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... great fortune lies a great crime, Honoré de Balzac.


And what a crime, $21 trillion (£13tn) crime, a crime as big as the combined economies of the USA and Japan.  Fortunes created on the backs of populations pushed beyond the reach of taxation, beyond the reach of the societies that created these buckets of coin hoarded by such a very few people.

In the USA there is the Apple Corporation that holds its wealth offshore, it avoids paying the taxes that could pay for healthcare for the poorest in its society, in the UK we have similar crimes where companies and individuals establish off-shore vehicles to avoid passing back to society a share of the wealth created by the little people in the form of taxes.

The misconception is the owners of capital are wholly entitled to every penny of the surplus (profit) a business makes, this conveniently avoids any responsibility for poverty level wages that require redistributed government expenditure (taxes and borrowings) to pay for subsidised housing, healthcare, education ....... the list is endless.

All profits, as with income, should be taxed at source where it was made .... that way every fortune will have avoided the stigma that ...

... "behind every great fortune lies a great crime".

... and the taxes will help the little people that they might live without the poverty that seems to accompany great fortunes !

These crimes are not restricted to the USA and the UK, the people of Germany, Canada, France, Australia, Japan, China, India ............ are all losers in this great crime of "cheat the people of their dues".

What a life, it's no life, not without reponsibilities, ...

... real responsibilities; responsibilities towards your family, friends, neighbours and those people you have never met.

It came as a surprise that the recent riots came about not because of social unrest, but because a scum-bag known as "Smegz" (Kelvin Easton), 23, was stabbed to death outside La Boheme nightclub in Mile End.  Mark Duggan, who was shot by the police in error (the miscreant was only armed with a blank firing BBM "Bruni" pistol), what has not been reported by much of the press is ...

... for several days Duggan had been the target of special surveillance from Operation Trident,the police unit dealing with "black on black" crime.  The catalyst for the riots was not some innocent bystander, he was the "god brother", whatever that can mean, to Easton, and his immediate task in life, to avenge the murder of Easton.

Duggan, a member of the "Star Gang" is reported by other sources as being under peer pressure to seek retribution on those that murdered Easton.  Gang warfare that the innocent bystander from outwith the immediate area would find difficult to understand.

For the liberals of the Westminster "wet brigade" who see no evil anywhere, the poor fools, the "Star Gang" culture is based on drug dealing, simple as, so is it about time that we switched our attention to the drug users that support the gang culture found throughout Britain, prison of the most basic kind for drug use, a way to shrink the fortunes of the drug gangs, it needn't be expensive, a chain gang approach to cleaning the streets so that the public are able to see those that help perpetuate the gang culture.  Summary justice with no excuse, no special circumstances, and no appeal, but it would be hypocritical if those of us who enjoy an alcoholic drink denied others their preferred poison, recreational drugs.

What followed the death of Duggan was a non-violent demonstration by Duggan's family outside Tottenham police station, this was quickly followed by an escalation of demonstration into violence, and the subsequent copy-cat events in the larger cities of Britain.

Forget the social reasons that might explain why people joined the riots, remember that the vast majority of people didn't, if they were local they became victims, if they were not local they feared the violence might spread to their towns and villages and they would become victims, and if they were political in nature they looked for an angle that might support their corner ....

... it should be one strike and out for those antisocial crimes that intimidate society at large (serious crime is dealt with elsewhere), outlawed, denied those freedoms that come with responsibility, summary justice via the chain ...

... as applied to these female convicts of Dar es Salaam ....

... or these from the USA ...

... I couldn't find images with men, but the principle remains the same ...

... the miscreant rioters, thieves and looters might thank themselves lucky the "Bloody Assizes" were a thing of the past, with hard backbreaking work they might also think twice about repeating their violence, and stop their abuse of the law abiding citizens, those that do not riot, send a powerful message to others that the inocent majority have had quite enough.

And when you tell the judge "its not your fault", we believe "it is your fault", because nobody forced you to throw the rock or start the fire or assault the storekeeper or steal the goods, you did it all by yourself, now the retribution ....