Tuesday 1 July 2008

Ben Kinsella- A predicted murder or just an unfortunate coincidence?

The news, lately, never seem to fail to shock me. I was browsing the news online when I read about a teenager in London that had written an essay for the creative class describing his murder and the feeling of being stabbed, some weeks before he was killed by a gang. That was when my jaw dropped to the floor.

The attack, the 16 year old, Ben Kinsella, suffered was similar to the one he described in his essay and when it comes down to me, the victim, even though the young of his age, had fully understood what this world we’re living in has turned to.

He refers in his essay that he fell victim to “the monstrosity the society has become.” Were these words the words of a young prophete or just a really opinionated young man that lost his life in the most unfair way?

Some might say, that the victim was just another smart kid that became another number in the statistics of victims of youth and street crime.

Kids holding guns and killing each other from the age of 13 or 15 is not extraordinary for our western so called civilized society. It is something normal.

Well what’s left to say, let’s let the numbers rise and be more concerned about the profits that guns or other things that our society produce than the citizen’s lives. At the bottom line people can be reproduced and numbers will always be numbers. In a few years we might all be mesmerized by the words of another talented person that lost his life in the most unfair way.

Here’s a video that I found on youtube, originally from sky news, related to Ben’s murder and the rise of youth street crime