a big boy did it and ran away

so Blair thinks it isn't a moral decline. Cameron thinks it's the Human Rights act. Umpteen people think it's disconnected yoofff.
As the straws float past you can see them reach up and grasp anything to try and explain the riots.
There is even a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMvuoGji3yU

No-one seems prepared to admit that the looters looted because they could!!
It wasn't food shops that were raided. It wasn't essential stuff for life. It was 42 inch plasma telly's. It was fancy clothes. It was fancy trainers.
It certainly wasn't disaffected yoofff 'cos the weren't getting Education Maintenance Grants!
It was a ballerina, students, thugs,primary school classroom assistants and God knows who else.
Now we need new laws. Soon we'll need new police powers and the public will not smugly and think
"That'll larn 'em"
No one will ever admit it is clearly the example held up in society as Thatcher removed that argument by saying there was no such thing.
Bankers and MPs on the take.
Social norms to be half dressed and a sexual object, male or female.
Get rich quick and be famous as aspirational objectives. 10.5 million people watching ritual public humiliation dressed up a entertainment and called the X Factor. I recall the Simpsons where Marge is told the pre teen slut look is further into the shop.
Meantime we end up with no Human Rights and increased police powers and thank the government for bringing them in!!!
It can't just be me surely!!!
Michael Moore warned that it wouldn't take much for us to end up in a dictatorship. A few scares and terrorist incidents and we'd go there, not resisiting but begging for protection. he was unfortunately right.
It is a truism that no matter the result of an election the government always gets in.
We're now at a dangerous point where we could lose it all. We need to watch and act with care.

well then!!!!!

No posts for a wee while but not because of lack of subject matter.
I really don't know what to say about the recent riots in England because to me it sums up, whatever may be deemed the causes, the I ME MYSELF problem in modern society.
There are no doubt all sorts of social moral and economic reasonings behind the looting but given that, it isn't difficult for even the most perverse mindset to be aware that looting is actually criminal and shouldn't really be practiced. Never mind their rights, what about their responsibilities.
It seems to me we are witnessing the commencement of the breakdown in civilisation which will come one day. I had hoped it wouldn't be for many years yet but now I'm not so sure.
Unfortunately prior to this was Norway. I cannot say more than to extend my deepest and most heartfelt sympathy to the families caught up in the actions of this madman.