A reader nicknamed JetBlackEvil comments on a The Guardian article titled “If the rioting was a surprise, people weren’t looking” by Stafford Scott about the recent violent riots in the UK:
Listen, these kids aren’t rioting because some guy got shot by a cop. They’re rioting because they’ve had enough and this is the tipping point.
They’ve had enough of a crappy, lying government; a crappy economy; crappy phone-hacking; crappy MPs expenses; crappy employment prospects; crappy police with their bribe-taking, Tomlinson-killing lack of respect for ordinary, decent people; crappy footballers; crappy disregard for the NHS and the education system; crappy knife crime; crappy reality TV; crappy petrol costs; crappy rent prices; crappy public transport; crappy binge drinking; and crappy weather.
Their actions are not justifiable, not remotely, but they are entirely understandable. This is apex causality.
