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Gordon H[_3_] · 11-08-2011, 05:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In message , Kay
writes

On 09/08/2011 17:34, in article , "Sacha"
wrote:

The people in these riots and the man who attacked your
property aren't poor, they're not in real need of food or shelter which
IS poverty, they're just destructive or jealous or lazy or all those
things.

There is the concept of relative poverty - being unable to share in the
lifestyle that all around you take for granted, or seeing any means to do
so.

That is one of the points which a reformed ex-criminal made very
articulately on Newsnight recently.

But there's no excuse for looting and violence.

He also made that statement, he was not condoning the looting, merely
explaining it.
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Gordon H
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