Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Gangs are good for society
"Gangs are an essential part of growing up and becoming a law abiding citizen, but you wouldn't know it from the media". says the Guardian.
"Gangs", they say, "get a bad press. The overused noun is now synonymous with the evils of youth culture and its incumbent violence, drugs, guns and sexual misconduct. There is a lot of rooftop shouting and table banging about the breakdown of teenage society: poor education, dysfunctional families, no respect for the older generations. 'Wasn't like that when I was young.' This dim view is, at best, misguided. At worst, clouded in denial and cushioned in the fiction of the non-existent "good old days". Societies throughout history have each had their share of unlawful, out-of-control youth".
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Think they're making it up?
http://sites.google.com/site/londonstreetgangs/borough-pages/haring...
though not about young ones per se.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Watched a doc about the Hitler Youth today. Now THAT was an Ubergang :-)
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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What was?
BTW, don't forget your two little dots .. or add an E after the vowel that should have them.. wie hier.. Uebergang
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Permalink Reply by L F T Snowflake on
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Baden-Powell got his idea for the 'Patrol System' for Scouts from observing street gangs. Noticing that gangs when about in numbers of around 6 - 8 he declared that Scout troops should be divided into little gangs called Patrols led by an older boy. The Patrol would then be trained to become an independent self functioning unit at camp, with a cook, a first aider, expert firelighters etc. The idea formed the basis of Scouting for many years and a smaller version of that idea was later adopted by David Stirling when founding the SAS. Each 4 man patrol has a linguist, first aider, navigator and demolitions expert. There you are, as Michael Caine once never said 'not a lot of people know that!'
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Baden-Powell also thought other things, we now consider not good, to be acceptable:
This on him @ Famous British Paedophiles:
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Most interesting. Have you thought about sending that page to Bear Grylls the current holder of BP's job and asking him how he feels about stepping into such shoes?
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