o'wilding - "Riots: Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessness... By the Ruling Class" (by Finian Cunningham, Global Research, Th.11Aug11)

Re: Finian Cunningham's article below "Britain's Riots: Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessness... By the Ruling Class"

It has started in Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and again in Maryland (the video, on the right, shows a cancerous factor infecting our society.)      I do not attribute the street violence and anarchy  directly to "theft" by a 'corporate or government elite'; however, a case can be made for the idea that the practice of 'robbing from the rich to pay the poor' has led to an unfounded 'sense of entitlement' by the "unwashed 'wannabes" who roam our streets hunting innocent prey.      Our government's chief executive apparently does not share America's Traditional Values.  By spreading the disease of socialism and 'nanny state' mentality throughout our nation, ignorantly without regard to its 'unintended consequences', he appears blind to the inevitable results ...unless his plan is to destroy the very Foundations of our Country.

     The outlandish figure of "millions of innocents killed in illegal wars" is exaggerated in the article below albeit to make a point.  In the case of war, an argument can be supported that government should not allow our military to be committed into war situations without a formal declaration of war - and then prosecuting the actions according to the precepts of Generals Sherman, MacArthur, Patton, and LeMay.  Financial common sense dictates that most foreign U.S. bases should be closed and the personnel & expenditures returned into our domestic manpower pool and into our money coffers which would lower our deficit by generating enormous sums throughout our economy.  Plus, putting thousands of returned troops along our Mexican border has obvious potential, not withstanding 'posse comitatus' issues.
     I don't give a 'grain of salt' for the "truism" espoused by former President Clinton about the "capitalist economy" being a root cause of street wilding.  I will grant that a theft of sorts is the root cause, that is - governments that ignore their country's Traditional Values and Heritage, including ethnicity.  Another case can be made that the last 60 years of world polinomics, seen in the growth of progressive socialism, has undermined both Traditional Secular & Religious Values and that it has torn down of the very institutions that acted as barriers between civility and lawlessness.
     If anything, blame the "stateists", the one-worlders (who ignore the true sense of National Pride), the Keynesian economic policies of liberals, socialists, and the Marxist foolishness that has led the "have nots" to bypass the responsibilities of growing up, learning, integrating into society, and working to be producers, which has bred into them a false sense 'entitlement' which has spawned plain ordinary street bum thieves, "low lifes" and a criminal mindset among the "unwashed" and the 'have nots.'
      For all of these reasons and more, I concede and do blame the "inside the beltway" ensconced elitist politicians who've deferred their fiscal responsiblities to the Federal Reserve and its 'fellow travelers' among the 'mega banking institutions' wherein they move our monies back'n forth between themselves & foreign banks without passing it up through the economy of us 'ordinary' folk.
     "Trickle Down" economics works only when money represents actual units of work, is based on hard valuation, and is generated by and passed up from the lowest level of the economic strata ... only then does the 'capitalist engine' produce power.  -- rfh
read more:  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/10/flashmob-attacks-in-us-cities-raise-questions-over-possible-race-motivation/

related:  http://www.eturbonews.com/24615/would-us-riots-develop-be-worst-world

From: kd Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 Subject: Finian Cunningham: Britain's Riots - Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessness... By the Ruling Class

Unfortunately, for those of us who believe in capitalism, there is a great deal of truth in what the author says.   The FED and major financial institutions have simply stolen, with the governments consent, too much power and way too much of the taxpayers' money. ...kd

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Britain's Riots: Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessness... By the Ruling Class

By Finian Cunningham, Belfast, Ireland

URL of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25974
Global Research, August 11, 2011

     After a conflagration of arson attacks, riots and looting in several British cities, including the capital, London, there is a sense of order having been restored from a massive mobilisation of police forces.

     There now follows the tracking down and prosecution of individuals involved in the mayhem.   Conservative Prime Minister is leading "the fight back" to punish anyone who has inflicted damage and destruction to Britain's society.

     The events have visibly shocked the political establishment of all parties, police chiefs and the mainstream media.   But what should be more shocking is the myopic and incredibly banal commentary that is being offered to "explain" the outburst of street disturbances and violence.

     As pundits sit in comfy television studios trading inane insights about the "evils" of individual immorality, criminality, dysfunctional families, gang culture – in the background, so to speak, are the glaring signs scrolling across the screens of the cause of this societal breakdown.  And yet the preponderant signs escape the mental radar of pundits and politicians alike.

     The fact that the capitalist economic system is in worldwide meltdown is not even registered in the mainstream commentary.

     This is the system that the mainstream political parties have facilitated and fawned over, whether Labour, Conservative or Liberal, and which has resulted in social devastation across Britain while the corporate and financial elite has ransacked economic resources.  This system of legalised looting has been going on for decades, but certainly took on a precipitous dynamic starting with Cameron's Conservative predecessor Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s.  Labour's Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were merely purveyors of the same dynamic.

     In surveying today's Britain, Karl Marx words are so right: "An accumulation of wealth at one pole of society indicates an accumulation of misery and overwork at the other."  That is the hallmark of capitalism in today's Britain, the US and Europe.

     All other problems are largely secondary in causation.  Crime, racist policing, disorder, the lack of police budgets to restore order (so ironic), alienation and self-destruction, and so many other ills including the mobilisation of resources to fund illegal wars – most of our present day problems flow from the tap root of dysfunction that is the capitalist economy.

     Speaking in the House of Commons Thursday, Prime Minister Cameron's "explanation" for the outbreak of street disturbances across England demonstrates a total ignorance and poverty of understanding on his part of the nature of the breakdown in his society.   He blames it on "criminality pure and simple" and "pockets of sickness" and "lack of individual morality and responsibility".

     This view is largely echoed in the British political establishment of all parties and the media.

     The looting, thievery and lawlessness that Cameron so condemns is but the reflection at the street level of British society of what is taking place on a much greater scale at the upper echelons of government and the economy.

     Despite the appearance of pinstripe suits and well-groomed accents, we can, if we are honest, see decades of looting and thievery of economic and financial resources by corporate elites aided and abetted by Labour and Conservative governments.  The taxpayer bailout of corrupt banks initiated by Labour PM Gordon Brown and now overseen by Cameron, paid for in large part by austerity in public spending cuts, is but the latest manifestation of official robbing of the majority to swell the already outrageous wealth of the ruling elite class.

     Cameron and his gang of plumy-accented thugs are gunning for $150 billion in public spending cuts to pay for the criminal enterprise known as British banking.  This is racketeering that a street gang in London's east end can only marvel at...  and indeed, in a very real way, only emulate.

     Combined with that looting by the elite we see the total lawlessness and criminality of British governments who have worked hand in glove with other criminal governments to launch wars of aggression (Nuremburg standard war crimes) in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Libya, resulting in the deaths of over one million civilians.   Where is individual responsibility for that mass murder and destruction Mr. Cameron?

     This social decay and necrotism is a symptom of the collapse of capitalism, an economic system that enriches an elite at the cost of the majority.  It polarises political power beyond democratic accountability to the point where, among other deformities, wars and planetary looting are being carried out even blatantly against the consent of the majority public.

     So when Cameron and his political cronies fulminate about pockets of sickness, looting, criminality, lawlessness, and the need for "consequences for actions" – his words and exhortations are so richly ironic and benighted.

     For he is inadvertently describing the very society and world that capitalism creates in its own image.  The indoctrination of Cameron's mind and that of the entire political establishment prevents them from seeing the inferno for the sparks.  An inferno that the government of Cameron and his Labour predecessors, and in other western countries, have been dousing fuel on with their slavish policies aiding and abetting capitalist kleptocracy, both at home and abroad.

     The real lessons from Britain will not dawn on, never mind be drawn on, by mainstream politicians or media.  And the same can be said for the US and other western countries.  To paraphrase a slogan used by former US President Clinton: "It's the capitalist economy, stupid."

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Finian Cunningham is a Global Research Correspondent based in Belfast, Ireland. cunninghamfin@yahoo.com 

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