Act like a prick, Jim: blame the victim
Jun. 29th, 2006 12:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomus"Leave it on show, expect it to go," advised a sign I saw near The Mall, London, the other day. While it's touching that the Metropolitan Police are composing poetry to help members of the public stay alert and vigilant, it struck me as a kind of dangerous fatalism. While I don't expect 
the London police to reverse Britain's worsening Gini rating or even actually prevent and solve crimes, it did seem a bit irresponsible of them to suggest that theft and display were one and the same thing.
It seemed to chime with the odd attitude expressed in an article I read in a British newspaper about an elderly couple who'd been murdered by robbers in their home. While everybody interviewed said what a sweet old pair they'd been, walking into town arm in arm, they were unanimous: these were people you'd almost expect to get robbed and killed, considering what an affluent area they lived in and how old and sweetly defenseless they were. It was almost some sort of Darwinian inevitability that such folks would get chopped up.
Being a bit of a poet myself, I decided to sit down and write some other slogans the police could use to warn people of the viciousness of modern Britain. Here are some ideas for posters that could be displayed around the British capital. Perhaps you could add a few of your own.
Wake up to reality, expect criminality.
Increase inequality, expect an armed robbery.
Where folks don't have jobs, expect to get robbed.
Walk visibly breasted, get quickly molested.
In a land with high GINI, wear three bikinis.
Show us some ankle? Now you'll get strangled.
One inch of thigh, one hour till you die.
An uncovered head, Allah strikes dead.
Say something clever, get ready for bovver.
Walk down your driveway, die by a drive-by.
Stay all day in bed; wake up, you're dead.
Get on a plane? Your life's down the drain.
You died having sex? What did you expect?
Somebody killed you? Not much we can do.
the London police to reverse Britain's worsening Gini rating or even actually prevent and solve crimes, it did seem a bit irresponsible of them to suggest that theft and display were one and the same thing.It seemed to chime with the odd attitude expressed in an article I read in a British newspaper about an elderly couple who'd been murdered by robbers in their home. While everybody interviewed said what a sweet old pair they'd been, walking into town arm in arm, they were unanimous: these were people you'd almost expect to get robbed and killed, considering what an affluent area they lived in and how old and sweetly defenseless they were. It was almost some sort of Darwinian inevitability that such folks would get chopped up.
Being a bit of a poet myself, I decided to sit down and write some other slogans the police could use to warn people of the viciousness of modern Britain. Here are some ideas for posters that could be displayed around the British capital. Perhaps you could add a few of your own.
Wake up to reality, expect criminality.
Increase inequality, expect an armed robbery.
Where folks don't have jobs, expect to get robbed.
Walk visibly breasted, get quickly molested.
In a land with high GINI, wear three bikinis.
Show us some ankle? Now you'll get strangled.
One inch of thigh, one hour till you die.
An uncovered head, Allah strikes dead.
Say something clever, get ready for bovver.
Walk down your driveway, die by a drive-by.
Stay all day in bed; wake up, you're dead.
Get on a plane? Your life's down the drain.
You died having sex? What did you expect?
Somebody killed you? Not much we can do.
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Date: 2006-06-29 01:39 am (UTC)Last time I had to call 911 because of a man trying to get in the front gate with a knife, it took them 4 minutes to get here. Plenty of time for the perp to kill my neighbor and me, grab our loot and be on his way. Thankfully, I was able to show him what the business end of a 12-gauge looked like, and he skedaddled.
(No no! Bad liberal! Must tow the party line! --etc., etc.)
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Date: 2006-06-29 05:12 am (UTC)All those guns in private hands and there's still violence? Is there somewhere I can send money to buy you more guns?
(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-29 05:13 am (UTC)what all the worlds less violent countries need is more guns so that they can be more like the US, where, admittedly it's much more violent.
I read recently that doctors also advised diabetics to cut everything but glucose tabs from their diets.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-29 06:13 am (UTC)You let him get away? Now he's free to grab someone else's loot. Dick Cheney wouldn't let him get away. You must not have been drinking enough. Try harder next time. You'll get better As the alchoholism progresses.
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Date: 2006-06-29 08:36 am (UTC)It's typical liberal myopia that some can't distinguish between offensive guns in the hands of criminals (who will get them anyway, even if they're 100% banned and there's a mandatory life sentence for using one in the commission of a crime) and defensive guns in the hands of honest folks who need them because the police are too lazy or spread too thin to save the citizenry. It's like suggesting that--since drunk drivers kill people, cars and booze should be outlawed. Life just ain't that black and white.
Although...I'm totally for the banning of some kinds of guns. But a shotgun for home defense is the thing. If you don't believe me, ask a cop. It's what they recommend, and what they have in their own homes.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-29 10:20 am (UTC)If only US supermarkets would stick to selling "defensive guns". Not those "offensive guns" which, from what I can tell from the US media, tend to have black people attached to them.
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Date: 2006-06-29 02:25 pm (UTC)I live in a high crime area. I have three dogs who keep the thugs away. Much safer than sleeping with a loaded shotgun. Plus you get all that unconditional love that you just don't get from a hunk of metal.