By that you are referring of course to Bush's lifelong refusal to take responsibility for anything at all.
The riots actually started when 15 Bobbies beat the crap out of a 16 year old girl in front of a crowd. Another example of how mainstream media buries and censors the news you see and hear everyday. The entire world now believes it had something to do with a gang member who shot at police later on (he didn't). http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/20...london-riot-violence-spreads-2nd-night-51391/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...parked-police-beating-girl.html#ixzz1UOHmU7YW http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/20...lice-beating-girl-sparked-london-riots-52191/
That's the biggest load of crap I've read in some time, and displays a glaring ignorance of the life of the average Brit.
Conservatives blame the riots on the government for being too liberal. Liberals blame the government for spending cuts. But only the rioters blame the obvious--the police for murdering someone. I clicked to see other articles by your conservative writer Max Hastings. He has a very different point of view about Libya that we see in the American media. Read the sharp remarks from the Defense Secretaries of 1) France and 2) the U.S. which are: 1) Gerard Longuet said that Khaddafi can not only stay in Libya, but actually in full power like a Putin. "M. Longuet suggested that Gaddafi might be able to remain in Libya, ‘in another room of the palace, with another title’." 2) Gates threatened to pull out of NATO if Europe can't handle such a little war by itself. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...h-MPs-This-Libyan-misadventure-end-tears.html
That's a great piece, and I'd love to hear the what the opposing viewpoint has to say. I don't think we're far off from that description of our younger generations.
Please explain to me how a cop shooting someone means that one has the right to loot a clothing store. Or steal a TV. Or set a car on fire. Or (if you're a stupid 16y/o girl) that you get to commit assault on a uniformed policeman.
the "average" Brit isn't looting. The average feral, welfare-bred, non-educated, drug-using Gen Y looter seems pretty well described and documented in that piece.
Well, it's pretty much the same as how a maniacal religious sect crashing a few jets into buildings means that one has the right to attack 3 innocent countries and murder around 1 million men, women and children who had nothing to do with it. Or level all their infrastructure including schools, hospitals, mosques...
Maybe that's how you're raising your kids, but I know a lot of young people and I am generally impressed with them. It's the 40 and older crowd that's dragging this country down. Young people will always be the bright spot in any society. Avarice and bitterness are learned traits which require decades to fully develop.
So your contention is that these young people are the bright spot of the British society, and that their avarice and bitterness are traits they've learned well ahead of the decades you think it's supposed to take? You seem to be all over the place here.
