Simple question: Is there any report of a father returning the loot brought home by his child during this protest? Has any parent returned to the police a jerry can of vegetable oil, a sack of rice, a carton of Indomie or a computer monitor?
From where—other than the custody of parents—did the police and military recover the items stolen from Baraka Stores’ warehouse?
Today’s governing elite who loot the treasury are children from the same kind of parents. We collect the gifts of office vandals in our places of worship and dignify them with traditional titles. And it is the ambition of our young ones to one day hold ‘lucrative’ public offices that will enable them steal our common wealth. They will then also be pointing fingers at the small vandals who ransack personal and public property during protests—as we do today.
This tells us that theft in our society is endemic and almost cultural. We can safely conclude that our problems started decades, if not generations, ago. Like father, like son. To focus on the children alone will be superficial. The bombs were manufactured and kept in our homes long ago. Each generation detonating its own.
