Taking Liberties too far

Rant

 

Taking Liberties too far

 

The lack of enforced discipline.

Is where our troubles all begin.

The evidence is plain to see.

Things are not as they ought to be

 

Some legal technicality

allows the guilty to go free.

They thus evade due punishment

 although they are not innocent.

 

It’s much the same in homes and schools

Where children disobey the rules.

Without regard to consequence

 because they see no evidence.

 

 They will be chastised in due course.

There is no point in having laws

which aren’t enforced impartially.

Applied to all men equally.

 

A civilised society

 which fails to enforce it’s own laws.

Will slide into sheer anarchy.

The lack of discipline the cause.

 

The time has come: We must review

 exactly what the law should do.

 To deter those who break the rules

If we do not then we are fools.

 

08/10/2009

http:// blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers

 

 

Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

Welll we are moving away from the ideals of the past/I wass reading a muguffy reader the other day it was the book given the children in 6th grade here in the long gone past.It is amazing how much more it taught than has been the case with our books today

[Jenny Nelson]

Oh I love this! It is so true and exactly what's going on right now, causeing so much damage to home and community. My daughter worked in a daycare center for awhile. They were not allowed to the tell the children "no," and they were not allowed to tell a child that they'd done something wrong, even if that child had hit another child. They had to "overlook and redirect." Stupidest thing I've ever heard of. I love your last line; straight to the point.