tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1623520062538095309.post5813068727078969819..comments2023-09-25T13:56:12.373+01:00Comments on Shan Oakes: riots (letter to local press)Shan Oakeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10661482369741557500noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1623520062538095309.post-69041012069801556682011-08-12T00:31:26.923+01:002011-08-12T00:31:26.923+01:00Well done.
Yet another blogger ascribing their ow...Well done.<br /><br />Yet another blogger ascribing their own political bugbears to the motivations of the rioters.<br /><br />I haven't heard the arms trade one before though so well done.<br /><br />How come the arms trade and our current values of the promotion of war and acquisition of goods has not induced a multitude of poor people in the north not to riot? Or people in oter parts of London. Why not the Turks, the Chinese, the Indians and the Muslims? Why were so many of them actually in reasonable jobs?<br /><br />Give it some serious thought and throw away your peace campaigner baggage, admirable as it is.<br /><br />BTW do you consider yourself to be part of the problem, being horribly middle class?Depressed beyond tablets, gone beyond pillsnoreply@blogger.com