Kidnap - a middle class crime A child aged 10 who had been kidnapped from his family home and held hostage for almost 36 hours was safe last night after being rescued by armed police from a “terrifying experience”. Officers from the specialist Kidnap Unit of the Metropolitan Police raided a flat in Great Peter Street, Victoria, central London, late on Friday night. ... Police said the boy’s ordeal began when three armed people snatched him from his home in Walthamstow, east London, on Thursday at about 11am. A ransom demand was made, but police have refused to say the size of it. ... Great Peter Street in Victoria was cordoned off for the Friday night police operation, while a search of a further address in Clapham, south London, recovered three guns. Scotland Yard said that four men and a woman had been arrested for questioning on kidnap and firearm allegations. So reads this news item in the Sunday Telegraph. It also mentions that the dedicated squad which deals with crimes of kidnap and extortion sees, on average, one “live” or on-going case a week. What it doesn’t mention is that there is nearer one such crime reported just to London’s Metropolitan Police every day, but the ransom has been paid and the victim released. And it doesn’t mention what this article in The Guardian did last June: we are facing here, to quote its headline, “A kidnap a day by foreign gangs in London”.
Today’s Sunday Telegraph item reports that the flat which was stormed by police to release the young victim was owned by the Peabody Trust. This is one of those government-favoured New-Lab charities which outreach social-scientifically to disadvantaged Londoners, delivering the services they need so very, very badly to combat the evil of social exclusion and build sustainable and, of course, vibrant, really, really equal communities. So here are the two extemes of the progressive universe. Moist-eyed and middle-class, university-educated outreach specialists tend to their touching illusions while vibrancy follows its own sweet path to perdition. Entirely missing from this neat equation is the fact that London’s true people have been dispossessed of their city, and their essential world of family and friends. They are the ones who have been “disadvantaged” by progressives and they are the ones, for all their current degredations, for whom we should feel sympathy and some sense, at least, of kinship. Last Monday a fine article by Madeleine Bunting - a journalist I have criticised in the past for her Moslem-mad sensibilities - appeared in, yes, The Guardian. It was headlined, “Ignored, angry and anxious: the world of the white working class”. It was, in fact, a review of a book: “The New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict” by Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron and Michael Young, which itself was a rare and honest study of the lives and feelings of dispossessed Londoners. “Here is a book that will infuriate and bewilder the progressive left,” Bunting’s review began. It was written by New-Lab types whose goal was less to understand the sociological disaster of London than figure out why the white working class’s support for the Labour Party is so weak. In the process it managed to tell a truth which Bunting is not too coy to express with some force:-
The destruction of real London, real Bradford, real Birmingham et al has been accomplished for the self-aggrandisement and moral satisfaction of the progressive middle class. They may claim to survey their new joyless, self-alienated London, their Sharia-planning Moslem Bradford, their tinder-box Birmingham with egalitarian pride. But London and Bradford and Birmingham were not theirs to give away to all humanity in the first place. No legitimacy attaches, or will ever attach, to what they have done. It is a geographical kidnap on a grand scale and I, for one, await the victim’s safe release with mounting impatience. Comments:2
Posted by Lurker on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:45 | # My senses on this must be improving. First time I heard the story I hear a “child” had been abducted and then that “people” had been arrested. A-ha I thought, so we know which racial group is not involved. ie ours. 3
Posted by Nick Tamiroff on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:45 | # Here in the US,our major criminal element has taken “car-jacking ’ to an art form.No planning involved,instant gratification,maybe a plus if the victum is female.At least you have the BNP-we have nobody! Post a comment:
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This evening three New Yorkers were charged with the Great Peter Street kidnap. Mind you, their names are Damien Francis, 24, Gadwell Gibbs, 23, and Edwin Phillips, 21. Gadwell? Their “British” accomplices were Dawn Fields, 25, and Jeriah Simpson, 20. Jeriah?