He'd Have Probably Killed, If He'd Not Been Killed.

At age 13 the "nice" boy was shipped from the black Congo

to white England to be reared further by his aunt and uncle at

London's mixed neighbourhood of Edmonton. He was sent

there to be shielded further from the ravages and convulsions

of his native country that is the Congo and to ensure he would

not simply die there due to the political and social violence

of his family circumstances.

And now five years later, the "nice" boy holds the dubious

distinction of being London's first teenage stab victim of

2oo8. His name was Henry Bolombi age 18. This was no

"nice" boy, but a menace to society who was otherwise

known as Black H. He ran his own street gang of gangstra

punkz, too. He called them "The Cage Boyz."

The longer he lived the more he was caught up in

his own mayhem of knife-wielding robberies. He was

in reality a knife-carrying knifer who thought he was

kool by having achieved his goal of being a tough

gang member ... What he never figured out was if

you live by the knife, you're most likely to die by

the knife sooner or later. And, that's exactly what

happened to the "nice" Congo boy.

And he'd have probably killed by stabbing, if he

had not been first killed be being stabbed by some

other rival gang member ...

Then Sir Ian Blair, Met police chief, described the

death of Henry Bolombi as a "tragedy." What rubbish,

my dear sir ... The tragedy was not his death per se,

but rather that we let him come to England in the

first place to relatives who more likely than not

abused our immigation system anyway to get

him in ... One thing is certain, he'll never see

the Congo ever again. We're probably going

to have to pay for his burial in England, too.

Sir Ian also declared that the knife culture

was second to the dangers of terrorism.

I'll give some deep thought to that before

I decide to challenege him on that, too.

Types like Black H are prowling everywhere thesedayz

at London council estates and school yardz and hood

streetz just ready to kill another teen or rival gang

member for just about anything that hits their disturbed

mindz and psychez. Such dangerous teens demand re-

spect, but never give respect to others. Their lifeview

is a view of gang culture that makes their life so danger-

ous to others who should cross their path for whatever

reason.

One commentator said the reason for the rise of

gang violence among black youth was due to the

Americanization of British gangz. No sir, you're

wrong. It's the black Africanization of such Lon-

don street gangz and not the African-American

culture of black-on-black crime and murder at

America's urban housing projects from New

Orleans to Boston and back ... Most London

black and Asian gang members have little or no

connection with the Real America other than

emulating its fancy hiphop artists, rappers,

slang, and dress fashionz. So essentially gang

members like Henry Bolombi or Black H are

steeped first in the African culture of tribal

violence and perhaps then coming in a distant

second by copying all the negative aspects of

the modern American black youth subculture.

In 2oo7, around 26 London teenz were

murdered by other teenz on the streetz. If we

look at the mugshots of those 26 murdered

it is hard not to see the majority were blackz

against the white faces of perhaps 3 or 4. What

this tell us is that the British "white" police

will not suceed in curtaining such gun or

knife violence among black teenz by simply

massing on the streetz with their gunz at

the ready after such mayhem has been com-

mitted by local youth gangz. All their presence

does is to add greater importance and street

status to gang members when they have

received such public attention and

unintended "respect" by the police ...

Then we have Prime Minister Gordon

Brown with his political spiel about rooting

out gun violence in Britain and saying that

while such gun culture is more acceptable

in the States it will not be tolerated in the

UK. It sounds all fine and dandy Prime

Minister, but you've ignored one import-

ant element behind the rise of the gun

culture in England today. And that stems

solely from the policies of our present

Labour Government And what is that?

Its arming of our police with their

sub-machine gunz outside 10 Downing

Street to the gateway at Windsor Castle

to Heathrow Airport and to patrolling

outside of New Scotland Yard ...

If that doesn't represent a frighting

picture of England's modern gun culture,

then I am at a loss to understand how

you can hypocritically demand the

end of the gun culture among youth

gangz and organized crime ... I believe

we need to disarm the police before we

can really take steps to end the gun

culture that is growing by leaps and

bounds each year by our own police

and those of non-police elements.

Historically, the British Bobby was

never armed and should never have

been armed in our country like

they are today ...

As for the "nice" boy from the Congo, he

will soon be forgotten after 15 secondz of

posthumous fame. Tragically, there will

be plenty of otherz who will soon become

the new Black H and loving every moment

of their gang mentality and lifestyle.

Henry Bolombi is just one of many more

we'll see this year of 2oo8 ready to be stabbed

or gunned down on the streetz by their fellow

teenz at Edmonton, Peckham, Newham,

Lewisham, Southwark, and a host of other

London hoodz and elsewheere in broken

England ...

Even more sad, some of them will

probably kill if they're not already

killed before they stab or knife their

own victim first ...

Pragmatically, Monty.

+The Vigil of The Epiphany, 2oo8.