Saturday, January 08, 2005
Appeasement
Temple Memorial Park
I found, reading the Shields Gazette last week that some very misguided person had wrote in suggesting that Temple Memorial Park ought to be closed or built over simply because he believed that it was no longer suitable for public recreational use. His arguement being that it was grossly overused by lager drinkers, drug users, uninsured motorcyclists and other assorted "charvas".
On the basis of this silly arguement we may as well close our other four parks, the beaches, amusement park and our shopping centres as well. This attitude displays appeasement and a lack of civic duty of the highest order. If residents are so annoyed at the misuse of our public facilities by such people, then surely they have a duty to inform the police!
Temple Memorial Park was given to the Borough of South Shields by the Church Commissioners in 1946 with a covenant that " it be used in perpetuity for for the enjoyment of public leisure and recreation" and as a memorial to those from South Shields who had given their lives in the service of this country during World War ll.
That is, those people who didn't want a bunch of goose-stepping louts marching all over Europe, which is what would have happened if the appeasers of the day had won there arguement.
All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing!
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I found, reading the Shields Gazette last week that some very misguided person had wrote in suggesting that Temple Memorial Park ought to be closed or built over simply because he believed that it was no longer suitable for public recreational use. His arguement being that it was grossly overused by lager drinkers, drug users, uninsured motorcyclists and other assorted "charvas".
On the basis of this silly arguement we may as well close our other four parks, the beaches, amusement park and our shopping centres as well. This attitude displays appeasement and a lack of civic duty of the highest order. If residents are so annoyed at the misuse of our public facilities by such people, then surely they have a duty to inform the police!
Temple Memorial Park was given to the Borough of South Shields by the Church Commissioners in 1946 with a covenant that " it be used in perpetuity for for the enjoyment of public leisure and recreation" and as a memorial to those from South Shields who had given their lives in the service of this country during World War ll.
That is, those people who didn't want a bunch of goose-stepping louts marching all over Europe, which is what would have happened if the appeasers of the day had won there arguement.
All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing!
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