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March 31, 2011

Guardian's Leah Borromeo Weighs in on London Riots

Posted by Dave Blount at March 31, 2011 10:45 AM

Let's see what the Guardian — voice of Britain's liberal elite — has to say about last weekend's appalling riots in response to baby steps toward fiscal sanity by a government facing insolvency. With familiar moral equivalence, Leah Borromeo erases any distinction between peaceful protestors and violent hooligans:

There are no "good" protesters and no "bad" protesters. … To try to make distinctions between a "peaceful" and a "violent" protester is inherently flawed.

The real villains aren't the masked punks smashing everything in sight, but those tasked with defending the remnants of civilization from massive swarms of socialist vermin:

When a state is threatened, it sends its henchmen out to quell it. When 500,000 people take to the streets of London against public sector cuts that will affect each and every Briton, the henchmen are the police. And you — student or teacher, patient or nurse — are that threat. It matters little that you're partying in Trafalgar square or throwing paint-filled eggs at Topshop on Oxford Street.

You can't balance the violence of the oppressor with the violence of the oppressed. One leads to the other and violence isn't always just a punch to the face or a brick through a window. When faced with the reality that each and every one of us will live more desperate lives, the smashed windows of a multinational or a hotel that can charge £4,000 a night matters little.

Being "oppressed" means having lavish benefits, paid for with money stolen from those who earned it, slightly curtailed by a government making a feeble attempt not to follow Greece down the tubes.

Note that according to the pointy heads at the Guardian, there is nothing wrong with smashing the windows of a hotel if it's a nice place where it costs a lot to stay. Why stop at smashing windows? No doubt it would serve social justice even better to burn 5-star hotels to the ground. Why stop at 5-star hotels? Next go the 4-stars, the 3-stars, the Motel 6, and finally any tarpaper shack that looks better maintained than the shacks around it. History students know what Stalin did to "rich peasants."

On the surface, the ideology marketed by the Guardian and American equivalents like the New York Times is a posture so comically juvenile that it's hard to stop laughing long enough to rebut it. But the consequences of grown adults in positions of authority actually taking modern liberalism seriously are proving to be dire.

On a tip from David Thompson.