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The unrest began on Aug. 6 in the north London suburb of Tottenham, after a local black man, Mark Duggan, was shot and killed by police who stopped his car intending to make an arrest. The area has one of the biggest concentrations of proposed cutbacks.
Cameron's government has embarked on the biggest cuts to public spending, including welfare and on the police, since World War II to bring down the budget deficit, though most of these have yet to take effect.
nope it was union thugs at the state fair
Ok so they haven't made the cuts yet, so the riots are in anticipation of the cuts.
So now they'll be living in a burned out hull of a town.
So stupid.
History repeats only this time on a different continent.
Just like Watts, CA. And they'll be living in a situation more desperate than before.
Yeah it's over the police shooting. They threw in the part about "cuts for funding" to justify why they're raising hell.
Where's the parents? Maybe they're telling them to go out and burn and loot.
Why they have the same problems with youth that we have here in the US. I've been working in the schools this past year. I have seen this sense of entitlement and lack of right vs wrong. It's downright scary to think these kids at 14 think they can do whatever they want and define their own right vs wrong.
BBC News - Heads challenge parents over riot youths
Mr Lightman blames a toxic mixture of dysfunctional parenting and a consumer and celebrity culture which tells youngsters they should have whatever they want.
He warns that too often schools are faced with pupils who have never had any boundaries in their home lives - where there has never been a sense of right and wrong.
The youth have figured out that there is strength in numbers and a less of a chance of them getting caught or their actions stopped.
And the youth here in the US have figured that out as well.
There is strength in numbers. And that works for both good and evil.
Sadly the youth are using those numbers for evil
It kind of compounds the problem when the general public has been legislated out of any means to defend themselves. In some places, only the criminals are armed. The UK would be one of those places.
There is a reason the British government brought these people over. If they wanted the society to crumble from within what better way to move things along than by bringing in the experts. The rioters came from places that never understood cooperation, order, or progress. And they never will.
And once Britain looks like a third world nation, it will be treated as such. It will have a major police state with thugs paid to attack the citizenry who dare speak ill of it.
The state fair mobs are hooligans isolated to a few nutjobs.
The London riots are over a police action. London ain't Los Angeles, that crap would have been crushed instantly here.
Where were you in 1968 with the Watts riots? Not in LA, I bet.
Those two girls that the BBC interviewed talked like they thought the riots had become a fun loving thing. Surely you know enough about it to know that it has become a thing of fun loving destruction, and as the girl said showing the "rich" and the police that they can get by with it. I think if you pay some attention to the London riots you can see that it is no longer about a shooting although they are pushing to get some of them shot.
I thought I mentioned Wisconsin in that OP. I guess not but I think you failed to read all of it.
Perhaps you need to read all of it. You mentioned Milwaukee & State Fair, nothing about Wisconsin. There were no political protests in Milwaukee, at least not on the scale of Madison if that's what you were getting at. And the State Fair mob had nothing to do w/politics so why are you trying to connect the two?
Ok so they haven't made the cuts yet, so the riots are in anticipation of the cuts.
So now they'll be living in a burned out hull of a town. Just like Watts, CA. And they'll be living in a situation more desperate than before.
So stupid.
History repeats only this time on a different continent.
yep shear stupidity
In London, groups of young people rampaged for a third straight night, setting buildings, vehicles and garbage dumps alight, looting stores and pelting police officers with bottles and fireworks. The spreading disorder was an unwelcome warning of the possibility of violence for leaders organizing the 2012 Summer Olympics in less than a year.
The riots appeared to have little unifying cause - though most say to oppose sharp government spending cuts, which will slash welfare payments and cut tens of thousands of public sector jobs through 2015.
Others appeared attracted simply by the opportunity for violence. "Come join the fun," shouted one youth, racing along a street in the east London suburb of Hackney, where shops were attacked and cars torched.
Violence first broke out late Saturday in the low-income, multiethnic district of Tottenham in north London, where outraged protesters demonstrated against the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, a known drug dealer, but it quickly turned to a multi-layered riot.
Rioters steal clothes and rifle through bags as people make their way home
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This is the shocking moment a young man is apparently forced to hand over all of his clothes after appearing to be stripped naked during lawless riots overnight.
Internet rumours last night claimed that on top of the widespread destruction across London and Birmingham, people were having their clothes removed by looters as police attempted to contain the criminality.
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