It is sad but not very hard to predict that it would happen sooner or later… It still shocked me to see it all over the news tho… London was on fire… In more ways than one… I sat with the TV on and follow the happenings on twitter… It makes me wonder what the hell is happening to society.

The media described the fires as not seen like is since the London Blitz. And it was caused mostly by BOYS as young as 16 years old… Terrorists… It is sad, but I really have no other words to describe them…

“I’m not a thief but I am doing this because I am angry” said one of the rioters to a film crew.

Being angry doesn’t really justify going out and destroying and looting does it? Pillaging and braking into the business and homes of people you see on a daily basis… yeah… most of the mess was made in the areas those idiots lived in.

It scares the hell out of me to remember that my sons are growing into a world like that… And to think that some of it happened at the doorsteps of where I lived a little over a year ago, simply gives me big shivers…

I hope I can raise my sons to be better than that… but  I know as a parent there is only so far I can go. Our kids are immensely affected by the environment they grow at. and unfortunately there are far too many parents that can be a perfect example of exactly how not to be one. I don’t quote the bible much in my posts but there is one bit that I can’t help but quote: “teach a child in the way they should go and they won’t depart from it” … We just need to make sure they are pointed in the right way…

There clearly is a misconception over what is the best way to go…

Not everything is so bleak though… as things were still happening last night I read on my timeline a #hashtag named #RiotCleanUp with people urging the population to get out there this morning and help clean up the mess left behind by people with not a lot in their brains… Now THAT is something worth advertising and I do hope the media gives them A LOT more attention than they are giving to the idiots causing all that mess.

If you want more info into where people are getting together and know how you can help, check the hashtags  #riotwombles and #riotcleanup  visit http://www.riotcleanup.co.uk/ or follow them on twitter at @riotcleanup . Anything you can do helps, even Retwitting their posts.

They have used twitter to organise and cause havoc… I am just happy we can all use twitter not just to condemn what those idiots did, but also to organize an appropriate response and get people together to do some good for a change…

Light up the Darkness!