Last night the BBC2 channel aired a programme about social engineering. It posed the question;
if society had the means to test all children and detect that a child had the capacity to commit violence and correct that child through drugs etc then shouldn't that society implement such a scheme?
The programme began with a disturbing image. It was the view from a video camera installed in a classroom, thereby implanting that idea into the minds of viewers. But what happened next would show the futility of such a measure as a deterrent to violence in schools. Two children, about the age of 11 or 12, walked into the classroom while the teacher was teaching. One grabbed the teacher, pushed him a around a bit while the second child pulled out a knife. The first child then pushed the teacher towards the second child with the knife who then stabbed the teacher and kicked him while he lay bleeding on the floor.
This was one of the most disturbing images I have seen on TV. The programme then went on to push the idea that to stop such incidents society needs to test children and if they displayed certain behaviour or tested for a certain gene that suggested, not guaranteed, that the child would grow up into a psychopath then the child should receive some sort of 'treatment'.
Of course words like disorder were used a lot. Who defines what behaviour is normal or a disorder?
But what has happened this morning in North London? A man has been driving around in his car, stopping at random and stabbing people.
To me this is too much of a coincidence.
This smells of a Port Arthur type incident.
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From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4120649.stm
One person has died and five others are in a critical condition after being attacked by a man in north London.
A 40-year-old man who was found by police in Edmonton on Thursday morning died in hospital.
Police said a man seen driving around in a red car had stabbed people at random between Enfield and Haringey.
A spokeswoman for the local hospitals trust said four men and a woman are in a critical condition. A man is being held in connection with the attacks.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the man had been driving around in a car stabbing people and there would be "hundreds of witnesses" to interview to find out what had happened.
