Impotence

"Impotence" is the word that comes to mind as political commentators discus the reasons why a couple of men kill someone and then deliberately wait around to publicise their reasons.
Any society has a responsibility to engage all its citizens in the democratic process by providing a vote for everyone. The problem is that often the action of voting seems to carry little real weight and ones real concerns are ignored which leads to massive frustration. Frustration can potentially lead to instability, making the person open to taking a line of action out of character and usually leading to damage.

As our political representatives seem more and more out of touch, not to say unable themselves to have the power to make decisions on our behalf. The power of the financial markets, the directives that come in from Europe which seem to countermand our own Parliament, the Whitehall Establishment which is regarded as being out of touch with the ordinary voter, the wealthy members of parliament who have no practical understanding of the worries of Joe Public, the university trained professional politician who have little or no experience outside the rarefied atmosphere of the  political world.
All contribute to the question of feeling impotent, not being listened to, which drives the individual into an inward sense of anger and sometimes it can boil over.

As all our actions become of interest to myriad authorities who seek to rule our lives. The cameras in the street, the Health and Safety rules that have seeped into every corner of our lives, the interrogation of our key strokes on the internet, not to mention the incision of slanted politically correct rules and regulations that take out the last vestige of free thought.