London Riots

If both of you got that out of the article, then you maybe you need to reread it again. Where are you getting he's using "our" politics to excuse their riots? Hell, he makes no mention of us at all other than the fact he lives in the US now. You realize there are other places in the world besides America right?


Also, ever thought that maybe their politics are a lot like ours. (which it is...and corrupted and out of touch with its people)

The guy is a hack Hollywood mediot...all of them should STFU.
Once he said the solution is "spiritual" I regretted reading any of what he said.

EDIT. Not worth it. You do realize the guy was probably stonded when he wrote this so it makes more sense to you.

Yeah, so because the guy was a previous drug addict (clean since 2002), that makes anything he says stupid and invalid. I'll tell you what I do realize. I realize you didn't read the article at all. You took the quotes I supplied in the original post and you assumed he was talking about American politics based on the sample quotes I left you with.

Had you read the article, you would have seen that he addressed his past issues and even his own prior reasons to why he attended protests.


I should here admit that I have been arrested for criminal damage for my part in anti-capitalist protest earlier in this decade. I often attended protests and then, in my early 20s, and on drugs, I enjoyed it when the protests lost direction and became chaotic, hostile even.


I found those protests exciting, yes, because I was young and a bit of a twerp but also, I suppose, because there was a void in me. A lack of direction, a sense that I was not invested in the dominant culture, that government existed not to look after the interests of the people it was elected to represent but the big businesses that they were in bed with.

It's sad you took the time to wikipedia who Russell Brand was and his 14 arrests, but couldn't take the time to read the well thought out (and written) article about the London riots by a fellow Brit. Instead, you'd rather get mad I pointed out your fallacy and go on to further to imply that I enjoyed the article because it was probably written under the influence of drugs. (which I'm a stoner??)

Stay classy.

Uncle Jimbo is a hack and a complete dumbass. No, he doesn't need his separate thread.

A compelling argument, for sure. /sarc

Now would you care to substantiate that statement?

Did you even read the article?

The guy is a hack Hollywood mediot...all of them should STFU.
Once he said the solution is "spiritual" I regretted reading any of what he said.


Hollywood hack eh?


I feel proud to be English, proud to be a Londoner (all right, an Essex boy), never more so than since being in exile, and I naturally began to wonder what would make young people destroy their communities.


But I can't, from my ivory tower in the Hollywood Hills, compete with the understandable yet futile rhetoric, describing the rioters as mindless


I think you need to look deeper into the "spiritual" thing.

But I know, as we all intuitively know, the solution is all around us and it isn't political, it is spiritual. Gandhi said: "Be the change you want to see in the world."

If we don't want our young people to tear apart our communities then don't let people in power tear apart the values that hold our communities together.

He's implying that we as people need to change if we want the world to change.

Yea, AW you need to take a bong hit and get more spiritial. Then put on a hoody and distroy shit because you have been F&^% by the rich.LOL

I havent been following this thread at all so maybe this has been posted or talked about, but England is a pretty dangerous place:

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That's something I've maintained for over 15 years. The U.K. is extremely violent. I've been to places like Scotty Road in Liverpool, East End of London etc that make South Central LA look like Disneyland.

The likelihood of a violent encounter in the U.K. is so much higher than here and I'd guess that it's because the violence here tends to become homicidal more readily.

Yea, AW you need to take a bong hit and get more spiritial. Then put on a hoody and distroy shit because you have been F&^% by their government.LOL

I fixed that for you. I wonder what you would have been saying about those same guys back in Boston during 1773 that boarded the ships and threw the tea into the harbor.

I fixed that for you. I wonder what you would have been saying about those same guys back in Boston during 1773 that boarded the ships and threw the tea into the harbor.

They don't even compare. Those people have been killing each other day in and day out and get pissed if its a cop who shots the gun and not one of them doing the killing. Its called taking advantage of a reason to riot.

I fixed that for you. I wonder what you would have been saying about those same guys back in Boston during 1773 that boarded the ships and threw the tea into the harbor.

You must have missed the interviews where a bunch of hoodys were saying that they were punishing the rich and they wanted to show the rich they can do whatever they want.

You must have missed the interviews where a bunch of hoodys were saying that they were punishing the rich and they wanted to show the rich they can do whatever they want.

...and who are the people in control over the government/media? The rich.



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