August 9, 2011 12:53PM 

# Disgraceful Soundbite from the London Riots 

By [Sallie James](https://www.cato.org/people/sallie-james) 

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I don’t know which part of this truly dismaying interview is more upsetting: the joy in their voices as these girls describe the “fun” they are having at the riots and their hope that they continue the next day, the class-warfare-based justification they feel for the looting and burning of shops, or their almost comic ignorance of which party holds control of the government (“Conservatives. Yeah. Whatever who it is. I dunno…”).

[Listen and Weep](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424), courtesy of the Beeb.

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[Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) 

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