I found this quote from Thucydides, which chimed with the feelings I had post riots:
"...human nature, always ready to offend even where laws exist, showed itself proudly in its true colours, as something incapable of controlling passion, insubordinate to the idea of justice...Men take it upon themselves to begin repealing those general laws of humanity* which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress...remmebering that there may come a time when they, too, will be in danger & will need their protection." (III, 82-4)
*Our 'human rights' that Dave et al are so keen to give up in the name of security & safety but equally keen to send our armed forces to help other countries get. Is this democracy? A willingness to surrender everything that we have fought to gain as the result of some hoodies & hooligans? People are imprisoned or die trying to get the rights we seem so happy to surrender.
Rant over.
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