There is nothing political at all about this. The violins are out, but people are not listening.
For every rioter on the streets, there are probably dozens more kids the same age staying in and keeping their heads down, or doing something useful and productive.
They are from the same streets and the same backgrounds, and were given the same opportunities or lack thereof.
The difference is they are not criminal shit-kickers who offer nothing in the past, present or future to our society and should have been drowned in a bucket at birth.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility for your actions?
The 'society made me bad' argument has always been bullshit, a cowardly cop-out for people lacking in moral fibre in my view. And I've seen a fair bit of it where I come from.
The 'elephant in the room' of course is that it is largely a problem confined to one section of London black community, who were upset because a career criminal, wannabe Yardie and a man who peddles death to his own people was shot dead after waving a gun at the police.
The black community in London complains about 'heavy handed policing' and overzealous stop and search — but now they are complaining that the police were not heavy handed enough.
The old bill can't win.
At least part of the solution for this rests within London's black community itself.
But this issue is being suppressed, as was the case with the outrageous Sky inteview mentioned earlier today, in which an eyewitness had his personal account censored while he was giving it in the interests of political correctness.
