There are monsters out there!

I'm getting a bit tired of seeing stuff in the media about paedophiles. Don't get me wrong, I think it's appalling what they do and that they should bring in the death penalty for these people but the hype and scaremongering that goes with it drives me mad - because people believe it.

The media would have you believe that round every corner a paedophile was waiting in the bushes wanking over your kids and was going to kidnap them and commit appalling acts on them later. It's bollocks. In the grand scheme of UK PLC paedophilia is relatively insignificant in number and the authorities know where they all are anyway, except the odd one of course.

But I do belive that the media hype inspires senseless mob culture as well as causing some kids to be effectively locked away like prized posessions by overprotective parents. I remember reading one story in the newspaper a while ago where a woman had her windows smashed and her car daubed in paint with "PAEDO". She was a paediatrician.

More recently in the local news a development of a 4-story high block of flats was mentioned and local residents were kicking off about it. It's a development that has been on and off for about 2 years now due to various complaints and so on. But this time they are complaining that someone that buys one of these flats might be a paedophile and might want to take photos of children in the nursery that is across the road. A seemingly desperate attempt to stop the development given that it's basically complete now.

I browsed the website of the newspaper in question to read that several comments had been made on there following the story. The first five or six were jovial: one querying whether the next move would be to build 30 foot high walls around every school as a preventative measure and another being that they should step it up more and build domes in case paedophiles fly over in helicopters.

At the end, though, one woman was totally in agreement that the development of flats should be stopped because a prospective owner might actually be a paedophile. Even more bizarrely she went on to say that paedophiles come from all backgrounds and aren't a specific category of person therefore any of the buyers of these flats could be one. She is right of course, but what are the chances? You can't live your life thinking that everyone is a paedophile, murderer, or any other criminal. She kept quoting "there are monsters round every corner" and saying "don't you watch the news?!" I do watch the news, and paedophilia certainly isn't the pandemic she would have you believe. The media has her convinced though.

The mind boggles.