By Harry Carnassis, via email

More riots, and more apologists for the looters.

We’ve heard from certain commentators this week that cuts in public services are partly to blame for the morons destroying our towns and stealing the property of honest traders.

This is a view held by politicians such as Harriet Harman, Ken Livingstone, as well as the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, among others.

When the morons struck, do you really think they were worrying about public service cuts? Of course not. I doubt any of these chavs read a newspaper.

These scum were rioting because they could. It’s as simple as that.

They’ve been allowed to get away with bad behaviour for far too long – and they sensed an appropriate moment to go around destroying people’s property.

Let’s put this in context.

I recently spent a month travelling around Cambodia and Vietnam where I saw real poverty.

People with nothing. Living hand-to-mouth in shacks and trying to make a living selling things by the roadside.

They weren’t organising riots on their Blackberrys while stuffing their faces with fried chicken. They can’t afford a Blackberry, or fried chicken for that matter.

You often hear from the so-called intelligentsia that these kids have nothing to do.

They say things such as ‘Give them a graffiti wall, give them a youth centre’. Hey, that’s a good idea. Give them a youth centre – and they can burn that down as well.

How about giving them a book? You can pick one up free from a library. Unless the library has been smashed up of course.

You hear a lot of these feral morons talking about “respect”. Respect? They don’t know the meaning of the word. What they mean is “deference”. Wanting everyone to bow down to them and their thuggish behaviour.

The only way to sort out this disease is to target the parents. If parents aren’t instilling discipline into their kids then stick them on a course to teach them how to do it.

And there should also be more discipline in schools. And then, if both those fail, longer jail sentences for law breakers and state benefits withdrawn.

One of the good things to come out of all this is the community coming together to help each other in the wake of the destruction.

Good, honest, hard-working people who’ve had enough. Let’s not let the morons, or the apologists, win.

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