tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post2736677488719544950..comments2024-03-27T21:30:35.824+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Bestwood Riots - Student Grant SpeaksLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-40381452642410490662007-08-28T19:55:00.000+00:002007-08-28T19:55:00.000+00:00"More broadly though, I think insurrections will b..."More broadly though, I think insurrections will become more common because people are increasingly prevented from protesting and taking direct action by other means, and large swathes of people are denied a voice in society - so they seize the only voice they can. (This is what I'm referring to as repression). These people are obviously very aggrieved about something, and yet this isn't even being explained really in the media, as to why they're revolting ... "<BR/><BR/>This, interetingly enough, is remarkably accurate. 'Hate speech' laws, which result in predicting a Muslim attack on London being a crime despite precisely this transpiring, are doing what he describes. In a slight nod to my leftie side, I should add that the stiltiffying atmosphere of corporations is having a similar effect on the expression of native working class concerns. And, yes, we can expect riots as various genetically distant ethnies, prevented from segregating, do what Darwin predicts they'll do and attempt to remove competing genes from their environs.<BR/><BR/>The short way to describe all that would be: I predict a riot.<BR/><BR/>(Btw, I find the jab at sociology in distinctly poor taste. Sociology is the study of irrational behaviour, not the irrational study of behaviour.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-4422358837873975132007-08-27T09:47:00.000+00:002007-08-27T09:47:00.000+00:00He also made this odd comment:"someone getting a l...He also made this odd comment:<BR/><BR/>"someone getting a life sentence for attempted murder which I suspect is unusually harsh"<BR/><BR/>Is it "unusually harsh"? The sentence for attempted murder is the same as murder - you don't get time off because you weren't competent enough to finish the job. Intent is everything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-35360541701354654722007-08-27T09:45:00.000+00:002007-08-27T09:45:00.000+00:00Let me guess - he is middle-class, certainly publi...Let me guess - he is middle-class, certainly public sector, probably "teaching" in higher education or is in some sort of research role. Lives in a comfortable, low-crime area.<BR/><BR/>I doubt that anyone who lives in an area blighted by crime and anti-social behaviour would view 'the state' as an oppressive force. He would be begging for the state to actually be an 'oppressing force', instead of the languid and disinterested 'force' it is now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-68764844975632971912007-08-27T04:21:00.000+00:002007-08-27T04:21:00.000+00:00"...the judge provides no rational argument as to ...<I>"...the judge provides no rational argument as to why people should not engage in these acts. He's just stamping his foot, jumping up and down and going "we can't be having this! because i say so!" It's absurdly authoritarian."</I><BR/><BR/>'These acts' referring to burning cars, building barricades, and rioting. Because some criminal scum were sent down, and the riotees didn't like it.<BR/><BR/>Words fail me, for once....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com