Are there sociological, political and economic reasons for the riots
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Just ferals nicking stuff and shitting on their own doorstep.
bhaexpress
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In the main the latter. Turns out that the man who was shot and was the alleged start of this disorder was the nephew of a well known criminal and in fact he had fired at the Police before he was shot. I'm sorry but whilst it's not totally without foundation the 'Race Card' being played is getting very old now. What is even more ironic is that the Police have been accused of being ineffectual, can't win can they ?
Skaville
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Surely the correct answer is both. Mindless, greedless, thievery and thuggery underpinned by social and economic and political problems.
Seagull on the wing
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It has to be the first one,it cannot be...economic and political.....no. Not when a millionaires daughter,a promising musician,an olympic rising star a trainee solicitor were involved in the looting and rioting. Politicical...no...no anti government banners,no anti government chanting.It is pure greed.
Yep, surely if you are a mindless thug you are one because of social, economic and political reasons.
I'm sure though that you'll get loads of people voting for the thug option because it's easier and satisfies the nonsense agenda of a certain political view.
Actually I think you will find he didn't shoot at the police first.
The IPCC had to issue an apology for this piece of misinformation. Mark Duggan death: IPCC 'may have misled journalists'
Despite this there are undoubtedly some sociological reasons behind all this.
ATFC Seagull
Aberystwyth Town FC
Why no option for both?
Crime nearly always has a genuine cause, and is always 100% wrong.
Crime nearly always has a genuine cause, and is always 100% wrong.
Seagull Stew
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And of course, these people were representative of all those who were involved in the looting and rioting were they?
Out of interest, why do you believe that a promising musician or rising olympic star could not possibly be socially and economically deprived?
BHAFC_Pandapops
Citation Needed
- Feb 16, 2011
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If that 16 year old is anything to go by, they were all bored, and apparently, teen 'angst' doesn't exist. Especially if some of them want to be like this forever. It is only when they get sent down, if they get sent down, that they will grow up, hopefully.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
"Mindless" thuggery and thievery is itself a social, economic and political phenomenon. And it's not mindless.
As I said on another thread, this is "social banditry" - the term used by Eric Hobsbawm in Primitive Rebels. These are urban bandits, obviously, rather than the rural bandits he was writing about.
"The point about social bandits is that they are peasant outlaws whom the lord and state regard as criminals, but who remain within peasant society, and are considered by their people as heroes, as champions, avengers, fighters for justice, perhaps even leaders of liberation, and in any case as men to be admired, helped and supported. This relation between the ordinary peasant and the rebel, outlaw and robber is what makes social banditry interesting and significant ... Social banditry of this kind is one of the most universal social phenomena known to history".
Change the word "peasant" to "Londoner", and "the lord and state" to "the authorities" in the above passage and read it again.
The looters are making a statement about their place in the wider society. The wider society doesn't want to listen. It just wants to lock the looters up and throw away the key.
As I said on another thread, this is "social banditry" - the term used by Eric Hobsbawm in Primitive Rebels. These are urban bandits, obviously, rather than the rural bandits he was writing about.
"The point about social bandits is that they are peasant outlaws whom the lord and state regard as criminals, but who remain within peasant society, and are considered by their people as heroes, as champions, avengers, fighters for justice, perhaps even leaders of liberation, and in any case as men to be admired, helped and supported. This relation between the ordinary peasant and the rebel, outlaw and robber is what makes social banditry interesting and significant ... Social banditry of this kind is one of the most universal social phenomena known to history".
Change the word "peasant" to "Londoner", and "the lord and state" to "the authorities" in the above passage and read it again.
The looters are making a statement about their place in the wider society. The wider society doesn't want to listen. It just wants to lock the looters up and throw away the key.
KZNSeagull
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I watched the 'debate' that Sky News had about it on Thursday night. According to that, it is down to the creation of a dependance culture, lack of discipline, fatherless families and the lack of Faith in modern British society.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
But you do get rich kids hanging off the Cenotaph and throwing bins at police escort cars.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,019
odd poll the two options are not mutually exclusive. of course there are social reasons etc. the point is the the rioters were not conscious of those reasons, they were doing it purely for the thrill.
That's true, although I'm sure they would claim their knobbishness has an 'intellectual' dimension
bhaexpress
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According to the London Evening Standard he did.
bhaexpress
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And what's wrong with that ?
Hotchilidog
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- Jan 24, 2009
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Is the correct answer.