Do Not Excuse The Rioters

Today an independent "communities and victims panel" has launched its investigations in the causes of the August riots and to consider any lessons that can be learnt in order to stop a repeat of the violence, which blighted this country last month.

Those involved in the riots and their apologists will say the root cause behind the disturbances were unemployment, deprivation, police conduct or cuts in the public services etc. These same people would blame the moon, the stars, the deceased Queen Mother; anything as long as they never take any personal responsibility for the looting, robbing and burning that occurred.

There is no justification for this brutish behaviour. I really wish the rioters explain their actions to the people who lives they have ruined. The working class people of all races, colours and creeds who have had their businesses and homes burnt down by jeering mobs. Everything they have worked for gone in the night of unspeakable, stomach-churning violence. It takes intelligence and bravery to build and create something but it takes only a mindless fool to destroy something.

There is incontrovertible evidence that black criminal gangs were initially behind the violence and mayhem. Their excuse was the death of Mark Duggan a fellow gangster. I feel deeply sorry for us, the vast majority of law-abiding black people whose communities have been hi-jacked by these criminals, along with political extremists and apologists. Knife and gun crime is decimating the black community but nobody protests about the hundreds of black people who have died in the last ten years in London alone.

It rankles with me that we have rioters on television with their hoods up, faces covered, trying to explain their senseless actions. They talk of unemployment and precious few opportunities – but why would anybody want to employ these witless morons and what could they be employed for. These imbeciles believe they are entitled to everything materialistically but believe it should be handed to them on a golden plate without them ever getting out of from their duvet cover. They are the ‘golden elephants’ generation.

I nearly cried with frustration and incredulity when a liberal commentator compared the rioters to that of Egypt and Tunisia fighting for freedom. I saw no Egyptian or Tunisian looting their local Dixions or Footlocker for HD TVs and trainers.

We have a gang culture, which for many black boys has become the substitute family, where fathers play no role in their upbringing and black mothers no longer care. Education and hard work is despised and being illiterate is a badge of honour.

I sincerely hope when the ‘communities and victims panel’, finally make their recommendations, they take into consideration the truly decent working class people who were the real victims and not excuse the actions of the brain-dead hooligans.

Be in no doubt that these riots were an attack on the decent working class people of all races. The perpetrators who carried out this wanton vandalism should be punished to the full extent of the law. As working-class people we need to take back our communities from the gangsters, extremists and apologists.