Arthur,
At 14:51 09/08/2011, you wrote:
I would think that the rioters also need to have the culture to
organize politically to achieve their goals.
Yes, they all had their street-corner cultures. What's interesting is
how quickly they spread -- not adjacently but many miles distantly in
and all around London (and more recently still, in Birmingham,
Liverpool, Bristol and Newcastle). Apparently what enabled this was
the Blackberry. This type of phone enables user to encrypt their
messages. Once the first outbreak occurred in Twickenham the police
obviously tried to contain the riot from spreading but they were
completely unaware that some of the rioters were contacting others
via Blackberries.
Burning their own homes and neighbourhood is reminiscent of what
happened in Detroit and elsewhere in the US. When the riots were
over the remaining people lived in burned out areas. Period.
Apart from, maybe the first incident, nearly all of the rioters cam
from outside their own areas, according to eye witnesses. Some of the
places where groups suddenly congealed and shops set alight were
leafy suburbs which had almost no young rioter-type residents of their own.
Keith
arthur
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Subject: [Futurework] London's burning!
As riots and fires continue to spring up in many areas of London, we
have already had a spate of politicians and opinion-worthies telling
us that it's evil and criminal and so forth. So far, only one person
of any stature at all has had the courage to come out with the real
reason. He is Lord Harris, who founded the nation-wide Carpetright
shops as a young man. He says: "Rioters need jobs".
Quite right. But unfortunately these thousands of young people will
never have jobs. They didn't even have them in the pre-2008 years.
The present episode of fires will no doubt burn themselves out (the
pun was unavoidable I'm afraid!), but the London rioters have
already shown the Greek rioters just what can be done if they try
harder. After all, we are a much more advanced country than Greece.
Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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