This isn't a protest, it's not a revolution and it's completely unjustifiable.
Thousands of people are taking to the streets and looting, burning things down, attacking police officers and each other and trashing town centres with the claim that it's all in retaliation for the death of Mark Duggan. People uninvolved are either blaming 'pikeys', 'chavs', 'pakis' and 'niggers' or the government. But that's not it at all.
It's people who are bored, poor and unemployed and blaming everyone else for their problems who want to lash out and fuck up everyone else's lives as they believe theirs have been. One of my friends blames "" which I think sums it up pretty well. It's not the Government's fault if people are unemployed or poor or if people didn't do well in school. I come from a fairly well off background and am reasonably clever. I went to one of the best schools in the country for my A levels and still ended up only achieving 4 Cs and a D, when I was predicted 5 As at the end of GCSEs and I know people who went to shitty comprehensives who did far far better than me. It's not the hand you've been dealt or the equipment you've been given, it's the way you deal with it that counts. I could probably go out and loot and get lots of free stuff and never be caught but I'm not a brainless idiot who thinks that this will make anything better. It's not the riots that are making anything better, it's the clean up attempts, bringing societies together and the strength of communities that's come out of this that is good.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. Mahatma Ghandi.
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