Couldn't agree more

Be it Thailand's Reds vs the Yellows, or the Taiwan's 2004 Presidential election, MIC vs the police in KL, or even the latest Bersih 2.0 incident, they are ONLY protestors, who in the name of justice or judicial/ political equality, stood in streets marching together, shouting slogans and carrying banners.

London riots IS a case of human minds went crazy, or berserk, and actions went out of control. Its a case of people, without any sense of reason and/ or logic, going round the town and committing crimes blatantly, without any sensical beliefs and principles.

The former type is an organised, well-communicated gathering - they pass messages to each other, decided on a day, prepare themselves beforehand with whatever they have, and march onto the streets. When police stepped in to interfere, they either got themselves stronger together, which resulted in the mass arrests, or dispersed and went into their own respective hiding holes. Would they even think of going to their neighbourhood stores and start a rampage, or began burning cars and homes which they don't even know who the owners are? No.

The other type is totally out of control - no messages needed, no communication necessary. Once they see the city is down in its security, one fella started the act and the rest, seeing that no police is around to apprehend, began the whirlpool of outright looting and arsoning. Along the way, the moment they met any human hindrance or interference, they are determined to run them down. And thus came the physical abuse which ranged from body hurt to killing.

It is a case of minds gone wrong and souls gone missing. While many unrests were recorded in the 80s and 90s, where the triggering points mainly being political and social, incident like the Jakarta riots in May 1998 which had the locals raping Chinese women was a sound reminder that sometimes when human minds and spirits gone wrong, it would be a case of 'free for all', all in the name of 'wildness' and 'rampant wrath'.

It is with this acute understanding that Nichiren, a 13th-century Buddhist priest, wrote down in his thesis submitted to the Kamarkura Shogun government, that it is only through the propagation of 'correct teaching', which cultivates the correct spirit and mind, that peace and stability of the land can be secured and established. In all senses it is thoroughly true that only when the human minds are functioning in the correct spirit that the lands of which the humans dwell in can be maintained with proper law and order.