What is wrong with these kids?

Kids.  We all know that kids can be mean, malicious even with their teasing and bullying like behaviour.

In our day school yard bullying existed but it was kind of looked at it as a somewhat normal trial of childhood that most of us had to endure, something that made us stronger and more resilient as we came out the other side.

But not today.

Schoolyard bullying has reached such shocking level that now kids are being scarred for life or even worse, taking their own lives due to the incessant torment of moronic, out of control children who have no moral compass.

Today’s news that a young child who suffers slight autism has lost both hands after a homemade explosive device was thrown at him just makes me ill.

Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale this morning said the boy had spoken for the first time since the incident.

He has just come out surgery and he has related he was sitting around the table with a few boys and some young boy … who has always been a bully to him has thrown some sort of golf ball explosive  device at him and it has exploded.

All I’m saying is this person needs to have some consequences for his actions because what he has done has sort of destroyed a young 15-year-old boy’s life.

So this doesn’t sound like a random accident, this sounds like a premeditated effort.  It comes as no surprise that the alleged offender has form.

Mr Clifton said he was told people in the community knew about the homemade bomb earlier in the day.

“I’d just like to see justice done,” he said. “If he has done wrong punish him (the boy who allegedly threw the device).

“He has been in trouble with the law heaps of times before and they just don’t punish these kids.”

Not only should this “child” be punished, he should be punished as an adult would.  Anyone with half a brain knows how dangerous explosives are and what the ramifications of throwing it at someone would be.

Not only should the child have the book thrown at him, so too should his parents.  Just who are these people?

Next we will hear that there is some mitgating reason behind this foul persons behaviour, which is just rubbish that enables and excuses young people from their actions.

Regardless of who, what, where and when, these people should be held fully accountable for ruining a young man’s life.

One that was already difficult enough due to his autism but made infinitely more difficult because of one child’s anti-social behaviour and his parents obvious lack of moral guidance

Perhaps this man should have been America’s first black president?

With President Obama and Vice President Biden sitting on his right and a room full of the MSM, Dr Ben Carson delivers one of the most inspiring speeches that I have heard in many years.  Certainly more inspiring than anything I have heard delivered by any politician of any persuasion, but most particularly anything delivered by the 44th US President.

In this light perhaps we should actively heed Dr Carson’s advice about getting more educated people into politics like real doctors (not doctors of economics), and many, many less lawyers.

People who care naturally about other the welfare of others, not just in winning the contest.  Given the current political circumstance in Australian politics this statement rings even truer than it does in the US.

But back to Dr Carson’s speech.  It is brilliant.  You notice not that it’s 24 minutes long, because his message is so refreshingly simple, yet profound.  As they say in the classics, “Let’s go to  the tape…”

As you can see, it is a message of hope, direction, faith but most importantly about belief.  A belief in oneself, and others around you; that anything is possible in our world but ultimately, the only person who is responsible for you is you.

Nothing in life is impossible,nothing unachievable , no problem unsolvable but you must set your mind to achieving it.  And then you must do something about it.  If you do, then nothing will stop you.

History is littered with many inspiring men and women who dragged themselves and their families, and sometimes even whole peoples, out of the darkness and into the light by following this simple creed.

Dr Carson also touches on something that is clearly fundamental to the success of western civilisation.  Freedom of Speech.  The linchpin that is responsible for the rise of the most powerful civilisation that mankind has ever known.  Western civilisation.

Unfortunately this fundamental principle of our world is currently being eroded, cloaked in good intentions, yet sinister in it’s application.  Our freedom to speak our minds, to participate in the contest of words and ideas is at the lowest ebb that it’s been at for many, many decades.

A freedom that was won on fierce and deadly battlefields now long forgotten, by men seemingly forgotten in our contemporary histories, seems to be fading into the past like the ghosts of liberty that fought for it.

Political correctness and the obsession with protecting people’s feelings because they hear things that offend them is destroying our capacity to actually discuss solutions to the most critical of issues that face us as a people.

We must resist the temptation to damn, to silence, to hector.  We must debate, freely and robustly all of the issues and challenges that we face without fear or favour, for these are no trifling matters that we are confronted with.

Listen to Dr Carson’s story and tell me.  What kind of world do you want to live in?

I want to live in the world that he wants to live in.