"The PR behind the release of this new Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol image must be eating her fists right now..."
The UK has not gone the way of past empires yet, but quite a few people have been saying the UK is dead, culturally and spiritually, and it is difficult not to agree with that, given the faint-hearted response by those in charge. So far Theodore Dalrymple and Peter Hitchens have not written anything yet about the "social disturbances." There is this piece by Srdja Trifkovic for Chronicles: London's Postmodern Riots. It's time for the chavs-nots to get their piece of the pie.
Leopold Kohr and his sucessors would look first of all (only?) at the size of the metropolitan area. It is simply just too large to be governed well. There is the lack of accountability for the governments, and the failure of politics to be practiced well when too many people are involved. There is also the loss of paideia -- not just with respect to the modern school system but also the system of laws and punishments, both the "formal" judicial system and the informal social practices and the power of intermediate social entities. Paleos would add that having ethnic diversity (different identities and allegiances) only compounds the problem. Who is at fault for the lack of integration? Of course it is the white people. If only they would go along with the program of the elites in creating a multicultural Britain.
Of course, the professional therapeutic state has its apologists who seek to rationalize the behavior of those rioting and looting. And we hear liberals in government and the mass media who are unable to call evil, evil -- this is just "something that is happening to us" like a tornado or tsunami. (A point made by Lawrence Auster with reference to other crimes.)
I read something yesterday about how a policewoman in the UK sued because she felt discriminated against when she couldn't pass the physical requirements to be in riot gear. She won. That is the state of the United Kingdom, where ideology has triumphed over common sense. How many female officers shirked their duty the past few days because of cowardice, refusing to confront malefactors and staying at a safe distance? How many are "manning" the police lines only because of the shame and ostracization they would experience if they ran? Alte has some pictures illustrating the laughable presence of women police officers in facing disorder of this sort.
Will there be a fourth night of rioting and mayhem?
GLPiggy
Here in the States, NPR has this piece: Who's Behind The Movement To Ban Shariah Law?. Does NPR secretly have a lust for Islam?
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