The state of the nation...

From clean green NZ. Today's NZ Herald...page 1; a 78 year old murdered in his home, page 3; a grandfather charged with torturing his grandaughter; and this small item from page 8...

A Rotorua mother has resorted to taking all her food to work each day because child burglars as young as eight keep breaking into her home.
The burglars have regularly raided her house while she is at work, stealing stereos, cellphones, jewellery, clothes, a TV, DVDs, photos - and food. They enter by smashing windows or forcing them.
She estimates the cost to her family to be more than $10,000, and says the attacks have happened so often she doesn't bother ringing the police any more.
The food, including meat, milk and other perishables, are stored in her work fridge and brought home at the end of each working day.
"I now put our food in my car so it doesn't get stolen. People have told me to move but I've been here 20 years. Why should I move?"....more here...
And, as Theodore Dalrymple says... Few things are more despicable, after all, or more indicative of moral nihilism, than a willingness to prey upon the old and frail. more here...
A quiz...what to do about it?