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UK riots: The end of the liberals' great moral delusion

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-08-22 02:47|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 There was a time within living memory when all reasonable grown-ups were considered to be on the same side. Parents, teachers, police, judges, politicians decent citizens of every station and calling formed an unspoken confederacy to uphold standards of behaviour within their own communities. But their shared values and expectations about human conduct were systematically undermined by a post-Sixties political ideology that preached wholesale disrespect for authority, and legitimised anti-social activity in the name of protest.

Was it Pelosi who said protest was patriotic? I know that was only as applied to Bush and was slanderous subversive sedition when spoken about The One. Certainly Pelosi's district is paramount in patriotic protest of the people.

Posted by Bobby 2011-08-22 06:17|| 2011-08-22 06:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The left rode into power upon a narrative of the imperfections of society and civilization. What the left suppressed in its telling was the true history of mankind, largely of poverty and brutish behavior. The left's false promises have only delivered something even more imperfect, but with its destruction of institutions of civilization, leaves the masses with even less ability to rebuild the future without the usual pain man pays for such changes.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-22 08:28|| 2011-08-22 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Listening to the MSM, only "Disaffected WHITES were rioting"
Bullshit.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-08-22 09:09|| 2011-08-22 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Redneck

From watching in London alot of blacks were involved in London and Birmingham.In Manchester and Liverpool there was alot of whites involved in looting

Posted by Squinty Glatch1099 2011-08-22 10:20|| 2011-08-22 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Did seem like it was an equal opportunity looting spree...

Posted by Steve White 2011-08-22 12:03|| 2011-08-22 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Some of the UK looters arrested were not at all deprived and came from well-to-do families. They violated ancient standards of behavior because they enjoyed it and they thought they could get away with it.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-22 12:49|| 2011-08-22 12:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Large population of Libyans have lived in England for some time. The English noticed on the news how well Libyans spoke the English language in Libya. I wonder what will happen now after the show is over. I would at least keep an eye on the Masque's in England upon their return. The welfare is so much better but the opportunity for mischief is greater.

Posted by Dale 2011-08-22 15:24|| 2011-08-22 15:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Early sentencing has been extremely harsh. And there are 3000 more to go.

Posted by Goober Ulaimp3762 2011-08-22 15:47|| 2011-08-22 15:47|| Front Page Top

#9 @Anguper Hupomosing941

I think they were just as mentally impoverished by a parental welfare state as the welfare trash doing the looting was. Once the separation between earning and getting is founded the rot of entitlement sets in.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-08-22 16:50|| 2011-08-22 16:50|| Front Page Top

#10 If the rioters are not being drawn and quartered or broken on the wheel, I'd call it more namby pamby silliness and laboring under the insane assumption that locking someone up equals punishment.

Incarceration isn't punishment. Flogging at least, would be punishment.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-08-22 17:25|| 2011-08-22 17:25|| Front Page Top

#11

I would think Stalin was. Lenin was the setup guy.

Posted by davemac 2011-08-22 18:56|| 2011-08-22 18:56|| Front Page Top

#12 "Some of the UK looters arrested were not at all deprived and came from well-to-do families. They violated ancient standards of behavior because they enjoyed it and they thought they could get away with it."

Kind of like the GOP's friend on Wall Street that created this economic mess...

Posted by Trembling B4 G*d 2011-08-22 19:19|| 2011-08-22 19:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Gawd, another troll....

Posted by Barbara 2011-08-22 19:23|| 2011-08-22 19:23|| Front Page Top

#14 If I were so monumentally wrong in sprading lies before known truths (see: Dodd, Frank, Goldman Sachs, Democrat Party), I would tremble before God too

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-22 19:36|| 2011-08-22 19:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Kind of like the GOP's friend on Wall Street that created this economic mess...

Posted by someone who's never checked the Wall Street donor lists for the Donks. No man is blinder than he who will not see.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-22 20:58|| 2011-08-22 20:58|| Front Page Top

#16 I think you missed the "Bullshit" On the end there.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-08-22 21:28|| 2011-08-22 21:28|| Front Page Top

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