AUDREY'S MISSILES A weekly newsletter dedicated to the peaceful reform of the United States government. IT'S A RIOT! The British newspaper, The Guardian, reports that after the recent riots in Bradford, England, the city is in "a grip of fear," and describes a depressing scene of increasing racial intolerance, a lack of racial integration and an inability to address problems. In one of the worst riots that has been seen on mainland Britain for 20 years more than 200 police officers were injured, and properties and business were firebombed and looted. Damage is reported to be twenty-five million pounds! The Bradford riot was the worst, but there has been rioting in a number of other British cities. The riots in Ireland persist also. In Belfast CNN reports that more than 100 police officers were injured overnight in riots preceding the resumption of political talks. The Royal Ulster Constabulary told CNN that 113 officers were hurt in serious fighting. Nineteen needed hospital treatment and two were detained overnight. Officers in riot gear and soldiers in armored vehicles cordoned off the area, as rocks, bottles and firebombs were thrown. A number of Catholics were hurt as police fired plastic bullets. Water cannon were used against rioters in Northern Ireland for the first time in 20 years. Are these riots getting worse, and are they happening in more places in the world? In just the past few months there are reports of riots in Cincinnati in the United States, in Genoa, Italy, in Colombo, Sri Lanka [formerly Ceylon] in Manipur (India), in Nigeria, in China, in Macedonia, and a number of other countries, including the well-publicized problems in England, Northern Ireland and the Middle East, with conditions in Africa so bad that everyone is trying to ignore that continent. The riot in Sri Lanka made the headlines because the Tamils succeeded in gaining access to an airfield and blowing up some airplanes. Twenty people were killed and damages were reported to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In Indonesia some rebels hacked a dozen or so people to death. What is the cause of all this trouble? Are people becoming less tolerant? Do we need more education to change attitudes? Would anyone out there care to travel to Indonesia to "educate" those head-hunting, knife-wielding Dyaks? The basic nature of man has not changed in the few thousand years he has dominated this planet. The riots are not caused by ethnic differences; they are not caused by intolerance. Race and religion serve only to separate out and identify the members of groups. People will act in their own best economic interest, and survival means joining with a group that has similar interests, for these deep- seated attitudes are the vestiges of our tribal beginnings. The more crowded people are the more friction there will be. All the education, all the indoctrination and all the programs designed to change attitudes will not provide fresh water or put food on the table. These so-called ethnic riots have their roots in economic competition for land, water, and jobs and will persist as long as the group causing the riot is in need of the basics required to live, while the defending group will persist in guarding their superior position by keeping wealth within their own group. Well, then, perhaps the answer is that those who have wealth must share, but that is Communism! Has Communism ever worked anywhere with large groups of people? What if the "haves" shared with the "have nots" and there was still not enough to go around? As the population continues to increase will the "haves" find it necessary to live in fortress enclaves as was the situation in the Middle Ages and as is the case in the some parts of South America? Are we courting disaster by failing to challenge the government policy on illegal immigrants? As our economic downturn intensifies will the "have nots" do what they are now doing to our British cousins? <http://www.guardian.co.uk/racism/Story/0,2763,520567,00.html><http://www.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/UK/0,2478,1041131,00.html>http://www.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/UK/0,2478,1041127,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/13/nireland.clashes.1344/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/UK/0,2478,1041131,00.html http://lateline.muzi.net/ll/english/1073485.shtml http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/Weekly2001/05.01.2001/SriLanka.htm http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/02/21/indonesia.ethnicriots/ http://www.indonesia-ottawa.org/Indonesiatoday/2001/May01/050801_JP_04.htm <http://www.medhin.org/main/dead_ethnic_riot.htm> <http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/2000feb2/23feb-nigeria.html> <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-204-2399185.html> READ THIS NEWSLETTER AND THEN GIVE IT TO A FRIEND. 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