Fuss about crime all you like, it is not going to make any difference what so ever.
I don’t know if petitions have any impact on our government either, one hopes they do, but the issue of how we as a society treat those at the margins of our society has an incredible knock-on effect and is worth a moment of thought.
“Street children” in new South African CHILD CARE ACT Petition
In the same way that apartheid policies created divisions of entitlement within South African society, the Children’s Amendment Bill entrenches and legalizes discrimination against children who have left home and who are in self-care.
Remember that mean dude in the movie Tank Girl who shattered his translucent displays and made his hapless commander walk over the glass shards barefoot before ceremoniously having all his juice sucked out of him? He had a point…
The ‘Broken Window’ theory argues that if a broken window isn’t fixed, pretty soon adjoining windows will be broken. This communicates the message of neglect and , invites black-hat anarchy, malicious anarchy. Pretty soon you have a street go ‘bad’, then a street block, it keeps spreading, and as it spreads the maliciousness compounds into a monster that easily circumvents every security measure. It effortlessly flows past booms, sweeps aside electric fences, subverts security services, and bites where we least expect it – when we can least afford it.
In New York city in the nineties, addressing the issue of subway vandalism had an incredible impact on the crime levels – i was a broken window that needed fixing.
The marginalized members of our South African society is a huge broken window that needs fixing. Please consider visiting and signing the petition listed above. It is organized by Jill Kruger who’s credentials are impeccable. (As a quick google search illustrates)
The broken window of crime, “Street children” in new South African CHILD CARE ACT Petition
Fuss about crime all you like, it is not going to make any difference what so ever.
I don’t know if petitions have any impact on our government either, one hopes they do, but the issue of how we as a society treat those at the margins of our society has an incredible knock-on effect and is worth a moment of thought.
Remember that mean dude in the movie Tank Girl who shattered his translucent displays and made his hapless commander walk over the glass shards barefoot before ceremoniously having all his juice sucked out of him? He had a point…
The ‘Broken Window’ theory argues that if a broken window isn’t fixed, pretty soon adjoining windows will be broken. This communicates the message of neglect and , invites black-hat anarchy, malicious anarchy. Pretty soon you have a street go ‘bad’, then a street block, it keeps spreading, and as it spreads the maliciousness compounds into a monster that easily circumvents every security measure. It effortlessly flows past booms, sweeps aside electric fences, subverts security services, and bites where we least expect it – when we can least afford it.
In New York city in the nineties, addressing the issue of subway vandalism had an incredible impact on the crime levels – i was a broken window that needed fixing.
The marginalized members of our South African society is a huge broken window that needs fixing. Please consider visiting and signing the petition listed above. It is organized by Jill Kruger who’s credentials are impeccable. (As a quick google search illustrates)