The West has to rethink its future

The unethical journalism of News Corp had not yet unfolded fully when another law and order problem gripped the capital of the country where common law originated.

It all began on Aug 4 when police fatally shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, about 11 kilometers north of central London. But the real trouble started when family and friends organized a peaceful protest against the shooting which turned violent. The news of Duggan's death and the subsequent outrage in his community spread quickly across London, triggered riots, which spread to other cities. Technology played its part in fanning the unrest, and intensified when probes revealed that Duggan had not shot at police first, as was initially alleged by the law enforcers. The riots have claimed several lives across Britain, and hundreds of youths have been arrested

The view of the elite is that the riots have nothing to do with the death of Duggan. They have nothing to do with rising unemployment, and reductions in government funds to education and youth centers, either. The youths involved in the unrest have been labeled simply as mindless thugs crazy for plasma and LCD TVs and the latest mobile phones. But such "civilized views" are propagated whenever the deprived and poor people proclaim their rights. And police will use such views to justify their crackdown.