Thursday, August 18, 2011

Put the shutters up on the shops, but not in our minds. A punitive and condemning reaction simply mirrors the alienation so many already experience

David Cameron 's talk of crime "is simply" when we know it' s not easy and clean, is depressing. What has me shaken to the core, however, the absolute collapse of those willing to work for liberal values. What now needs to be protected not just small businesses, but a set of beliefs and freedoms that are smoldering in the wreckage appear. To anger to understanding and ending with the hysteria - As anyone who I've been through the gamut of feelings of fear have been (which is absolutely stupid in the first place for my cat at home alone). The ballerina who tellies two in my head at Black Swan transforms stolen, organic cooking, Nando 's broken mushroomed out of control. I'm self-indulgent tears for the old hairdresser, my daughter 's friend' s uncle, for the shopkeepers of Mare Street. I have felt for shed the ailing Malaysian students and applauded the woman who socked it to the idiots in Hackney, but points out that to forgive the tabloids something to her turbulent past seem to have. We are all emotionally prey to the good stuff to calm us down.

But what I can not understand is how so many liberals turned out to be thin in the face of this disease. Within hours, Twitter - derided as fiddling lefty nonsense - was to ask for the army to be brought in immediately! And water cannons. If only a conservative is a liberal mugged by reality, then for a while, got the parts left so real I thought it would make for air raids and detention.

It has a more nuanced response since then, where we can talk about race was Mark Duggan 's death, the number of people who have died in custody, the effects of gentrification and the failure of education. These are long-term failures, not a direct response to cuts - many of whom do not even come into force.

This act of collective self-defense claim may not seem political, but of course it is. It is a game changer, that to establish it in the most extreme right policies are used. So we now have a coalition of the dazed and confused, hit the left side of the cuts and to liberals who now want tougher sentences for the rebels together. Taken in the meantime, e-petitions for rioters, their homes and have way benefits multiply, new bands form as an offshoot of the English Defence League have vigilantes vow to increase intra-ethnic tensions. All this means that civil liberties seem to be on permanent alert.

While some wealthy to Durkheim and are outraged to see what looks anomie really forget don 't that many may not know what form this would take riots, yet knew that the children were not all right. It is possible to be morally shocked by criminal acts, but seek broader social explanations. These ideas are not mutually exclusive. Only idiots would think they are.


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