So, what do you think about them?
I think they're a symptom of a sick society that values flat screen TV's and tracksuits more than human life. A sickness has been left to fester by the current government, making things cushier for themselves and their rich buddies at the expense of ordinary people. In situations like this it is always the people at the bottom that suffer - young people from poorer areas with less hope for the future and less chance of improving their own situation. Push people to the outside long enough, tell them they're scum long enough and they'll lash out. It happened the last time the tories were in power, it's happening again now.
Do you think that these people have the right to riot?
Of course not. Nobody has a right to riot. But there have been multiple attempts to talk to the government peacefully and they've all been written off with the same rhetoric. "We're all in this together," "we're in a credit crunch," "national deficit," blah blah blah.
Alternative methods of healing the economy haven't even been given the dignity of a response. Peaceful demonstrations are ignored. Is it any wonder people have started lashing out?
Do you think that they are sick, greedy human beings?
Holy leading questions, Batman!
But to an extent I think these people are greedy. But no greedier than the bankers that've been gambling with the economy, no greedier than MP's claiming second homes through their expenses, no greedier than the phone hacking, opportunist, game blaming tabloid media. In terms of damage to the country, these riots are small change.
It's too easy to write these rioters off as being greedy and sick. There are a lot of complicated elements at play here. Nobody burns down their own neighbourhood, trashes shops and torches cars because they're happy with their lives.
Do you think that some Libyan TV presenter loyal to Gaddafi is controlling the riots using his power over spirits?
That's crazy talk. I blame Lord Xenu, the volcano god!
Do you even care!?
I don't condone these riots in any way at all. It depresses me to think that this is what has to happen. I read a quote yesterday that I've been scouring the internet for the entire time I've been writing this. Can't find it at all. But it was something along the lines of 'I was a part of a peaceful protest that got ignored, I kick a shop window in and I'm on Sky News,' - I wish I could remember the quote, but it sums up my entire point.
People weren't being listened to, they were angry, and they were given an opportunity to express this anger through violence and destruction.
'A riot is the language of the unheard' - Martin Luther King.
Seriously though, all this violence is disgusting. We should just deploy the army and gun all these bastards down in the streets! Let's see you riot when you're dead! /sarcasm
I think they're a symptom of a sick society that values flat screen TV's and tracksuits more than human life. A sickness has been left to fester by the current government, making things cushier for themselves and their rich buddies at the expense of ordinary people. In situations like this it is always the people at the bottom that suffer - young people from poorer areas with less hope for the future and less chance of improving their own situation. Push people to the outside long enough, tell them they're scum long enough and they'll lash out. It happened the last time the tories were in power, it's happening again now.
Do you think that these people have the right to riot?
Of course not. Nobody has a right to riot. But there have been multiple attempts to talk to the government peacefully and they've all been written off with the same rhetoric. "We're all in this together," "we're in a credit crunch," "national deficit," blah blah blah.
Alternative methods of healing the economy haven't even been given the dignity of a response. Peaceful demonstrations are ignored. Is it any wonder people have started lashing out?
Do you think that they are sick, greedy human beings?
Holy leading questions, Batman!
But to an extent I think these people are greedy. But no greedier than the bankers that've been gambling with the economy, no greedier than MP's claiming second homes through their expenses, no greedier than the phone hacking, opportunist, game blaming tabloid media. In terms of damage to the country, these riots are small change.
It's too easy to write these rioters off as being greedy and sick. There are a lot of complicated elements at play here. Nobody burns down their own neighbourhood, trashes shops and torches cars because they're happy with their lives.
Do you think that some Libyan TV presenter loyal to Gaddafi is controlling the riots using his power over spirits?
That's crazy talk. I blame Lord Xenu, the volcano god!
Do you even care!?
I don't condone these riots in any way at all. It depresses me to think that this is what has to happen. I read a quote yesterday that I've been scouring the internet for the entire time I've been writing this. Can't find it at all. But it was something along the lines of 'I was a part of a peaceful protest that got ignored, I kick a shop window in and I'm on Sky News,' - I wish I could remember the quote, but it sums up my entire point.
People weren't being listened to, they were angry, and they were given an opportunity to express this anger through violence and destruction.
'A riot is the language of the unheard' - Martin Luther King.
Seriously though, all this violence is disgusting. We should just deploy the army and gun all these bastards down in the streets! Let's see you riot when you're dead! /sarcasm
