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EDIT. Not worth it. You do realize the guy was probably stonded when he wrote this so it makes more sense to you.
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Yeah, so because the guy was a previous drug addict (clean since 2002), that makes anything he says stupid and invalid. I'll tell you what I do realize. I realize you didn't read the article at all. You took the quotes I supplied in the original post and you assumed he was talking about American politics based on the sample quotes I left you with.
Had you read the article, you would have seen that he addressed his past issues and even his own prior reasons to why he attended protests.
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I should here admit that I have been arrested for criminal damage for my part in anti-capitalist protest earlier in this decade. I often attended protests and then, in my early 20s, and on drugs, I enjoyed it when the protests lost direction and became chaotic, hostile even.
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I found those protests exciting, yes, because I was young and a bit of a twerp but also, I suppose, because there was a void in me. A lack of direction, a sense that I was not invested in the dominant culture, that government existed not to look after the interests of the people it was elected to represent but the big businesses that they were in bed with.
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It's sad you took the time to wikipedia who Russell Brand was and his 14 arrests, but couldn't take the time to read the well thought out (and written) article about the London riots by a fellow Brit. Instead, you'd rather get mad I pointed out your fallacy and go on to further to imply that I enjoyed the article because it was probably written under the influence of drugs. (which I'm a stoner??)
Stay classy.