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To: epicure who wrote (131361)	5/4/2004 11:34:50 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

So let's see, I call in an authority that, while it has problems, has some experience dealing with this sort of thing, and has the resources to (probably) produce a better outcome - social services Now let's explore this analogy a bit further.. You advocate calling social services, and many of the social service workers completely sympathize with you and want to help, but they have to obtain permission from their state or city council, as well as coordinating with the appropriate law enforcement agencies, before getting involved... Well, it turns out that the city council knows this is the moral and right thing to do.. They have previously issued warnings, citations, and even convicted the leader and put him on a suspended sentence. And even worse, we're hearing that this gang is being challenged by an even tougher, more violent gang.. A gang that is socio-pathic in its disdain for the law, and unafraid of killing anyone who stands in their way... So it's quite possible that this child is going to eventually fall under the sway of this more fanatical group eventually, if only via the "law of the jungle".. So here you have social services, sympathetic to your cause and complaint, many members of the law enforcement and court system being sympathetic and willing to assist... But then you find out that several of the council members, those with the ability to veto the decision of the majority, with regard to enforcing the law, are on the payroll of the gang members.... So no matter what you do, even if deciding to enforce the law DESPITE the corruption of certain politicians, you're "damned if you do, and damned if you don't".. So what do you do? Nothing? Do you sit back and let this suicidal gang take over the neighborhood and eventually threaten other neighborhoods? If you can't get the political mechanisms to work properly in enforcing what is the closest international equivalent to a Court Order or Arrest warrant, a UNSC binding resolution, then what real hope is there for ever creating the positive change we'd all like to have? You can't put this down to lack of will, or blame the people who see the problem for the problem. That's just silly. I'm sorry.. I think I can.. Because we all can see the problems in our own societies. But it those who take action (sometimes at the risk or loss of, their lives, who make the difference). Eventually one has to stop being an passively detached observer of the world's pain... And hopefully it won't require an even more catastrophic tragedy than 9/11 before we wake up.. Hawk