As the barbaric and ridiculous chaos of the last few days winds down and as England wakes up from the destructive “night before”, nursing the mother of all hangovers, our society has been plunged into a new age of unease and discord.
The scenes that shocked & stunned us on the news have altered the nations psyche and how we view our fellow citizens in a way that cannot be undone.
Sadly those same scenes have also served to humiliate us on the world stage…..
As the hideous realities of England’s “night before” become clearer and the 100’s of arrested & convicted rioters pass through our courts, which are working day and night to deal with the case load, only be sentenced to prison time that cannot be served in our crowded prisons or to rehabilitation that relies on organisations and support links that have seen massive funding cuts in recent months.
Jason white, convicted of theft, due for sentencing in October
What have these individuals really stolen, above the “Posh clobber” and swanky TV’s…(all at a massive cost to us, although most of these puerile minds seem to forget this!)
They have stolen the voice of a nation. The Right to freedom of expression and more importantly the right to protest. The final scraps of a National Identity are literally being razed to the ground before our very eyes.
We need to heal what David Cameron called “The Sick” amongst our society but what about the poison that caused it?
I believe that this is another demonstration of the “blame culture” that we live in today. For every accident or incident, for every grievance or complaint, someone is to blame.
Someone ELSE is to blame.
The rioters blame the Government, the Government blame the police, and the police blame the rioters. Catch 22.
This “New Modern Value” is a cancer that is rotting minds. Everyone feels isolated. Everyone feels they have been unfairly treated. Everyone feels they should be compensated or noticed. If this compensation does not materialise, the will clearly just take it.
To my mind, one word that should have proud place in the Dictionary seems slowly to be being eradicated from our minds.
“RESPONSIBILITY”
The deed of holding up our hands and saying “Yes I take ownership of this act or deed...I am accountable…. I will uphold my values!”
We must accept the fact that a core few members of our society feel so unjustly treated that they are happy to destroy the areas they live in and who have no sense of community. We must all take responsibility in curing the Prime Minister’s “sick”
So, as the clean-up begins and the cost of the destruction is totted up and added to our ever growing national debt
Surely, we are all left with some serious questions to answer?
For now my thoughts are with the families of those and who have lost their lives, the injured and bereft and with the lost souls of our country
TheArtfulBlogger
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Very topical!
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