London on fire

Nearly twenty years ago, after  Rodney King was beaten the police were for quite a long time not able to control the riots that erupted in Los Angeles. In the middle of the past decade, the suburbs of Paris and Lyon were terrorized by groups of rebellious young people who, through theft, robbery and arson allegedly wanted to express their discontent. Today, as a result of the death of Mark Duggan 29-year-old London is terrorized by well-organized (using Facebook and Twitter) groups of young people who organize riots in yet new districts. What is worse, the conflict spreads onto next cities. 

A lot of myths concerning the riots have sprung up and will spring up. Let us not be naive; simple schemes do not work in in the case of what is happening in England. We are faced with something new, not only because of the use of Internet and mobile phones, which, after all helped the revolutionaries in Egypt not so long ago. You also can not assume that just as it happened in France, the people who made the streets of Ealing, Totenham or Camden look like Baghdad neighbourhoods are just immigrants or their descendants. Among them you can meet native English who, like the others, steal, set fire and fight against police. Neither can we assume that people who rob stores, especially those with jewellery and electronics do it for a reason motivated by ideology. The most important thing to them is to take over the confusion; many do it because their friends do it. There is no place for thinking in a crowd. 

It's hard to tell how it will end, I think this may be just the beginning. For certain, the problem of assimilation of such a large number of immigrants will be presented as the main source of problems. Moreover, let us remember that everything is happening just two weeks after the tragedies in Norway, where the main motive of the bomber was a pro-immigration policy of the ruling party. 

Riots in the streets of England and Greece, protests in Spain, waves of immigrants on the Italian coast, returning and even more serious financial crisis. Are these the first signs of the ending of an era of social order? What we read today in most newspapers or hear on radio and television are: crisis, rebellion, resentment, failure, riots, unemployment, anxiety, conflict. This may be a coincidence, but who knows if this is not another step in the master plan to destroy Europe as we know it.