ENGLISH RIOTING MIRRORS GLOBAL SOCIAL WOES – EXCUSES AND SLOTH

 

These are 'English Riots' not 'UK Riots,' says Scotland (click picture for story)

The English rioting that began over the shooting of a local youth by police has resulted in a seeming endless wave of rioting that shows how ineffective the country is in dealing with it.

[Masked youth wander the streets armed with Molotov cocktails, families flee as their homes erupt in flames, medics tend to the bloodied and bruised as armored vehicles patrol the streets] reports NPR HERE, while other news  reports has the PM wanting to ban social media, blaming that as a cause. You can read that HERE. Of course he totally misses the point of both social media and the reasons for the rioting in the first place, as well as the country’s failure to end it.

As Pat Condell tells it (see video below) there is nobody there to stop it as a result of lack of police presence, training and the new order of not violating anyone’s rights even while they are committing a crime.

[Some local people told journalists of their resentment towards the police. One student said: “The police never talk to us, they ignore us, they don’t think we’re human in this area.” A youth worker claimed: “The way the police treat black people is like we’re nothing.”] says a report from the UK Telegraph HERE.

This is not that different than what we see in the US, only we see it more often and almost always with the big race label attached because almost everything that happens in America is a result of some racial injustice or another especially where a lawsuit is readily available to be had. You never hear of things happening out of a basic lack of self-responsibility. You never hear anyone ever say “You know, it was my fault. My mistake.” It is never “my mistake” when there are other people available to pay for it.

This is not to say that the racial discrepancies are not valid. For countless generations the struggle for a racial equality has been offset by both positive and negative actions on all sides and will continue to do so because in many case it is an easy excuse for a financial claim, or to effect a political change regardless of virtue.

Race aside, we have raised a few generations of self-entitled people that Condell describes as useless parasites, people supported by the money of tax payers so that they can exercise their self-prescribed entitlement. It is so commonplace that it seldom warrants a blip on our radar in much the same way that regular crime occurrences have become so mundane as to be ignored by the general populace. So too has an acceptance that this lack of responsibility is the new norm and we had best just deal with it, after all “kids will be kids” or “everyone does this”.  In a prior post I wrote one commenter even responded that “laws are overrated” as though having laws to control and order society was a bad thing.  Well I guess it is if you are on the side that breaks the law.

In my mind there is no doubt that globally we are in the midst of a revolution of sorts where the standards upheld by one generation are being run over by the next. And yet it is the older generation that is supporting the mess, both financially and flaccidly with a blind acceptance that you can no longer force change and even that the world is so far broken as to be lost. Whatever you believe, however, there is no escaping the reality that change is afoot, even if there are no blueprints for it.

Watch Pat Condell’s take on the whole thing below. – MisterWriter