"They can't help it - it's their culture"

"A lot of it is alcohol - I don't think the kids were doing anything. They were just on bikes and in masks."

This is the kind of remark that epitomizes the culture of double standards which now afflicts our society whenever the issue of race is involved.  Why would "kids" be wearing masks if they were not intending to intimidate, by showing that they were hiding their identity? Why should they wish to hide their identity unless they were up to no good?

People need to understand that to attempt to extenuate, or excuse, in any way, the kind of lawlessness which we have seen over the last few days, is the height of racism itself. While it is true that racial differences exist (or we would have no word for race), not least in the field of intelligence, all races are variants of the one species, Homo sapiens, and consequently all are more alike than they are different.

It follows from this that every human being is responsible for their own actions - they have free will. If they choose to break the law and to do wrong that is their choice - for which they alone are responsible, and for which they must be held accountable.

Provided that they do not suffer from a defect of intelligence, are not so mentally ill as not to understand the nature of their act, and are above the age of criminal responsibility (ten years in England and Wales) it is patronizing in the extreme, as well as racist, to suggest that culpable individuals are somehow to be excused on account of their having been "deprived", or coming from a culture in which such behaviour is supposedly more commonplace.

Actually, it is more commonplace, in Africa, for example, than it is in Europe, but mainly between hostile tribes, rather than between members of the same tribe.

Europe and particularly Britain, has, for the last two generations been busily creating the conditions for not merely inter-tribal warfare, which the civilized nations of Europe long ago outgrew, save for a pale copy of it associated with football hooliganism, but for the far more deadly inter-racial warfare, of which the recent riots will have been merely a foretaste, unless the ethnic majority, the indigenous British, boldly assert our ownership of this island politically, economically and socially.