We must condemn the bad actions, not the perpetrators!
What the youth of London needs right now is a better educational system based on accountability and consequences, with a realistic life plan based on their efforts and merits with a tougher disciplinary infrastructure, and equal opportunity for everybody.
As you can witness, there are students at the moment that come into a classroom for a full year, refuse to do any work, challenge their teachers, interrupt educational time for others, and then just move on to another educational level for the next year, with a total disregard of their past actions, and with no consequences at all to reflect upon or learn from. This crumbling educational system combined with a lack of parental guidelines produces a poorly evolved individual, always looking for the easy way out, cutting corners trying to make life better, and trying to escape their circumstances with antisocial behaviour.
But, without excusing or condoning the actions of these few youngsters for the past few "dark" days, we as well must take a closer honest look at our society and way of living today, then without pointing fingers, see how mainly the media control is constantly responsible of bombarding these kids with messages of instant gratification: "get it right NOW, it will make you happy" awakening a primordial craving for the possession of shiny new things, only to be rubbed in their faces, as they are never offered in their selling messages a plan or a realistic way on how to get them, and for the vast majority, this may only be obtained through extreme financial sacrifice and lots of hard work, if at the end their social circumstances facilitate for it to happen at all.
So, the poor and disenfranchised are constantly being slapped in the face with many images of financially "rich" people, unrealistic images of a status quo that for many will never be reached or even allowed to explore, but they can only liive in a reality of lacking, a life of limited resources, making them extremely frustrated and somewhat reasonably angry towards the establishment, as the only thing they can see on their horizon it's a constantly growing gap, that is separating the classes more and more each day.
I know, it is easier to lock them up and throw away the key, than with lots of compassion and structure try to help them out.
It is everyone's responsibility, not just of those in charge to do something about it.
So, Don't hate, but educate!
