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Britain's Liberal Intelligentsia Has Smashed Every Social Value
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | Aug. 11, 2011 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on 08/13/2011 11:24:42 AM PDT by T.L.Sink

So now the chickens have well and truly come home terrifyingly to roost. The violent anarchy that has taken hold of British cities is the all-too-predictable outcome of a three decade liberal experiment which tore up virtually every social value. The married two-parent family, educational meritocracy, punishment of criminals, national identity and many more fundamental conventions were all smashed by a liberal intelligentsia bent on a revolutionary transformation of society. Those of us who warned that they were playing with fire were sneered at as Right-wing nutters. What has been fueling all this is NOT poverty, as has so predictably been claimed, but moral collapse. What we have been experiencing is a complete breakdown of civilised behaviour...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: englandriots; greatbritain; melaniephillips
Melanie Phillips is the author of the highly acclaimed world best-seller "Londonistan." Many serious American commentators as well as talk radio hosts from Rush to Hannity have expressed fears that the Euro-socialist political and economic agenda of Obama is inevitably leading us to what Britain is now experiencing.
1 posted on 08/13/2011 11:24:44 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

>>>>The violent anarchy that has taken hold of British cities is the all-too-predictable outcome of a three decade liberal experiment which tore up virtually every social value.


2 posted on 08/13/2011 11:25:45 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: T.L.Sink

The U.K is way ahead of us in progressive social and culture nonvalues. But don’t worry, liberals here are totally dedicated to catching up with our cousins across the pond.


3 posted on 08/13/2011 11:28:24 AM PDT by all the best
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To: T.L.Sink

Brilliant!


4 posted on 08/13/2011 11:39:51 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: T.L.Sink

And you could see it coming too. Yet the media and pols were too cowardly to call a spade a spade


5 posted on 08/13/2011 11:41:50 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Just when you think the left can't get any loonier . . .)
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To: T.L.Sink

Arm yourself. Heavily.


6 posted on 08/13/2011 11:42:05 AM PDT by KantianBurke
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To: T.L.Sink

Pat nails it again... http://www.youtube.com/user/patcondell


7 posted on 08/13/2011 11:50:30 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: T.L.Sink; penelopesire

Awesome commentary!


8 posted on 08/13/2011 11:54:03 AM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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9 posted on 08/13/2011 11:58:53 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: KantianBurke; CodeToad
Arm yourself. Heavily.

And move to a relatively safe location on the CW2 Cube.

Millions of good people live on fatal social terrain.

Now is the time to move!

Bracken: The CW2 Cube -- Mapping The Meta-Terrain Of Civil War Two


10 posted on 08/13/2011 12:07:29 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: all the best

American liberals are WAY smarter than our European Liberals and even MORE Brilliant than American liberals from even one generation ago.

Don’t worry.
Our future is bright.
They have it all in control.


11 posted on 08/13/2011 12:21:43 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Travis McGee

Help. What is a ‘fault line’ on the cube? I am in #1 territory. What does that mean?


12 posted on 08/13/2011 12:34:02 PM PDT by esquirette ("Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." ~ Augustine)
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To: esquirette

In general terms, #1 is where you want to be. You have a pat hand, just stay put and stock up on what you need.


13 posted on 08/13/2011 12:47:52 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: T.L.Sink
from my prospective, it is the break down, of the family...too wit... I would bet top dollars, that all those young boys, and men,involved in the riots are from one parent residences, notice, I didn't say homes/family...and the gender of the parent is female...
14 posted on 08/13/2011 12:59:14 PM PDT by B212
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To: T.L.Sink

I saw this article yesterday somewhere and thought it was one of the best ones I’ve seen so far about the London riots.


15 posted on 08/13/2011 1:06:07 PM PDT by livius
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To: T.L.Sink
It took her a long time to get to the actual root of the problem, but she finally did right at the end.

When church leaders stop prattling like soft-headed social workers and start preaching, once again, the moral concepts that underlie our civilisation, and when our political leaders decide to oppose the culture war that has been waged against that civilisation rather than supinely acquiescing in its destruction, then — and only then — will we start to get to grips with this terrible problem.

16 posted on 08/13/2011 1:16:30 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Travis McGee

“fatal social terrain.”

And they really don’t have to. It took us two years of planning and execution to get out of suburbia, yet, we still have all the creature comforts as before. We can shop and work anywhere but we live where, well, let just say it’s really cool to be stopped by a doe and a couple of fawns to get into the driveway.


17 posted on 08/13/2011 1:58:41 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: T.L.Sink

ping


18 posted on 08/13/2011 4:20:24 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: B212

And they do not have to work for what they get.....


19 posted on 08/14/2011 12:06:06 AM PDT by esquirette ("Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." ~ Augustine)
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