London violence is a social bushfire

The London riots are shocking. But so too iare the responses from the media and politicians.

And it could happen in Dublin, Cork, Limerick. We have close to half a million people without work.

Surely there is a link between years of neglect and this outbreak of violence.

Just some few weeks ago we saw how the police were in the pocket of the Murdoch press. And that's the murdoch press that the Cardinal Pell compares favourably to the Irish press.

London has no head of police as he had to resign for cosying up with Murdoch.

We read every day of the crass selfishness of the rich. That selfishness is simply filtering down to those who have been neglected.

The US is spending $85 million daily on its wars.

Neglected people can download all that information on their smart phones.

It takes the British prime minister three days to come home from his Italian holidays and still no sign of the Mayor of London.

How many of the looters and rioters have been at pubic school or a so-called 'elite' university?

The words used in media headlines this morning are ironically so similar to the words the Syrian government use when referring to their protestors.

Of course it is thugery. But why?