about law and order to try to reconnect with disaffected traditional Conservatives.
But whatever his motives, at the moment he has a real battle on his hands. You see, there is a concerted campaign within some sectors of the UK media to state that violent crime is not on the increase. And the harvest was a success again this year!
Now I don’t care if you are left-wing, right-wing, centrist or libertarian. Your first duty must be to the truth, and after that you can offer your opinion. If you believe that the rise in violent crime is caused by inner-city poverty then fine, I might not share your thesis, but at least you are being honest about the rise in violent crime.
But right now, I’m in a quandary. How do I obtain statistics to back up my thesis?
You see, according to the British Crime Survey, things are getting better:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0607.html
And according to senior police officers, things are not as bad as they are being reported:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/01/nacpo101.xml
Those of us who dare to question the statistics and received wisdom via UK newspaper comments pages have been accused of being fascists. Our desire for punishment for the perpetrators has been shouted down. We have been told that we cannot possibly understand what the poor little darlings are going through, with their deprived childhoods and all. When this tactic has not worked, then we have even been threatened with being judged by God, under the remit of "judge not lest ye be judged"
I leave you with this story, which has caused much controversy:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/26/nrcrime126.xml
Something is rotten in the state of England.