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A young gang member gets shot, his friends get angry at the cops who shot him, and young people all over London and the surrounding countryside go 'planet of the apes'. Vehicles and buildings are set on fire, people are attacked randomly, and 16,000 police are deployed--more cops than actually work in London--being brought in from other towns. PM Cameron tells the nation that the perps will feel the full force of the law.
Why is this happening? Is it really about the 29 year old man who was shot? Lefties say it's the fault of the banks, but as they say in England, that is balderdash. The left is trying to romanticize this criminal activity, saying that it's frustration over lack of jobs and funding for education. It somehow doesn't feel right to me that these kids are thinking more about their burning desire to go to school, than their burning desire to burn something.
In Philadelphia there are "flashmobs" going into convenience stores and robbing them. Because these are angry young men, they think they are allowed to vent this way, but in reality, it isn't venting, it's simply an excuse to get a new notebook, new smartphone, or whatever, and now there is a 9 pm curfew in Philly for kids under the age of 18 on Fridays and Saturdays. The Mayor has had enough and he wants parents to act like parents and take control of their kids.
In Ontario, Canada, of "flashrob" got together after coordinating a rendezvous at a local convenience store, and about fifty kids walked into the store and helped themselves to whatever they could grab. They used social networking to pull this off.
What's going on with our society? Is it the economy? Jobs? Social injustice? Or is it simply the fact that they can get away with it and get "stuff" without the hassle of having to pay for it? I really welcome your opinion.
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Why is this happening? Is it really about the 29 year old man who was shot? Lefties say it's the fault of the banks, but as they say in England, that is balderdash. The left is trying to romanticize this criminal activity, saying that it's frustration over lack of jobs and funding for education. It somehow doesn't feel right to me that these kids are thinking more about their burning desire to go to school, than their burning desire to burn something.
In Philadelphia there are "flashmobs" going into convenience stores and robbing them. Because these are angry young men, they think they are allowed to vent this way, but in reality, it isn't venting, it's simply an excuse to get a new notebook, new smartphone, or whatever, and now there is a 9 pm curfew in Philly for kids under the age of 18 on Fridays and Saturdays. The Mayor has had enough and he wants parents to act like parents and take control of their kids.
What's going on with our society? Is it the economy? Jobs? Social injustice? Or is it simply the fact that they can get away with it and get "stuff" without the hassle of having to pay for it? I really welcome your opinion.
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