Paint bombs and protests

Students have one or two luxuries that their grown up counterparts do not. The luxury they have is a view of the world that is untainted by the overwhelming financial constraints handed out to their future selves by the control system called government, both local and national.
Being a student is comparable to being a passenger on the Titanic. In spiritual terms they live a pure and unhindered life, unaffected by taxes and by responsibility for self and for others. In the take take take world of growing up, no child should experience anything other than a period of self-indulgence. Students enjoy that freedom and luxury of thought and movement throughout their student years. Into the bargain they are obliged to complete a period of study in between their transition from young people to adults.
This leads to freedom of expression. And in London recently we have seen that freedom of expression manifesting itself in protests and violence at the decisions being made by the liars that sit in the houses of parliament, masquerading as "government". Liars they are, and in huge proportions. For those students in London, the iceberg approaches, and they are thrashing around to find a way out of the shit storm they are about to enter.

I am not, for one instance, condemning people for sticking their heads up in the coldest weather imaginable in this country, and making their feelings known. I am here to condemn and, at the same time, sympathise, wholeheartedly with and for the people who are jumping to condemn the young people who have reacted with rage at what is going on before their eyes.
To suggest that that the riots in London are a result - not of angry students - but of gangs hijacking the event to simply cause trouble, is to say that students are not angry enough to cause the trouble themselves, which they are. Surely, on reflection, the question "why are these people so angry?" is most pertinent.
The issue is not one of agreement or disagreement. The issue that is most disturbing is the people who seem to be queueing up to pour scorn on protesters for the passion and honest outpouring thereof.
I see something very refreshing in the reaction of the students. As for Prince Charles and Camilla. Fuck them. For once they have been found outside their bubble, and some people have let them know what they think about them.
We are told that there is no budget to invest in the future experts of this country, and at the same time the government has handed 9 Billion Pounds to the republic of Ireland. Hang on a minute. What has Ireland done for us that our youngsters have not?
The thing that surprises me most is that more extreme events have not taken place. Apart from a few injured police officers - I've met some of them - honestly, its leave your brain - and soul - at home when those tossers put on their uniforms, what real damage has been done? I would quite honestly be completely understanding if something more extreme happened than a few paint bombs and a few smashed windows. Christ, that happens every night in some parts of London and no fuss is made. Because its happening in the centre its national news. Good. I say.

It is most remarkable still that as the government were making a decision, yesterday, on tuition fees, that stands to cost families £30,000 a year when their child completes university, few were paying attention or reacting. At the same time, 14 million people were sat in front of their hypnosis machines, weeping and blubbering at the drama unfolding from Coronation Street. After that, the news reports showing students kicking off in London, and the phone calls from the sheeple of this country (the self appointed protectors of the state) demanding students be punished for having a view and expressing themselves instead of sitting on their arses, stuffing their faces with maltesers and cheap wine by the bottle every night of what pass for real life.
In Nazi Germany, if a Jew stood up and argued with a German soldier, he would have been severely punished. The way many people have reacted to these protesters demands blood much in the same way.
Rest assured, we are in a fascist state, and the people are running it themselves, without any help from the Gestapo, the Stazi or any other gun wielding thugs. We don't need them.
Don't worry. Just pay your taxes and sleep. Switch off. Coronation Street's on. Bollocks.
That said, I see this protest as a watershed of national emotion that threatens to swell in the coming years, as people wake up from the soap operas on TV to the real soap opera being played out in the civic centres, council offices, and government circles that make our decisions for us. Some of us have already woken up.