Thursday 22 February 2007

Lowest of the Low

In Kent, a thug aged around 20 thumps a 76 year old nun, after she catches him robbing a convent.

Meanwhile, in London:

A charity worker is fighting for his life after being pushed from a train by hooded thugs.

The 61-year-old man was attacked by three youths as he returned home from a fundraising event.

Fellow passengers watched in horror as violence flared after the man accidentally caught the eye of one of the group, causing him to ask: "What are you looking at?"

They then surrounded the victim and began raining blows on him. When the train doors opened, the man was thrown out, smashing his head on the concrete platform and losing conconsciousness.

"Fellow passengers watched in horror" - but no one intervened. And who can blame them? As a commenter (Rob) at Laban Tall's blog wrote the other day:

Don't intervene, someone else gets hurt.
Intervene, and someone will probably be spared. Unfortunately, one of the following is extremely likely to happen to you:

* You are killed
* You are seriously assaulted
* You are arrested on a charge of racially aggravated assault
Finally, the police have reported that 169 criminal gangs are operating in London. More than a quarter of these have actually killed someone. Tellingly, the BBC report says:

African-Caribbean gangs were described as the largest group, followed by south Asian and white gangs.

Religion was also found to be a defining factor, with some gangs comprising solely Muslim or Catholic members, for example.

Now honestly: how many gangs comprised solely of white Catholics does anyone think there are? I suppose there might be one, possibly. Now, anyone want to guess at the number of Muslim gangs?

14 comments:

youdontknowme said...

If people took the law into their own hands there would be less scum on the streets and we would have less crime.

Anonymous said...

So now we have homework. If anyone can find a criminal gang of white catholics, they're to report it here in the same way as the discovery of a rare butterfly. How about it?

Fulham Reactionary said...

Mr Smith:

Sounds like a plan to me.

I wonder what they'd be called? Da Altar Boyz, perhaps.

Anonymous said...

Haha, oh I doubt it. That one'd play far too easily into the hands of those idiots who hear 'Catholic' and immediately think 'paedophile priests'.

No, something good in latin, perhaps, like 'Manus Dei' or 'Canem Bellus' (grammar on that last one's probably horrible).

Or maybe just 'The New Crusaders'. That last might be a good idea even if not run by Catholics.

Anonymous said...

How about the peoples popeular front.

Anonymous said...

It has been said that if God didn't exist, it might be necessary to create Him. I wonder if the same might be true of a banding together of the English and Brits that remain in London?

(Wouldn't have to be exclusively Catholic, of course, though a latinist name would have a good ring to it.)

Anonymous said...

Presumably the all-Catholic gangs are east European.

Fulham Reactionary said...

Steve:

If there are indeed all-Catholic gangs, they may well be east European. But, while there may be east European gangs operating in London, I would think that nationality would be more of a binding factor for them than religion.

The BBC report specifically refers to Catholic and Muslim gangs. That implies that the gangs are based primarily or solely around their religious affiliation.
I've heard of gangs explicitly based around Islam (the "Muslim Boys" gang in South London, for example, which, among other things, forcibly converts people to Islam), but never of one based around Catholicism, or any other form of Christianity.

I suspect that the BBC simply threw in the reference to Catholics, in order to try and hide the fact that, once again, Muslims are causing trouble for everyone.

bernard said...

dizzyfatplonka:

Loved the piglet one!

The Gunslinger said...

How about we make their lie the truth by starting a "Catholic" gang with the express purpose of fighting Islam?

Not necessarily in the London streets (I'm in America, after all) but at least in the propaganda war.

I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. But I'd rather wear the red crusader cross that the crescent, any day!

Anonymous said...

A kind of Catho-based alliance against islam? An interesting idea, that.

Centurion said...

I stoped practising Catholism for this one reason, The Inhability of not only the church but thier followers to grow some balls and act in truth and through the will of god. If your seriouse about this. I'm in as for names what about

"Carpe Diem"
"Haud Insula"
"deus mos"
"Loricatus of Deus"
"Deus Vox manus"

or how simply and affective is "Deus Vox".We deffently need a latin name.

World's On Fire said...

Muzbots? Are they like, muslim Cyborgs?
I could never put myself in any grouping that chose a sworn enemy in any other religion or race (I know plenty of nice muslims, after all) but something does need to be done. We need to close our doors and only allow people in who can pay their own way (not live on welfare) and if they break the law they should be deported with a ban from entering the country put on their passports.

If you can't play nice, you can't play at all.

World's On Fire said...

Muzbots? Are they like, muslim Cyborgs?
I could never put myself in any grouping that chose a sworn enemy in any other religion or race (I know plenty of nice muslims, after all) but something does need to be done. We need to close our doors and only allow people in who can pay their own way (not live on welfare) and if they break the law they should be deported with a ban from entering the country put on their passports.

If you can't play nice, you can't play at all.