Socialism Leads to Social Decay as Firefighters, Police and Ambulance Crews are Lured into Ambushes and Attacked by Gangs of Youths in the UK.

It sounds like something out of Lord of The Flies or a Mad Max movie plot, but it's true. As a sign of further decline into social unrest, attacks on emergency first responders by gangs of children in the United Kingdom are frequent, and have been happening for years.

The Fire Brigades Union estimates that an average of 40 attacks per week happen against Fire services. That involves the children throwing bricks, rocks, bottles, and even scaffolding poles through windshields as the fire engines arrive on the scene or are enroute. Many attacks start out with a false alarm called in, then the children hide in waiting, ready to pounce for the ambush.

Some of these ambushes have even involved cars being booby-trapped with propane tanks and occasionally fuel bombs or 'Molotov Cocktails' being launched at firefighters and their equipment. Tampering with the water pressure controls on one engine resulted in a firefighter being flung into the air by his hose, breaking his back.

Many attacks in areas of multi-story apartment blocks (a.k.a. government housing projects) involve calling in, or even setting a decoy fire, then when the firefighters arrive gangs of youths then launch bricks and stones from the roofs of the buildings in a sudden, violent, projectile assault.

It's not just attacks on firefighters ...

Last year, in 2006, there were 25,368 assaults on police officers throughout the UK. (New Scotsman, 27 APR 2007). That's an average of 70 attacks per day. Ambulance crews are also frequently attacked. As early as 2002 British ambulance service members started wearing stab-proof vests due to the increasing number of attacks as they responded to emergencies (Guardian Unlimited, 21 MAR 2002). There are gowing areas of Britain now where firefighters and ambulance crews are not permitted to respond to calls without a police escort.

Some examples of the most common methods of attack:

- 25th of March 2005, in Salford, Greater Manchester, fire crews were pelted with bricks as they tackled a fire. Two firefighters were taken to hospital.

- Rochdale, Greater Manchester, 1 April 2005: Fire crews pelted with rocks and forced to withdraw.

- A firefighter on the roof of a three story building in south London was shot in the neck by an air rifle by children on the balcony of a neighboring building. (05 FEB 2005)

- Children as young as 12 attack firefighters tackling a house fire. Police attending the scene are also hit with bottles, bricks and stones. (26 November 2004)

- Tilbury, Essex, crews hit with missiles while attending a playground fire. Children threaten firefighters with knives and cut water supplies. (26 November 2004)

- A firefighter was beaten unconscious while trying to stop a gang of children stealing life saving equipment from his fire engine while responding to a fire. (22 December 2004)

If you are thinking, "Not if I were there!" ...

Then consider that these gangs of roving children often numbering in access of 20 to 30, also frequently turn on members of the public who try to come to the aide of the firefighters, police or ambulance crews under attack. It was only last year (Sunday, February 26th 2006) that a gang of 21 children aged only between 10 to 13 years old stoned a senior-citizen to death. Ernest Norton was teaching his son James how to play cricket (somewhat like baseball) at the Erith Leisure Centre in Bexley. After surrounding Mr. Norton, jeering at him, and spitting on the 67 year old father they began hurtling a barrage of rocks at him until he lay unconscious in a pool of blood. Since one of the rocks that hit him in the head was the size of a half-brick it had caved in a portion of his skull. He died right there in the arms of his distraught wife, and before the eyes of his anguished son. Although his family will not forget him, Ernest Norton is now just consigned to being merely one example out of many of the social decay that has fallen on Britain, and Europe.

This is the house that socialism built.

Although taking root in the 19th century, British socialism has really been growing in the 20th and 21st centuries. The current administration in power now, the Labour Party, the party of former PM Tony Blair, is socialist to the core. There are a growing number of minor British political parties that might raise your eyebrows such as the Alliance for Green Socialism, the Communist Party of Britain, the Democratic Socialist Alliance, the International Socialist Group, the New Communist Party of Britain, the People's Party, the Red Party, the Revolutionary Communist Group, Socialist Appeal, the Socialist Equality Party, the Socialist Labour Party, the Socialist Party of Great Britain, the Socialist Workers Party, Workers Power, and the Workers' Revolutionary Party, to name a few.

So when you think of Hillary-Care, or of the spread of socialism that has already set it's virulent seeds within the American left, look to the UK and to the future of what we can expect if the disease of socialism is allowed to run its course through American veins.


Jonathan RF Cooke
23 October, 2007

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