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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <5TLmcIAHBIcDFwwG@borve.demon.co.uk>, banana  writes   
      
      
      
   >The running dogs in the media talk of 'gang rule' in the suburbs...   
   >Sure, there is a problem with anti-social violence, but what they hate   
   >most of all is self-assertion and organisation that is not sanctioned   
   >and blessed by the authorities. Community action outside of   
   >'citizenship', outside of permitted 'civil society, and opposed to it.   
   >   
   >And come on, who are the fucking government leaders to talk about   
   >'gangs'? So Chirac, the mayors, the police, etc. etc. etc., aren't in   
   >the pay of gangsters? Throw the Union Corse out of the room, would they?   
   >What planet are people living on?   
      
   Before anyone accuses me of defending gangsterism or any other   
   anti-social crime (or for that matter, anti-social non-crime), my point   
   was supposed to be that the rulers and their media helpers are   
   completely hypocritical when they criticise this stuff. 'Illegal'   
   business has many many characteristics in common with 'legal' business,   
   and often is run by the same people, all the way to the top.   
      
   I did not mean to imply that estate-based gangsterism is an example of   
   'community action outside of "citizenship"'. It isn't. They are opposed.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)