Supposedly the trigger was the death of some guy - who was sitting in a drug dealer's car and was hit by fire intended for someone else - but now they're just involved in an orgy of destruction "because they can." And the reason why they can, of course, is because the police aren't allowed to use deadly force against them. Oh no, that'd probably be considered a war crime or a crime against humanity.
So instead of killing a few rioters and saving billions of dollars worth of buildings and businesses, the rioters get to live and the businesses people have worked lifetimes for are being destroyed.
Social services had been cut because there wasn't enough money. Now the country is going to have to rebuild everything the rioters have destroyed...so that's even less money for social services. But do the rioters ever think of that?
The way the BBC introduced that segment was this. "Croydon," an area of town, "was one of several areas plagued by unrest on Monday night, on a third night of riots in the capital." Plagued by unrest. Spontaneous unrest. Stuff just happens. Now, listen to the bite again from Leana Hosea of the BBC talking to unidentified drunk women in London.
HOSEA: Have you been drinking all night?
WOMAN 1: Yeah.
WOMAN 2: It's the government's fauwlt. I don't know.
WOMAN 1: Conserva'ives.
WOMAN 2: Yeah. I forget who it is. I don't know.
WOMAN 1: It's not even a right. We're showing the police we can do what we want.
HOSEA: These are, like, local people. I mean, why is it targeting local people and your own people?
WOMAN 1: It's the rich people.
WOMAN 2: It's the rich people, the people that got businesses, and that's why all of this is happening, because of rich people. So we're just showing the rich people we can do what we want.
RUSH: "We are just showing the rich people we can do what we want. That's the telling aspect of that. We're just showing the rich people we can do what we want. All this is happening 'cause of rich people, the people that got businesses, the conservatives." That's why all this is happening. You're dubious about this. They burn down the stores to show the rich people we can destroy what they have so that they will have nothing, too. We can burn down the property of the rich people so that they've got nothing, either. You're missing the point here. Yeah, they have insurance. Point is, these people have everything. They've got free health care. They've just recently had to start paying for their education.
They live in a full-fledged socialist country. They have their equivalent of food stamps. They have interminable unemployment. They have free medical care (ostensibly). This is what they were promised. These were the people that bought into the false promises of socialism. These are the people that bought into the false promises of utopia, and who are they mad at? They are mad at people who didn't! They are mad at people who are self-reliant. They're mad at people who are making something of themselves independently. They think they have been defrauded. What they don't understand is they think that it is the successful portion of the population that has defrauded them not their government, and they are being fueled by whoever they listen to, to believe that rich people and businesses equal conservatism. I don't think it's a laughing matter.
Clearly the women are funny. They're drunk and they don't know at what they're talking about. It's not a laughing matter. This is, in my estimation, precisely what we're headed for -- and I think if this were to happen, Obama would not be upset. Obama wants it. In fact, we've seen elements of this. We've seen his union thugs show up at Tea Party event and start engaging in thuggery, beating people up. It is starting to happen here. There is no happiness in socialism. There is no nirvana, there is no utopia. There is no happiness in liberalism. It's all a false promise, and when that reality suddenly hits you -- as an individual or as a member of a group -- that's a hard, cold reality. To understand that everything you've been promised, everything you've been told, and everything you have believed in leaves you with nothing.
I'd say it's also happening because these people are drunk. Take their booze away from them and maybe they'll be able to think clearly enough to not destroy the places where they themselves live.
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