'Let Go Hunting': The Paedophiles Wingman.

The vigilante group ‘Let's go hunting’ has risen to the forefront of public consciousness, through recent media reports. They have attempted to portray themselves, to the public, as protectors of children, by attempting to entrap suspected paedophiles online before arranging a meeting and confronting them. I would contend that protecting children is not their priority and that it is more to do with a group of mainly men, possibly with low self esteem, suffering from hero complexes and using the sensitive subject of child protection as a vehicle to achieve public acclaim in the same way people enter X-factor or take part in reality shows do. It’s just another variation of “when I grow up, I wanna be famous” syndrome. 

I have no problem with them attempting to entrap suspected paedophiles online, but by attempting to confront and challenge their targets and videoing the meeting, it would appear that protecting children is not as important to the group as being a Youtube video star is.

If protecting children was paramount, surely, when they had gathered sufficient intelligence, they would turn the information over to the appropriate authorities, who could then carry out a thorough investigation that could lead to a chance of arrest and prosecution.

As it is, any evidence ‘let’s go hunting’ produce is inadmissible in court and actually lessens any possibility of the paedophile being caught and convicted. But what is more concerning is that they are alerting a paedophile to the dangers of being caught and allowing them to escape to continue trying to groom children, but with greater vigilance, thus endangering more children. If ‘let’s go hunting’ alert the police, any suspected paedophile can be caught and removed from endangering more children, by being arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned.

My message to ‘let’s go hunting’ is simple. If you really care about the safety of children, stop charging around the country pretending to be superheroes, looking for backslaps and public acclaim, and just hand your evidence over to the proper authorities.

 One final point to the 'let’s go hunting‘gang. Drugs are an immense danger to children and blights many young lives. You could go into the inner cities and start confronting drug dealers, but I suppose that might be a bit dangerous.

Weird Picture?

The picture of the Prime Minister, asleep on his sister-in-laws bed, freaks me out. I don’t know whether it’s his bare foot in plain view, the strange look on the sister-in-laws face, as she stares at the camera phone, or the unanswered question, “ what the f*c* is he doing fast asleep on his sister-in-laws bed anyway? I find it all very, very unsettling.

" For those who've come across the seas

   we've boundless plains to share"

(Australian national anthem-verse 2, lines 5&6)

As Australia has recently elected a new Prime Minister, whose views on women’s rights, climate change, abortion, aborigines, and immigration would make anybody living in the dark ages look like a progressive, I feel it necessary to tell a joke. As that is what Tony Abbot is, a joke, a great big prehistoric, sexist, misogynistic, and xenophobic quivering pus-ball of a joke.

A plane lands at Sydney airport.

Pilot: “Ladies and gentleman, we have now landed safely at Sydney International Airport. Before you disembark, due to the time difference, could all passengers please put their watches back 90 years. Thank you”