(9 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
As Britain begins to weigh the costs of the rioting of recent days and ponder measures to prevent a recurrence, the government of Prime Minister David Cameron put forward on Friday a new way of punishing the looters and vandals who rampaged through many of the country’s cities and towns: kick them and their families out of their government-subsidized homes.
NYT
1/6 of Britons live in such housing.
This is a cool idea.
Let’s punish the families of every one who breaks a law/ voted against us/ or riots in the streets.
That ought to scare a lot of people into submission, right?
But sorry, Davy, lots of petty (and not so petty) tyrants have had the idea of punishing families before/ so you get no kudos at all on the originality thing.
Asked whether that would render them homeless, he replied, “They should have thought of that before they started burgling.”
– NYT
But Davy-boy, maybe you shouldn’t have offshored their jobs, and introduced austerity.
By the way, the Brit courts are convicting ‘rioters’ 24 hours a day. Now that’s efficient ‘justice’.
Full disclaimer: my grandfather was a devout Tottenham Hotspurs fan from Enfield. Perhaps I should be afraid in some roundabout way? Eviction or incarceration because of familial football fandom, from a downtrodden place?
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It’s an out and out attack on working people, and it’s going on world wide.
It’s time to stand with Tottenham.
With Detroit too.
With the Maquiladores.
And the Chinese at Foxconn.
The Greeks, and the Icelanders.
And the civilians killed by US attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and more.
We’re being screwed by a giant shell game: us versus them.
Divide and Conquer.
To combat this: we need to realize that while misdirected anger is natural, all people have the right to work, eat, live, survive, and to not be killed, for the profits of some conglomerate.
That’s the Left/Right populist choice.
Stand with people world wide, or hate & blame everyone for your problems who doesn’t look just like you do.
…calling the so-called rioters “pro-democracy protesters” and suggesting that the US should take a break from bombing Gaddafi and bomb Parliament instead.
HARHARHARHAR!!!
Fuck ’em all!