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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #25 Why, that's just not Cricket. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-08-09 23:49 |
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| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-08-09 23:25 |
| #23 I don't think that more police or sending in the army is the solution. This is just more of 'government will take care of us' stuff. Give citizens the right to use force to protect their property. Make it legal for a shop owner to stand in front of his/her store with a baseball bat and swing at the head of anyone who tries to loot it. |
| Posted by: Chemist 2011-08-09 22:00 |
| #22 |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-08-09 21:14 |
| #21 Dang - and we used to attract such interesting trolls.... :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-08-09 19:39 |
| #20 not ready for prime-time trolling |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-08-09 19:21 |
| #19 #17 Correction. Christian wingnuts choose blowing up government buildings and slaughtering women and children with shotguns and AK-47s. My bad... Posted by Shakey Steve your talking points are amateurish and pathetic. Keep trying |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-08-09 19:17 |
| #18 Remember the online petition in England calling for a return to the death penalty, that made the 100k minimum number of signatures to mandate a parliamentary debate? Not only was it followed up by a Daily Mail poll, the first in decades, that showed 75% popular support for the death penalty, but now this: A *new* petition is demanding that all of those convicted of rioting lose all government benefits. No more welfare or other benefits at all. Anyone's guess whether it will make the 100,000 signatures needed to require parliamentary debate. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-08-09 19:13 |
| #17 Correction. Christian wingnuts choose blowing up government buildings and slaughtering women and children with shotguns and AK-47s. My bad... |
| Posted by: Shakey Steve 2011-08-09 19:11 |
| #16 when you become politically correct for 35 years and don't deal with 'citizens' living on the fringes (e.g. anarchists, Islamofascists, Christian wingnuts, etc) We riot a lot we Christians. That's why it's so damn dangerous in Topeka on a Wednesday night! |
| Posted by: 2011-08-09 18:57 |
| #15 Photoshop phun of the looters. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-08-09 16:31 |
| #14 Here is a video of what happens when you do not approach a mob with a great enough force presence in the beginning. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-08-09 14:36 |
| #13 BP -- you guys still allowed to have tree trimming implements? Any chance you're still allowed long bows? Seems to me it's time to prepare yourselves with items a bit more effective than bats... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2011-08-09 13:38 |
| #12 *click*. An interesting point, Shakey Steve. There is also the issue of the fast-moving mob, self-organized by Twitter, moving from place to place while the police lumber to catch up... Can Twitter be shut down for a single city code or region? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-08-09 13:23 |
| #11 Now, I'm not sure of the details leading up to man being capped i.e. whether he shot at police or they shot at themselves, but this is what happens when you become politically correct for 35 years and don't deal with 'citizens' living on the fringes (e.g. anarchists, Islamofascists, Christian wingnuts, etc). Don't use police, call in the Army, set a curfew, then give shoot-to-kill order for any looting. |
| Posted by: Shakey Steve 2011-08-09 12:39 |
| #10 If you have a National Guard, you can do this. Otherwise, a few cops will be chased down the street by a mob, and the thin veneer of civilization falls away. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-08-09 12:29 |
| #9 Lovely to see Bright Pebbles, that the old England we know and love is still there, underneath. Y'all might want to make your next step neighborhood protection groups armed with pikers and lead pipe, in case the youts continue their binge. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-08-09 12:13 |
| #8 Just to show everyone that London isn't a multi-cult hell-hole everywhere... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-08-09 11:06 |
| #7 Beat me to posting this BP. Looks like there is a class warfare kind of thing going on and that it is getting more widespread. Maybe it is just common thuggery/lawlessness and getting more widespread. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-08-09 10:58 |
| #6 Probably not really that riot related. That happens all the time in diverse Croydon. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-08-09 10:01 |
| #5 UK: 26-year-old shot in car becomes first riot fatality |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-08-09 09:41 |
| #4 Reports in the Telegraph say they may be issuing "plastic bullets" for tonight's round of festivities. Hopefully that's to keep the over penetrations down, not to reduce effectiveness. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2011-08-09 09:34 |
| #3 It's not an anti-police riot, it's an organised looting spree by mutlicult gangs. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-08-09 08:05 |
| #2 Get with it! What did the US do to squelch the anti-police, Rodney King, riot? Send in the National Guard. Rioters began mingling with troops, and the whole think dissipated. UK: don't use police in an anti-police riot. |
| Posted by: Thumper and Tenille2812 2011-08-09 07:00 |
| #1 "People were forced to leap from the upstairs windows of a burning building in Croydon last night as rioting spread across London and beyond." Daily Telegraph |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-09 04:49 |