Tuesday 9 August 2011

RiotBalls

The current riots are terrible and depressing and i am sure very scary if you are in the middle of it. But here are some other things that have depresed me about this topic.
1. my twitter stream being a little too full of some people almost getting excited and spreading rumours of troops marching down whitehall, bank of england being stormed, london landmarks ablaze etc. Some social media rubernecking definitely occurring.
2.Academics/socialists impossing their middle class motivations for the riots (its about the cuts, social inequality, Hacking, MPs expenses) onto a bunch of scumbags who want a new telly and to act like the big men they are not.
3. People criticising police for doing too much, doing too little, over physical, not physical enough. we get the police force we deserve and the downside in living in a society with human rights, innocent till guilty and habeas corpus is that they have an impossible job right now. Its a society problem (not police) and unless society backs them to use the force we see and are shocked about from foreign locations - then live with their apparent impotence.

Anyway back to digital recruitment....

5 comments:

Ian Harvey said...

Dom for PM!!

domsumners said...

Hmmmm.....any political move would be short-lived I think for many reasons. Just for clarity when I slag off socialists in blog post it is not the labour party but those to the left who still believe their Marx and can't believe it all went wrong in communist Europe.

Brian Forde said...

Can't believe I'm writng this but I agree with every word. Go on Dom, follow Ian's call, being PM is more fun than job ads, surely?

domsumners said...

Fordy - the stamp of approval from your west country lair is a beautiful thing!

Jamie B said...

Fair play Mr Sumners... you said what I and what I am certain a very large proportion [the majority] of this nation think, have been thinking for many years and are just so depressed about facing up to.

You could be Boris's wing man!