Ethical riots?
So the Ceylonese have taken it upon themselves to mount large ‘protests’ in Central London against the price of (nan) bread or some such nonsense ... all of which has absolutely nothing to do with the British taxpayer save for the fact that we seem to be footing the policing bill for the actions of another government. Again all absolutely nothing to do with us stout bulldogs – indeed until such time as the World Wildlife Fund opines as to whether we should be trying to save the Tamil Tigers the only issue in my mind is are we supplying the likely winner with weapons & ammunition: if not why not. Goodness knows we need every export order we can get at the moment is we are ever to repay the crippling debts run up by that old eyed Scottish git. However, the new found militancy among curry house waiters aside, we take as our first topic this morning, Riots – Why Can’t We Arrange a Decent One Anymore
Let’s be honest here dear readers, all you have to do is to threaten to smear a soufflé with mayonnaise & the garlic munchers will be claiming that it is an affront to the dignity of the Republic & they are out in the streets, building Cubist reinterpretations of the traditional barricade & doing satirical mimes. In Act II & in the finest traditions of Film Noir, the CRS get well & truly stuck in, especially if Mohammaden yoofs are involved in the desecration of silly soft cheeses.
Now cut to the so-called G20 protests; Tarquin & his chums on his political science course strike a blow against globalised financial markets by smashing a couple of windows round at RBS & what is the police response – one dead, a few black eyes & 90 complaints to the IPCC. Pathetic. In the good old days of the Special Patrol Group, the stretchers would have being lined up outside Accident & Emergency
Any student of real history – not the Marxist bilge they churn out in red brick universities – will know that we bulldogs have a rich tradition of kicking off big style but no doubt all of those Birkenstock shod social science lecturers who were in London got caught in the middle of a huge ethical dilemma. They so wanted to torch every symbol of capitalist excess that they could find but wouldn’t that add to carbon emissions & global warming?
Over the years the police have become emasculated & similarly, the ethics of trying to smash the system have become a lot more complex
Comments
police: only white faces - so institutional racism is true
Posted by: captaincobra | April 21, 2009 8:18 AM
Come to Holland, then... It is hard over here to get addressed in accentless Dutch nowadays, with Mohammed, Abdul, Sambo and whatever friggin' minority getting pulled in by that positive disrcimination shit with the promise: You might be as thick as shit, but that is just enough not to be overqualified for a police-job...
Frgjkjhsdmjnn.... why do I even get wound up anymore...?
Posted by: MdB | April 21, 2009 3:54 PM
Or we could just start a policey of treating them like their governments would?
I hear the Tamils aren't treated too well by either side of their country.
Posted by: Jonny | April 21, 2009 4:52 PM