UK riots, their context and the disturbing response...

http://orwellwasright.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/londons-burning...

an excellent article on the current riot situation in the UK and it's underlying causes. It also highlights the equally distressing broader public reaction, people mindlessly clamouring for martial law, even more of a police state, and further erosion of their human rights



"I used to think that any efforts by the government to bring about a full-blown police state in the UK would meet with failure. I used to think that people were inherently protective of their rights and that they were capable of taking a step back even when presented with something shocking and emotionally charged such as the recent riots and use their common sense to weigh up their response with a sense of proportion. I used to think that there was some truth to the old idiom, “Cooler heads will prevail”. Now it seems painfully clear that, given the right justification, the vast majority of people in this country will welcome a police state with open arms. They don’t care about the real causes of such riots – the huge rise in child poverty, police brutality and rising unemployment rates – which affect communities where such rioting breaks out. That would entail a degree of social responsibility and compassion for those less fortunate which sadly appears completely beyond them."

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