‘Twas Brillig*

According to the BBC:

Sir Ian Blair said: “While the response of the Metropolitan police and other forces will be extremely robust around youth violence when it is committed, we should also be thinking about how to stop children drifting into these gangs.

“One of the ideas I have asked to be explored is that where an older sibling is clearly involved in gang activity, the right way forward is that there should be a child protection approach for any younger sibling who is clearly at risk of moving into a lifestyle which is extremely dangerous to that child.”

which has become a Have Your Say item:

Should children in gangs be protected?

Britain’s most senior policeman has said children lured into gangs should be treated like victims of abuse. Do you agree?

Notice the subtle change? Suddenly he wants to protect the guilty rather than (as he stated) protect the innocent. And of course most of the posters instead of doing some checking and realising the basis for the discussion is nonsense start blaming the “liberals” - I’ve yet to meet one of these liberals who prefers criminals to their victims, but there must be a lot of them because they always get the blame along with their PC compatriates on Have Your Say. Doesn’t anyone read anymore?

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