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This gentleman speaks directly to Toynbee, Blair and all those other Guardianistas who seek to excuse crime and terrorism by reference to its "social causes"
Omar Khyam’s uncle told the Daily Telegraph: "You read in the papers, ‘Ah, well it’s because of lack of opportunities.’
"Rubbish, what part don’t you understand? What lack of opportunities? They had a reasonable education, they come from reasonable families, with very stable backgrounds, financially sound.
Thank you, sir. The twin "causes of crime" in Britain are (a) criminals and (b) Guardianistas who hold "society," not criminals responsible. As Theodore Dalrymple says (writing of an emerging Indian underclass in Britain)
In fact, they have assimilated to the local
cultural and intellectual climate: a climate in which the public
explanation of behavior, including their own, is completely at variance
with all human experience. This is the lie that is at the heart of our
society, the lie that encourages every form of destructive
self-indulgence to flourish: for while we ascribe our conduct to
pressures from without, we obey the whims that well up from within,
thereby awarding ourselves carte blanche to behave as we choose. Thus
we feel good about behaving badly.
The politicians cannot make people feel responsible for their own actions. All they can do is consistently treat them as if they are. Doing the opposite for decades has created the lie that Dalrymple describes. It will take decades of truth to reverse the damage done.
Yesterday, a British jury and a British judge ignored the excuses and special pleading. They held criminals responsible for their choices. Is it too much to hope for the politicians to do the same – and not just for those whose crimes are political?
The Last Ditch by Tom Paine 
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