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Old 08-08-2011, 08:43 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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The morons think their riots will somehow bring them fortune. We have armed conflict all over the world and unless you are stealing massive amounts of resources instead of petty little things you will end up with nothing or on the ground.
These people are not thinking of future resources.
They are into sneakers, iPods, video games. "Consumerism" is what you see when you want and have no money.
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Old 08-08-2011, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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These idiots need to take a page from Los Angeles, 1992. Send in the military and just arrest everybody, use force. They evidently don't care about following any sort of social order. They're burning down innocent businesses and looting, all because some drug dealer got shot.

I mean really, **** the rioters, but the gov doesn't seem to concerned about doing whatever it takes to stop these wild animals.
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Old 08-09-2011, 02:42 AM
 
Location: 33156
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Shame you Brits banned guns. Now you are like one legged men in an ass kicking contest, powerless as these mindless chavs destroy your country.

The only solution here is to send in the military now as your bobby's with sticks are incapable.

Such a shame that a once great and powerful nation is now the toilet bowl of Europe, the most violent in Europe and the least educated. I saw this coming years ago. Decades of hopeless youths, anti-social behavior and now your only means of defense (guns) have been taken away as you have allowed a big brother society to form; a big brother that actually doesn't give a damn about you anyway.

Goodbye UK. God save the queen..no god help the rest of you.
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Old 08-09-2011, 02:50 AM
 
Location: 33156
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While I am pro-gun, honestly, as the UK is not the USA, it should have followed the Scandinavian socialist model, rather tban Thatcherism, which is one of the main reasons for social decline. Britain became dog eat dog, much like America, but without many of our freedoms and without our confidence and our "can do" mentality. Britain would be better off if it'd evolved like a larger (population wise) version of Denmark or Sweden, to which it is quite culturally similar anyway. You would have had a society where you may not get super rich, but people would want for nothing. Education would have been priority, up to higher eduction level, so you wouldn't have whole armies of disenfranchised youths with no hope and nothing to live for.

I hope that the UK wakes up to this, realizing that much of the decline in the fabric of society began with Thatcherism and that Britain doesn't shift further to the right when these riots eventually fizzle out.
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Old 08-09-2011, 03:02 AM
 
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While I am pro-gun, honestly, as the UK is not the USA, it should have followed the Scandinavian socialist model, rather tban Thatcherism, which is one of the main reasons for social decline. Britain became dog eat dog, much like America, but without many of our freedoms and without our confidence and our "can do" mentality. Britain would be better off if it'd evolved like a larger (population wise) version of Denmark or Sweden, to which it is quite culturally similar anyway. You would have had a society where you may not get super rich, but people would want for nothing. Education would have been priority, up to higher eduction level, so you wouldn't have whole armies of disenfranchised youths with no hope and nothing to live for.

I hope that the UK wakes up to this, realizing that much of the decline in the fabric of society began with Thatcherism and that Britain doesn't shift further to the right when these riots eventually fizzle out.
Ha. You don't need to tell people in Hackney and Tottenham and Liverpool about the ills of Thatcherism.

I await the result of the COBRA meeting.

/bitter
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Old 08-09-2011, 05:07 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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If they destroy England and can't get anymore welfare. Where are they going to migrate next? Russia?
The Russians don't play that, sissified notions of human rights are a foreign concept.
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Old 08-09-2011, 05:48 AM
 
Location: Scotland
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The man shot in Croydon during last nights violence has died
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Old 08-09-2011, 07:09 AM
 
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So much for Europe being the humane alternative to the US.
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Old 08-09-2011, 07:19 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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It's just the poor, misguided unemployed poor youth who had their social programs cut lashing out.
If everyone else is getting free stuff why shouldn't they ?

London Disorder - Operation Withern - a set on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/metropolitanpolice/sets/72157627267892973/ - broken link)
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Old 08-09-2011, 07:49 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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The left are blaming the government and the police for the rioting.
Always someone else's fault.

London riots: Left-wing cynics blame the Tory cuts for mayhem | Mail Online
Left-wing politicians have cynically sought to make political capital out of the riots, blaming government cuts for the orgy of violence.
Labour MPs and activists lined up to make excuses for the thugs, spouting claims that disadvantaged youth had no option but to smash up high streets.
Chris Williamson, Labour MP for Derby North, suggested the Government’s austerity drive was to blame.
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Swift to jump on the bandwagon was Lee Jasper, a former adviser on policing to Ken Livingstone when he was Mayor of London.
He blamed the ‘economic violence’ of the government for the riots and expressed no sympathy for businesses that were smashed up.
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