howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#2
Seems a case of semantics Howard. To be honest I didn't even read it all.
Roger
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#3
anarchy rules roger,wheather its goverment or on the streets.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
i must admit my attention wandered about half way so i gave up on it.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#5
Yes, it was boring Howard - he says nothing new, lots of self-justification. He was right that to describe the riots as anarchy is lazy reporting though, the media would be better of as just describing it for what it is - pure opportunist criminality.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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#6
I liked the paragraph:
Andrew Maxwell, an Irish comedian, put it best: "Create a society that values material things above all else. Strip it of industry. Raise taxes for the poor and reduce them for the rich and for corporations. Prop up failed financial institutions with public money. Ask for more tax, while vastly reducing public services. Put adverts everywhere, regardless of people's ability to afford the things they advertise. Allow the cost of food and housing to eclipse people's ability to pay for them. Light blue touch paper."
Says it all for me.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#7
Maxwell's statement just shows that he like so many ignores reality and how the world really works.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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#8
Or it shows that he has a wider view.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#9
A narrower view more like......
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#10
MARK;
I think so many times on here i have tried to explain that our barryw nice chap that he may be, holds a blinkered view on the world/country.
Theres a lot of truth in post 6 that lots of us idetify with.
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#11
my reading of the quote from this maxwell chap was that he saw that as an ideal and genuinely wanted social unrest.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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