London Riots

['Press Start']

I'm still resisting watching that mugging video

watch it. See how bad it has become. The guy who gets mugged does not get hurt (again) but it's still hard to take.

[davek22]

This is what all those fallen soldiers fought and died for in WW1 and 2. To give these Lazy low lifes the opportunity to steal from hard working people and then rub everyones noses in it by bragging on the Internet.Let the army do some training on them

[koopatroopa90]

Popular feeling on facebook - this group went up by 10,000 people in the last half hour alone:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Supporting-the-Met-Police-against-the-London-rioters/152937041453243

Probably not realistic but if all those supporting that group actually went out on the streets to help then this would all be over pretty sharpish.

[Phar]

watch it. See how bad it has become. The guy who gets mugged does not get hurt (again) but it's still hard to take.

Mmmm, not so sure about that video, looks like whatever was taken from his bag was new in the packaging, so every chance he could have been looting as well.

[112]

Damn, it all kicked off down the road from me last night... Police sirens, speeding cars etc... Good job it wasn't as big as down in London, but damn, talk about jumping on the bandwagon... I just can't believe how many idiots are crawling out the wood work with all this opportunist behaviour... It's becoming epidemic! And I can't see it slowing down anytime soon... Some people are panic buying food and stuff... Crazy bitch ass ness going on around my ends...

These damn videos on Youtube and tweets only makes it worse!

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[Ady]

This is what all those fallen soldiers fought and died for in WW1 and 2. To give these Lazy low lifes the opportunity to steal from hard working people and then rub everyones noses in it by bragging on the Internet.Let the army do some training on them

Precisely. These scumbags are too stupid to realise they are, for the most part f*cking up their own communities and making things more difficult for other people in the same boat as themselves. It's not about fighting any sort of power or protesting any kind of injustice anymore. It's pure, wanton destruction and criminality for the sake of itself.

Thing is, this chav/urban yoof culture has been building for some time and there's been an undercurrent pointing to something like this for the last 10 years or so. The current state of affairs was the powder keg that set them off. Irresponsible parenting has also played a large part in this mess, too. (The way I was brought up, there's no way I would've even thought about doing anything like this at their age.)

Saw an interesting tweet from Speech Debelle on her page, which kind of relates to the bad parenting thing somewhat:

Hey worthless fathers... look what you've helped create... you should be proud of yourselves

She has a point, tbh. :/

[dvdx2]

Precisely. These scumbags are too stupid to realise they are, for the most part f*cking up their own communities and making things more difficult for other people in the same boat as themselves. It's not about fighting any sort of power or protesting any kind of injustice anymore. It's pure, wanton destruction and criminality for the sake of itself.

Thing is, this chav/urban yoof culture has been building for some time and there's been an undercurrent pointing to something like this for the last 10 years or so. The current state of affairs was the powder keg that set them off. Irresponsibly parenting has also played a large part in this mess, too. (The way I was brought up, there's no way I would've even thought about doing anything like this at their age.)

Saw an interesting tweet from Speech Debelle on her page, which kind of relates to the bad parenting thing somewhat:



She has a point, tbh. :/

couldnt have put it better myself

['Press Start']

Mmmm, not so sure about that video, looks like whatever was taken from his bag was new in the packaging, so every chance he could have been looting as well.

Very true. Such is the situation where by everyone might be a suspect. How does one control a situation whereby the guilty are interwoven tightly with the innocent? I know the answer and its a slippery slope!

[Ady]

The YouTube comments on the riot videos are depressing. So many people (presumably BNP cowards) have made this a race issue and are seeing what they want to see...

[davek22]

Nick Griffon from the BNP said their website is crashing from all the hits. They must be loving this whole situation. It's just grim all over today

From twitter
British National Party
Nick Griffin: "Our website hugely overloaded by through roof hit rate. Regulars please stay off to let new people check us out. Get on newspaper comment pages: All political elite incl Tories to blame."

[Dogg Thang]

This is what all those fallen soldiers fought and died for in WW1 and 2.

Roger Waters made that same point in The Final Cut about Thatcher, Reagan etc. This didn't just spring up out of nowhere. It's the effect, not the cause. These people exist because society is broken, society didn't break because these people exist.

[BeyondJumpFish]

Nothing will happen at the end of all this. Its not a world changing event.
The rioters will go home at the end of the week. No laws will change and maybe around xmas you'll hear that 4 people have been locked up for 3 weeks with a ?50 fine.

[fuse]

Link - interesting Guardian article from Sep '10.

The home secretary, Theresa May, has dismissed fears that deep spending cuts could undermine the ability of the police to tackle possible civil unrest, and insisted the British did not respond to austerity by rioting on the streets.

...

May told the police: "The British public don't simply resort to violent unrest in the face of challenging economic circumstances. We must have a rational and reasonable debate about policing. Your association has a long and proud history of constructive and sensible contributions to policing policy-making – long may it continue."

[BeyondJumpFish]

What i found intresting is that New York has 35,000 officers and england and wales has 142,000...New york being a city and england and wales being 2 countries! Thats a shockingly low amount of police for 2 countries!

[Dogg Thang]

Well New York has a massive population. I'd have to look up the numbers but I'd be pretty sure those numbers would be fairly comparable.