If we didn't know different - by Richard... Sunday, August 07, 2011

If we didn't know different - by Richard... Sunday, August 07, 2011

... we would think it was just the BBC propagandising. A propos the Tottenham riots, it has youth worker Michelle Jackson, 43, saying: "The way the police treat black people is like we're nothing, they handle us really like we're nothing. They speak to the young people like they're nothing".

She said the police needed to engage more with youngsters. "They pull us out of cars like we're drug dealers. The only reason why people did what they did is because this is the only way we're going to get heard", she said. Former accountant Alfred Griffith, 68, who has lived in the area for almost 30 years, is also cited, saying: "I have seen the behaviour of some of the police in this area and I haven't been happy about it".

On the other hand, riots do happen, and the people who cause them and who take part in them are very far from guiltless. But the capacity of the police to inflame situations must be taken into account.

If I had not experienced it myself, I would find it difficult to believe how obnoxious and provocative they can be. But too many encounters with the police have put me in a situation where I could cheerfully do violence to them. It thus takes little imagining to work out how blacks might feel when exposed to the plod.

But the politicians really do not get it. We have Lynne Featherstone, the Lib-Dim MP and "equalities minister", clearly reading from a teleprompt a prepared statement, declaring: "I want to condemn utterly the attacks on police and on property ...

Disregard for public safety and for property will not be tolerated and the Metropolitan Police Service has the Government's full support in restoring law and order, and I want to thank those police officers and those commanders who put themselves in harm's way and express the Government's gratitude for their exemplar demonstration of bravery and professionalism in the face of extreme provocation and violence.

This is pure establishment-speak, the ruling classes closing ranks. One awaits in vain for any recognition that policing in this country, as with so many other public services, has been seriously degraded. That, at least, would show that there is some understanding that urgent improvements are needed.

Of course, this foul woman had a different tune when she was out garnering votes, telling is all how awful the local council was. That and the current wave of violence might not be totally unconnected, but you will not hear this from the minister now she has her nose in the trough.

And yes, disorder must be suppressed, but how you do it is as important as doing it. As long as this is not recognised and you get this blind, knee-jerk support for the police, with the closing of ranks, the problem will get worse.

He really is that stupid - by Richard...

This man was once an environment minister, and before that a fisheries minister. This is the man that takes a £3000 Rolex watch with him into prison, and then is shocked when he gets done over and the watch is stolen. This is the parasite class for you.

You do wonder how they actually got to the positions they did – but in their own little world, the scum look after each other and feed each other. It is only when they are forced out into the real world that their stupidity shows up.

Meanwhile, the other end of the scumset is worried about its tennis. Others might have a different kind of forehand smash in mind for him. But this is the top-level stupidity that we have come to expect of that man.

The parasite class prospers - by Richard...

Already the great and the good are wringing their hands at the looting and pillage in Tottenham. But, as is characteristic of that breed, they are blind to the looting and pillage of the parasite class, the latest example of which is explored in the Booker column.

It is very hard, though, to get worked up about a group of looters ripping off the local stores, when the parasite class is so blatant about lining its own pockets with much greater sums of our money, a process that has been going on for far too long.

But it is interesting how condemnation and outrage is so selective. As long as you wear a suit or a smart frock, dress yourself up in some grand title and hobnob with the great and the good, you are allowed to rob the taxpayer blind. Like as not, you are then given another job and, in the fullness of time, a nice little gong or some other award - and a nice pension to boot.

In all this, there is this complete inability to see how such behaviour looks from the bottom up. Thus they whinge about not anticipating the violence, completely unaware of just how much they are hated.

However, with the parasite class setting the example of theft on an industrial scale, it should surely come as absolutely no surprise that the proles emulate them at the first opportunity, as well as taking out their hatred on those they see as their oppressors.

But surprise it is to our parasites. They lack completely any self-awareness, and would be mortified to see themselves lumped in with the other thieves. On top of that they seem incapable of understanding the depths of loathing that pervade all levels of society - they really have no idea how much they are hated.

But when we have senior plod on the take as well, theft and indifference becomes the norm. We need no Mafia in this country – we have it in our masters, the parasite class. With Tottenham though, it is now becoming more evident that they are sitting on a powder-keg primed to explode. And while the great and the good deplore "mindless" violence, what they really should be worried about is mindful violence. That has yet to come.