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.
Sounds like the Tea Party to me.