Man speaks the truth at Clapham Junction

“Neville” the British Jamaican is frustrated by the arbitrariness of police actions. When Blacks want to be left alone, they are hassled by the police. When they want police help, they are ignored.

Unfortunately, many people assume that the British riots were race-related. In some areas they were. In other areas they were not. The truth is that the bankers and the plutocracy are squeezing everyone of all races. These sociopaths must be overthrown, or there will be many more riots. “Neville” seems to understand this in the second video. “I’m not against Whites, but the unfair system that we all live in.”

I liked the zinger: “They say we should forget about the past era of slavery. Well I don’t see anyone forgetting about the holocaust.” Someone in the crowd exclaimed. “Oh my god.” (Sacrilege!)

He mentions that “They take away the clubs.” Yes, most of the social venues in which poor people used to pass their time have been closed because of the banker-imposed “austerity.” Result: the youth become roving street gangs.

I don’t agree with everything “Neville” says. For example, he notes that managers of professional soccer clubs are all White. He mentions one Black, John Barnes, who was “out before you knew it, because he didn’t conform.”

Neville means John Charles Bryan Barnes, a Jamaican-born professional soccer player and soccer club manager who became manager of the Tranmere Rovers Football Club (in England) on 9 October 2009. However he lost too many games, and was dismissed five months later. I don’t know what “Neville” means by Barnes “not conforming.” Barnes has done much charity work, and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005. He has managed several teams, and sometimes he even appears as a commentator on ESPN.

Yo Neville...stick to indicting the bankers, who are the real enemies.

COMMENT:  "British papers portray the riots as mere hooliganism, ignoring the most important information. What is the demography of the riots? Do they have any leaders? Is there an ideology behind it all? Why do they loot, what do they loot, and from whom do they loot? What is the meaning of it all?

"The rioters no longer see any value in notions of law and order, since there’s nothing in it for them. They have been drifting away for quite some time, but no one cared.

"This is not a political protest, nor coherent call for justice, nor an outburst of mere racial hatred– yet it manifested all those factors at once. It is a rejection of the entire system by generations who have lost all hope in a society that offers them no future. 

"When I was young, jobs and education were available. Today there are no jobs, and the price of education tripled in 2011.

But politicians don’t care.

"As the gap widens between rich and poor, youngsters realize that they will be poor forever.

"The Western political system exists to maintain consumerism, and to keep big business going. We are trained to identify with gadgets and brands, but we can no longer afford to buy these objects of desire. We have become faceless ghosts in a society driven by ruthless capitalism and absolute greed.

"In their looting, the rioters for the first time had a chance to join the Western symbolic order. They smiled at the camera, showing off their booty, which served as their entry card into British society. They don’t want to be faceless anymore -- they insist on being seen." 

http://www.counterpunch.org/atzmon08152011.html

Sullivan, I listened to it again. I think you’re right. When Neville mentions the hoax at 6:13, a woman off-camera seems to say “Thank you, oh my God.”

Good catch. Thanks for the correction. Evidently not everyone on the street believes the hoax.

Neville is angry, and rightly so.

“The riots started in Tottenham (an area with the highest unemployment in London) in response to the police shooting a young black man, in a country where black people are 26 times more likely to stopped and searched by the cops than whites. Stop-and-searches are allowed under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, introduced to deal with football hooligans. It lets police search anyone in a designated area at will. Use of Section 60 has risen more than 300 per cent between 2005 and 2010. In 1997/98 there were 7,970 stop-and-searches. In 2007/08 there were 53,250. In 2008/09 there were 149,955. Between 2005/06 and 2008/09 the number of Section 60 searches of black people rose by more than 650 per cent.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08122011.html

The plutocracy is not only impoverishing them, but persecuting them – and also ignoring them when they ask for police help.

And Blacks are only one group among the plutocracy’s victims. 

Still, the masses have only themselves to blame. As long as they believe the lies, they will be slaves. As long as they indulge in racism and immigrant-bashing, they will remain in poverty. As long as they believe that we must have the current financial system, with private ownership of central banks, they will never unite.