UK riots 2011: Feral children

UK riots 2011: Liberal dogma has spawned a generation of brutalised youths | Mail Online

Max Hastings explains why the riots:

It was fun. It made life interesting. It got people to notice them. As a girl looter told a BBC reporter, it showed ‘the rich’ and the police that ‘we can do what we like’.

Here's the video of that fact.



Hastings continues:

If you live a normal life of absolute futility, which we can assume most of this week’s rioters do, excitement of any kind is welcome. The people who wrecked swathes of property, burned vehicles and terrorised communities have no moral compass to make them susceptible to guilt or shame. ...

They are essentially wild beasts. ... They respond only to instinctive animal impulses — to eat and drink, have sex, seize or destroy the accessible property of others. ...

A former London police chief spoke a few years ago about the ‘feral children’ on his patch — another way of describing the same reality. ...

The depressing truth is that at the bottom of our society is a layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations. They do not have what most of us would call ‘lives’: they simply exist.

The government has made them literally pets of the State, trying to provide their every physical want and need, including a guaranteed income for not working. As Hastings puts it,

They are products of a culture which gives them so much unconditionally that they are let off learning how to become human beings. My dogs are better behaved and subscribe to a higher code of values than the young rioters of Tottenham, Hackney, Clapham and Birmingham.

But the State does not give these people any reason for living nor anything to aspire to. Indeed, the State is itself so deeply anti-British and indeed, against the very notion of "civilized behavior" itself, that the present ruling classes no longer know how to do otherwise. Case in point: Far-left former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, who has already said that the riots were caused by decreased government benefits to the rioters.

What the feral kids have learned well, though, is how to play the victim card:

No doubt that punches every liberal-left button there is. Those poor, offended, underpaid, victimized kids! It's bad enough that they are forced by an oppressive society  into venting their frustration by burning cars and buildings, now they have to suffer the indignity of being mocked and insulted because of their choice of clothing!