'We just complain'

District Mail 28/03/08

"CRIME has taken over" writes:
Obviously, crime has managed to reach into this beautiful town of ours and infest it with its dirty, meaningless, senseless and infuriating disease.

We all sit and wait for the DistrictMail on a Thursday, read the articles, experience our shocks, discuss it with our friends and family and that's it, nothing more.

Our problem is that while some subscribe to the criminal way of life, we just sit and complain.

We have lost the ability to stand together and remove this threat to our society.

There's much to be said about a public that won't even give someone a gap in traffic, never mind standing up for my neighbour and looking after his family and belongings as if it were my own.

The motto "to each his own" should only apply to freedom of expression and belief, but we've managed to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world, even our neighbours and sit there and point fingers at government and police officials.

Our community and way of life is under threat, people, the time of waiting for someone else to do something about it is over, it's up to us to protect ourselves and as radical as this may sound, we need to drive this away from us and it is possible.

Our constitutional rights guarantee us safety and I for one plan to live by that right.

I will not tolerate murder, rape, child abuse, robbery and so much more.

I will not tolerate criminals in my vicinity, whether it's walking scot-free from a charge in court or urinating in public on the street, drugging small children to keep them quiet or raping and murdering elderly citizens.

I don't remember giving someone the right to steal my belongings or hijack my car.

Your optimism for the future of this town and our government is for the birds, unless you stand up for your rights and start fixing things on your own doorstep and that goes as far as reprimanding the rude cashier at the local supermarket.

It simply infuriates me that none of all that's happening has any sense to it and yet my family and I are subjected to it with the solution given by government that if I don't like it, I must leave.

Well let me tell you something, I don't like it, but I am not leaving, I am changing what I don't like.

I am asking for people to contact me and let's put all our knowledge into practice along with the resources that we have into a clear, practical plan to change all this.

To my neighbours, I will continue to look out for you and yours, no matter how you treat me because I'd rather have you there to talk, listen, argue and laugh with, rather than watch a coroner carry your lifeless corpse out of your home.