Aug. 11th, 2011

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The takeaway lesson from this is not more police, solutions that are purely reactionary aren't going to see us through. The lesson that the Government won't learn is to put back into the communities the resources they've taken out over the last few years, more case workers, more engagement officers, more resources for keeping sports clubs open. If the haves pay for this then the have nots won't torch their Mercedes, if the haves don't steal money from the have nots when they make mistakes then the have nots won't break in to their big shops because that's the lesson they've learnt from life, that if you ant something take it rather than work for it. The looters from the last week acted in exactly the same way as bankers a year or so back, and if they had been wearing a suit and tie when they did it David Cameron wouldn't have thought to call them sick.
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After Anders Behring Breivik turned on his countrymen and attacked and killed them the Prime Minister of Norway responded by saying the only possible way to go forward was by embracing the freedom he wanted to take away.

Us?

Freedom? Fuck you.

We turn on ourselves.

Old enough to steal a bottle of water? Old enough to do nine months.

Fuck all of this shit. I can no longer differentiate between crime and punishment. I can no longer look from pig to man and tell the difference. Maybe those crazy old Marxists were right. Maybe it is a class struggle. Maybe the Camerons and Murdochs and Windsors don't care that the proles were stealing per se, they do it all the time from us after all, maybe this is about fucking people over for having the temerity to steal from the bulk of the world that they think they own.

Our job is to live as quietly and unobtrusively as possible unless they decide to drive into the ghetto and throw us some coins to make us fuck or kill one another for their enjoyment. Our job is to tell ourselves we are not even worthy of having the iron boot ground into our face forever, to see that as apotheosis.

We seem to have failed the simple task of being human.

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