It's not as though people are burning and looting government buildings and threatening the lives of those sworn to serve them.
These riots effect regular working people who actually pay the taxes which fund the services many looters probably rely upon for their living.
Maybe... I don't know the living conditions of those in the effected areas .
In an effort to better serve it's citizens, London has installed cameras everywhere.
The Guardian ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/ ) is even assisting in the effort to catch these hooligans.
"London Calling"? I'll one-up you with "Guns of Brixton".
(Who knew The Clash would be so prescient?)
them NEETS been around for a looooong time in the UK...,
ReplyDeleteWell I remember the Brixton riots and the feeling of terror at night listening to every sound outside the house in case rioters came down our street. Back then I think it was triggered by Maggie Thatcher and the first wave of government reduction in protection for workers as the economy contracted. It isn't really all that strange that it has happened again at this point in time with a new conservative government having to make cuts, lots of global instability, and a long but not so hot summer.
ReplyDeleteWhen the powerless don't know who is causing the problem they attack the whole structure. So riots are to cause chaos and to flush out the people responsible. It's either they come forward or the whole damn system goes down.
ReplyDeleteEngland cut a lot of programs that made life easier for their citizens. The same elements that exist in the middle east exist in britain and that's a big number of unemployed hopeless young men. Without upward mobility and if they aren't drugged society will overthrow those who think it's OK that they stay that way.
It's predictable, very predictable!
Its that wonderful combination of A) lack of opportunity
ReplyDeleteB) lack of home training
Do these folks deserve a chace to make a better life? YES.
Do hard times justify burning down Mustafa's store? NO.
Come on folks, you can't expext people to have any compassion or compulsion to adjust if you are burning the place down.
Home training.
Come on folks, you can't expext people to have any compassion or compulsion to adjust if you are burning the place down.
ReplyDeleteyeah!!!
Like the dhalits in India. Not a peep out of these diminutive little nigritos who've accepted their karmic lot in life and who you can watch pitifully shuffling around in any major metropolitan area permanently consigned to an untouchable beggars' existence - oh - and preyed upon there by beggar pimps.
sometimes anarchy is what's called for and if the numbers and the resolve are strong enough, the indolent, psychopathic, and brutal ruling elite get thrown out on their reptilian backsides....,
@Brohammas - Some people don't believe the system will work for them at all. It hasn't in the past and making a bet that if you're civil things will change is foolish.
ReplyDeleteHome training is not universal. I don't expect you to act like me nor should you expect me to act like you. The only people who cry for home training usually are not from the effected group.
I understand the points of anarchy as a tool for social change (agreed in the lines of needed social change). I also understand the differing notions of acceptable social behavior. yeah, yeah, I get it.
ReplyDeleteBut what I also get is no matter where you are from and no matter hwat your point, destroying the possessions of and livelihood of non-perpetrating, applicably innocent individuals is not only innefective to any purpose other than destructive attention, but it is simply wrong.
You want chaos? Go attack the govt. If you are oppressed, go attack the oppressor.
Once you cross over into hurting those who are not hurting you, or hurting those who are in the same boat as yourself... you have become part of the problem.
Doesnt matter what house you come from to understand that sort of home training.
That being said, take your molatov cocktails to parliment and I won't critisize your manners.
Government in the UK hasn't excluded the NEETS from participation in the "market".
ReplyDeleteThe government has implemented austerity measures beholden to the interests of banks rather than people with no traction in the economy.
The government is beholden to the banks, or as it is called "The City"
That said, shouldn't the rioters be directing their acting out toward the proprietors of The City - rather than the beauracracy of government?
Should the class-warfare break out in earnest and with laser-like focus? Because after all, class is culture and political economy.
@Brohammas - If you want to change the system you disrupt the system. This ain't the 1400's where you go and kill the king and everything changes. If the system relies on the uninterrupted flow of money then why wouldn't you attack the revenue generators.
ReplyDeleteIt's the same as a war tactic stopping the supply lines and causing so much chaos that other side gives up or dies.
The system depends on people voting and hoping for change. During that time they still get disgruntled pennies from taxes. So which attack would be more effective killing one devil and hoping the next is better OR trying to topple hell?
Isn't all of this (all the post lately on the knitting circle you guys share)indicative of why the conservative Muslims are enemy #1? They reject the consumer society?
ReplyDeleteThose Taliban boys aren't nice to the ladies, but they do reject materialism. Radical religion seems to be the Ron Paul of social behavior. Needs to be marginalized.
The rioters will destroy the middle class, the police state apparatus will become the new middle class, and buffer for the truly wealthy.
The fourth floor is now your TV and the second floor is slowly being flattened--but only after they scream for the third to save them.
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-Dorcas' Daddy
@ DD - Conservative Muslims are not the enemy of anyone who comments here. (I don't think).
ReplyDeleteThey have a perfectly valid point of view.
They only cross the line if they try to impose the teachings of one religious dogma with another.
Good point about those who are currently using fear of possible enemies as a means to get people to give up their rights to the Deep State.
knitting circle? love it. UBJ, I will from now on call you "Aunt B"
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ReplyDeleteif you only knew about the lawyers univision so-cal, himalayan pink salt nutty-as-phuk circle from which DD made initial contact with the clique....,
I definitely wandered in the side door, but you guys are put out some of the best stuff on the tubes, I'm just trying to keep up.
ReplyDeleteJust as a refresher sensei, I dropped in to your site from ExcitableLion, I found the BlingedOutVegan through you!
-DD