17.07.2010 ~ Enough with this 'Raoul Moat' Facebook hype...

For those of you that haven't heard the latest rabid media plague surrounding the Raoul Moat shootings I envy your ignorance.

The guy in question shot his ex-girlfriend, her boyfriend, a police officer and then himself after being in a 6 hour standoff with police.

But that was simply the catalyst for an annoying Facebook fan-page that went viral in the mainstream media.

It's not the Facebook pages themselves with names such as 'RIP Raoul Moat You Legend' that call him a "loving father and canny lad" after he killed himself in the middle of a showdown with the police but the fallout from the government and the media that has really gone up my nose!

You see Northumberland is a part of England made up of mostly unemployed white working class people, they hate the government and their society and (especially) the police, so when they see some guy shoot himself in the head while taking on the police for six hours they feel its a way of hitting back at the system, so rather by impulse and having nothing better to do they hit the 'like' button on the Facebook page dedicated to a gunman who shot his girlfriend, since "he was still a human being!"

However David Cameron doesn't like that, and he made that point crystal clear, he didn't like it, so neither should you!

That's where this whole thing exploded in a typical media shit storm, apparently being stuck up in his clouds of self righteousness Cameron decided he didn't like the fact that a mere 8,000 people joined this group by word of mouth, so by condemning them not only did the media pick up on it (and as in a democracy) report to us on every last detail Cameron in his infinite wisdom and understanding of the internet coupled with free speech decided he wanted the page closed down, it was closed down and Facebook subsequently issued a statement ensuring us that Cameron had nothing to do with it, and what would he have to do with it if the pages creator closed it because it had attracted so much unwanted attention? *

Now unemployed white working class people (probably from around Northumberland) have found there are ways to piss off the society and authority they deprive so much, and knowing the internet they've already gotten a good head-start in making and sharing fan/tribute pages that will spread like an ugly rash.

Bravo Cameron, well played!

* Apart from the fact Facebook had to ensure us that they hadn't given in to the demands made by Cameron!