Profit and lost freedom

Published: September 15, 2011

HOW can this possibly happen?

A deprived teenager, found guilty of stealing a bottle of water in a riot, is sent to prison for six months, yet Conservative property developers, quite possibly guilty of bribery and corruption in giving funds to the Tory party, who under new proposals will be guilty of “stealing” our grass, our land, our city for his own personal profit and benefit gets off scot free?

Why are they not facing “a court of the people”?

Why aren’t they, like the teenager stealing a bottle of water, sent to prison for six months?

Why have the property developers planning on destroying our commonwealth and our “green and pleasant land”' as “looters”' not been arrested, in dawn raids of equal savagery to the ones visited on “rioters” by the police?

Arrest every Tory property developer of this ilk, put them in isolation and make him or her read Blake’s Jerusalem a million times, at least.

Once convinced they were convincingly penitent, I might allow them freedom.

In the  meantime take their passports!
Christopher Truman
Marsden Street, NW5