Riots in Democracy

England riots: Weekend opening for riot courts


Courts in London and Manchester have opened over the weekend as the number of people charged for riot-related offences reaches more than 1,000.


Riddle me this , if you can.

Why do people riot in a democracy ? They have the vote, they have the right to peaceful assembly, these rights are protected , why the rioting ? And I'm not talking My Team Lost The Hockey Finals lets go riot for 4 hrs and then sneak out when everyone's sobre. Booze fueled sports fans are not the kind of riot we're looking at here. We're looking at stuff going on for over a week now.


The answer is ... wait for it...

They don't live in a democracy.

Think about it. Why are british sports fans banned so frequently from their "football" games (soccer to the rest of us) when they go international ? Because they riot. Why do they riot ? Because they live in a system where a dead end minimum wage job is all they can hope for. They are Peasants to the royalty, and no matter what trappings of democracy the country picks up, peasants they remain.

Alan Moore in his movie the Mindscape of Alan Moore talked extensively about his background growing up in england and the sense of absolute hopelessness , how one principle sent a letter around to all the schools and next thing you know he couldn't get a job anywhere decent, and he spent years in horrible jobs before he became a comic book artist and writer. He'd actually been a good student , but the school he'd gone to had been inferior and when he transfere3d to a real school he sank like a stone, unprepared for the higher standards.

why would anyone put their kids in a school designed to cripple them educationally ?

And now I see newspaper articles calling the rioters thugs and saying they should all be locked up , they're evil , etc etc etc.

You're going to lock up a large portion of the electorate ? In a democracy ?

Yeah. Um...hate to tell you this , that doesn't happen in a real democracy. That only happens in banana republics that make pretentions of democracy while oppressing their "electorate" in the most brutal fashion possible.

I think Jolly Olde England is back sliding into a Kingdom , and abandonning the few democratic ways it's picked up in the past century or two.

Off with the heads of those ruddy peasants ! We've had just about enough out of this lot !