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Why are there so many red herrings in the media to distract attention from the corruption, greed, selfishness, thievery, etc. of the "elite?" Maybe because it is more sly, covert, sneaky, complex and underhanded and so takes more work to uncover? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9190 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9190 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:46:09 EDT Mr D. writes: "You can lead a man to a loan, but you can’t make him borrow". Well, you can dupe financially illiterate people into taking a sub-prime lone whose terms the person in question does not understand. The person will be unable to repay the loan. If it's a mortgage loan, the person's home will be reposessed and the person may end up homeless. The procedure is less brutal than looting and arson, but the result is not much different. I do not find people who sold sub-prime loans any better than looters. Having said that, I join Mr D in his condemnation of the rioters. It was not the crooked bankers who lost their homes and livelihoods in the riots, but ordinary hard-working people. And the looters seem to be really greedy, cruel, immature and irresponsible. They were not motivated by any lofty ideals, but by the same greed that is the root of the whole financial crisis. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9185 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9185 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:16:33 EDT Dear Mary, ok, then instead of the word "crime" let's use the word "serous moral defect". This would be a way of thinking that is not aware of the destructive consequences of one's actions. Both the looters and the bankers had a serious moral defect, did things that a sane person (=not a total egoist) would not do. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9183 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9183 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:24:24 EDT If anyone missed it, the cartoon linked to by Henry Barth says it all. Here it is again, for convenience: http://politicalirony.com/2011/08/14/looting/ This article, too, makes a valid point. http://www.counterpunch.org/dinh08172011.html To compare the depredations of bankers to the London looting is by no means to forgive or condone the looting. One merely wonders at a political and media establishment that makes such a meal of one person's mote, while managing utterly to ignore another person's beam. And perhaps one wonders why an activity that does a little harm is illegal, while a much more harmful one if quite legal and carries high prestige. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9173 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9173 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:49:25 EDT My compliments to the headline writer. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9171 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9171 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:54:31 EDT Dr. Dalrymple's error is implicit in the second paragraph - the assumption that comparisons should made be on an objective and evenhanded basis. The rioters and their defenders will not trouble themselves with such constraints. There are those, the apologists for the rioters will insist, to whom one standard of behavior should apply and a different group to whom a different, harsher, prejudicial standard should apply. All else follows from that view. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9164 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9164 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:59:50 EDT "Are pre-2008 bankers the moral equivalents of British looters?" Recalling AD 325 in Nikaea: Homoousios? Almost certainly not. Homioousios? In many cases, quite likely, I think. Regarding 'legal' vs. 'illegal', it's worth noting that, at least here in the US, the top-dogs in the financial world move seamlessly between Wall St., K Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue. Thus, they're very instrumental in making the laws by which they operate. The foxes rule the hen-house. (Do I have to add that this is no apology for the destruction of the looters. Both they and the culpable bankers are greedy; the looters expressed their greed in a more violent -- and less global -- way.) http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9162 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9162 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:40:31 EDT It is not constructive indeed, and ill-advised at best, to draw parallels between looters and pre-2008 bankers. That having been said, there were quite a number of bankers and other types of financiers that broke laws and ruined lives. As Gretchen Morgenson ably illustrates in her book (Reckles$ Endangerment, they have not been prosecuted, sometimes even been promoted. It is perhaps unwise but irresistable to link this observation to the fact that the Camerons of this world are more befriended with bankers than with looters. Indeed, it might also explain why there are already new laws against main street thugs while we are still waiting for new sharking laws! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9153 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9153 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:02:51 EDT I totally agree with Dalyrimple. These lower class looters have destroyed the world's economy through their actions, and now none of them are going to go to prison because of their incestuous relationships with legislators. Now I'm going to write a whole book about it and publish it with an obscure press. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9150 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9150 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:17:06 EDT Apologist for white-collar crime? snort Are you overlooking the trivial point that he was defending those who had commited no crime? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9149 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9149 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:43:12 EDT The changing of the conversation is a typical leftist response any time they are uncomfortable with a topic. If ones talks about, for example, the utter failure of Obama's economic policies, the response is usually a sentence with the word "Bush" in it, followed by emotional invective. Anything to avoid the topic at hand. Well, for the great brainwashed this is the only way to respond when some fact threatens to upset with their insane worldview. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9144 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9144 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:54:32 EDT Tom Welsh has a good point - just as liberal intellectuals shouldn't be apologists for the crimes of lower classes, so Mr. Dalrymple shouldn't be an apologist of white collar crime, just because it is not as apparent and doesn't seem so bad. The destructive behaviour of bankers may cause far more trouble, only it is not so apparent, as in the case of the black riots. Good author o the subject: Arno Gruen. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9142 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9142 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:36:03 EDT Unfortunately "thinking clearly" is in short supply while making excuses for all sorts of bad behavior and shortcomings is all too abundant. Of course, there is no excuse for the behavior of London rioters - even if all the bankers in town were complicit in the crash of 2008. Another old adage, "Two wrongs don't make a right." is, unfortunately, another easily disregarded adage. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9141 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9141 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:28:13 EDT The bankers probably did brake laws, in case their customers have a right not to be mislead (by presenting them junk bonds as secure and lucrative investments, for example.) http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9140 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9140 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:26:53 EDT Could it be the barbarians that brought down Rome were inside the gates all along? When mob rule is explained and temporized in here to fore respected venues of opinion one can draw no other conclusion than this: the barbarians are indeed inside the gates in England. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9138 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9138 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:01:25 EDT I'm betting all the rioters also litter. It seems to me that those described in Dr D's latest book, 'Litter', are one and the same. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9133 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9133 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:44:20 EDT I won't make excuses for crass low class behaviors on the bankers. That is not even comparing apples to apples. That is like saying: I'm mad that I have to pay an electric bill so let me steal from the neighbor across the alley. Yeah that makes sense you limey morons: you are mad at the bankers so ruin all the shops that provide valued services and make the neighborhood stellar. And ONLY COWARDS inflict damage on the innocent instead of themselves. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9131 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9131 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:24:35 EDT Great Article as usual. Only the dumbed down press took this lightly. Everyone else was disgusted with these idiots, and horrified for the people whose businesses were savagely burned to the ground or looted. In this country, this behavior would not happen. Owners would fight back with guns, tasers, baseball bats, anything they can get their hands on. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9130 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9130 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:00:47 EDT I had thought from much I had read in condemnation of bankers that it was not 'just' that they had made serious errors of judgement in doing something otherwise legal but that they had shamelessly continued to profit through bonuses and pensions even as the GFC took hold and millions suffered. i.e. they were as shameless in their conduct as the looters. And, of course, their legal activity was only legel because successive governments had argued that the removal of restraints and controls would lead to an economic boom that would trickle down to us all. And, of course, a swathe of the largest Christian church is discredited by half a century (at least) of presiding over the rape and torment of children in its care and politicians who lecture us on morality are milking their expense accounts without a blush. I am as appalled and disgusted by the looters as the author and share many of his opninions but it does not help his case to mis-represent. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9127 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9127 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:17:55 EDT He has a point. A good one? Fst http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9124 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9124 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:23:15 EDT City Journal draws on select panel of erudite and informed journalists and commentaters. To make sense of so many erupting crisies we need clarification and wise judgements in order not to be overwhelmed by a fast changing world. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9121 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9121 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:14:11 EDT I just watched a youtube video of a group of African American youth looting a 7 Eleven. It was taken from the security cameras and involved at least 20 to 30 people who simply went in and took what they wanted. It was in Montgomery County, Maryland; one of the wealthier counties just above DC and supposed with the best public schools in the state (translation, very high property taxes). The description said the store manager tripped a silent alarm to notify the police; but the police waited until the 'teens' left before they entered the store. Similarly, there was no investigation, nor further action by the police, who called it a 'shop lifting' incident. This is where we are and God knows where we are going. Thank the author of this article for some clarity; we don't seem to get it from our leaders. "We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." George Orwell http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9119 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9119 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:45:42 EDT You say that the rioters broke the law, while the bankers did not. That is moot - to a great extent, especially in difficult financial matters, the law nowadays is what political nominees say it is. Was Jean-Charles de Menezes murdered? Common sense says he was: otherwise, how did an innocent man going about his lawful business get shot a dozen times at point-blank range? Yet the authorities assured us no crime had taken place; nor, indeed, could the possibility even be considered. Moreover, if what the bankers did was immoral and harmful to the nation, why was it not illegal? Obviously because our government failed to regulate banking properly. Next, you say that if the bankers were guilty, so were "the people" and the government. Again, the finger points at government for not regulating the complex machinery of modern capitalism properly. One begins to wonder if that is even possible. If not, then perhaps capitalism isn't quite as wonderful as it has been made out to be; maybe it is a sort of cultural Titanic. If regulation is possible, then don't we have a series of incompetent governments to blame? Yet where are we to find a competent one? Not at a general election, that's for sure. You refer to the "rawness" of the injury. But I am more concerned about its sheer size. The bankers have cost this nation thousands, maybe millions, of times more than the rioters did. Like so many boiling frogs, every single British taxpayer (and their dependents and heirs) will have their standard of living substantially reduced for decades to come. Yet apparently no one is at fault. Lastly, you deplore the possibility that some of the rioters may feel justified in their actions. But what of the bankers and politicians? Not a single one has admitted any fault, and I don't suppose one ever will. I think you have got matters exactly the wrong way round. The problem, in the eyes of most of us, is precisely that what the bankers did was not against the law - but it should have been! We see everyday crime punished harshly, while men in fine clothes get away scot free after heists that make the Great Train Robbery shrink into microscopic insignificance. The inference is glaringly obvious: our society is unfair, and the people running it are either hopeless incompetents or malicious rogues. In the immortal words of Mark Twain, "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it". Neither is cause for much rejoicing. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9117 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9117 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:16:14 EDT Spot On. The journalism concerned amounts to a consoling patronizing for the rioters. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9116 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9116 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:54:28 EDT TRULY, WHAT PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON WITH ALL THIS CRAP ABOUT LEGAL vs ILLEGAL? THE SCUM BANKSTERS BUY THE POLITICIANS TO RIG THE LAWS THEY WANT! A GOOD EXAMPLE IS CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO WHICH HAD THEIR CALIFORNIA MORTGAGE LICENSE REVOKED IN 2003 FOR CORRUPTION AND CORPORATE MALFEISANCE. THE BANKSTERS WENT INTO OPEN COURT AND DEMANDED THEIR MORTGAGE LICENSE BACK. THE COURTS SAID NO. WELLS FARGO SIMPLE DECLARED ITSELF ABOVE THE LAW AND WENT ON WITH THE SAME PRACTICES THAT CAUSED THEIR LICENSE REVOCATION RESULTING IN DEVASTATED COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE NATION! NOW WELLS FARGO IS MAKING STAGGERING PROFITS OFF THE VERY FORECLOSURES THEY CAUSED! HOW MUCH LOOTING FROM THIS ONE FILTHY BANKSTER? SEND THE BANKSTERS TO THE MOBS! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9114 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9114 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:19:09 EDT As someone living in London only a short distance from where some of the riots took place and who has read the commentators Theodore Dalrymple refers to I feel he has (for once - as I usually greatly enjoy his writing) misunderstood the point being made by them. The issue is not whether one action is legal and another not, or even which one gives the most unpleasant experience to the victim. The point is the motivation of the rioters - the shallow materialism demonstrated in their justifications when challenged - appears very similar to that shown by many of the bankers earning large bonuses in the City here. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9113 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9113 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:14:54 EDT I don't see anything less tragic as a consequence of the bankers actions either. The people are reacting in the only way left for them to react when they have lost everything to those that the system has protected. When the rule of law fails the citizens the citizens operate outside of the law. Neither side wins. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9112 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9112 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:08:31 EDT I find it surprising that most of the comments I have read show no sign of having read or understood what Dr. Dalrymple is saying. He does not suggest that recklessness, on the part of bankers or anyone else, is blameless. He nowhere excused or palliated their behaviour. His argument is based on the undeniable truth that one thing is one thing, and another another. Criminality is not the same as stupidity. Still less does he, here or elsewhere, suggest that "because something is legal, it therefore requires no moral consideration." Reading the text is the basic activity froom which, at least for the sane, all criticism must start. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9111 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9111 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:04:21 EDT Et Satan conduit le bal! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9110 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9110 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:49:42 EDT You are not, I think, giving enough weight to the loss of legitimacy evident in the incompetent, self-serving behavior of the financial elite and the failure of the political elite to hold them, and themselves, responsible. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9108 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9108 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:41:41 EDT A lesson on sloppy thinking that includes the idea that because something is legal, it therefore requires no moral consideration. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9107 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9107 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:32:00 EDT "For these pundits, the looters only did retail what the bankers did wholesale." Bankers are part of government. So are the educators. Both groups thrieve on power and want to increase their power if possible. Most citizens follow powerful people. They get the information that powerful people give to the commentators and journalists. Supposedly each of us citizens are responsible for our self. But just how easy is that when we have been educated and indoctrinated by the power seekers to follow the powerful people of our society? I argee: "the looters only did retail what the bankers did wholesale." They would have done more if they had the same resources that are available to powerful people. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9106 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9106 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:43:34 EDT Unfortunately, the doctor doesnt name the slobbish pundits of Daily Mail and the Spectator. They deserve condign ostracism for such stupid and lazy stuff as Dalrymple suggests they wrote. That is indeed a bad sign. I would expect it from many columnists in the US familiar to us from the newspapers and weeklies, naming no names myself, but I havent yet read such guff locally. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9103 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9103 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:16:22 EDT "If the bankers are guilty, so are the people and, even more, the government." To which I say, with at least much as logic, if the people are guilty, so is the government, and even more, the bankers. Mr. Dalrymple, perhaps you can get a mortgage banker to loan you a sense of perspective. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9101 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9101 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:50:27 EDT I feel we are very rapidly approaching the time when term "intelligentsia" is now consodered a pejorative..n'est-ce pas? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9100 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9100 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:02:39 EDT Thank you for this and other thoughtful articles. When I read your article I am reminded of a conversation with a distinguished lawyer and Claims person with large Ins. company. This man was true gentleman. He grew up around 1930's in backwoods of Tenn. He stated that he would walk 3 / 4 miles at night on dark roads in an area which was mixed racially. 100% safe. I grew up on lower middle class neighborhood in Texas. No doors were locked. Few thoughts of insecurity. This "riots" challenge PC thinking on all part of cultural and political spectrum. Glen M. Wilkerson http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9099 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9099 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:49:49 EDT http://politicalirony.com/2011/08/14/looting/ http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9097 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9097 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:47:19 EDT Well, TD has finally misplaced the last bit of his own providence when he whines that the legalized grand larceny of the banks and investment houses is just boys being boys, compared to the violent riots in Britain. Both are scandalous and deserving of swift and definitive action, but only one gets that action. Both rob the public of security and property, but only the disenfranchised are accountable. Slavery and child labor were also legal, Mr. Dalrymple. I suppose you would have excused those evils as well. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9096 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9096 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:41:19 EDT ". . . it is not encouraging that journalistsâ€"important members of the intelligentsiaâ€". . . " It's been a long time since one could say journalists are members of the intelligentsia. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9095 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7372#9095 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:16:30 EDT