Ishina, don't rob people who burn immigrant families out of their flats and wreck and steal from businesses of their agency and personal responsibility. The primary victims are the poor and downtrodden of those areas whose environment and communities have been destroyed and were personally dispossessed.
"The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another"
*sigh* 'tis sad
I am still sceptical how successful the Arab revolutions are and I still think there is a long way to go before Arab countries get proper governments. I'd even question WHY the Egyptian revolution especially is considered so successful. I think it had to do more with other things than the actual (mostly peaceful) protesters. And many other ongoing revolutions have turned either into massacres or a full blown war.
Anyhow whilst the current riots are bad and definitely going in the wrong direction, is the government going to do the logical thing after and that is to sit down and discuss WHY this happened as opposed to just putting it down to criminals and thugs? I dont think they will.
Already, this is what Neck Clegg is saying (and he's NOT talking about the British Army) :
"People engaged in violence, looting & theft have no excuse to do that whatsoever"
Whilst I think a lot of the rioters are opportunists and thieves, if we refuse to look at the underlying grievances instead of dismiss them as laziness or a "let's 'av it lads" mentality etc instead of inequality and decades of oppression in under-privileged communities that lies in the heart of this, then it will only happen again and again till we either end up with full blown anarchy or a police state. I am not sure which one I want. Both are looking equally likely and equally terrifying right now.
I don't think that making victims of the perpetrators is the way to go about it.
Like I said, tens of millions of people are suffering because of budgetary cuts and austerity. Millions are marginalised, unemployed. But they don't resort to burning poor people out of their homes, attacking bus drivers and setting his bus on fire, and so on and so forth.
I agree partly but does peacefully protesting result in your voice being heard? Historical evidence tends to indicate otherwise.
And about the making victims of the perpetrators, I don't think it's like that. Of course looting and violence isn't gonna end police (and other) injustice but at the same time as long as justice is not served and the police continue to serve others rather than the people and persist to see themselves above the law, the young people will carry on taking the law in their own hands. If the police want the riots to stop they should stop killing people.
Topic: Riots in London