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FotiniD wrote on Aug 12 th, 2011 at 2:17am: Gazza wrote on Aug 11 th, 2011 at 12:08pm: Nonsense. They're just a bunch of opportunistic scumbags with no values whatsoever.
I dont exactly see hundreds of poor kids in rags roaming the streets. Austerity's obviously pretty bad when you have to eat TVs and playstations to survive!
Millions of people struggle from one day to the next. They still know the difference between right and wrong.
These people are vermin. Nothing excuses it. Thinking of the similar situation in Greece the last couple of months, there are always people who have no values at all and get inside the riots just to cause mayhem. I don't think those are the majority and I don't think they should characterize the whole condition. That is, I can't believe that what happened in London these days, and what happened in Greece and in Spain, at such an extent, can all be attributed to a bunch of people who just wanna steal or mess things up. I think the riots indeed show the people's dissatisfaction with the way things are going, and their rage. Austerity measures do have a lot to do with it, but most of all I think it's this sense of unfairness, lack of hope for the future and everything revolving around interests and money. At least that was the case here, and I find lots of similarities. Can't really agree with that. If frustration over unfairness and austerity was a major factor, then the obvious target would be the institutions whose policies led to that situation, eg banks. Torching and looting local shops serving your own community isn't some kind of political statement. I honestly think this could have happened in Britain at any time over the last decade. Maybe even longer. Its more a reflection on a breakdown in basic values due to years of neglect from governments and the legal system which have for too long sought to make excuses for fecklessness and criminality. Hopefully the last few days has led to a tipping point as to what the decent majority of people in the UK are prepared to put up with. A post on a discussion forum from a friend of mine from Belfast who has been living in London (Ealing) for the last few years sums it up better than I can. Some right rubbish being posted on here by the 'hug a hoody' mob. These people are not poor - they do not go to bed hungry every night. If they have no job the state will pay them and house them, leaving many low paid hard working families on the breadline, not being able to get affordable council housing as these under class go top of the queue in the waiting list. If any thing it should be the low paid working class taking it out on this underclass, not the other way around.
Some on here are going on about state violence, beating the people down, etc. If that was the case, this whole sorry state of affairs would have been over before the start of the week, but no the police stood back, the only people using violence where those who decided to hold the hard working people of London and the other cities to ransom, with the spread of fear......and terror. I witnessed the destruction of shops, who's owners and staff have worked hard over the years to provide a service to the local community, now these people are out of a job, well done to the scum who have increased the dole queue.
There can be no other reason for what I witnessed in Ealing on Monday night (and the same goes for every where else), this was not a political protest, this was not a people fighting for freedom (ffs we live in the UK the mother of modern democracy, and have more freedoms than you can point a stick at), it was not about race, nor was it about religion, it was not hungry people, or oppressed people, it wasnt even about a wronged people, or tax hikes, nor was it about cuts in services, or the fact they wanted to over turn the government, at the end of the day this was all about greed and the fact that liberalism has destroyed the moral compass of this once great nation. If you feel you should side with the looters, then hang your head in shame and think about the poor honest working person, who watched their place of employment raped and destroyed by a class of people who no better than vermin
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