Our regional soothsayer has changed her tack, her target
being “Children of streets”. Rather than making some constructive
and concrete suggestions, she does a Pontius Pilate and blames
our politicians!
When will our soothsayer and those like her accept that in a
democracy, the people are the government (aren’t we?), we
elect the politicians.
Violence on our streets, dole cheats, drug addiction and the
other items covered by Nancy Says, are our problem. Blaming
others is not the answer, even though it goes down well with her
readers.
John Neve writes again… (Part 4 we think)…
“Streets in third world countries are safer than ours” Nancy Says.
I thought that prophets could foretell the future and so guide the
people on the path to righteousness? Seems our prophet has failed us?
The Maryborough Central railway station has been graffitied and in
a state of disrepair for many years. One has to wonder at the
sudden clearing of our prophets eyes!
I walk Hervey Bay’s esplanade in the early hours of every morning
and have never seen our prophet! Often I walk it at night,save for
a few drunks or druggies, it’s a great place to walk. One has to
wonder about the “third world countries” our prophet frequents?
One more cynical than me, might feel Nancy Says these things to
distract us from her past meanderings, regarding her anointed ones.
Our leaders of her “brave new world”, but then, I’m not cynical, am I?
John A Neve
Strewthisback adds the following:
Who else is growing tired of Nancy’s neverending preaching and dicatator style editorials? Once bearable reading, her views were often sensible and regularly hit the mark but recently the quality has vanished.
Does Bringbackstrewth fall into her category of “malicious websites run by anonymous cowards with sly agendas”? Rest assured, we’ll continue to dig in against Madam Editor until she starts bringing credibility back to her beloved paper and stop trying to manipulate the community to her own desires.
There are no hidden agendas here at Bringbackstrewth, just a desire to give the community somewhere to voice their opinions, become better informed on important issues and encouraged to become involved in our community.
We’re not going away, we will get bigger, renew aquaintances with old contributors and we will develop a bigger network with the power of the people. But, most of all we’ll keep telling it like it is. Cheers!
In blaming politicians for the ‘feral’ children, Nancy has got the situation partly correct. It is when she points to welfare dependant parents as the source of such children that she allows her predjudice to cloud her vision.
The reason children roam our streets at all hours of thee day and night is not because parents allow them to, it is because our politicians have taken away the parents right to fulfill their duty to the children by enforcing acceptable conduct standards upon them.
If the parent of a rebelous child even tries to enforce reasonable standards of behaviour and the child does not like it the welfare agencies will then pay for the child to leave home and take up an independant lifestyle. No supervision, no standards and no control.
How do I know this for sure. It happened to me when my eldest daughter was 15 and it ruined her life. It has taken us years to try to repair the damage that government intervention in her formative years has caused.
To reduce the incidence of ‘feral’ children is simple. Restore the rights of parents.