I predict a riot!

There is no excuse for unfettered violence that I can defend when people have had enough of state interference in their lives. Many people in the blogosphere have commented that the recent riots was down to yob culture and 'leaches of the state' to sate their inbuilt disgust at the UK's welfare state. But I disagree. Yes there is some element of this but when governments heap one statist law upon another then something has to give, and governments have given the disenfranchised an excuse to riot.

I'm not going to be an apologist for the rioters here but a little bit of me wants to riot with them against the smoking ban. The smoking ban has enraged me so much since it's inception that I wanted to rage against it, on the streets if necessary! I hate bullies, always have done since I was a boy and violent bullies I hate the most so would cheerfully do some 'time' to get rid of them. But I am too old for rioting. All I can do is call for justice to prevail and simmer while it does not.

While Rome the UK burns and I fume about the smoking ban my only course of action is to sign the petition against it so please stop me being the oldest rioter in town by signing this petition.