Class Warfare Erupts Into Just Plain Warfare

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American Thinker:

Lately it seems the only thing more sobering than America's creeping decline is Europe's rapid decline. The riots in London put a painfully fine point on the dark future that awaits us. It is true that Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy show us the grim numerical realities of unlimited government, but all those nations were past their prime before the American Founding.

Great Britain is different. There are people alive now who remember when Great Britain was the preeminent world power. Today's hollowed-out version serves as an example of how quickly greatness can slip through a nation's fingers.

The riots in London show the logical conclusion of a brand politics which is ashamed of national identity and is built on class warfare.
The violence was lit off when, in what has been reported as a gunfight between London police and some number of alleged assailants, a black man named Mark Duggan was killed. Years of multiculturalism's racial-grievance appeasement led the first rioters to seek retribution for supposed police racism. Never mind that an officer was hurt in the confrontation or, as a friend described it, Duggan was "involved in things" -- rioters maintained that Duggan's family required "justice."

Before long, the racial component of the protest was swallowed up in an apparent socioeconomic war. To try to decipher the mob's motivations, an incredulous BBC reporter asked rioters, "Why is it targeting local people, your own people?" One of the two drunken assailants responded, "It's the rich people. It's the rich people, the people who've got businesses, and that's why this has happened."

The "this" in her statement doesn't refer to the riots themselves, but some condition over which the rioters are protesting. Mary Riddell of the UK Telegraph calls the riots an uprising of the "underclass." Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone blames the violence on "social division" brought on by conservative cuts to welfare spending. The New York Times writes that the cuts in social programs "have hit the country's poor especially hard, including large numbers of the minority youths who have been at the forefront of the unrest."