"Can we can be called reasonable.”

"The margins of society"
Hi there peter and thank you for your rather surprising remarks about the article I emailed you.

I thought I would write you one more to give you the reason why I wrote to you in the first place, and that was James Browne from fireinice sent me a link to your emails to and from Vera Baird QC MP (Conflict of interest in our cases I might add)

just a few lines on reasonability and why we can not in any way shape or form be referred to as of reasonable mind or body by those who act to silence the past in a "reasonable?" way that does not involve the blame and responsibility landing on them.

The reason why its title is the “margins of society” is; I do believe that the margin of society is where most if not all people who have been through the institutional care system ends up. Many if not all again, have suffered physical, mental, and sexual abuse.

Either familiar, peer, or indeed institutionalised, abuses that at the times of their lives when learning structured behaviour patens from all of the above are the most indentured into the adolescent mind.

Where the abuser is either, an adult who is meant to be a carer, or foster parents or an employee of the state, who is also their abuser, young people learn quite quickly who not to trust.

When this happens the young person attempts to internalise their feeling as they search for answers to many confusing question, only to find them rebounding from a place where no knowledge exists as this experience is competing with everything they are taught at school and by those around them in the wider society.

As these feeling rebound, and are on their outward thrust, young people display a bad attitude to school, this I believe is because they consider the teachers tell lies to them telling them the world is a lovely fluffy place and that mums & dads are all wonderful, with the society around them being made up of fine upstanding people only to find out the hard way that the teachers are talking uneducated and relative to themselves only, tripe.

The days of the 60’s were very austere for what society would term the working class, however the actual fact that just like now you had a “Not” working class, termed the underbelly today. Families where neither parents are working, ill educated at a time when things where even fluffier and lovely than today for those with the advantage of having rose tinted glasses.

They were basic human beings with all the obvious problems that inevitably came with that situation. Father is an alcoholic trying to drown his lifetime of abuse, taking out his drunken rage on the mother and children. The mother of course has six children, once again due to the lack of education and in many cases errant religious dictums.

This situation served only to swell the populations of the church orphanages and local council run children’s homes at a time when there was no training or observational structure or monitoring of children, and which is infinitely worse, the same lack of principle management of the staff who in far to many cases turned out to be paedophiles, (if I hear anyone say) “well paedophilia is a relatively new phenomena.”

I’ll burst a blood vassal. Just look at the word! Big clue… It’s Greek!!!

So we have a situation where these young people who have already become disillusioned by school, parents, and now the care system has its shot at it and fails miserably leaving a post pubescent heap of very angry flesh and bone neither equipped or ready to take on the massive task of societal integration. Ha! You have got to be joking?

What person in their right mind could ever think that you will get a positive transition into society given the background and the depths of depravity they have only just experienced at the hands of the neglect of that society?

Where can there be any sense of responsibility found within these young people who have, in many cases found that those who were trusted to be responsible were actually some of the most reprehensible society could imagine?

After leaving care those who could leave, or have grown too old to be able to be managed by adult manipulation and can finally stand up and fight for themselves against their abusers. Feeling angry, rebellious, and anti social in the extreme, they hit the streets running destined to looking back over their shoulders into adulthood.

As in the majority of cases running foul of the law which has already got it mark on them as a recidivist delinquent, A hoodie, a chav, a mod, rocker and many other ways adults find to explain the troubled times these young people seem to be bringing to society with out a single idea or understanding that it is society itself, that are directly responsible by act or omission, for the bad behaviour in the youths of that day and this day too.

We then see these young people placed into youth custody and again subjected to a regime of pain, suffering and brutality in a detention centre, having crimes perpetrated on them daily, which would have any man on the street arrested and imprisoned going by this societies principles, crimes by prison officers that would not look out of place in documents written about Treblinka, or Auschwitz.

Police in Consett have been contacted by our victim’s months ago to have these prison officers and governors management re-questioned, those who are still alive today and indeed some are still working in youth custody and some are a leading light in the restorative justice movement. We are still waiting for an answer from Consett police.