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Showing posts with label Louis Theroux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louis Theroux. Show all posts
Friday, 18 December 2015
Sunday, 5 April 2015
Louis Theroux's Transgender Kids
My show tonight on BBC2 9pm: RT: http://t.co/JpxZRHubxV
— Louis Theroux (@louistheroux) April 5, 2015
Louis Theroux's Transgender Kids. It had to be California...the sooner it slides into the Pacific Ocean the better.
— Nationalist UK (@Nationalist_UK) April 5, 2015
http://t.co/ioJg9Wcmzm Will Louis Theroux's documentary encourage more children to think wanting to change sex before puberty is cool? SICK
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
http://t.co/ioJg9Wcmzm Is there something DEPRAVED about parents who do not discourage their CHILDREN when they say they want to change sex?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
http://t.co/ioJg9Wcmzm Does Louis Theroux have children? How happy would he be if his offspring says it wants to change sex?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
http://t.co/ioJg9Wcmzm Sick depraved libtard US parents do not discourage their offspring when they say they want to change sex.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
Louis Theroux in his fucking sick documentary asks: "How old were when you changed pronouns?" http://t.co/ioJg9Wcmzm
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
http://t.co/ioJg9Wcmzm How many of these transgender kids Louis Theroux is freakshowing will go on to kill themselves?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
http://t.co/ioJg9Wcmzm Is "freakshowing" a good verb to describe what Louis Theroux does for a living?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
Stupid cow of a mother crying cos her son Nick wants to be Nicky a girl when she could have just have forbidden it. #LouisTheroux
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
Wow. Sebastian/Camille has a pair of real dumb parents. #LousTheroux #transgenderkids
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
It is like watching child sexual abuse without actually watching it. Nauseating. http://t.co/ioJg9Wcmzm #LouisTheroux #transgenderkids
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
The end of #transgenderkids confirms that the BBC through #LouisTheroux is in fact promoting and encouraging this kind of sick shit.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
I suppose we must congratulate #LouisTheroux for his genius in freakshowing #transgenderkids while at the same time encouraging it.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
I wonder if I would have the professionalism to interview all the characters in #transgenderkids without betraying my disgust and horror.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
@darceygrowsup I would have asked more interesting questions, like how much that curly-haired gender reassignment doctor earns a year.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
@darceygrowsup I would ask that creepy curly-haired gender reassignment doctor how long he has been fucking with minds and genitalia.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
@darceygrowsup I would ask that creepy curly-haired gender reassignment doctor how many of his patients have committed suicide.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
Does anyone else feel unclean after watching that sick shit on #transgenderkids by #LouisTheroux?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
@caephyn So if my child says they're a lion or a dinosaur I should get them surgery, because that's who they truely are? #transgenderkids
— Laurence Fitzgerald (@larryfitzall) April 5, 2015
@LaurenLouisa1 @louistheroux SICK SHIT ALERT! Contains scenes that may suggest child sexual abuse by sick libtard American parents.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 5, 2015
@Sharrow_ie @Cunionsandphey If it is someone of confused gender we could call him/her/it "shim" or "shit" as a synthesis of those pronouns.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@MarkOutMoment89 These sicko mothers flatter themselves that their sons love them so much they want to become like them, probably.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@MarkOutMoment89 These sicko mothers control their vulnerable boys so much that they emotionally intimidate them into becoming girls.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@MarkOutMoment89 That sicko fat mother should have been deprived of the custody of her son since she wants him to give up his penis for her.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@KarynCooke What was the name of the mixed up kid who did girly things when with is mother and boy stuff when he was with his dad?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
It is Cole/Crystal whose father is Eric and whose mother is Joy. 44th minute:
LT:
From meeting both of them [his parents] that you do more of the girl-type things when you are with your mum and you do less of them when you are with your dad.
Cole/Crystal:
I would do, like, things that are, like, um, something that a boy could do and a girl could do too.
LT:
Do you have a sense when you are grown whether you would like to be Crystal full time?
Cole/Crystal:
Actually, when I am grown up I am thinking of being Cole, so not, like, Crystal. This is practically, like when I am out of high school ...
LT:
When you think of yourself as grown-up, do you think of yourself as more of a man or more of a woman?
Cole/Crystal:
A man.
LT:
You do?
Cole/Crystal:
I think of having a wife and two children and how like in Japan there are these really weird houses with the pointy end roof? I want a house like that and I am really into Japan now and I love their clothing and their style and everything and ...
LT:
Silk?
Cole/Crystal:
Silk originally came from China. [INTERVIEW ENDS]
Perhaps Cole/Crystal just wants to be a Japanese teapot?
@KarynCooke Why didn't @louistheroux ask the boy who did boy things with his pa and girly things with his ma why he was doing that?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt If you see the equivalent of child sexual abuse you should denounce it.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt Are you saying if adults decided to fuck children as part of jazzing up their sex lives, it would be OK by you?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt You were saying you don't care about people's sex lives so I am trying to plumb your depths of indifference.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt So, you are indifferent to paedophilia, incest, bestiality and necrophilia as a libertarian? Yes or No?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt Are you "obsessing" about people's sex lives? "Obsessing over the personal choices of others means an empty life."
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt Gender = sex. Are you saying that gender dysphoria will have no effect on your sex life? PROVE IT THEN.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt Our gender is decided on the basis of the sex organs we are born with, is it not?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt If a child gets it into its head it will be happier after mutilating its sex organ, its parents should stop them.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt I don't suppose degenerate libertarians see themselves as either having offspring or being a responsible parent.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt If you had offspring they would be illegitimate, wouldn't they? @louistheroux's offspring are illegitimate.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt A father is probably less committed to the illegitimate offspring he fathers. @louistheroux
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt If you are saying mutilating your genitalia will have no effect on your sex life, I would like you to prove this.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@ToryPaddy @Tara_Hewitt On the contrary and unlike you, I am saying responsible parents should not allow children to sexualise themselves.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@je5kby @SeagullCountry @gemmajoobjoob Of what am I ignorant? The increased likelihood of suicide of people who have had a sex change?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
@je5kby @SeagullCountry @gemmajoobjoob Is all this pro-sex change agenda part of the Green agenda to sterilise people? I think we shd b told
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
Inevitable matriarchy wd thru #LouisTheroux n @BBC encourage little boys to give up their penises to please their mothers. #transgenderkids
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
While I don't mind @louistheroux freakshowing freaks, for him to normalise something freakish at the behest of the matriarchal BBC is EVIL.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 6, 2015
Sunday, 15 April 2012
A few ideas about how I can become famous in CLAIRE KHAW THE MOVIE by Louis Theroux or Nick Broomfield or both
"A six-part half-hour radio series promoting the programme of a secular koranism and how it would improve the quality of life in this country in which you go out and engage with your usual hobby horses: ssms, Jews, Islamic scholars, nationalists, lesbians in an entertaining socratic vox pop style.each week a different theme.
I guess tv would be even better done nick broomfield style."
I was actually thinking of Nick Broomfield last night and even looked at his walls! The lights are on but nobody's in. He does have an email address and I could interest him in filming me and my Northern Tour, when I will be visiting Liverpool (to confront the annoying BNP Organiser who threatened to resign if he heard I was invited to any more BNP meetings or attended any BNP function), Hartlepool (so I can kiss and make up with Cheryl Dunn who threatened to maim and kill me), Hornsea (Rev Peter Lamb to listen to his sermon and have a drink with Donna Knowles, Stuart Hamilton at the pub afterwards), and bring the gift of coal to Carina Simpson of Newcastle.
It would be quite entertaining, would it not?
I would like to fit in a mosque or synagogues too, if I possibly can. I like the look of the mosque in Tod.
Are there any well-known synagogues Oop Norf I could drop in on, I wonder.
It would be nice to hire a coach and invite a few select FB friends on the journey.
"proposition to get the media people slavering. Plenty of controversy and locality and a "colourful" character at the heart of it so they don't have to look like they endorse your views."
"It would be good to dispel the impression left by the Victoria darbyshire show that you are only about murdering disabled infants in their cradle.
The idea would be to point out the contradictions inherent in your opponents' positions. And show how Secular Koranism would be an advance. Maybe you could even get Slavoj Zizek on board to talk about the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of ethnic nationalism. after all if he's prepared to go onstage with that slug Assange ... "
This is the ULTIMATE road movie!
There is also the possibility of Sunday lunch at the Vicarage the Reverend Phil Lamb after listening to his sermon.
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/hornsea-st-nicholas/
I have been told it is a "beautiful place".
My Facebook friend Mohammed hopes to drive me to Hornsea, but I really need a chaperone, I think, as well as a cameraman if Louis T and Nick B won't do it.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Why I hate Martin Amis and his gang of Champagne Socialist SCUM
scum
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2011/04/ed_miliband_we.html
Fashionable people such as successful and affluent writers and artists ie Champagne Socialists vote Labour.
The concerns of Champagne Socialists are quite at odds with the concerns of the English working classes, whom they heartily despise.
It is the Champagne Socialists who think foreigners are cute and quaint while abhorring the white working classes whom they do not even care enough to advise and warn, whom they prefer to let them rot in their tower blocks and sink estates and their variously-fathered feral children, rather than give them any well-meant advice or the grammar schools and the discipline they so desperately need.
The status-anxiety riddled Champagne Socialists would rather die than admit that it might be nice to have a few grammar schools in their neighbourhood, because they don't want to admit that they cannot afford to pay school fees or live in a neighbourhood with not enough good state schools.
Martin Amis is a Champagne Socialist.
The London literati hate AKA the Champagne Socialists hate and fear the white urban proletariat who support the BNP more than the BNP hate and fear the non-whites. Amis the Anus is one of them. He is the one who would condone the social libertarianism of the Left that does so much damage to people less financially able to deal with the fall out of a broken home ie the white urban proletariat, and the kind of free-fucking social libertarian fucked up family life that killed his sister Sally.
From the Family Amis may we be reminded why Lust and Pride are Deadly Sins.
Lucy Partington his cousin (who ended up being murdered by Fred West) was also a victim of the low and degraded morals of the Amis family too, it would appear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Amis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231509/Was-Martin-Amiss-sister-killed-Sixties-sexual-revolution--drunken-fathers-neglect.html
Because he lives the way he does, he will never go on about family values because that would be so uncool and strait-laced and much too earnest for someone like him obsessed with status anxiety http://www.amazon.co.uk/Status-Anxiety-Alain-Botton/dp/0241142385 and success http://www.amazon.co.uk/Success-Martin-Amis/dp/0140069992.
Let's get rid of the Champagne Socialists then or at least tar and feather them before we send them on their way.
Marie Antoinette most exemplifies Champagne Socialism, which is all about being such a member of the elite that you just don't get it. Even if you did get, as Louis Theroux should, they still pretend that they don't, because they don't want their friends, colleagues and employers to laugh at them.
To the starving breadless peasants she said, "Let them eat cake." Well, we all know what happened to her.
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| The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2011/04/ed_miliband_we.html
When I put to him Lord Glasman's suggestion that Labour had been "hostile to the English working classes" he paused and then changed the subject. My sense is that he may well share that analysis.
Fashionable people such as successful and affluent writers and artists ie Champagne Socialists vote Labour.
The concerns of Champagne Socialists are quite at odds with the concerns of the English working classes, whom they heartily despise.
It is the Champagne Socialists who think foreigners are cute and quaint while abhorring the white working classes whom they do not even care enough to advise and warn, whom they prefer to let them rot in their tower blocks and sink estates and their variously-fathered feral children, rather than give them any well-meant advice or the grammar schools and the discipline they so desperately need.
The status-anxiety riddled Champagne Socialists would rather die than admit that it might be nice to have a few grammar schools in their neighbourhood, because they don't want to admit that they cannot afford to pay school fees or live in a neighbourhood with not enough good state schools.
Martin Amis is a Champagne Socialist.
The London literati hate AKA the Champagne Socialists hate and fear the white urban proletariat who support the BNP more than the BNP hate and fear the non-whites. Amis the Anus is one of them. He is the one who would condone the social libertarianism of the Left that does so much damage to people less financially able to deal with the fall out of a broken home ie the white urban proletariat, and the kind of free-fucking social libertarian fucked up family life that killed his sister Sally.
From the Family Amis may we be reminded why Lust and Pride are Deadly Sins.
Lucy Partington his cousin (who ended up being murdered by Fred West) was also a victim of the low and degraded morals of the Amis family too, it would appear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Amis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231509/Was-Martin-Amiss-sister-killed-Sixties-sexual-revolution--drunken-fathers-neglect.html
Because he lives the way he does, he will never go on about family values because that would be so uncool and strait-laced and much too earnest for someone like him obsessed with status anxiety http://www.amazon.co.uk/Status-Anxiety-Alain-Botton/dp/0241142385 and success http://www.amazon.co.uk/Success-Martin-Amis/dp/0140069992.
Let's get rid of the Champagne Socialists then or at least tar and feather them before we send them on their way.
Marie Antoinette most exemplifies Champagne Socialism, which is all about being such a member of the elite that you just don't get it. Even if you did get, as Louis Theroux should, they still pretend that they don't, because they don't want their friends, colleagues and employers to laugh at them.
To the starving breadless peasants she said, "Let them eat cake." Well, we all know what happened to her.
Monday, 20 April 2009
Louis Theroux - A Place for Paedophiles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k3ms6
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/the-weekends-television-louis-theroux-ndash-a-place-for-paedophiles-sun-bbc2-1671224.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IEt3-kuVl5Y
A very frustrating programme to watch, since Theroux did not ask the question I would have asked, viz
1. Why are paedophiles paedophiles?
2. Why do they prefer children?
3. What is so erotic about children?
4. Why would you risk so much shame and punishment, when you could presumably satisfy yourself with more available sex objects, viz women or gay men or prostitutes of both sexes?
5. Is it because they are too unattractive to find sex partners?
6. Is it because they are too poor to be able to pay for prostitutes?
7. Why are most paedophiles male?
8. Why is such an apparently all-male institution run by female clinicians?
9. Why were so many of them apparently nice and normal-seeming and so educated and articulate?
10. Surely it is all right to want to have sex with children, provided they do not have sex with children? (If thoughts were deeds, what villains we'd all be! After all, we all occasionally want to commit murder, adultery, theft, etc, don't we?)
11. Are there more paedophiles now than there were before, in a previous age? Or was it always ever thus?
12. If their numbers have increased, what is the reason?
13. Is paedophilia a male reaction to feminism?
14. If paedophiles are mosquitoes, are single mothers stagnant pools of water?
It is enough, surely, to be satisfied that these paedophiles do not wish to remain paedophiles. There is no need to in effect make them lie about their state of mind, ie that they no longer wish to have sex with children, in order to get out. The only requirement ought to be for them to explain why they prefer children when women are so easily available, and why they prefer dangerously deviant sex to easily obtainable legal sex.
Could it be because men do not want to have their feelings hurt by a sexually experienced female saying things like "Is that all?" or telling her friends afterwards that he is not as well-endowed as she would have wished? Or that her previous lovers were all much better?
Men are really as insecure as women but are not allowed to admit it. They therefore suffer more from their insecurities because they cannot really let it out, for the more astute of them know that the moment they express emotions and show any weakness as they have been invited to do by their women, their women will lose all respect for them.
It seems the conversation I had with a mother many years ago was much more revealing. I asked her why she thought paedophiles preferred children. Her answer was simple: "Power."
Yes, the power you have when you get there before anyone else.
Perhaps someone else would like to attempt answers to the questions unasked by Louis Theroux.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/the-weekends-television-louis-theroux-ndash-a-place-for-paedophiles-sun-bbc2-1671224.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IEt3-kuVl5Y
A very frustrating programme to watch, since Theroux did not ask the question I would have asked, viz
1. Why are paedophiles paedophiles?
2. Why do they prefer children?
3. What is so erotic about children?
4. Why would you risk so much shame and punishment, when you could presumably satisfy yourself with more available sex objects, viz women or gay men or prostitutes of both sexes?
5. Is it because they are too unattractive to find sex partners?
6. Is it because they are too poor to be able to pay for prostitutes?
7. Why are most paedophiles male?
8. Why is such an apparently all-male institution run by female clinicians?
9. Why were so many of them apparently nice and normal-seeming and so educated and articulate?
10. Surely it is all right to want to have sex with children, provided they do not have sex with children? (If thoughts were deeds, what villains we'd all be! After all, we all occasionally want to commit murder, adultery, theft, etc, don't we?)
11. Are there more paedophiles now than there were before, in a previous age? Or was it always ever thus?
12. If their numbers have increased, what is the reason?
13. Is paedophilia a male reaction to feminism?
14. If paedophiles are mosquitoes, are single mothers stagnant pools of water?
It is enough, surely, to be satisfied that these paedophiles do not wish to remain paedophiles. There is no need to in effect make them lie about their state of mind, ie that they no longer wish to have sex with children, in order to get out. The only requirement ought to be for them to explain why they prefer children when women are so easily available, and why they prefer dangerously deviant sex to easily obtainable legal sex.
Could it be because men do not want to have their feelings hurt by a sexually experienced female saying things like "Is that all?" or telling her friends afterwards that he is not as well-endowed as she would have wished? Or that her previous lovers were all much better?
Men are really as insecure as women but are not allowed to admit it. They therefore suffer more from their insecurities because they cannot really let it out, for the more astute of them know that the moment they express emotions and show any weakness as they have been invited to do by their women, their women will lose all respect for them.
It seems the conversation I had with a mother many years ago was much more revealing. I asked her why she thought paedophiles preferred children. Her answer was simple: "Power."
Yes, the power you have when you get there before anyone else.
Perhaps someone else would like to attempt answers to the questions unasked by Louis Theroux.
Friday, 12 December 2008
"An African Solution to an African Problem." Coming to a British city soon?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g1vdq
There is something deeply irritating about Louis Theroux. His pursed lips, his concern for the caught criminals appears mere lip service. I must play the role of a liberal, he seems to be thinking, and pretend to be shocked that real bullets are being used, not rubber bullets.
He asks questions such of caught and beaten criminals:
"Is he frightened and hurt?"
"Should we call an ambulance?"
"May I see his wounds?"
"Is it too brutal?"
He did get a sensible answer: "It is good for the community. He won't do that again, ever."
Louis tries to answer the question of "whether private police are the solution or part of the problem".
No, Louis. The solution is to bring back the death penalty which the liberal establishment saw fit to abolish in 1995, in their infinite wisdom. (Did our Louis mention that, in his infinite journalistic impartiality? Did he hell!!)
Louis' show made one see why apartheid was once seen as a solution. One just simply wanted to separate oneself from that horror and have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with people like that.
I will just list a number of the more memorable pieces of information I gathered:
When they start swarming, watch out!
The concept of the "mob" and the "community" are used interchangeably. The law-makers and law-breakers are indistinguishable, caught up in an apparently unbreakable cycle of violence.
Methods of punishment were burning with petrol, stones, bricks and the sjambok, amongst other things. William of Mapogo Security, (who seemed a gentle smiling likable giant) had the mob (or was it the community?) turning on him, wanting to burn him after he had broken a thief's leg with a golf club. While Louis was asking him if it was really necessary to break that man's leg, the conversation went along these lines:
William:
What would you do?
Louis:
I would call the police.
William:
The police are failing, they do nothing, they don't come. If they do come and take him away, after making a donation to the police, he will be meeting you tomorrow over there.
Louis:
I would build higher fences.
William:
They will climb them and still get in, and meet you later, over there. So what do you do?
To which Louis had no answer.
People are killed "like chickens".
"There is no solution. We must solve it ourselves."
The private policeman was openly on friendly terms with the Nigerian drugdealer, who called him "boss". Nigerian drugdealers and dealers in stolen goods are "human beings too", said the private cop. He doesn't give me trouble, in a way he keeps order and I am not paid to take people like him off the streets. If he were taken off the streets, he would be replaced almost immediately.
The most chilling encounter was the exchange Louis after he shook hands with a criminal and his partner in crime, who killed a traffic policeman for his gun, had been inside for 10 years and had just got out. No remorse was expressed.
"I will die for the job. I like crime. I never go to school so what can I do?"
That was certainly a very healthy attitude of accepting one's lot in life and making the best of things. His implicit acknowledgment that good education would have saved him from a life of crime suggests there is something of the philosopher about him. In any case, his question as to what he is to do now, with no job prospects and without an education, apart from continuing his life of crime, is unanswerable.
Philosophy is after all the asking of the unanswerable question.
His brother, also a criminal, was sought by a policeman who behaved "like a soldier". Apparently, the policeman killed both his parents in order to capture his brother. This could explain his rather jaundiced view of policemen.
He then gave us a few helpful tips on the art of extortion.
"You have a baby. I want your money. I put baby in microwave. I turn it on. You give me money."
"You have a wife. I put knife to her throat. I cut a little bit so you can see blood. I ask if you want me to finish the job. You will give me. No other way".
Louis must be thanked for putting the case for the death penalty so cogently and subtly. He is a liberal, you see, and not allowed to ask for such things as the condign punishment for criminals without risking losing his job or his girlfriend.
In the meantime, we wait for more African problems of to arrive on these shores, and continue the liberal British tradition of wringing our hands and pissing in the wind.
Louis Theroux travels to Johannesburg, where the residents find themselves increasingly besieged by crime. Despairing of the capability of the police and the courts to protect them, many have turned to an industry of private security, offering protection for a price. Are the sometimes brutal methods of these private police really a solution or just another part of the problem?
The first stop for Louis is a meeting with William Mayangoni, the local co-ordinator for a security firm known as Mapogo. Based on the outskirts of Diepsloot, one of the squatter camps that ring Johannesburg, William investigates thefts for his mainly white clients. When he catches a suspect, he gives them 'medicine': the alleged offender is beaten with a leather whip known as a sjambok.
Although his clients seem to support what they see as 'an African solution to an African problem', William's methods alienate the people of Diepsloot. Finally, their patience snaps dramatically, and William has to call out the real police in order to protect himself from the vicious threat of the mob.
In the centre of Johannesburg, a security company called Bad Boyz work in an area called Hillbrow, notorious for its high crime rate. Louis meets company director Hendrik De Klerk who explains that much of their activity involves reclaiming and securing buildings that have been taken over, or hijacked, by criminal gangs who illegally take rent from tenants. Louis watches dramatic evictions unfold, in which the police and security companies are not afraid to use force to kick out the protesting residents.
There is something deeply irritating about Louis Theroux. His pursed lips, his concern for the caught criminals appears mere lip service. I must play the role of a liberal, he seems to be thinking, and pretend to be shocked that real bullets are being used, not rubber bullets.
He asks questions such of caught and beaten criminals:
"Is he frightened and hurt?"
"Should we call an ambulance?"
"May I see his wounds?"
"Is it too brutal?"
He did get a sensible answer: "It is good for the community. He won't do that again, ever."
Louis tries to answer the question of "whether private police are the solution or part of the problem".
No, Louis. The solution is to bring back the death penalty which the liberal establishment saw fit to abolish in 1995, in their infinite wisdom. (Did our Louis mention that, in his infinite journalistic impartiality? Did he hell!!)
Louis' show made one see why apartheid was once seen as a solution. One just simply wanted to separate oneself from that horror and have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with people like that.
I will just list a number of the more memorable pieces of information I gathered:
When they start swarming, watch out!
The concept of the "mob" and the "community" are used interchangeably. The law-makers and law-breakers are indistinguishable, caught up in an apparently unbreakable cycle of violence.
Methods of punishment were burning with petrol, stones, bricks and the sjambok, amongst other things. William of Mapogo Security, (who seemed a gentle smiling likable giant) had the mob (or was it the community?) turning on him, wanting to burn him after he had broken a thief's leg with a golf club. While Louis was asking him if it was really necessary to break that man's leg, the conversation went along these lines:
William:
What would you do?
Louis:
I would call the police.
William:
The police are failing, they do nothing, they don't come. If they do come and take him away, after making a donation to the police, he will be meeting you tomorrow over there.
Louis:
I would build higher fences.
William:
They will climb them and still get in, and meet you later, over there. So what do you do?
To which Louis had no answer.
People are killed "like chickens".
"There is no solution. We must solve it ourselves."
The private policeman was openly on friendly terms with the Nigerian drugdealer, who called him "boss". Nigerian drugdealers and dealers in stolen goods are "human beings too", said the private cop. He doesn't give me trouble, in a way he keeps order and I am not paid to take people like him off the streets. If he were taken off the streets, he would be replaced almost immediately.
The most chilling encounter was the exchange Louis after he shook hands with a criminal and his partner in crime, who killed a traffic policeman for his gun, had been inside for 10 years and had just got out. No remorse was expressed.
"I will die for the job. I like crime. I never go to school so what can I do?"
That was certainly a very healthy attitude of accepting one's lot in life and making the best of things. His implicit acknowledgment that good education would have saved him from a life of crime suggests there is something of the philosopher about him. In any case, his question as to what he is to do now, with no job prospects and without an education, apart from continuing his life of crime, is unanswerable.
Philosophy is after all the asking of the unanswerable question.
His brother, also a criminal, was sought by a policeman who behaved "like a soldier". Apparently, the policeman killed both his parents in order to capture his brother. This could explain his rather jaundiced view of policemen.
He then gave us a few helpful tips on the art of extortion.
"You have a baby. I want your money. I put baby in microwave. I turn it on. You give me money."
"You have a wife. I put knife to her throat. I cut a little bit so you can see blood. I ask if you want me to finish the job. You will give me. No other way".
Louis must be thanked for putting the case for the death penalty so cogently and subtly. He is a liberal, you see, and not allowed to ask for such things as the condign punishment for criminals without risking losing his job or his girlfriend.
In the meantime, we wait for more African problems of to arrive on these shores, and continue the liberal British tradition of wringing our hands and pissing in the wind.
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