I agree with all those who condemn the actions of the thugs who are stealing and destroying on the streets on the UK this past few days. I do however have something to say about white collar criminals who have given these thugs an excuse for their opportunism.
Although the thugs complain they have been disregard for years much of the unrest in Europe today derives precisely from the banking crisis, a crisis that was created by rich men and women in offices mis-selling investments to each other on a grand scale. Lying to each other and destroying banks in the process. Destroying lives and robbing people of their homes.
I do not believe what these thugs are doing is in any way justifiable because of the banking crisis but I do point out that as long as these thugs are in prison and the bankers are not, an injustice is being done to all of us. It is simply not right that bankers who have bankrupted whole countries because they lied to each other and us, should still be working. They are dispensable.
And they have destroyed far more of the UK than these rioters.