riots in London ( Archived) (499)

I'm happy where I live ...and I am not complaining ...and I am not rioting ....I am not burning stores and stealing....

and no "I" didn't ....but I KNOW what it costs very much so ....

Again I repeat myself. It was not an excues I gave, it was a reason. And how exactly does worrying take up your time??

If you have no job, future, no home to call your own and don't feel part of society all you have to do all day is ponder.

Ponder maybe how bankers have bankrupted the world and not one seems to have been punished?

Ponder maybe that politicans were caught STEALING from the state and were not punished.?

Ponder maybe one the cuts in services in your area when you see men who caused this recession getting bonuses worth billions....

This can make a person angry.....Again this may be a reason for rioting. There is never an excuse for acting they way they did.

What a load of B------s

No- one asked some of these people to come here,yet we have opened our doors to them,put a roof over their heads,fed and clothed them,and have been doing it for years,all out of the tax payers money.

This is how they repay our hospitality.

Your first line in the reply above I could repeat back to you about the rioting....But it's not a viable argument really.

Who were politicans robbing when they scammed their expenses? Hardworking citizans!!!!!!

I know rioting is not going to fix anything....It was an explosion of anger. A reaction like that very rarely helps.

And have you seen the papers? A lot of the people arrested were not "homeboys" as you put it. They ranged from teacing assistants to office workers!

Have a look at some of the folk who have been charged:

A millionaires daughter, age 17 caught with a car load of electrical gear cigarettes and booze worth around £5,ooo now that is a real protest is it not

An assistant School teacher age 31 caught with electrical gear...Another protest.

All these folk who robbed, damaged and in general caused mayhem in very often their own community are not protestors they are just greedy self serving individuals who thought they would not get caught and they only did what they did for gain.

Many of the kids involved indeed come from poor ackgrounds but if you look at them the all have Moile phones, designer clothes and yet they are not employed some even still at school.

Now we will have all the do-gooders and fools elieving it was a protest IT WAS NOT.

It was just greedy ferral youths who saw an opportunity and ran riot and tried to steal and damage everything they could.

Their parents should be ashamed as THEY are the folk who should e controlling these kids, Mind you we did see some families charged as well mothers, aunts and kids in London.....Says a lot for the families...

And so what if " how can you tell a teenager he has to go to prison for robbing some trainers???"

Well the key word there is ROBBING it is a crime regardless of what anyone else gets away with the fact you commit a robbery means you are a criminal and deserve punishment.

All this don't blame the child he has had a hard life is total rubbish.

Many folk in the UK hard upbringings that these kids could not imagine.

For the first 8/9 years of my life I lived in the old Gorbals and we as a family Mum, Dad and 4 kids lived in one room we had no Bathroom and the toilet was shared between 4 families on our landing. Yet our door was seldom locked, my Dad worked hard but housing was not available due to the War damage.

Oh and we still had rationing until I was 3. The UK was Broke and we had no cash, we did not have 1/8th of what these kids had but we had decency and folk would never behave like this lot. Parents knew exactly where there school aged kids were at night. At home under parental control.

Roll on to the 60/70's and the PC Brigade take over you can't punish kids, kids have rights and look at what we end up with....Condensed I know but that is where WE went wrong we listened and thought these "EXPERTS" had the solution,no way as the parents and schools had it right before these "EXPERTS" BALLSED IT UP...(technical term ladies)

Shame we can't get ack to parents taking control of their kids

Schools really able to discipline Kids

Police doing the job we need them to without the PC mob holding enquiries that always see the criminal with more rights than the victim...

In short lets really get back to basics!!!!!

In what situation??