London/UK violence

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

This is fairly expressive of my point of view:

http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2011/08/i-can-understand-them/

and also a good question picked up at random from the net:

"what factors make criminality the response to a situation"

On 09/08/11 22:12, K9 Kai Niggemann wrote:
>
> On 09.08.2011, at 16:59, The Dong wrote:
>
>> "Broken Britain!" :)
>
> I think I agree with many points and questions from this article:
>
>
> "There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored Those condemning
> the events in north London and elsewhere would do well to take a step back
> and consider the bigger picture"
>
> And:
>
> "phenomena usually described as "social problems" (crime, ill-health,
> imprisonment rates, mental illness) are far more common in unequal societies
> than ones with better economic distribution and less gap between the richest
> and the poorest. Decades of individualism, competition and state-encouraged
> selfishness – combined with a systematic crushing of unions and the
> ever-increasing criminalisation of dissent – have made Britain one of the
> most unequal countries in the developed world"
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/context-london-riots
> _______________________________________________ music-bar mailing list
> music-bar at lists.music-bar.org
> http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar