London UK: Do Riots Actually Accomplish Something?

The cause of the riots.

“In England, there’s a basic sense of hopelessness and frustration.”

As royal wedding fever swept the world, many sat captivated by the decadence, and little girls watched the real-life fairy-tale in awe.

But for many Britons, the lavish nuptials served as a painful reminder of the U.K.’s rigid wealth divide.

Notions of the American dream, a sort of merit-based society where success in contingent on blood, sweat and tears, are quite foreign to the English.

The cause of the violence, the police allowed it to happen by standing back then took the credit for stopping it by over-reacting.

“The major reason you get violence in crowd events is actually because of the police,”

“Does that mean riots can actually accomplish something? ”

“Yes, awareness of the terrible malaises ravaging our societies.”

Cameron’s agenda is repression.

When people begin demonizing rioters and attributing uprisings to irredeemable criminality, it becomes easy to justify a repressive agenda.

Funding gets further cut, some even get evicted from their social housing units as punishment for participating in the riots.

Those who “loot and pillage their own community should be shown the door,” said Cameron.

Such retaliation just paves the way to more poverty, more despair and more UNREST.

read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Anatomy%2Briot/5281541/story.html

Posted 11:03 PM on Sun Aug 21 2011

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