When the victim becomes the criminal

From a IOL report

“Careless holiday makers are to blame for the high crime rate in Pennington on the South Coast”, says Umdoni Ward Councillor Russell Meyer. (end quote)

Man that is surely one of the most irresponsible and nauseating statements I have read in recent time (Barring of course those made by a certain youth league leader).

This person obviously feels that we the public should be living in prisons, guarding ourselves day and night while hiding behind thick security bars with alarms for protection.
Russell has obviously never thought that a country where people, read human beings, live, should be a place free of crime. From that one statement it is obvious that he has become the slave of crime, locking everything around him, looking over his shoulder, and never even contemplating that there might be an alternative existence.
Wake up Mr. Meyer. If the government of this country has been doing its job, if the justice system worked and the policing system worked like it should, that utterance of garbage you made would have you out of your job in no time at all. But because people like you attack an innocent public (because it is easier) instead of facing up to the harsh reality that crime has taken over this country and something should be done about it, this country is going down the drain.
It is not “Careless holiday makers” who are to blame Russell, it is the criminals, government and people like you who are too scared to point to the real problem, and do something about it.