----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane G Elson" <sgels1 at net-tech.com.au> To: "john foster" <jfos at speedweb.com.au> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:19 PM Subject: Re: Fw: London riots one response
> Pass it on (whit credit to me)
>
> Complied responses from the streets of London (burning).
>
> David Cameron (PM) "these are dispicable acts of vandalism. We will not
> stand for it"
>
> Ed Miliband (Opposition leader) "The PM is right. These people are vandals
> and should be subject to the full weight of the law"
>
> Tariq Ali (commentator) "This is a class war"
>
> John Pilger (commentator) "The roots of this problem lie in our deep
> history of repression of the Palestinians"
>
> Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli PM) "John Pilger is a communist sympathiser"
>
> Salam Fayyad (Palestinian PM) "No he's not"
>
> Barak Obama (US President) "We stand shoulder to shoulder with the British
> government as they deal with this law and order issue"
>
> Julia Gillard (Australian PM) "We stand shoulder to shoulder with the
> British government as they deal with this law and order issue"
>
> Tony Abbott (Australian Opposition leader) "Julia, this issue is not about
> law and order, its about the carbon tax"
>
> Bob Brown (Greens Leader) "If a tree falls in the forest, does any body
> hear?"
>
> Sarah Palin (US Tea Party doll) "From my front porch I can see the British
> Isles"
>
> Nicolas Sarkozi (French PM) "We stand shoulder to shoulder with the
> British government as they deal with this law and order issue"
>
> 16y/o London girl "Well ya! 'corse we going off. Me likes my rose wine n
> stuff. Fuck the poliz"
>
> The Queen "We are not amused"
>
> David Beckham "Like, its kinda like when Posh goes off like. Bad man. bad"
>
> Posh Spice "Like, do my boobs look good in this?"
>
> Me "give it time and it will happen everwhere"
>
>
>
>
>> Excerpt:
>>
>> " ... there should be no shock that people living lives of poverty and
>> violence have at last gone to war. It should be no shock that people
>> are looting plasma screen TVs that will pay for a couple of months'
>> rent and leaving books they can't sell on the shelves. For many, this
>> is the only form of economic redistribution they will see in the
>> coming years as they continue a fruitless search for jobs.(snip)
>>
>> ... as revolutionaries, we cannot condone attacks on working people,
>> on the innocent. Burning out shops with homes above them, people's
>> transport to work, muggings and the like are an attack on our own and
>> should be resisted as strongly as any other measure from government
>> "austerity" politics, to price-gouging landlords, to bosses intent on
>> stealing our labour. Tonight and for as long as it takes, people
>> should band together to defend themselves when such violence
>> threatens homes and communities.
>>
>> We believe that the legitimate anger of the rioters can be far more
>> powerful if it is directed in a collective, democratic way and seeks
>> not to victimise other workers, but to create a world free of the
>> exploitation and inequality inherent to capitalism."
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> Another view of the so-called 'anarchy' in London and SEVERAL OTHER MAJOR
>> CITIES ACROSS THE UNITED kINGDOM.
>>
>> the comments by Jonathon that follow point to the relation between the
>> Capitalist Class and the State (politicians and senior bureaucrats - such
>> as police commissioners, commanders etc. ... who have little or no
>> understanding (or interest/concern) about the marginalisation of hundreds
>> of thousands of youth and their families on ghettoized 'estates' thru
>> State-imposed 'austerity' measures ... in the face of increasing wealth,
>> privilige and corruption among politicians, senior police officers and
>> media executives.
>>
>> Such 'anarchy' has also occurred in the modern-day ghettos of Paris over
>> recent years (and may well occur again), as well as various other forms of
>> civil unrest and protest throughout Greece, Spain and other European
>> countries. (keep an eye on Italy!).
>>
>> Identical protests in China are usually kept off the public media
>> (newspapers & television) by the so-called 'communists' in control of that
>> country's staggering wealth ... wealth produced thru the labour of
>> hundreds of millions of low-paid, poorly-housed, grossly exploited Chinese
>> workers.
>>
>> In our own 'lucky country' ask the retired or soon to be retired 'middle
>> class' workers about their superannuatiion returns over recent years and
>> the state of their 'retirement nest egg' following the manipulated
>> 'meltdown' of The Market this past week. While we're at it, ask them to
>> explain who has profited enormously ("made a killing") from the anarchy in
>> the stock market during the past week!
>>
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