Since Tuesday’s post concerning the London riots, here are three articles that explore not only the roots of this chaos, but also the animalistic compulsion towards a reinstitution of self-reliant liberty, freed from Big Government’s shackles, over the global welfare mentality, or socio-economic justice, of statism. Independence vs. Dependence…an issue for discussion here, just as much as there.
Excerpts from The Atlantic Sentinel: “What’s At the Root of London’s Riots” by Nick Ottens
“What’s causing the riots that have engulfed London and spread to other British cities in recent days? The sheer size and intensity of the uproar suggests that it has far less to do with the shooting of one man by police last week and rather with the mentality of the young men and women involved.”
“British Prime Minister David Cameron hinted on Wednesday at the “complete lack of responsibility” that decades of welfarism has fostered in blighted parts of Britain where “people [were] allowed to feel that the world owes them something.” He said that the country has a “moral problem” when a “sick” part of society believes that it has only rights and no responsibilities.
He’s right. The London rioters aren’t guided by any particular ideology. Their anger has nothing to do with austerity measures that haven’t been implemented yet nor with mild cuts in university tuition fees that these youngsters are unlikely to benefit from anyway. Their anxiety reflects an entitlement mentality that is under threat. They and their parents were told by generations of politicians that they had a “right” to welfare provisions paid for by the productive segments of society and now that promise is falling apart. They were never taught to take care of themselves and soon, they might be forced to.
It’s taught adjusting to reality. But that’s not an excuse to take it out on your neighbors who always did just try to make a living.”
Excerpts from the UK’s Daily Mail: “Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters” by Max Hastings
“If you live a normal life of absolute futility, which we can assume most of this week’s rioters do, excitement of any kind is welcome. The people who wrecked swathes of property, burned vehicles and terrorised communities have no moral compass to make them susceptible to guilt or shame…They are essentially wild beasts. I use that phrase advisedly, because it seems appropriate to young people bereft of the discipline that might make them employable; of the conscience that distinguishes between right and wrong. They respond only to instinctive animal impulses — to eat and drink, have sex, seize or destroy the accessible property of others.”
“The depressing truth is that at the bottom of our society is a layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations. They do not have what most of us would call ‘lives’: they simply exist.
Nobody has ever dared suggest to them that they need feel any allegiance to anything, least of all Britain or their community…Not only do they know nothing of Britain’s past, they care nothing for its present. They have their being only in video games and street-fights, casual drug use and crime, sometimes petty, sometimes serious. The notions of doing a nine-to-five job, marrying and sticking with a wife and kids, taking up DIY or learning to read properly, are beyond their imaginations.”
“…it will not do for a moment to claim the rioters’ behaviour reflects deprived circumstances or police persecution.
Of course it is true that few have jobs, learn anything useful at school, live in decent homes, eat meals at regular hours or feel loyalty to anything beyond their local gang. This is not, however, because they are victims of mistreatment or neglect. It is because it is fantastically hard to help such people, young or old, without imposing a measure of compulsion which modern society finds unacceptable. These kids are what they are because nobody makes them be anything different or better.
A key factor in delinquency is lack of effective sanctions to deter it. From an early stage, feral children discover that they can bully fellow pupils at school, shout abuse at people in the streets, urinate outside pubs, hurl litter from car windows, play car radios at deafening volumes, and, indeed, commit casual assaults with only a negligible prospect of facing rebuke, far less retribution.”
“So there we have it: a large, amoral, brutalised sub-culture of young British people who lack education because they have no will to learn, and skills which might make them employable. They are too idle to accept work waitressing or doing domestic labour, which is why almost all such jobs are filled by immigrants.
They have no code of values to dissuade them from behaving anti-socially or, indeed, criminally, and small chance of being punished if they do so. They have no sense of responsibility for themselves, far less towards others, and look to no future beyond the next meal, sexual encounter or TV football game.
They are an absolute deadweight upon society, because they contribute nothing yet cost the taxpayer billions. Liberal opinion holds they are victims, because society has failed to provide them with opportunities to develop their potential. Most of us would say this is nonsense. Rather, they are victims of a perverted social ethos, which elevates personal freedom to an absolute, and denies the underclass the discipline — tough love — which alone might enable some of its members to escape from the swamp of dependency in which they live…They are products of a culture which gives them so much unconditionally that they are let off learning how to become human beings. My dogs are better behaved and subscribe to a higher code of values than the young rioters of Tottenham, Hackney, Clapham and Birmingham.
Unless or until those who run Britain introduce incentives for decency and impose penalties for bestiality which are today entirely lacking, there will never be a shortage of young rioters and looters such as those of the past four nights, for whom their monstrous excesses were ‘a great fire, man’.”
Read the ENTIRE article from Family Security Matters: “The Mob Tears at the Foundations of Civilization in London and America” by J. Christian Adams...or listen to this magnificent reading from El Rushbo...
And now a Canadian news source is reporting that a more sinister twist is being introduced with these riots as Islamic extremists see an opportunity to use the kids and their chaos as a distraction for even larger terrorist attacks! This will spell disaster on an even larger scale. Lawlessness begets lawlessness.
English authorities must contain and end these violent outbreaks, and America must stamp out its own pockets of discriminatory and brutalizing acts. ‘This IS our world’ for ALL to share, without regard to color or creed. And you CANNOT ‘do what you want’ when it infringes on the lives of others. That is NOT your right. But what you CAN do is better yourself, gain some life skills, get a job, care for your family and your possessions, and be grateful for what you have without coveting others. Relinquish the jealousy and envy that spurs theft and vandalism. Cast aside the class categorizations of statism. In other words, regain YOUR LIFE and stop depending on the government to give you meaning!
