I start this entry at 3-50, 20 minutes after becoming a victim of crime. My son's sports car was broken into. It was in our drive 'for safety's sake' as he is currently away in Malawi until early next week.
The quarter light had been forced and the alarm eventually scared off the intruder who left 2 screwdrivers behind - hopefully with fingerprints, I thought. A pause for reflection and then you realise it just does not matter.
Somebody has 'gone equipped', in the middle of the night, wantonly and calculatedly prepared to break, enter and steal.
They have made a sinister, moral choice to damage the life of another human being in order to meet their own selfish ends. Sometimes we forget how deplorable crime truly is.
Apparently, a soft community order which they can then freely breach is the preferred option of the former LCJ Lord Woolf for dealing with such matters. "It will be the fault of drugs." Will be the cry, as if that changed the act into something more intrinsically acceptable.
Just how many years must we go back to find a time when such crimes automatically committed felons to a TV-free incarceration? - Ah. Happy days!
"But you are a Christian" will be the cry of the leftwing do-gooders, as if that excuses me from wanting justice.
In a proper system, society punishes the crime and the Christian victim is prepared to forgive the repentant criminal.
If God will not forgive the unrepentant - it is hardly our place to attempt to outdo Him.
