London Riots
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Panic on the streets of London: Speculations circle as to why the London riots have become so big, but the answer is quite obvious.
The violence on the streets is being dismissed as "pure criminality", as the work of a "violent minority", as "opportunism". This is madly insufficient. It is no way to talk about viral civil unrest. Angry young people with nothing to do and little to lose are turning on their own communities, and they cannot be stopped, and they know it. Tonight, in one of the greatest cities in the world, society is ripping itself apart.
Violence is rarely mindless. The politics of a burning building, a smashed-in shop or a young man shot by police may be obscured even to those who lit the rags or fired the gun, but the politics are there. Unquestionably there is far, far more to these riots than the death of Mark Duggan, whose shooting sparked off the unrest on Saturday when two police cars were set alight after a five-hour vigil at Tottenham police station.
http://english.aljazeera.net/ind…
Where Does London Go From Here?
- stopped reading at "Violence is rarely mindless."aldebaran
- there is usually a mind behind the violence********
- "Viral civil unrest"...only a writer could cook up that shit. Or shite. "Violence is rarely mindless" ...come on now look at this shit. Or shite.stoplying
- at this shit....or shite.stoplying
- well i don't fully agree with the use of 'rarely' in this statement but point being is that this is not really fully mindless********
- Laurie Penny doesn't have a clue!
Here is her email! laurie.penny@gmail.c...Maria23x