Tuesday - August 09, 2011

Watching the fires burn

Richard North over at EU Referendum is doing a great job covering and analyzing the rioting over there, as it spreads from one city to the next.

As predicted, the torrent of EVM continues unabated. It is “criminality, plain and simple”, “pure gratuitous violence, theft, looting”, and most often “mindless”.

There has been widespread disorder, including incidents in Hackney, Lewisham, Peckham, Bethnal Green, mass looting in Clapham and a huge fire in Croydon. Disorder in Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and Leeds has also been reported.

Tom Goodwin, the temporary, acting chief constable for the Met-Plods speaks and acts like a stage plod, talking gravely of “significant disorder”, displaying not the slightest indication that he understands what is happening.

Of course, it is absolutely true that we are experiencing the “rule of the mob”, as the Failygraph laments, but there is much, much more to it. The best comment I heard all evening was from Sadiq Kahn, a Labour something, responding to questioning on the BBC. He agreed that there was now “a lack of respect for authority”.

That is probably as close as you are going to get to an accurate diagnosis – the breakdown of that slender thread of respect for the government, its representatives and the forces of law and order. We are seeing the results.

London calling to the faraway towns
Now that war is declared-and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, all you boys and girls
London calling, now don’t look at us
All that phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain’t got no swing
‘Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

We have often remarked that our politicians do what they do because they have lost their fear of us. Similarly, we seeing criminals doing what they do because they have also lost their fear… of the law.

When a recidivist may plough down Arbroath High Street smashing shop windows and ripping off wing mirrors and be told sternly that he must pay £5 a week from his benefits, while his legal aid solicitor tells the court how much progress he has made with his social worker… and then saunter out of court smirking, you just know the game is up.

The justice system has lost it. The plods can haul em in, but they will be out on Monday and up to the same old tricks. And since the Police lost control after bungling a riot, the criminal element have simply worked out that the police are on the back foot and they can’t be everywhere at once. Is anyone surprised?

This is the culmination of welfarism, political correctness, minimum wage and an overly “liberal” justice system. And for all the whining we hear about damaged shops and businesses, well, this is what you get. You get the government, and thus the criminals and the police, you deserve. As we keep saying, if you take no interest in politics, it will take an interest in you.

North is not alone; even the Communists have got it figured out:

Violence ‘has exposed Britain’s broken society’
Tuesday 09 August 2011

The riots and mindless violence expose a broken section of British society which is “utterly detached from the values and responsibilities we expect of our fellow citizens,” think-tank director Gavin Poole said today.

The Centre for Social Justice executive director said that many of the children and teenagers involved were from a “lost generation” and “face a life on benefits in ghettos scarred by poor housing and street gangs, completely devoid of aspiration.

“In such communities, they have been written off by society repeatedly,” he said.

“What they are doing is criminal, completely wrong and must be punished. But it is not entirely random. They believe they have nothing to lose and no-one to answer to. Some even consider it normal.”

He added: “As wrong and unacceptable as it is, they project anarchy in public because it is what surrounds them at home.”

And they rightly fear the next coming level ...

... though as the Pravda of the downtrodden, they seem to mostly blame the police and the government ... and see this as almost justified class warfare ...

Time is a great healer of social problems. But if this were true, the same problems would not still be treated with solutions that have been tried and tested - and found wanting. We would urgently seek new answers to problems that have festered away for years.

In the 1980s, academics and social commentators identified a common denominator of civil unrest was years of aggressive policing and policies. Economic and social decline fanned a tinderbox community burning with the anger and frustration.

Relations between the police and communities in London have rotted away.
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The growing divide between poverty and privilege has seen a concentration of low-income families in social housing and areas of deprivation. Seventy-five per cent of newly formed households entering social housing were headed by someone aged between 16 and 29 and a large proportion are unemployed with multiple problems.
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These are the conditions that gang culture flourishes. As London burned, rival gangs chalked their logos on burned-out buildings. It is estimated that over 205 gangs operate in London with a “membership” of at least 15,000. Gang culture, with its hierarchies, violence and battles for power and authority within and between gangs has replaced community with disintegration and cohesion with chaos. The only thing left is the constant negotiation of “respect” or fear. This is an adversarial space, with estates becoming the arena for confrontations of gladiatorial proportions. Gangs took control of estates, geographical territories and communities through intimidation, harassment, theft, violent assault and rape.

Academic John Pitts described the Beaumont estate in Walthamstow as ”a totalitarian social space in which the options of the residents are largely controlled by controlling the day-to-day behaviour of residents and tenants living within their territory, controlling who may enter their territory and driving out those whom they believe should not dwell there.”

All the agencies that have been attempting to counter gang culture have suffered from austerity measures. Cuts to police have left innocent people unprotected. Reduced fire services struggled to get from one location to another.

What is happening on the streets of London has political solutions but shouldn’t be seen as political protest. Rioting and looting is a primitive expression of the breakdown of social order. Young people with nothing to lose are destroying shops and property, fighting the police in running battles and tearing the tokens of capitalism down.
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This is not a revolution.  This is a primal scream against years of oppression.

And for all I know, they may be right. This is what elitist socialism and a nanny state economy bring you, when mixed with enforced diversity and excessive Political Correctness. You get a bunch of academic twits at the top, spouting off their drivel that sounds so nice. Surrounding them are the small group of the Haves, them what got theirs and how, who are only too happy to support the Ivory Tower Twats, and join them in looking down on the entire rest of society that is their Social Experiment. But the rats in the mazes want more from life than their daily cheese. Sure, they want that too, and will bite the scientists but good if it’s taken away. But perhaps they want a chance to get out of the maze, or to have a burrito instead of the daily Stilton. And they can’t. There is no escape from the Matrix maze. And if the rats have been getting shock treatment for sniffing at the corners and poking their heads up over the walls, or maybe just on general principle because, eww, they’re rats and that’s what they deserve, then what you wind up with is some really nasty rats.

I don’t have the answers. But I can see that things have been pretty awful for 60 years or more, and have been going downhill lately at an ever increasing rate. Perhaps the best thing to do is to chuck the whole mess overboard and start again. Purge the nation, pull out of the EU, close the borders. England for England’s sake. Grow your own, make your own, employ your own. Build up your sense of nation once more, moral values, religion, history, pride, then give back the country to the citizens. Because the “we are the world” enforced diversity heavy handed police state/nanny state sure as hell isn’t working.
Ok, the rat maze analogy is kind of weak, granted. But the UK has a huge population of poorly educated layabouts on the dole with no prospects of work ever. And no work for them to do. And they keep on bringing in more refuse from the rest of the world. And feeding them and putting them in boxes. While keeping security cameras on them 25 hours a day. Can you imagine how both boring and oppressive that must be?

Or do we just face that they’re all scum, tens of thousands of them, and write off the larger part of several generations?

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