Posted on 08/10/2011 2:38:31 PM PDT by clove
What to make of the riots that began in parts of London and have spread to Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool? Are there any root causes we can identify? First, it is apparent that far too many commentators interpret these events based entirely on pre-conceived paradigms. For socialists like Ken Livingstone (former mayor of London), the riots are the fault of the government’s spending cuts and the “social division” they have supposedly fostered.
Meanwhile, the far-Right British National Party characterizes the mayhem as a repeat of the race riots that occurred in Oldham in 2001. Only this time, the primary agitators are not South Asians but, in the words of one London-based right-wing blogger, “pampered black youth” who “indulged in welfare scrounging, looting and feckless fathering supported by the bleeding hearts of the BBC/Guardian axis.” Many mainstream conservatives point to a state policy of multiculturalism as the culprit.
However, a close look at what is actually going on demonstrates the failure of all these analyses to explain the riots. Contrary to what Livingstone imagines, many of the youths taking part in these disturbances are not poor at all: They are mostly of a middleor lower-middle-class background. In any case, if they are angry with the coalition government and its spending cuts, why are they looting the homes and businesses of middle- and working-class people? It is clearly not the wealthy who are bearing the burden of costs in damages.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Yep - everyone shoot loot and set everything on fire. It's all good.
Yep - everyone should loot and set everything on fire. It's all good.
Can't put it much better than that.
Immigration.
I didn’t see that in the article. The conclusion was:
“In other words, the rioters are stealing designer clothes and gadgets – besides causing property damage – simply because they can.”
A lack of incoming fire.
As for the motivation of the vandals and thieves, one need look no further than what one rioter told Sky News reporter Mark Stone: “We’re getting our taxes back.”
In other words, the rioters are stealing designer clothes and gadgets – besides causing property damage – simply because they can.
That about sums it up. Not government cutbacks in the entitlement state or race or poverty, just greed and a penchant for violence that is fueled by the knowledge that there will be few, if any, consequences for robbing and burning in Merry Olde England, today. So much for socialism.
The root cause?
Lawless blacks out to steal and burn.
Stop pussyfooting around and looking for excuses for them. We all know the root cause. Every country with a substantial black population has the same problems.
Outstanding
ten or twenty thousand deaths would make a big difference in the riot intensity
Typical liberal idiocy. Half (or more) of the rioters are probably unaware of any spending cuts.
The reality is that given the reigns of a city (see Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago, LA, DC, Detroit) a Democratic-Union-AA city will be in shreds in no time.
London and the Liberal asshats who support open borders and Godless Socialism end up with this...and their gun control laws prevent citizens from defending themselves.
This is assinine as the people WHO RUN BUSINESSES and PAY TAXES support these RIOTING MORONS’ SOCIAL PROGRAMS...
Government does not make anything but laws and confiscatory tax codes.
London rioters: 'Showing the rich we do what we want' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424
The root cause is that no one is a Christian anymore, not the government, not the subjects of the government. they are all pagans
[ The root causes of the British riots ]
They are unarmed.. The liberals took all the guns..
Creating proto victims..
The root cause is Vancouver losing game 7 in the Stanley Cup Final
Sounds like the Tea Party to me.
Call in the Picts. (If you can find them.)
I see a lot of white rioters in those pictures. Are they stand-ins put there by the liberal media?
Living OUTSIDE of a big city has changed my attitudes about racism. I feared no white man until I lived south of 95th Street.
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