Broken windows
Terroristic minded youths in England have drawn the logical conclusion from their abilty to parade around unmolested while threatening to behead, butcher, slay and annihilate anyone they don’t like. This is the legacy of permitting broken windows.
When you pemit this:
One Whitehall source said “many dozens” of plots were under investigation, involving “hundreds” of suspects. According to one report last night, al-Qa’ida’s leader in Britain could have been held in the raids. But security sources estimate that as many as 1,200 people here are actively involved with terrorism, and that the country is still under “very severe” threat from other potential terrorist plots. This, they added, explained why there were no immediate plans to lower the current national threat assessment from “critical”, its highest level.
“As many as 1,200 people here are actively involved with terrorism,” with “many dozens” of plots and “hundreds” of suspects. Enough already. Might it be time to cut the sensitivity, and also not pay blackmail?
UPDATE
We’re on the verge of quite a little problem ourselves, by the way.
UPDATE II
England’s problem is a big one, as this chart shows. But it won’t get any smaller by failing to face up to it.


