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Rioters ... so now we know !
TOPIC: Rioters ... so now we know !
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Re:Rioters ... so now we know ! 12 Years, 8 Months ago
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In The Know wrote:
75% already had criminal records - they were nothing more than the usual thieving scum.
No wonder the Courts were imposing harsh sentences - they KNEW the truth about their backgrounds.
So simply having a criminal record makes one "thieving scum"? Geoffrey Archer {once a leading Tory} has a criminal record. Thieving scum? Jonathan Aitken {once a leading Tory} has a criminal record.Thieving scum?, Nick Clegg, it turns out, has at least, a hint of a criminal record, which I guess makes him a bit thieving scum but not as much as Archer or Aitken, neither of whom, as far as I know, have ever been accused of pinching anything. Oscar Wilde had a criminal record. Thieving scum? Even Cheryl Cole has a criminal record. Thieving scum?
JK has a criminal record and I have a criminal record too. Are we thieving scum? Those I have named are but a speck of freezing dust on the tip of an awfully big iceberg, the whole of which you appear in your usual "broadest-brush-available" way to assert consists of 100 percent thieving scum. If you have no appreciation - or awareness - of the many crimes which earn their perpetrator a record that fall beyond the remit of depriving someone unlawfully of their possessions then perhaps you are less qualified as a social commentator than you believe yourself to be.
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Re:Rioters ... so now we know ! 12 Years, 8 Months ago
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Locked Out wrote:
In The Know wrote:
75% already had criminal records - they were nothing more than the usual thieving scum.
No wonder the Courts were imposing harsh sentences - they KNEW the truth about their backgrounds.
So simply having a criminal record makes one "thieving scum"? Geoffrey Archer {once a leading Tory} has a criminal record. Thieving scum? Jonathan Aitken {once a leading Tory} has a criminal record.Thieving scum?, Nick Clegg, it turns out, has at least, a hint of a criminal record, which I guess makes him a bit thieving scum but not as much as Archer or Aitken, neither of whom, as far as I know, have ever been accused of pinching anything. Oscar Wilde had a criminal record. Thieving scum? Even Cheryl Cole has a criminal record. Thieving scum?
JK has a criminal record and I have a criminal record too. Are we thieving scum? Those I have named are but a speck of freezing dust on the tip of an awfully big iceberg, the whole of which you appear in your usual "broadest-brush-available" way to assert consists of 100 percent thieving scum. If you have no appreciation - or awareness - of the many crimes which earn their perpetrator a record that fall beyond the remit of depriving someone unlawfully of their possessions then perhaps you are less qualified as a social commentator than you believe yourself to be.
I think it's reasonable to assume that the previous convictions of those looters were largely related to thieving, and that would also be a justification for imposing the high sentances that they recieved.
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Re:Rioters ... so now we know ! 12 Years, 8 Months ago
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Oh, I have no special kick for sticking up for the rioters. Rioting is uncivilised, violent and generally wrong in so many ways. I condemn the rioting and I condemn the violence. I also, however, condemn simplistic and gloating statements which do little to explore the causes {there must have been some} and betray a mind that does even less to understand what is happening. As long as this is the mentality which prevails nothing will change. So much seems obvious - at least to me.
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Last Edit: 2011/09/08 13:59 By Locked Out.
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