Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Categories
In this Discussion
Top Posters
- Arkady 5356
- miss annie 5139
- andy 4506
- Ali 3405
- krappyrubsnif 3208
- tosscat 2291
- David 2179
- ADGS 1875
- kreuzkav 1733
- Mirandola 1618
Comments
Stroud Green seems to be snoring peacefully, though :)
"If you grew up in a nice family, with enough money and then went off to have your nice university education and well paid job, own home in a nice area etc. I can see why you would perhaps feel some guilt about what's going on and maybe feel that we created this mess ourselves.
If, however, you spent your early years on a rough east London council estate with a single mum and no money, then went to an average comprehensive, no university and then spent your life just about making your rent payments and doing without things that others take for granted you might see things differently.
Whichever it is you are still a human being and you still know right from wrong from a young age. Stealing is wrong, hurting people is wrong, burning down other people's houses is wrong. If you choose to do these things you should be punished - hard."
I agree with all of this, but there's one major omission. Lots of kids who went to good schools and universities don't appear to have any sense of guilt, and still end up stealing from others and wrecking communities, by becoming investment bankers. And I'd like to see those venal scum, and the venal looter scum, treated with the exact same severity.
Anyway, glad SGR still seems secure, and the unrest has now moved on to the provincials (behind the times as ever).
This morning The World's End all boarded up (again preventative?) but a pall of smoke drifting across Stroud Green Road.
Anyone know if anything happened last night?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8692493/London-riots-explosions-spark-blaze-at-Tottenham-recycling-plant.html
<a href=http://rosamicula.livejournal.com/540476.html" target=_blank">Most of the kids are alright</a>
Through skateboarding I end up meeting and talking to a lot teenagers that fall into hoodie, Neet, or whatever you want to call it territory - some skate, others just hang around often doing some low grade recreational drug abuse and underage drinking.
They can seem intimidating but when you talk to them you realise that fundamentally most of the kids really are alright and they are more intimidated by you than you are by them. Engage them and they appreciate it.
We shouldn't forget that a lot of those involved in this are simply going along with a herd trash it mentality. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be cracked down on hard, but demonising kids more won't help.
In my time in Stroud Green I've had more kids offer to help me than menace me, from pushing a broken down car to opening a door.
This blogger is right, if we all did one thing to help a kid more disadvantaged than us, even if it was just speaking to them like human beings, it would make a big difference.
31 year old teacher pleads guilty to looting.
Now what was I saying about too many people in authority occupying the moral low ground? Or should that be swamps? I rest my case.
">Yawn</a>
Oh. bingo.
http://goo.gl/Rd5c5
My neighbour just told me that the window at little Sainsbury has been smashed.
The London riots have seen sales of baseball bats rise more than 5,000 per cent on Amazon's UK website as the unrest spreads across the country.
http://goo.gl/Lmvw0
If anyone can pick out the scallies who did this, then please shop them.
I'll be going down the gym after that lot too. ;)