Maybe that will be enough. Maybe this is just opportunist theft. Maybe civil society will reassert itself. Maybe the wombles will come to our rescue.
So many maybes. Cameron may be jetlagged, but the oddest thing I heard was his statement that "we should be in no doubt the Government is on the side of the law abiding." That brings something we were most of us not doubting into deep doubt.
I feel old and weak at sixty. I don't want to face a sixteen year old with a gun or a baseball bat.
There is random violence here in Cameron's constituency, in Witney, already; nasty acts of seemingly random thuggery in the heart of wealthy conservative Oxfordshire.
Tonight there could be a riot here.
I have seen our society being shown to be riddled with corruption. I have seen our prime minister claiming for a chocolate bar on his expenses.
I have seen how Murdoch has been pulling the strings of Government for thirty years.
I have seen the BBC humbled and cowed by the Government over the war crime of Iraq.
I have seen how Governments for the last thirty years have all operated from the centre right or right of the centre right , when the vox populi has expressed a preference for moving leftwards.
We are told there are no rights and lefts any more.
The bankers have been allowed to go on creaming off the top of the world's money, in spite of the last financial met down.
As the stock market crashes again it seems likely that the ordinary people will be the ones to feel the brunt of it again, while the Government contemplates reducing taxes on the rich.
Maybe the rioters will drift into history or prison.
Maybe normality will be restored.
After the Brixton riots the way our capital was policed was reconsidered.
Maybe it is too early to think of anything much beyond saving our lives, our streets and our property right now.
But if this is not seen as a wake up call to the way our country is being run and changes are not made then there is no way ahead.
We are on the road to oblivion.
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