To us, Libya protesters are freedom fighters, to the Libian government they are criminals.
No surprise that when the protests happen here, governments swap position right away.
No surprise that when the protests happen here, governments swap position right away.
Are you saying you'd have liked the rioters better if they didn't give up so "quickly"?
The problem with your post as you wrote it is that you appeared to be making the claim that the word "same" immediately preceded the word "determination" in the source you were quoting. Which isn't true. This matters not because the difference is important in this case (we all agree it's not), but because people think poorly of you and your arguments when you make false assertions through carelessness (they think you might do it again and it might matter next time).
Have you talked to any rioters? Have you entered their homes and seen how they lived? Maybe if you got to know them you would think up some reasons why they would be angry and feel like burning and robbing.
Maybe those reasons would be something like recent austerity measures further condemning them and their children to a life of abject poverty in one of the richest places in the world.
Maybe those reasons would be lack of access to decent education, medicine, mental health services.
A democracy that is widely seen as unrepresentative and broken where social mobility has been declining for 40 years.
How about an utter lack of job prospects while a consumer culture bombards them with media that tells them they are worthless for being trapped in a cycle of poverty.
At a certain point your underclass realizes that their only hope of ever getting nice shoes (and by extension, respect from society) is by taking those shoes.
Cmon London, you are smarter than this. Are you TRYING to bring back Marxism? Or does the English upper class not fear the guillotine?
definition for rioter: "troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority."