Closing down social messaging

It was bound to happen.  Twitter, Blackberry and other social-networking services are being blamed for the London riots.  And Blackberry has agreed to help police identify instigators.  We were all in favour of their wonderful liberating potential when they allowed people to organize against repressive regimes in the Middle-East.  But hold on a minute: if they are being used for insurrection against OUR monarchies, our corrupt banking system, our elite, our repressive austerity measures, our police forces who shoot people with impunity, we need to shut them down, like in China.

Of course there are opportunists and thieves that take advantage and completely take-over protest riots, and thank goodness, because we can characterize them all as terrorists, just like the President of Syria – I guess he was right all along.  And we can pretend they are just bad, bad people, no other reason.  The fact that the casino-bankers have destroyed the western  economies plunging them into recession with no end in sight, with no jobs or hope of jobs, even with an education is entirely a different issue.  There are good people (rich) and bad people (poor).  So say we Canadians, because we have oil, and we love hockey.