Two Must Read Commentaries On The London Riots

Fear, intimidation, cruelty, injustice, savagery: The mass criminality in the big cities is merely a speeded-up and concentrated version of life on most large estates

Years Of Liberal Dogma Have Spawned A Generation Of Amoral, Uneducated, Welfare Dependent, Brutalised Youngsters -- Max Hastings, The Daily Mail

A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black reporter named Joe Strickland.

He said: ‘Don’t you believe all that stuff people here are giving media folk about how sorry they are about what happened. When they talk to each other, they say: “It was a great fire, man!” ’

I am sure that is what many of the young rioters, black and white, who have burned and looted in England through the past few shocking nights think today.

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Police Water Cannon And Plastic Bullets? After 50 Years Of The Most Lavish Welfare State On Earth? What An Abject Failure -- Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail

Bitter laughter is my main response to the events of the past week. You are surprised by what has happened? Why? I have been saying for years that it was coming, and why it was coming, and what could be done to stop it.

I have said it in books, in articles, over lunch and dinner tables with politicians whose lips curled with lofty contempt.

So yes, I am deeply sorry for the innocent and gentle people who have lost lives, homes, businesses and security. Heaven knows I have argued for years for the measures that might have saved them.

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My Comment: After spending hundreds of billions of pounds over the years .... this is the end result. Yup .... money ill spent and wasted to pursue a dream of a liberal utopia.