Comments by "Gavin Mc" (@gavinmc5285) on "France riots: 45,000 police deployed as unrest spreads across France" video.

  1. parallel dynamics to the 2011 uk riots that followed the shooting of mark duggan but on a bigger scale. alot of the revolutionary violence will be stemming from a dispossesed (whether actual or rationalized) and angry youth that understand more than they are given credit for, are frustrated at certain incumbent elite power structures, have a powerfully collective sense of global injustice, may or may not be networked into crime by association, choice or circumstance, may or may not be institutionally criminalized, may or may not be opportunists and will - obviously - be angry. where the conventional system infrastructure does not or cannot provide, where the brutality of the state response is a challenge of or for violence, where the opportunity to literally smash (or smash at) 'the law' is easy and escalatorily permissive, where disorder, vandalism and violence look strategically appealing, where pent up frustration that can't vent just explodes... the rationalizations can be endless: exlcusion; racism; israel-palestine; war on terror; war on iraq; regime change; eye for an eye and so forth. more than likely it reflects a demand for systemic change or overthrow of an order with either the full knowledge or implied knowledge that the authority of state is not a peaceful entity that can be overthrown peaceably. the nature of the violence is revolutionary in intent even if the execution might fall strategically short of a viable goal in practical sustainment terms.
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