If you're stuck on a sink estate, been told you're stupid at school 'cos you can't read or write and no-one's picked up on it yet, failed all your exams, can't get a job, no way of ever having your own house..if your parents are alcoholics or drug users and you've never known a real day's love in your life, then you are seriously going to be fucked up bigtime.

Of course, there is also the situation where society has removed all the unwritten rules of life, like respect, compassion, empathy, support...and let them be replaced with anger, 'pissed off at everyone' and materialism all around saying you have to live your life *this* way, have *these* things, which some sections of society will never be able to achieve or have, and as we now can see, it can lead to a seriously fucked up section of society.

ANYONE in a uniform is fair game, but fire officers and ambulance crew are the easy option, because they don't arrest you like the police do. And they don't have weapons.

It's the uniform, not the person inside it.....

There is little in their brains and even less in their souls...

Can it be turned around..?

Maybe....

It is being tackled here in Torquay, where exactly the same thing used to happen. It's being turned around by folks who go out on the streets, keep an eye on things, approach a situation before it's out of control. They are befriending the youngsters where they can, listening to their troubled minds, seeking to help them, show them that SOMEONE cares...and it IS having an effect. Most of these people come from the churches.

Can you imagine arriving in this world and never knowing what love is? Never having a mother who cares, a father to look up to? Not even knowing who your father IS, in so many cases...being ignored, being made to feel that you are a piece of shit, by your own mother/father who never really wanted you in the first place, but felt it was their only way to get a house, to get out of their own hell...

Then, you are saturated by rules and stress and exams and "you will do this our way" ..told how you must live your life, what you must think, how you should behave...You know ALL about sex, but Fuck All about Love, and nothing has any meaning at all...NOTHING.....nothing.....nothing...

And you can see the rest of your life being exactly the same, with no hope and no help and no happiness..

So maybe you get REAL pissed off with people who are supposed to care, like the firefighters and the ambulance crews and you feel they don't give a flying monkey about you.....and somewhere in your muddled angry mind you decide to take ALL your anger out on the very people you shouldn't...because no-one has ever told you not to, no-one has ever told you how very special these people are, how they would put their lives on the line to save others...

And the beat goes on....and the beaSt goes on, growing ever angrier, breathing more and more fire into a society that has ceased to even see you....

So you MAKE them see you....


There are no excuses when these terrible things happen, but perhaps, there are reasons....

And of course, society, because of political correctness and fear of being sued, has sat back and watched it happen. We have watched as the fashion has become to be as thick and vacuous as you can possibly be. These people worship celebrity, their heroes are Jordan or Peter Andre or Lady Gagagagagooo. We tremble at telling kids "NO!" We seemingly have very few rights as adults, when it comes to how children are behaving, whilst children are saturated in them, and it has turned some kids into monsters..

Once you would get the death penalty if you killed a police officer. You'd also be dealt with severely if you ever set out to deliberately harm a police officer...now you'd probably get a cheer. Once attacking emergency teams wouldn't have ever been in the minds of anyone, for we always saw them all as incredible people who had our support 100%..

Something has gone very, very wrong........We all know what it is, but do we know how to fix it?