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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... nment.html

The Telegraph
Monday 15 August 2011
Warning: Video bleeped for bad language

This is in regards to a 12 year old boy involved in the rioting.
"His mother, sitting beside the boy's father, wiped tears from her eyes as the court was told she handed him in after seeing wanted photos of her son being circulated by Greater Manchester Police."
"She is on benefits, does not live with the boy's father and has 10 other children, the court heard."

To paraphrase (omitting the bad language), the boy's mother says that it is all the government's fault because they don't do anything for the kids.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ouths.html

Mail Online
By Max Hastings
Last updated at 12:49 PM on 10th August 2011

This has ultimately been sanctioned by Parliament, which refuses to accept, for instance, that children are more likely to prosper with two parents than with one, and that the dependency culture is a tragedy for those who receive something for nothing.

It is amazing to me how may places like Detroit here in the US and London in the UK have done the same things and achieved the same results. It is a failed experiment to undermine the family but many of have just not figured it out yet and the riots and decay are a result.

Making people dependent on the government is good for elections (sometimes) and bad for society.

Fox News is reporting on air this morning that last night some communities were banding together to protect themselves when the police could not. They showed a brief clip a of a guy who said that the looters were not going to wreck his community.

The report also said that citizens were banding together to protect houses of worship. Apparently stores are not the only targets.

Apparently, the police are afraid that the citizens are beat up on any rioters they catch and further inflame the situation. I guess it is better to just the looters have their way than to make them mad.

http://nation.foxnews.com/london-riots/ ... ing-wealth

Fox Nation August 9, 2011

"This is the uprising of the working class. We're redistributing the wealth," said Bryn Phillips, a 28-year-old self-described anarchist, as young people emerged from the store with chocolate bars and ice cream cones. Phillips claimed rioters were motivated by distrust of the police, and drew a link between the rage on London's street and insurgent right-wing politics in the United States. "In America you have the tea party, in England you've got this," he said.

It amazes me how backwards he has it. I guess it proves that you can use anything that you want as justification for your actions.