[crb checks] skip this post - it offends

Take your pick of the blogs running the story of the CRB checks gone mad. Here's the Norfolk Blogger:

The latest initiative by the government to ensure that everyone who has anything to do with children, including those parents who give lifts to and from clubs is an astonishing amount of overkill and symbolic of this government's willingness to ignore common sense at all costs.

Is it just mindlessness or is it something else as well? A bit of both really. Nich makes the point:

The other aspect is the fact that CRB checks are a very good income stream for the government. My old school had to get me CRB checked when I qualified as a teacher. I then got CRB checked again 3 years later when I became a councillor. There was then a change in the status of my school and all staff (including me) had to have further CRB checks. Then I changed school, and my old CRB check (only one year old) was deemed invalid so I was checked again ...

... and it didn't stop there. So that's a prime motivation. There is still that mindlessness aspect though and the appalling mindset of the modern civil servant - compliant, fearful for the job, wishing to score brownie points and so, so complacent in their conviction that they're on the right path.

Is it the ideologue or the 2IC, the middle to upper level numpty who sees the "need to protect the kiddies" and to hell with blighting anyone's life because it's such a good cause and we have to turn Britain/America/Canada into a nanny state a.s.a.p.?

Look at the pics of these people in this post and they are the ones I mean - do-gooding, intolerant in their PC way, riding roughshod over all who dare question the sanity of what they're doing, with a "suspect everyone, just to be sure" mindset and so, so sweetly reaching for the big stick to beat you down with, refusing to debate the issue publicly and so on.

Ezra Levant is writing on a similar mentality over in Canada, with this piece on [Such and Such a Numpty] is Delusional. Fill in your choice of name - the plot's the same.

These are the people who honestly believe they are doing good. Hell, even satanists think they're on the right track. The people in those photos, each and every one, wish to bring in more and more legislation, just to tie up the loose ends but their minds cannot encompass or else they simply don't care what they do to substantial portions of the population when they get one of their brainwaves.

Changing topic - angels and demons

There's another phenomenon I'd like to look at today - the murderer.

Lower right is a murderer. Doesn't look like one - looks like an angel but she took part in a murder in Italy.

Why? What would motivate her to do so? It's a long story.

For a start, the pic immediately below shows one reason:



This is the culture which youth has no choice but to be immersed in , from cradle to club, the values being completely twisted. In lieu of any sort of moral absolutes, instead there's booze and bodies, with the consequent deterioration of intellect and any sort of caring values plus sheer ignorance of any externals. Youth never cared much anyway for charity at home, except in a jargonistic way for birds with broken wings, little kittens and the starving poor in Africa, live aid concerts and so on.

So already, Amanda Knox was part of all that but exacerbating it was the new lack of control - the ASBO syndrome, the "Wotchoo lookin at, eh?" mindlessness. Some other girl steps on Amanda's territory - rape the bitch. In a culture with no decency but values conferred by gaming, clubbing and with parental input long since rejected and absent, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

The minds of these people have to be observed to be believed and it's not a new phenomenon. Twenty years ago I was briefly living in a city, in a house where two of this type were also living. I've never seen such gross self-centredness, where each wanted the other to wait on her hand and foot.

These are not pleasant people, except maybe 40% of the time, when they are absolute angels. We're talking, of course, of teenagers who don't grow up but instead of being Peter Pans and Wendys, they're Chucky and that girl from The Ring, only in a supposedly grown up form.

It's no accident how they got this way - the education system, the bilge on the net, the way music and games have turned dark and nasty - all of it sucks big kids in.

Little kids still cling to mum and dad.

The Annakin Skywalker syndrome

I would posit that the vast majority of personal crime, even in crimes of passion, is perpetrated by people who've already been softened up by perverse circumstances and in Knox's case, by a diet of perverse culture. You think your own son or daughter, free of any moral constraint, would be incapable of such acts?

It all comes down to your own moral fibre in the end and how far your parents and teachers imparted it to you. Someone once said of Guinevere, "How can you expect her to resist Lancelot and stay true to Arthur when she was kept shut away and ignorant?"

Parents turn around today and say, "Well what can we do? He doesn't listen to a word I say."

Why not?

Because the perverse culture has got him/her, a culture which should have been shut down the moment it reared its head decades ago. The Spock method of bringing up children. And in the schools, a different type of teacher was now in place who jollied it along in an Edmund Burkean [good men do nothing] sort of way.

So, here's our young person, with little self-control and along comes the Emperor Palpatine, feeding, Iago-like [to mix screenplays], on the natural jealousy, envy and sudden hatred of the one who's been on your mind. You fly into a blind range, you suddenly snap, you do the deed and then the tap is turned off and you can observe your handiwork.

You'll either feel remorse, as Ivan the Terrible did, going to the chapel and praying for forgiveness or else you'll harden your heart, refuse to accept responsibility and there's a sociopath and psychopath in the making. How many late teenage to early thirties psychos infest the bars and clubs around this country each evening? Or else they stay in their room, locked into the net.

You do it long enough and you have gone over to the dark side.

How can you pull back, how can you pull out of it? There's no chance while there is no moral basis underpinning the society, no moral code which is generally accepted. When that is thrown out, as it has been, only dark, empty values can take their place. Where is the messiah who appears, the embodiment of integrity and security, like the ship's officer at the end of Lord of the Flies?

Where is he? There are only false messiahs like Obama. It was even predicted so.

Therefore, the Amanda Knox/Annakin Skywalker phenomenon is only going to increase, not decrease, pollies will have expenses scandals, church leaders will be rapists, those we look up to will turn out to be hollow shells, white-anted from within, until people reattach themselves to sanity, to rationality, to the classic liberal mentality and some sort of decency and integrity can return in our dealings with one another.

And look at this! The lies which are told. It's not down to that at all.