London's Burning

Along with a dozen or so other towns. The world's gone mad.

And it has nothing to do with recession, unemployment, alienated youth, rebellion against authority, or that chap who was shot. It's a bunch of bored teens who think it's fun to chuck bricks at the police and set fire to buildings. They don't give a toss about their communities, they don't give a toss about the people - ordinary people, struggling to survive - who they've just made homeless. Whose entire life just burnt to a cinder. They don't care if they've endangered kids, or the elderly.

They're scum.

And they're also a lot of criminals - both young and older - who have the idea that they're entitled to whatever they want and are quite happy to smash up a shop and steal it - as long as they think they won't get caught.

People charged, for offences in connection with these riots, so far, include a graphic designer, a youth worker, a recent university graduate, a trainee stockbroker...

Like the twitter message said.. The Youth of the Middle East rise up for basic freedoms.The Youth of London rise up for a HD ready 42" Plasma TV.

Scum.

I'm dog-tired. I spent the better part of Saturday and Sunday night on the phone talking to my youngest brother, trying to keep him from panicking, and trying to calm the fears of my (near-hysterical) young nieces. They live in Tottenham, you see. On the corner of a small side-street and the High Road. Very, very close to the CarpetRight shop.

Yeah. This CarpetRight shop.

And that's a large part of why I'm angry at the scum

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