"A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity." - (C) Wikipedia.
In our time the difficulty has been to come together. We've seen disruption in our local communities. Our local democracies have been disturbed by unlawful radical behaviour. Our communities have been driven into isolation by antisocial behaviour at all angles.
The state of affairs has got to change. It presents health challenges, issues in stability, and threats to our national security. If the challenges of radical politics are not overcome our local civic centres will face their possible demise. It's not a situation we can accept any longer.
The values of respect cultivated between people over time, the sense of trust built over shared responsibilities, and the progress of change that comes by agreement are all at risk now. If we don't see a reorientation back to this way our nation's life will be extinguished for good.
It's no longer acceptable to see towns and cities run by criminal gangs who have taken over our neighbourhoods and ruined our social fabric. It cannot be settled that we hide until we see light because as a state we're expected to fight for our own future and toward our own survival.
Posted: 19 January 2025.