In the news today there is talk about asbo’s (anti social behaviour orders) and their effectiveness in society. Recently a mother and her disabled daughter died in a car at the hands of the mother who had dowsed herself and her daughter in petrol before setting themselves alight. This was the sad ending of a mother and daughter who had been persecuted and tormented by a group of youths over a period of a couple of years. Police had been informed several times but little or no action was taken. There are calls for an inquiry on that score but today one of the parents of the young tormentors was asked whether he thought his son (and the others) should be brought to account over the affair! ‘That’s up to the authorities’, was his reply. What kind of a parent is that? What kind of society even has to think about doing something?
Again in the news a 14 year old girl has just died as a result of an anti-cervical cancer drug injection and two others are gravely ill. One woman (who might have been her mother) could not understand the need for these injections as she put it, ‘There are several other options for protecting against cervical cancer. It is alright for Governments to say everything is safe when promoting these kinds of (preventative) treatment but the fact is they are not’.
I ask myself do any of those in authority know what they are doing? This world has gone mad.
Shirley Anne
