Most of it is being aimed at the Police, not the public. They're commiting these crimes to show that they won't bow down to our corrupt Police force. The Police here harass innocent people daily, and frame innocent people for crimes they haven't commited. Police here don't return stolen property if they can avoid it, they sell it for profit. The biggest drug dealers are the Police themselves, so they can put it back on the streets so they can arrest more people.
The general public has no money, we're raped by taxes and have to scrape the ground to survive, while the government, police and corperate business owners sit back and laugh it up. Thats why they are attacking businesses.
What Flipmo said about people not having jobs because its "below them" is bullshit. People don't have jobs for 2 reasons. There are either no jobs, which I had to deal with myself last year, took me 11 months before I could finally get a new job, and I have experience and qualifications, most people can't afford to have a university education. Or the jobs that are available will actually make people poorer than they are without a job. And trust me, if you haven't got a job here, you're fucking poor, you get £45-60 a week to pay for bills, food and transport, if you rent, you can get help, but if you own your own home, you're fucked.
Pay is low here, but costs are stupidly high. Americans complain about the cost of living there. The average wage there is double what it is here, yet everything in America is half the price it is here. $4 for a gallon of gas for your car? That sounds like fucking heaven compared to the $10 (£6, but oil is sold in USD) we have to pay. Try living in a country with a 20% after sales tax when you have fuck all money to your name, with or without a job.
I'm not supporting these people or their actions, but not everything is as black and white as it seems.