One man is shot and killed by the police; a man suspected of drug and gang crimes, and with evidence pointing to him having fired at the police. While outrage is fine, and speaking out against it is more than acceptable.  Four days of rioting?  Now you’re just spitting on the man’s grave.

Before I go much further, let me say that I am speaking solely to the rioters.  I have had many friends from England over he years, and I know that I am not speaking to 99.99% of the population of the country.  I am speaking directly to the cretins that have seen fit to take the death of Mark Duggan and turn it into an excuse for looting, destroying and acting generally as asses.

You are a proud nation, a nation that was a glowing example of strength and will in the face of a great enemy as Germany pounded you nightly during the Blitz.  You are a nation that has once been able to say that the sun never set on your empire … and now you are burning down a Sony warehouse after you’ve ransacked it for some electronics?  Well done.  Makes total sense that you should loot businesses of people completely unrelated to what happened to Duggan.

What about the 150-year-old family business you destroyed?  Did they shoot Duggan?  No, they didn’t.

With every moment of footage and report I read, I feel a gut wrenching sadness for England, it’s proud history and the innocent people caught up in this that have never done anything to harm anyone.  Those of you participating in the riots, you are nothing but hooligans, thugs and scum.  You want to know what’s wrong with your life?  Look in a mirror and leave those around you alone as they have done nothing to you, and all you are doing in the end is hurting yourself.  You are hurting friends, family, loved ones and taking jobs away from your area by destroying businesses.

Are you proud of yourselves?  No, you aren’t.  And as more and more of you upload pictures and video to social networks, and you slip up showing your faces here and there, we’ll see how proud you are as you get hauled off to prison.

To those of you who have stood strong, keep calm and carry on.