WHY IS IT THE YOUTH ARE THE ONLY ONES BEING BLAMED FOR INVOLVEMENT IN THE RIOTS IN ENGLAND??

Posted by: TanyaW on: August 10, 2011

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By Tanya W.

Sat watching the news and listening to the radio most the day. I am so sick and tired of hearing teenagers and young people are the only ones being blamed for all the riots going on in England. What is going on in England is not a surprise it is outrageous and I don’t agree with. People are lashing out at the government and what the government has done to the country.

I think it is very unfair that all the blame Is being put on young people yet from CCTV footage it is very easy to see many people who are in their late 20’s or older. Yet only young people are being blame with all the reports saying ‘100s of YOUTHs are rioting, loitering and setting the fire’s’.

The situation is very bad in England with more cities having riots started every few hours as im writing this the
riots are in areas of London, Birmingham, Bristol, Kent, Liverpool and Leeds. I would say unfortunately this is most probably going to get worse.

People are loitering shops/ businesses and setting them aflame. Also houses are being robbed and owners are being terrorised. Many people have lost their homes, businesses and for some unfortunately both.

One person interviewed on sky news tried saying that maybe the young people are doing this to fight back at all the services that have been stopped for young people so they have nothing. Yet they barely give him 2seconds of a interview. Yet someone stating that its all young people who are from housing estates are to blame has more air time. So its only young people
from lower class communities that are to blame for looting and causing fires.  This is a complete stereo-typing.

There’s talks of putting curfews in place for under 20’s this is outrageous because they are blaming every single youth in these areas which are affected. They would not even think about doing this for people in their 30’s-40’s. Yet I’m sure there is plenty of people in that age range that are involved in the attacks.

I’m not saying that young people are not involved I’m just saying you can’t blame it ALL on young people, there are people of all age
ranges, from different backgrounds, communities that are involved in these attacks. Yet if you listen to the news they would want you to believe that its only unemployed young people from housing estates that are to blame.