Friday 9 July 2010

Moat where art thou?


It's been the talk of the town for the last couple of weeks. A fugitive, a father, a killer, a lover...on the run from the one's he loves and searching for the one's he hates the most. Generally we tend to run towards the one's we love and runaway when we see people we hate. But this man is different. He lives rough and taunts the law enforcement officers by sending letters threatning them. The police have combed an entire village in Rothbury and so far have found a tent, a couple of mobile phones and a few people who are believed to have helped Mr. Moat to get away.

Why is this man from Northumbria on a killing spree? Well, a few months ago another man from Cumbria went on a similar rampage. It's not a common factoral killing spree from the one's born in a town's name that ends with 'umbria'. If that was the case, then the lake district will be Britains equivilant to Chicago.

Brits are generally tougher than some of their peers around the world but since of late, they seem to have embraced the gun and killing culture of their allies over the Atlantic. This change in culture is not sudden but it seems to have popped in all of a sudden. Could it be another outcome of the dreaded recession? Are people getting more and more preassurised by their responsibiities or is it a matter of not having a proper work-life balance?

What ever it is, violence seem to be raising its ugly head in Britain. People are resorting to guns instead of mutual respect and life in blighty seems to have changed quite dramatically during the last few years. Destiny cannot be changed overnight but if society is going to accept a gun crime as a routine occurance, then a few more Raul's will emerge from the moats of this recession very soon.