That reply was brilliant. Exactly how I have been viewing the situation as well. I watched "Nicholas and Alexendra" on TV yesterday yesterday, and one
Tsar Nicholas II: I know what will make them happy. They're children, and they need a Tsar! They need tradition. Not this! They're the victims of agitators. A Duma would make them bewildered and discontented."
The state often dismisses insurrection as simple criminal elements. It's a trick as old as time. What *I* see when I hear that line, and when I see government reaction to the atrocious scenes unfolding in the UK is a vested interest scrambling about trying to defend the status quo.
The trouble with the looters in the UK is that they do not appear to be terribly educated. They don't know what is hurting them. They only know they are hurting. Their solution to this is to thieve and generally behave like moronic savages. This makes them very easy to demonise, and therefore bury any meaningful debate about the root cause of this criminality.
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Tsar Nicholas II: I know what will make them happy. They're children, and they need a Tsar! They need tradition. Not this! They're the victims of agitators. A Duma would make them bewildered and discontented."
The state often dismisses insurrection as simple criminal elements. It's a trick as old as time. What *I* see when I hear that line, and when I see government reaction to the atrocious scenes unfolding in the UK is a vested interest scrambling about trying to defend the status quo.
The trouble with the looters in the UK is that they do not appear to be terribly educated. They don't know what is hurting them. They only know they are hurting. Their solution to this is to thieve and generally behave like moronic savages. This makes them very easy to demonise, and therefore bury any meaningful debate about the root cause of this criminality.