The rioters and looters are criminals, true.
The problem is they are our criminals, the same as the police are our police, the homes on fire are our homes, or we fear they will be, and the government is our government.
At least we get the opportunity every now and then to vote for a different government. The ruling elite seem to have decided that they don't like a section of our young people and would like to replace them in much the same way as we elect a new government. There's been talk of sending them to prison as if that works (the prison population rose by 66% between 1995 and 2009, it stands at 85,000), the UK already sends a bigger proportion of its citizens to jail than any other European country. There's the suggestion that we evict criminal young people along with their families. Perhaps we should make them stateless and designate them Martians.
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