LIVING THE NIGHTMARE AGAIN: WITH OPEN EYES.
After an uneasy calm has settled down upon my Britain, it is time to reflect upon the recent riots a little analytically.
The shooting of Mark Duggan,suspected of drug running,was scarcely even a pretext and the subsequent riots were in no way a protest against that incident but were,in fact, a criminal and organised use of that incident by the goons to go on a rampage.
After an uneasy calm has settled down upon my Britain, it is time to reflect upon the recent riots a little analytically.
The shooting of Mark Duggan,suspected of drug running,was scarcely even a pretext and the subsequent riots were in no way a protest against that incident but were,in fact, a criminal and organised use of that incident by the goons to go on a rampage.
Though I am myself a young girl, I shudder when I look around at the people of my generation. I find an aggressive malignity inscribed in their faces and manners. Their 'in your face' nonchallent stare, the arrogant swagger, the adoption of fashions that signify aggression, a most exaggerated sence of misplaced self-esteem and apathy towards doing anything constructive-oh,all this is most alarming! Their 'culture'(if we could call it as such) is almost 'Satanic' and their motto seems to be "Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair"!
This has led to establishing 'a gang culture', especially in those areas that are the poorest and by definition house the black and Asian immigration population. The 'ganglords' train very young kids in vandalism.They are taught to hate the system,the culture,the education and the elders.
With the result great illiteracy and gross indiscipline has set in, so much so that almost 40% of Londoners are illiterates(By official figures).Consequently this has resulted in great unemployment.
No wonder then that young kids(even as young as 11 years) and drug addicts,drunks and unemployed youth made up most of the mobs that went on a rampage for four nights around Britain. Their evident glee,celebration and triumphant smiles among the devastation they wrought, as if in victory, bears an ample testimony to the strength of their destructive urge.
The more shocking thing was that all this rampage was highly organised! The looters summoned each other through messages on their 'Blackberries'. They were using 'Twitter' and other 'social media' to announce where and when they would congregate and hit next!
Masked or hooded youths started setting fire to cars in the street, break the glass frontage of shops and enter and loot them. And what was their main target?-Designer labels!-Clothes,shoes, electronic gadgets, computers,mobile phones and mostly alcohol!...
Unfortunately the Metropolitan Police were petrified of reacting too fast and their mismanagement ultimately meant that the rest of the country had to pay a heavy price- a bill of over one hundred million pounds of insurance claims for a country sinking deeper into the red!
It is not a failure of multiculturism, as many are thinking, but a failure of the state to recognise that certain pockets of the city are showing dangerous signs of egrogious violence.
Though we Britishers have stood up with constructive programmes like 'Voluntary Reading Help' to fight against the illiteracy and 'Operation Clean' to clean and rebuild our city, alongwith looting of 'Branded goods', the most important brand has been vandalised beyond repairs- Brand Britain!
-PORTIA
