that's rich
So the banksters spend the last three years pillaging the world's public assets, driving us all into serfdom, and the corporate media tell us we're simply to suck it up and tighten our belts. But if some povvo kids in London should spend three days organising to nick flatscreens, well that's the end of fucking civilisation as we know it, apparently. Perhaps they've internalised Chicago-school 'free-market' ideology? They're only following the example of their betters, surely?
And don't you just love the way the coverage focuses largely on the looters, while the grievances of the rest of the populace are mentioned dismissively, almost as an afterthought? The wide disconnect between the people at the top and people on the street is becoming more and more obvious. A few examples of what I mean:
I've heard a lot of idiotic statements regarding these riots, but particularly eye-popping was this from one Nigel Farage, former bullion banker and current MEP, who actually had the audacity and/or brain damage required to utter the following:
"What is so extraordinary and perhaps even more frightening about this is there is no real political motive, there is no real cause, this is just mass criminality on a quite unimaginable scale.”
Now wouldn't that be an apt description of multinational corporations? Putting irony to one side, though, I seem to remember, back in June, 750,000 public sector workers marching in the streets of London, protesting the cuts. How much airtime did they get? Did the government alter its plans at all? I put it to you, Nigel old boy, that if people's sociable communications are repeatedly ignored, they'll be more and more likely to resort to less sociable means of getting their message across. Nigel goes on to call for the government to set the army on the rioters.
Lest you think this an isolated case, check this myopic article in the Telegraph, all the more scary for taking a puported left-wing angle on events. For a true taste, however, of the manner in which our species is doomed, just skim through the comments.
Finally, for a little relief, we have writer/broadcaster and Brixton resident, Darcus Howe, railing against the condescension and manipulation of a BBC interviewer. My favourite quote: "I don't call it rioting, I call it an insurrection."
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And don't you just love the way the coverage focuses largely on the looters, while the grievances of the rest of the populace are mentioned dismissively, almost as an afterthought? The wide disconnect between the people at the top and people on the street is becoming more and more obvious. A few examples of what I mean:
I've heard a lot of idiotic statements regarding these riots, but particularly eye-popping was this from one Nigel Farage, former bullion banker and current MEP, who actually had the audacity and/or brain damage required to utter the following:
"What is so extraordinary and perhaps even more frightening about this is there is no real political motive, there is no real cause, this is just mass criminality on a quite unimaginable scale.”
Now wouldn't that be an apt description of multinational corporations? Putting irony to one side, though, I seem to remember, back in June, 750,000 public sector workers marching in the streets of London, protesting the cuts. How much airtime did they get? Did the government alter its plans at all? I put it to you, Nigel old boy, that if people's sociable communications are repeatedly ignored, they'll be more and more likely to resort to less sociable means of getting their message across. Nigel goes on to call for the government to set the army on the rioters.
Lest you think this an isolated case, check this myopic article in the Telegraph, all the more scary for taking a puported left-wing angle on events. For a true taste, however, of the manner in which our species is doomed, just skim through the comments.
Finally, for a little relief, we have writer/broadcaster and Brixton resident, Darcus Howe, railing against the condescension and manipulation of a BBC interviewer. My favourite quote: "I don't call it rioting, I call it an insurrection."
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