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Its been a fairly mad week here in old Pecks.Mad times rioting. Houses on fire and kids acting BADMAN!
Fucking Shocking. I love Peckham, really I do. But Tuesday day was the most fucked up I've ever felt walking up the hight street. Usually a certain amount of paranoia accompanies one when down in Pecks, this was different. The Police were Everywhere, all shops shut by 3. Even the butchers! Wow, this is special.

Having myself lived in and around Peckham for the entirety of my earthly time. I know as well as any Peckhamite what it is to live on benefits, surrounded by council estates and in the midst of unemployment, low education levels and what seems to be a vacuum of love. There is a lack of love in all levels of British society. Here is a prime example;

The Prime Minister made an impassioned attack on the feckless parents, failed education policies of the past and welfare handouts which led to the ‘sick and irresponsible’ behaviour of young thugs.
‘There are pockets of our society that are not only broken, but frankly sick,’ he said.

- Daily Mail


Now, to be fair it isn't terrible to say that within our society (within us all ) there is something sick, something that potentially could drive us all in to a similar frenzy of opportunistic looting and thoughtless violence (given the right scenario). For sure there are videos all over of what appears to be whole families walking out of broken into shops, arms full of stolen goods.


But that is not what he meant right.


He meant that those people in Hackney,Lewisham, Tottenham, Eltham, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol etc. who were involved  in the looting were the 'sick' part of our society!  

How is it that our own leaders can say that! Instead of condemning this part of society, we should be reassessing our actions. The last couple days have held a mirror to each of us. There  are obviously problems in these areas that need to be seriously looked at. As this young black boy in Clapham Junction, South London said when talking to mayor Boris Johnson.

I personally have no qualms about politically motivated rioting or the looting  of corporations, but these people are doing it for temporary gain, there is no articulate reasoning, they can't even see that once the dust settles the police will (murk) get them. And for all the fun of rioting an getting a 50" flat screen, its not worth the police record. Or even worse jail time. Its just not worth it




If we have any hope, it will of course be within the young. we need more educated, self confident youngsters like the guy in the video above. We all need to take responsibility. Compassion and education. This is how we stop this sort of thing from happening again!