Just look at them. Just look at them rushing around like blue-arsed flies. Rushing around embracing any and everybody. Rushing around consoling any and everybody. Rushing around vigil abusing our traumatised children. Rushing around feigning concern. Rushing around with pretentious grief. Rushing around with crocodile tears.
But as they rushed around like headless chickens, cognisant we are, they were warned. Warned that with such perpetual infernos, all schools should be inspected for fire preparedness. All schools should’ve fire and smoke alarms. All schools should’ve fire extinguishers. All schools should’ve fire sprinkler systems. All schools should’ve designated fire exits. All schools should’ve regular fire drills.
But such recommendations they dismissed. Dismissed at our children’s peril. Dismissed, even as they grilled the schools. Maximum grills, being with concerns, the girls may cut and run. Therefore, of their concerns, we question, what about CCTV cameras? What about motion sensor lights? What about Video Doorbells? O ye of little faith in modern technology.
Cretin in Chief
Thus, we look at him rushing around like a boxed feline. Rushing around embracing any and everybody. Rushing around consoling any and everybody. Rushing around with crocodile tears. Rushing around, with pretentious concern. Rushing around with invented grief. Rushing around announcing half-mast. Rushing around announcing three days of National mourning. But even as we mourn, we see no empathy. Instead, as we mourn, we see heartless politicking.
Therefore, to the Prime Token, we look. A Prime Token contaminating crime scenes, pretending to investigate, what he knows not. For no fire investigatory skills, has he. For no fire investigatory qualifications, has he. For no forensic investigative skills, has he. Yet the half wit stood knee deep in ashes. Thus, we questioned his investigatory endeavour? Certainly, he couldn’t have been searching for survivors. For twenty were long reduced to smouldering ashes. One fighting for life in intensive care. Four with life changing burns, agonising on their quasi-burns unit. Thirty-two of mental scars, at home living flashbacks.
Now look at these numbskulls rushing around without a plan. But where were they when Christ Church was twice an inferno? Where were they when Northwest Secondary was an inferno? Where were they when St. George’s was an inferno? Where were they when Multilateral was an inferno? Where were they during these forewarnings?
Forewarnings, if they’d taken seriously, might have averted this catastrophe. Four warnings, if they’d taken seriously, might have recognised, much is terribly wrong in our schools. For that wrong is the easily combustible infrastructure. For that wrong is the poorly insulated electrical circuitry. Then no fire and smoke alarms. No fire sprinkler systems. No fire exits. No fire drills. Which means, with such tragic shortcomings, a school inferno is likely to reduce our children to smouldering ashes.
Mark’s Take
Thus, at them we look, unashamedly not accepting responsibility, instead burdening a traumatised child with culpability. Culpability for the deaths of twenty beautiful children. Culpability, reflected in twenty murder charges. Culpability for twenty murder charges they can’t prove. For action, actus reus, they may prove. But intent, mens rea, they may never prove.
Which means, of intent we examine the teenage brain. A brain characterised by impulsivity, lack of inhibition and overall poor judgment. Where such compulsions evidence a brain, moreso the frontal lobe that’s responsible for inhibition, being in a developmental stage. In a developmental stage exacerbated by a psychological affliction. Which means, of an underdeveloped inhibition centre, burdened by mental illness, this teenager demonstrated tragic impulsivity.
Tragic lack of inhibition. Tragic poor judgment. As a result, if this child struck the matches, actus reus, it’s unlikely she would’ve thought of the ramifications. Unlikely she would’ve meant, mens rea, to take her schoolmates’ lives. Unlikely she would be found guilty of murder. For murder mandates both action and intent. But with action allegedly established, DPP being PPP, invented intent.
Nevertheless, further we explore. Explore a dorm of maximum girls. Explore a dorm of maximum grills. Explore a dorm of no fire and smoke alarms. Explore a dorm of no fire extinguishers. Explore a dorm of no fire sprinkler systems. Explore a dorm of no fire drills. Explore a dorm of no fire exits. Explore a dorm where a child of mental illness lit the match. Explore a dorm where twenty died. Twenty died, thus this question. Who is responsible for these deaths? The child or PPP that failed to make our institutions safe? For this is negligence. PPP’s negligence. Thus, culpability is theirs, not this troubled child.
