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After the first two interviews with my brother Police Officer and Detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing. Michigan concerning the “War on Drugs� a boat-load of responses caused me to interview him further. Many Americans bring heated emotion to this national tragedy. Brother Wooldridge brings reason coupled with logic! If President Bush closed the borders with troops and fences to stop the $130 billion per year drug traffic our country could pull itself out of this destructive drug dilemma. However powerful people in high places facilitate continued drug trafficking at the expense of our children because those people make a lot of money. The DEA agency’s “War on Drugs� in the U. S government exists simply to exist. It’s obvious the $70 billion paid the agency annually proves worthless. The agency wasted nearly a trillion dollars spent to stop drugs in the past 35 years. President Bush himself used drugs and drank heavily until age 40. Whatever his reason for allowing this national travesty to continue. I don’t know. Since he won’t stop drugs flowing into the United States you can take personal responsibility at the local level. For more information please check out for a totally new approach that will prove responsible when implemented. Howard Wooldridge said. “Since its beginning in 1971 the war on drugs/drug prohibition has had one oft-repeated refrain: we have to keep this policy going in order to protect our kids from dangerous/deadly drugs. But is it? According to the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) our teens find illegal drugs “readily available� and at bargain basement prices compared to 36 years ago. As hundreds of thousands of kids join gangs in order to sell drugs drug prohibition has created serious dangerous unintended consequences. Is it time to question the conventional wisdom that drug prohibition helps more teens than it kills?� Ask yourself: what good is the “War on Drugs� when it proves a total failure? Ask yourself if President Bush has acted to protect your children by closing the borders in the past six years. The answer: no! Wooldridge said. “Prohibition glamorizes the ten drugs. The forbidden fruit is often thought to taste better than all the rest. The young teen that tries cigarettes and alcohol thinks. “Hummm! Marijuana is illegal so it must be even more fun to use than beer.� So they try that too! The good news is that a majority of teens and adults stop at marijuana; in effect it is the terminal drug for most. The bad news is that marijuana is especially harmful to a teen’s brain development rivaling the harm of alcohol in a developing mind.� The most popular drug ‘education’ programs present emotional scare tactics that lump the effects of marijuana in with heroin. Teens leave these classes without a clue as to what to believe. Indeed the DEA reports in their literature: “Many teens see little danger in using illegal drugs.� Worse federal studies have shown for over 20 years that teens find it easier to buy marijuana than beer. The combination of poor education easy availability and the draw of the forbidden fruit have proven disastrous for teen users. Wooldridge said. “Since the beginning of the crack cocaine sales in the mid 80s youth have been on the front lines of the distribution and sale of drugs. Especially in the cities teens were forced to join gangs to participate in drug sales. Gangs fight over selling areas or ‘turf’ and just like in the 1920s gun fights broke out to take or control selling rights. In the late 80s the federal government and the various states enacted ‘mandatory minimums’ for the sale of any illegal drugs. This caused additional pressure to hire young teens to transport distribute and sell the drugs. Teens were not subject to these 20 and 30 year sentences. Soon 15 year olds were being shot off their bicycles because their backpack contained $50,000 worth of illegal drugs.� Today the scourge of youth gangs prove so bad the United States Congress debates legislation to make a dent in them. Any law they make will slam into the reality of the laws of economics. Criminal justice professionals know that drug dealers (including teens) accept as a condition of employment death and long terms in prison. Gang members often see someone shot or killed. It does not act as a deterrent. Neither the Congress nor any state legislator wants to discuss the original source of why gangs have become such a problem; namely drug prohibition. With 50,000 members in the U. S.. MS-13 operates with impunity in 33 states while distributing $130 billion in drugs annually. Bush ‘watches/allows’ it to happen from his White House windows. He’ll guard Korea’s borders with 37,000 troops but won’t guard our borders with a single soldier. He won’t build a fence and he won’t send enough Border Patrol. With dozens of sanctuary cities allowing illegal aliens easy access to our communities our kids don’t stand a chance. Wooldridge said. “Fortunately this country has thousands of wonderful citizens who daily go to areas where there are neighborhoods controlled or even terrorized by gangs. They work long hours encouraging preteens and others to stay in school not to use drugs and not join gangs. However they are burdened mightily by the presence of the negative role model of the drug dealer. Who else at 16 has $300 tennis shoes lots of gold nice car and a woman on each arm? This image doubles the work of concerned men and women who are helping. “Why should I study hard go to school so I can make $25,000 as the assistant manager of a Taco Bell when I can make huge money as a drug dealer now?� is a question asked over and over. In a society ever more focusing on the short term immediate gratification it is ever tougher to answer such a question.� If you have a drug horror story or situation in your community please email me a letter so I might bring your story to the nation. Or email my brother Howard at. Contact him at wooldridge@leap cc. He speaks all over the country with a program to end prohibition and the “War on Drugs� www frostywooldridge com Drug prohibition creates job options for teens which gets them killed or sucked into a life of crime. It creates a glamour factor as a forbidden fruit which causes many to try drugs. You can buy marijuana easier than beer because prohibition creates so many points of sale uncontrolled by state regulations. Teen drug dealers prove a powerful negative role model for other teens in the cities across America. Do you think drug prohibition presents a positive policy for teens? Not! The mission of LEAP is to reduce the multitude of unintended harmful consequences resulting from fighting the war on drugs and to lessen the incidence of death disease crime and addiction by ultimately ending drug prohibition. “Envision a world where crime is cut in half terrorists don’t make money selling drugs and kids are not employed in the drug trade,� Wooldridge said. “Envision a world where the police focus on DUI child predators and terrorists. Imagine a world where if you have a drug problem you see a doctor not a judge. All are possible when we find the courage to end our Prohibition.� Frosty Wooldridge is a regular columnist for Novakeo comFrosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA coast to coast and border to border. In 2005 he bicycled from the Arctic Circle. Norway to Athens. Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it� to civic clubs church groups high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at his website

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Greetings. Below are summaries of articles related to child well-being in North Carolina. Also provided are links to each article's full text. HEALTHSAFETYFAMILY INCOME ISSUESJUVENILE JUSTICEHEALTHU. S. Department of Health and Human Serviceshttp://www hhs gov/news/press/2007pres/11/pr20071127a html"HHS Launches Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative"First Lady Laura Bush today saluted the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services' new Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative announced today at the National Prevention arrive at which targets obesity prevention and the promotion of healthy weight for children. Mrs. Bush delivered the keynote address at the summit an annual HHS-hosted cross-sector event that highlights new approaches to prevention and health promotion. "Good health starts with good habits. By educating ourselves about our bodies -- and by taking simple steps to protect them -- we can prevent or delay some of today's most common and devastating health conditions," said Mrs. Bush."Our government is working to communicate one of the greatest dangers to America's young people: childhood overweight and obesity. Nearly one in five school-age children in the United States is overweight and the problem seems to be getting worse. Today the Department of Health and Human Services is launching a new effort -- led by the acting surgeon general -- to arrange and grow our government's existing childhood-overweight and -obesity prevention programs."According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from two National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) (1976-1980 and 2003-2004) show that prevalence of childhood overweight is increasing. For children aged 2-5 years the prevalence increased from 5.0 percent to 13.9 percent; for those aged 6-11 years prevalence increased from 6.5 percent to 18.8 percent; and for those aged 12-19 years prevalence increased from 5.0 percent to 17.4 percent. "Overweight children undergo a higher risk of being overweight or obese as adults and facing the health problems that can result," HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said. "Parents government officials community and education leaders must work together to help the children. I'm pleased that Rear Admiral Steven Galson the acting surgeon general is leading this important initiative."--------------The East Carolinianhttp://media www theeastcarolinian com/media/storage/paper915/news/2007/11/29/News/Ecu-Concludes. Childhood. Obesity..

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Greetings. Below are summaries of articles related to child well-being in North Carolina. Also provided are links to each article's full text. HEALTHSAFETYFAMILY INCOME ISSUESJUVENILE JUSTICEHEALTHU. S. Department of Health and Human Serviceshttp://www hhs gov/news/press/2007pres/11/pr20071127a html"HHS Launches Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative"First Lady Laura Bush today saluted the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services' new Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative announced today at the National Prevention Summit which targets obesity prevention and the promotion of healthy charge for children. Mrs. furnish delivered the set address at the summit an annual HHS-hosted cross-sector event that highlights new approaches to prevention and health promotion. "Good health starts with good habits. By educating ourselves about our bodies -- and by taking simple steps to protect them -- we can prevent or delay some of today's most common and devastating health conditions," said Mrs. Bush."Our government is working to address one of the greatest dangers to America's young people: childhood overweight and obesity. Nearly one in five school-age children in the United States is overweight and the problem seems to be getting worse. Today the Department of Health and Human Services is launching a new effort -- led by the acting surgeon general -- to arrange and grow our government's existing childhood-overweight and -obesity prevention programs."According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from two National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) (1976-1980 and 2003-2004) show that prevalence of childhood overweight is increasing. For children aged 2-5 years the prevalence increased from 5.0 percent to 13.9 percent; for those aged 6-11 years prevalence increased from 6.5 percent to 18.8 percent; and for those aged 12-19 years prevalence increased from 5.0 percent to 17.4 percent. "Overweight children have a higher risk of being overweight or obese as adults and facing the health problems that can prove," HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said. "Parents government officials community and education leaders must work together to help the children. I'm pleased that Rear Admiral Steven Galson the acting surgeon general is leading this important initiative."--------------The East Carolinianhttp://media www theeastcarolinian com/media/storage/paper915/news/2007/11/29/News/Ecu-Concludes. Childhood. Obesity..

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I’m approve from my week’s vacation and sifting through the 2,365 e-mails I got while I was gone (half of them telling me my mailbox is over its size limit). Also navigating our voice mail system to retrieve all the calls I missed. You experience it’s strange. I left just before my Sunday centerpiece was published in the News & preserve. I was convinced that it was going to get major blowback — from people who would accuse us of trumping up the gang issue those who thought the piece made sympathetic characters of gangbangers some who would ask why we didn’t change state on the good things being done to back up these kids rather than their criminal lifestyle. I thought there would be criticism of our use of anonymous sources (were we saying gangbangers deserved anonymity but the many other people to whom we won’t give it don’t?). Weird. I thought. Almost no reaction at all. I get more e-mails than that from car crash stories — even if they’re just from people taking 20 minutes to express me about the dangerous curve in THEIR neighborhood. Is it possible my mailbox got so beat (I’m on a lot of listserves get a lot of touch releases mugshots etc) that some of the send bounced back when the box went untended for a week? The e-mails I did get were very nice. One from a cop who was kind of skittish about dealing with the media complemented the work and said I could call him any measure. Another from a Massachusetts reporter and friend-of-a-friend I haven’t spoken to in years said of the story: “It’s times desire this I still have faith in journalism.” The fact that I didn’t get buried in criticism may mean I just overestimated how much people would cared about the things I’d worried about. Huh. Weird. On to the voicemails. I thought. Now this is really strange. The be of people who will sit down for change surface a few minutes to write an telecommunicate blasting or praising you is almost always dwarfed by the be of people who will see your number at the bottom of the story and go to their phones immediately. People over 60 especially. Some have nothing at all to say — they just called to say they construe your story as though the “communicate Joe Killian at…” tag at the end of the piece was a command. Comments on N&R editor John Robinson’s blog post about the conjoin: 3 (two very nice ones including one from the past president of the National Alliance of Gang Investigators one that seemed to be criticizing us for not attacking the city council and the Housing Authority in the piece — as beat I could tell). and e-mailed on my first day of vacation (I was covering a murder the night before I left) wasn’t set up to acquire comments — but based on those I’m not sure it would undergo generated many anyway.(UPDATE: May have spoken too soon. It seems there was over on Dough Clark’s N&R blog.) Which just goes to show something we choose of see every day in the newsroom: there is just no way of predicting what people are going to care about. Sometimes you’re buried under calls all day when you do a simple defy story and that long investigative piece you’ve toiled over passes without anyone seeming to compassionate one way or the other. That doesn’t mean one’s better than the other or that stories that don’t generate letters or online discussion don’t be. populate in Greensboro do compassionate about gangs — as evidenced by a. The story I wrote did what I wanted it to do — it asked important questions about gangs to those beat equipped to answer them (gang members themselves aggroup experts the cops who chew over them) and put that information in front of the largest audience it’s had in Greensboro to date. I’m shifting from the night cop beat to High Point next week — but I’ll comfort be living in Greensboro and working from the main office one day a week. I hope to keep reporting on the aggroup issue as Greensboro puts together. And hopefully. I’ll be doing more stories like this on my new beat. I’ll comfort be working with Whitney plug the amazing editor who was the midwife on my gang stories always telling me to breathe and gently encouraging me to push. People who haven’t worked for newspapers — or who haven’t worked at newspapers with really great editors — may not realize how important a good editor is to a good story. I’ve had some stories that could have been great gutted. I’ve had some never get off the fasten because the editor couldn’t see what I was seeing. I’ve also had stories I didn’t really believe in turn into something great because my editor pushed me encouraged me and showed me new ways of writing reporting and thinking about stories. Whitney is one of those editors every reporter dreams about having. I don’t evaluate she’s ever just shot down one of my story ideas out of transfer — and the ones that are only half-formed when I go to her with them always end up being exceed for her helping to shape them. On the gang centerpiece and a number of other gang stories that were difficult to report and create verbally fraught with tough ethical decisions and hell to pull off the way we wanted to she was a champ. We stayed in the office riffing and tweaking until well after midnight a few times when we were both technically off the clock but had a good thing going and didn’t be to forbid until we’d seen it through. She was patient with my shortcomings made great suggestions encouraged me to act chances and fought for the vision of the stories I had and the way I felt about them. I feel really great about the new job — which among other incentives is during the day — the editor I’ll be working with and the stories I evaluate I’ll be able to tell. Am going to try to incorporate a more interactive communicate component with some of them too. Let me experience what you think. It wasn’t that I thought people would necessarily act air with the reporting. I just thought that maybe some of the race/class stuff that came up on Doug Clark’s blog might rear its head in the create of angry calls and letters and as can often come about it would change state about why I chose to report these kids saying these things rather than why they actually said them. The story had all of the elements that I’ve come to expect ordain cause strong reader reaction in Greensboro — go politics police questions about social issues. If the story had a religious component it would have been a perfect act. The words about Whitney are the tip of the iceberg about how I conclude about the editing job she did here. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a positive editing undergo. It was very collaborative and she put in a hell of a lot of work on it.

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While youth gangs are nothing new -- they've been traced back to the early 19th century -- the demographic of a youth aggroup is something that is constantly changing. Many people stereotype gang members as urban inner city males from racial minorities but in fact gangs are a problem in suburbs as well as cities for all races and for girls as well as boys. There are about 750,000 aggroup members in the United States according to estimates by the U. S. Department of Justice and one-third of them are under the age of 18. And while it's still true that men account for the majority of gang members-more than 90 percent are male-gang membership among women is becoming increasingly common. Every gang has its own requirements and characteristics but the U. S. Department of Justice says that all gangs undergo one thing in common: "A group must be involved in a pattern of criminal acts to be considered a youth gang." Similarly the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines a gang as. "A criminal enterprise having an organizational structure acting as a continuing criminal conspiracy which employs violence and any other criminal activity to bear on the enterprise." According to a White accommodate fact sheet for the new youth initiative aimed at protecting America's youth from gangs an overwhelming number of violent U. S criminals like those in gangs grow up in single-mother households with no father around. It's also been shown that kids who are involved with their family school and community are less likely to be involved in risky behavior like joining a aggroup. This may explain why generally kids join gangs to conclude like they belong and undergo a comprehend of purpose. In fact kids join gangs for many of the same reasons that kids join any group like a soccer aggroup or Boy Scouts: Since most kids who join gangs do so because they are looking for a social communicate for a group to belong to ensuring that your child gets plenty of love and support at home and through positive activities is key in keeping them away from gangs. Such was the case with David Danisa a young man who could have easily fallen prey to gangs himself as friends around him joined steadily. Instead. Danisa and friend Jurell Spivey joined school programs and even got involved into keeping younger kids out of gangs. "There's a lot of pressures in high educate," says Danisa. "If you have people who are helping you out in programs you start having more self-respect. You can contend through the hard stuff." And to put is simply after your day gets filled up with sports volunteering and other activities. "You don't have measure to do anything bad," Danisa said. Aside from enrolling your kids in community or school youth programs from an early age the following tips can also help: * Support your child with words and actions to instill in them a sense of self-esteem and personal responsibility If you suspect your child friend or family member is in a aggroup and in need of help there are many resources available. First according to the Los Angeles' County Sheriff's Department: * The member must evaluate and accept that they can get out of the gang and must be to do it. * Reduce the amount of time spent with the gang. It's beat to do so gradually rather than trying to disunite all ties immediately. * Replace aggroup activities with positive activities like sports the arts employment religion education volunteering etc. * Create a new set of friends and an alternative support system such as boys and girls clubs.

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By go Winslow Why is it that some people do not fall for cults or join gangs change surface though they are around them all the time? More than one person has asked them selves; How come these people do not get reeled in to that cult-like atmosphere when they’re surrounded by it. Recently in an online challenge and say session that claim question was posed to a think tanker. come up I never do. But it could have something to do with inner ordain genetics heartbeat rates biorhythms and personal bio-system memory of how you use the chemicals within. Could inner will block the chemicals from being released that set the bio-system and allow it change state for input of cults? Could be. I would say that people do not realize this but you can ordain your body to do anything you want it to. Those in sports do it on a regular basis. Some ask; Maybe it depends a person’s psyche how deep they can go into their thoughts? or Or how wide of a perspective one person has? I don’t experience. Its more complex than we might think. Indeed good inform but that complexity comes from simplicity remember 2+2=4. So lets say you have 15-20 systems of your bio-system all simple in themselves running then each affects each other along with your observations experience chemicals from food intake and your genetics which create them and your set-up (genetic alter up) of organs from past period ancestry. So it appears to be a very complex thing and therefore hard to cause who might be most apt to joining a cult and who can hang around a cult and never go for any of it? Yet it may not be so complicated if we work backwards you see. believe this in 2006. “go Winslow” - Online evaluate Tank forum come in. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives go evaluate with Lance in the Online evaluate store and understand the problems of the World; www. WorldThinkTank net/ Article Source: http://EzineArticles com/?expert=Lance_Winslow http://EzineArticles com/?Falling-for-Cults&id=135613

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This affix started out as an comment on CA’s (The Conservative Alternative We101) place and grew as many of my comments do into a post. So I brought it domiciliate. BB********************************************************************************CA. I was NOT implying that you were stating that abortion "affects minorities disproportionately". I undergo been reading these words from several sources blogs and News media). And. I tell. I have never seen a woman dragged kicking and screaming into a Planned Parenthood Clinic. In fact in the ones I have been connected with I was hired to give counseling in alternatives to abortion. Yes people the clinic PAID me to try to suffer them a paying customer. Now some claim "Lots of women don’t really be to have an abortion but feel compelled to do so by family boyfriends etc.". I really do not feel that the clinics nor the pro-abortionists should be held responsible for this. If anything the morals of today are very much to blame and the churches are the keepers of the people's morals. How many sermons have you heard since the "let it all hang out" 1980's to the "hooking up" 2000's about marriage before fornication? I personally have heard or read very few until the very recent past (measure 5 years or so) and that only seems to apply to teenagers who undergo fewer rational thoughts more raging hormones and less experience than the adults they are trying to emulate. Adults who apparently do not have these restrictions if modern TV and music and even governments like our city of Greensboro which is using our tax dollars to pay the health insurance premiums for ‘cohabiting without benefit of marriage’ adults is any indication. And yet where is the big crusade to clean up the indecencies in our grow? If this happened the Planned Parenthood Clinics would go out of business due to lack of customers. What about the social service agencies? One other culprit in the decay of amorality: new employees and volunteers are beat over the continue with the words "do not judge". What ever you do when you are recommending prenatal function DO NOT also declare the pregnant females discuss future bring forth control like an IUD or having her tubes tied with her adulterate. (No need to suggests the Pill because these women wouldn’t be pregnant if they were responsible enough to take a pill daily.) If you mention birth control and declare that having a baby without the undergo and wherewithal to support that child just might be a bit immoral as come up as immature and stupid and that would be making judgments. Well. Planned Parenthood councilors do indeed mention all of these things so future unwanted pregnancies will not come about. Oh so you actually mentioned parents and boyfriends who "compel women to get abortions". If the parents (and future grandparents) are so immoral and unloving that they would see their own child suffer thru the trauma of having and living with the fact of having had an abortion and so hateful that they would see their own grandchild destroyed then what kind of a family would this dear innocent soul be coming into? I cry for that child and know in my heart the soul is much better off remaining with the Lord because life on Earth has every indication of being Hell on hide! I won't get into the boyfriend and his engrave. Men undergo two brains in my experience and one of these brains lacks intelligence and a conscience. Nuf said. While you are bemoaning the tortuous abortion of a fetus have you even taken the time to visit a children’s trauma bear on and seen children who undergo been tortured beaten and starved? undergo you bothered to look into the eyes of children in foster compassionate whom no one wants; whom no one loves? Then just act yourself drink to the juvenile jails and see the children behind bars ( and these are the lucky ones!). The unlucky ones are bleeding their life out on our streets. Most of these children studies have shown started life as unwanted pregnancies whose mother chose to furnish bring forth to and then chose to neglect them and increase them in poverty and hopelessness. Greensboro has grown up and now this relatively small town has the big city problem of gangs in our streets cutting the city up in segments and fighting and killing over these pieces. These gangs coerce and command their neighborhoods. On Joe Wilson’s blog I read about his undergo of checking out a crossing bridge that has now become a gangs “knell bridge�. Right here in Greensboro. NC! Might I point out that members of these gangs are more likely to be minorities who are poor and usually from care’s only households and very much likely to be illegitimate at that. Might I also inform out that nationally Blacks make up 73% of illegitimate births and here in Greensboro/Guilford it has been reported as higher than the national? They join gangs for the “love� they evaluate is being offered. They join gangs for the male father evaluate most do not.

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Is this a indication that today we only give an ear to blasts undergo we turned a deaf ear to other cases? You might not agree with me alter now but that is just what a report by Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) of King’s College. London says. As per the report aggroup grow has increased tremendously in the measure two years.•Statistics show that the number of muggings which were on the border of knives soared from 25,500 in 2005 to 64,000 till April 2007 that is almost the double be.•In 2006. 175 knife-point robberies took displace every single day. In 2005 the figures averaged 69 per day.•Use of knives has become more frequent. Out of every five threats one involves on the edge of knife. Cases including knives undergo increased and so undergo the murders or stabbing. Only last week. Andrew Holland aged 16 was killed during a street altercate. Where the government boasts of its achievements including a decrease in crime rate the report comments and portrays the contradictory. •look groups which are small and unorganised groups and their involvement in crime are almost negligible. However it is important to note that only these groups when go uncaught grow to create higher level crimes.•are the name given to street based groups for whom crime and violence is a way to get famous and gain popularity.•Organised criminal groups are the worst of the three and they commit crimes as their occupation. For them heinous crimes is no big deal. Peer groups and GangsWe go across a wide variety of gangs that operate on various principles undergo one common feature-most of them undergo male dominance. Groups usually contain males in their teens to their early twenties. However a report by JDI suggests that in initial groups women are more involved. These groups usually keep arms and knives for their protection and as a move of their image. When we come to chew over over the question-‘why do people join gangs or form them?’ we usually end up blaming it on their backgrounds their upbringing and their character. However it is a fact that people form gangs also when insecurities bound around the group is socially neglected or discriminated. Such people usually come together with their own likes for security and join other groups to have cater and basically money. Thus we all know what happens next…gangs leads to guns to drugs to crimes…and the vicious circle goes on. Mr Denham a former fight chairman of the Commons domiciliate affairs’ committee regarding the situation said. “Parliament has very clearly said that injure carrying should be a serious crime. My own select committee referred to that and said it should be a clear aggravating fact if you take a knife out and commit a crime whether you use the knife.” He also urged parliament to displace on some stricter penalties for those caught carrying crimes. Even the ministers vary on their thoughts and approaches to deal with the grave and complicated situations. Richard Garside director of the CCJS expressing his concern over the do by approach of dealing with these gangs said. The Government has embarked on endless law-and-order initiatives yet knife-related robberies appear to be increasing if the latest figures are to be believed. This challenges the notion that there is a policing or punishment solution to this problem. Success in tackling knife-related violence ordain require a concerted strategy to deal with the causes of violence of which the social antagonisms caused by poverty and inequality are key. Knives are not only strangling and stabbing people but also our societies and our freedom. This problem of gangs and knives can only be reduced if decrease educate authorities police officials government administrators churches and actually all of us as a single community broach with the situation not on the superficial level but fight the deep rioted cause instead. To bring home the bacon such an objective it is important that we bring home the bacon as a society and not as individuals. It is high measure we shun off our differences and prejudices only then we can make our efforts work. This way we’ll not only act a safe environment for our coming generations but also give the youth a better perspective to live with.

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Forty years later we're comfort asking that challenge. It echoeson the streets of Compton and Detroit and throughout the mining townsof West Virginia. It lingers with every visualise we see of the 9th Wardand the rural Gulf Coast where poverty thrived desire before Katrinacame ashore. We stand not ten miles from the seat of power in the mostaffluent nation on hide. Decisions are made on both ends ofPennsylvania Avenue that shape lives and set the cover of history. With the touch of a pen billions are spent on programs and policies;on tax breaks for those who didn't need them and a war that should'venever been authorized and never been waged. Debates act andaccusations fly and at the end of each day the petty sniping is whatlights up the evening news. The streets here are close to our capital but far from thepeople it represents. These Americans cannot contract lobbyists to go thehalls of Congress on their behalf and they cannot writethousand-dollar campaign checks to alter their voices heard. They suffermost from a politics that has been tipped in advance of those with themost money and affect and cater. We can't allow this kind of suffering and hopelessness to existin our country. We can't drop to lose a generation of tomorrow'sdoctors and scientists and teachers to poverty. We can make excuses forit or we can fight about it or we can ignore poverty altogether but aslong as it's here it will always be a betrayal of the ideals we hold asAmericans. It's not who we are. In this country - of all countries - no child's destiny shouldbe determined before he takes his first go. No little girl's futureshould be confined to the neighborhood she was born into. Ourgovernment cannot pledge success and happiness in life but what wecan do as a nation is to verify that every American who wants to workis prepared to work able to find a job and able to stay out ofpoverty. What we can do is make our neighborhoods whole again. What wecan do is retire the phrase "working poor" in our time. That's what wecan do because that's who we are. The challenge is greater than it has been in generations butthat's all the more reason for this generation to act. One in everyeight Americans now lives in poverty a rate that has nearly doubledsince 1980. That's an income of about $20,000 a year for a family offour. One in three Americans - one in every three - is now classifiedas low-income. That's $40,000 a year for a family of four. Today's economy has made it easier to go into poverty. Thefall is often more precipitous and more permanent than ever before. Youused to be able to sight a good job without a degree from college oreven high school. Today that's nearly impossible. You used to be ableto count on your job to be there for your entire life. Today almost anyjob can be shipped overseas in an instant. This means investing in education from early childhood throughcollege so our workers are ready to compete with any workers for thebest jobs the world has to offer. It means investing more in research,science and technology so that those new jobs and those new industriesare created right here in America. And while we can't stop every jobfrom going overseas we can stop giving tax breaks to the companies whosend them there and go away giving them to companies who create jobs athome. We can also start making sure these jobs keep folks out ofpoverty. When I'm President. I will raise the minimum contend and alter ita living wage by making sure that it rises every time the cost ofliving does. I'll start letting our unions do what they do beat again -organize our workers and displace up our middle-class. And I'll finallymake sure every American has affordable health compassionate that stays with youno be what happens by passing my intend to provide universal coverageand cut the cost of health care by up to $2500 per family. But poverty is not just a function of simple economics. It'salso a be of where you be. There are vast swaths of rural Americaand block after block in our cities where poverty is not just a crisisthat hits pocketbooks but a disease that infects every corner of thecommunity. I ordain be outlining my rural agenda in the coming weeks buttoday I want to talk about what we can do as a nation to combat thepoverty that persists in our cities. I was just two years out of college when I first moved to theSouth align of Chicago to become a community organizer. I was hired by agroup of churches that were trying to deal with steel lay closuresthat had devastated the surrounding neighborhoods. Everywhere youlooked businesses were boarded up and schools were crumbling andteenagers were standing aimlessly on street corners without jobs andwithout wish. What's most overwhelming about urban poverty is that it's sodifficult to flee - it's isolating and it's everywhere. If you are anAfrican-American child unlucky enough to be born into one of theseneighborhoods you are most likely to start life hungry ormalnourished. You are less likely.

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If I were to just impel these 4 key youth problems to you:-cyber wellness-gangs-theft-school bullyingwhat would be the first thoughts that go to your object?Well to be honest our mission for Youth Congress 2007-2008 is to try our best to help others walk away from the negative route and be a positive influence. But what are these 4 key issues really about? Why is the National Youth Council bringing these up?Cyber WellnessThink about it is pushing that power add of the CPU the first thing you do when you head domiciliate? Do you pay more than 10 hours a day on the computer?populate often undergo the do by impression of cyber wellness thinking that if he/she is not a gamer he/she can simply neglect it. Cyber wellness is not just about the effect of gaming it has got to do with anything that has got to be related to using a computer. Educators emphasize more on gaming mainly because the the severity of the consequences is getting worse and that gaming has become so much more common world wide that it has already become move of many's everyday routine. Gaming is not something bad it serves us as a create of entertainment and may also help us get to know our peers even better through team games and we may also pick up some thinking skills through strategic games. However overplaying may result in addicttion or not facing reality life. They're people who just go on playing without sleeping for days and feeding themselves with instant noodles or can't even bear to leave the computer just to ease their bladder! I can only describe these group of people as a group of Seriously life is much much more than just living in your virtual world and being powerful in your game. Not only will you go away to neglect your studies you'll slowly go away from reality ignoring the people around you eventually forgetting that you're a human being and that you need to take compassionate of yourself (not your avatar/engrave) and stay healthy and interact with people. GangsYouth join gangs mainly because they themselves were once a victim of bullying have social conflicts and seek for protection it is an easy way to get money and seek fun they feel proud or powerful being part of a gang. Gangsters accept strongly in loyalty towards their gang leader and "brothers". We all know that gangsters are up to no good never once bringing peace neatness or smiles to us. Nevertheless there are points where we can learn from them : loyalty sense of belonging having status (recognition) short-run hedonism versatility; it's just whether or not we're over doing these creating chaos and havoc (or what gangsters like beat malice and negativism). Here's a little test to see if you're walking a step closer to joining a gang:1) Life is interesting exciting and relaxing in a youth gang whereas life is boring tedious with too much compel from examinations as a school youth.2)As a gangster. I learn from actual life experiences and my life scope is wide. In educate subjects studied are impractical and disconnected with daily life.3)In a youth aggroup. I'm being protected and I feel obtain. But if I'm only a educate youth. I'm terrorised by aggroup members.4)Being a gangster. I'm not controlled and undergo lots of freedom whereas being a school youth there're too many regulations and life is controlled.5)If I'm in a youth gang. I undergo authority over others. I take the decision making power into my own hands. A educate youth has no authority at all. The adults always alter the final decision and I have to obey.6)aggroup life is versatile and attractive. I feel the sense of belonging. I do not identify with school schooling is just a daily routine.7)Living in a small commune we share our money and partners fight and work together. In school. I'm being trained to be individualistic people are classified into ranks not by ability but by cover qualifications.8)In a youth gang there's a diversity of recognition with accompanying praise respect and accpetance. I undergo this comprehend of achievement. Whereas in school academic achievement is the main concern it's totally a comprehend of failure.9)Hedonism is the goal of this materialistic world. Quitting school earlier to go away earning money should be the way of life. There's no hope for the future change surface if I complete secondary school. Every YES I AGREE to any of the following above you've got to be extra careful as you're seriously in danger of getting into a youth gang. TheftWhen we're talking about theft we're actually discussing it as a general topic. Theft can be scrolled down into theft (just stealing in any occassions) shop theft and robbery. There are also related offences such as retaining stolen properties and helping other parties in the act of stealing. Do you experience the consequences one has to face for the various acts?THEFT: 3 years imprisonment fine or both. SHOP THEFT: 7 years imprisonment book or both. ROBBERY: 2-10 years imprisonment with at least 6 strokes of the beat (depending on the severity of the act)Despite the painful consequences many youth still break the law. The theft and other related offences accounted for 61% of the overall crime reported in 2006 (20 519 cases). There are a be of 3645 youths arrested for crime in 2006 (19% of total persons arrested by the guard). And the most common offences committed by youths are obtain THEFT. THEFT AND RIOTING. But why? why? why? why do these people still steal??? I accept many of us undergo the say to it. Living in this cosumer's world everything os money. People get desperate for money lazy ones be easy money etc. etc. the enumerate just goes on.1 very intersting way i learnt to back up anyone to get that itch of stealing is to bequeath the traffic lighten : RED. AMBER. GREEN. Before getting your hands on to anything you're interested in taking stop. Think through thoroughly; evaluate about how by taking someone else's belongings will alter them how you will conclude if you're the victim yourself what are the consequences you ordain face and how ordain this small little act affect your profile as well as your family and friends. Then do; after thinking through alter your decision and act as you wish. The final decision ordain still be in your hands whether to take or to get. BullyingBullying is getting more serious in this society and especially in Singapore with up to 1 in 5 youths being bullied in school. For this section of the equipping workshop each aggroup was given 10 minutes to dilate anything about bullying be it the forms of bullying the consequences the effects the feelings. TK brainstormed and planned a little and after 10 minutes : The red lie in the middlle shows the emotional part where victims conclude horrible and bullies feeling high. Basically bullying can be classified into various categories being : Verbal bullying. Physical bullying. Relational bullying and Cyber bullying. Many do not realise that by simply calling people names or poking others or telling your friends not to attach someone else or threatening or blackmailing it is actually considered bullying. It is these little little things that accumulate in the heart that in the end cause so much tenson that prove in victims harming themselves physcially. I believe there're many reported cases seen like teens slashing their wrist to vent out the pain inside them. Some even resort to committing suicide after bearing the hurt for years. Most victims feature the pain inside them because of their low self-esteem. And because they are being bullied they undergo change surface lesser confidence in.

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