But that said I commend and applaud your efforts to spread awareness of the occupy together movement and can see you are educated far beyond the average person in terms of the global economy and condition of our environment.

While i do not agree, I can see why there has been more of an outcry over the riots than the banking collapse since their crimes are more overt. Bankers as far as we know didn’t actually break the law, yes they have manipulated the law, they have deliberately used their influence over governments to move away from regulation and by doing so have managed to walk away with millions of pounds as their own companies collapse and governments are forced to bail out the markets at the expense of the tax payer. But their actions, however shifty, have on the whole currently failed to be proven unlawful. Yet the rioting was clearly law breaking vandalism and at the extreme, murder, played out on our TV screens. People are understandably going to get very upset about that.

We need to put pressure on our governments about our financial system to stop this clearly irresponsible trading of loans etc, but I disagree that the intention of all billionaires and politicians is cynically to keep the poor poor.

We do not live in a country that is purely capitalist, we do not live in a society  that is simply governed by market forces. Historically over the last century massive progressive steps have been made to improve the lives of all people in this country. There is still plenty of work to be done but where I feel we disagree is that i believe all-encompassing ideological anti-capitalist rhetoric is over-simplistic and a distraction towards focussing on bringing people to justice, bankers and rioters.

You are right we do need a debate on this rather than just hysterical reaction but that doesn’t mean these people should not be brought to justice. I will admit however that the news today of some very tough sentencing is highly questionable.