How far can you push a Liberal.....

I wasn't going to write anything, there are many far more eloquent than I occupying the blogosphere.  I just felt compelled.


Before Christmas with the tuition fee protests in full swing I sat in the Liberal camp, righteous in my support of protest and perhaps for the first time in my life abhorring the polices' response!  


This morning in the aftermath of yet another night of rioting on the streets of this country I wipe away tears of such utter frustration and anger I am in despair.  Maybe not entirely for the riot hit areas, maybe completely for those whose lives and businesses have been torn apart, maybe I am mourning the loss of my Liberal values.  How can I hold true to the balance of thought I have prided myself on when all around me seems to shatter them.  

Where has society gone when the above happens, bleeding and dazed on the street your backpack robbed while you bleed!


How is this anything other than shocking...

Have I become so jaded that I am no longer shocked by the complete lack of respect people show for their community?  A few days ago I would have been able to say I was jaded, today I sit in shock and no longer feel detached. 



I don't have the answers, I have never lived in the poverty of many, I have never been Black and I don't pretend to understand.  When asked once about depression and how it feels to be suicidal I said 'don't think you can know, you can imagine it would be better to die or to drown but no-one comes back from that so you won't ever truly know'  I was trying to make the point that you can teach and you can preach but you have to live it to know how desperate times can be.  


I can't imagine the lives the looters have lived, mainly because I can't imagine being so devoid of humanity that I would destroy all around me.  I want calm to descend and a clarity to be seen by all but I know it's not coming.  The riots won't heal divisions they will create them in communities devoid direction, who will rebuild? Who will invest? 


I pray for the young of today, I pray that they find purpose and a place in society. 

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old

Lord Chesterfield