Another night of fiery riots in London.  Scores of homes and businesses looted and destroyed.  Innocents beaten, robbed, and humiliated.  Most of the rioters and looters are young, teenagers.  Of course, one wonders why London and other British cities are seeing outbreaks of mob action and lawlessness.  The conventional wisdom has it that cuts in government services and poverty are driving these hooligans into Britain's streets.  Certainly, the left has a vested interest in promoting that viewpoint.  But British writer, Philip Womack, offers a far less conventional -- indeed, intriguing - perspective on the looters and rioters.  The Luther-Ross brothers [characters from a Womack novel] would have no trouble recruiting the rioters to their band of Liberators. They have no consciences to be removed in the first place. What we need to do is systemic, and it needs to be done from the roots up, and it needs to be done now. It has nothing to do with...(Read Full Post)