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Rasp
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We ran for our lives as thugs ambushed bus: Chaos across the capital as orgy of violence rages on
Thieves at work: A masked nigger youth steals a flat screen TV as others (niggers) hold up the shop security shutters of Harris Electronics in Hackney to help him
Thieves at work: A masked nigger youth steals a flat screen TV as others (niggers) hold up the shop security shutters of Harris Electronics in Hackney to help him
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Sky News now reports that Bristol is seeing some chimpout action.
Good photos, Rasp.
BTW, folks. If you ever find yourself in a city that is rioting, head for the library. That's one place the niggers won't bother with. In New Orleans, the Wal Mart was looted in 20 minutes and the books were left alone.
Good photos, Rasp.
BTW, folks. If you ever find yourself in a city that is rioting, head for the library. That's one place the niggers won't bother with. In New Orleans, the Wal Mart was looted in 20 minutes and the books were left alone.
Davy of old England
Senior Reporter
London riots: Violence erupts again, for third day
Fires have been burning in parts of London after a third day of violence and looting on the city's streets. Shops were looted and buildings set alight as police clashed with youths. The trouble has now also spread to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Bristol.
Violence first flared on Saturday after a peaceful protest in Tottenham over the fatal shooting of a man by police. The prime minister is returning early from holiday to chair a meeting of the government's emergency committee Cobra.
David Cameron, who is on holiday in Italy, was due to board a flight on Monday night ahead of a meeting with Home Secretary Theresa May and Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Tim Godwin on Tuesday.
A government spokesman said the prime minister has been monitoring the situation on "an hourly basis". At least 225 people have been arrested and 36 charged following the riots across London over the past three days, Scotland Yard said.
It added that an extra 1,700 officers had been deployed across the capital on Monday night. Nine police forces from other parts of the country were assisting in providing support, as well as the City of London Police and British Transport Police.
Commander Christine Jones, from the Met, said: "The violence we have seen is simply inexcusable. "Ordinary people have had their lives turned upside down by this mindless thuggery. The Met will ensure that those responsible will face the consequences of their actions and be arrested." Looters in a convenience store in Hackney. Shops have been looted across the capital
Monday's violence started in Hackney after a man was stopped and searched by police but nothing was found. The trouble spread outside London on Monday evening and early on Tuesday, with police in riot gear being deployed in Birmingham city centre after scores of youths rampaged through the shopping area, smashing windows and looting from shops.
West Midlands Police also confirmed that a police station in Holyhead Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, was on fire. In Birmingham, police said officers had made 100 arrests.
There were reports of cars being damaged in Manchester and of up to 200 youths with masks roaming through Toxteth in Liverpool.
Merseyside police said they were dealing with a number of incidents in south Liverpool, including cars being set alight.
Police in Bristol said they were dealing with outbreaks of disorder involving about 150 people.
Meanwhile in London: It looks like a war zone - I have never seen anything like it in all my life” said Christian Potts, Ealing resident.
So far tonight in London:
* Several fires broke out in Croydon, including one at a large sofa factory which spread to neighbouring buildings and tram lines
* In Hackney 200 riot officers with dogs and mounted police were located around Mare Street where police cars were damaged
* Looters raided a Debenhams store and a row of shops in Lavender Hill in Clapham, as well as shops in Stratford High Street
* More than 100 people looted a Tesco store in Bethnal Green, the Met said, and two officers were injured
* Cars were set on fire in Lewisham
* A bus and shop were set alight in Peckham
* Buses were diverted as the violence spread to Bromley High Street
* There were reports of looting of phone shops in Woolwich High Street, in south London, and a torched police car
* Shops and restaurants were damaged in Ealing, west London, and there was a fire in Haven Green park opposite Ealing Broadway Tube
* Football matches at Charlton and West Ham which were due to be played on Tuesday have been postponed at the request of the police
* At Clapham Junction looters stole masks from a fancy dress store to hide their identity
Fires have been burning in parts of London after a third day of violence and looting on the city's streets. Shops were looted and buildings set alight as police clashed with youths. The trouble has now also spread to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Bristol.
Violence first flared on Saturday after a peaceful protest in Tottenham over the fatal shooting of a man by police. The prime minister is returning early from holiday to chair a meeting of the government's emergency committee Cobra.
David Cameron, who is on holiday in Italy, was due to board a flight on Monday night ahead of a meeting with Home Secretary Theresa May and Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Tim Godwin on Tuesday.
A government spokesman said the prime minister has been monitoring the situation on "an hourly basis". At least 225 people have been arrested and 36 charged following the riots across London over the past three days, Scotland Yard said.
It added that an extra 1,700 officers had been deployed across the capital on Monday night. Nine police forces from other parts of the country were assisting in providing support, as well as the City of London Police and British Transport Police.
Commander Christine Jones, from the Met, said: "The violence we have seen is simply inexcusable. "Ordinary people have had their lives turned upside down by this mindless thuggery. The Met will ensure that those responsible will face the consequences of their actions and be arrested." Looters in a convenience store in Hackney. Shops have been looted across the capital
Monday's violence started in Hackney after a man was stopped and searched by police but nothing was found. The trouble spread outside London on Monday evening and early on Tuesday, with police in riot gear being deployed in Birmingham city centre after scores of youths rampaged through the shopping area, smashing windows and looting from shops.
West Midlands Police also confirmed that a police station in Holyhead Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, was on fire. In Birmingham, police said officers had made 100 arrests.
There were reports of cars being damaged in Manchester and of up to 200 youths with masks roaming through Toxteth in Liverpool.
Merseyside police said they were dealing with a number of incidents in south Liverpool, including cars being set alight.
Police in Bristol said they were dealing with outbreaks of disorder involving about 150 people.
Meanwhile in London: It looks like a war zone - I have never seen anything like it in all my life” said Christian Potts, Ealing resident.
So far tonight in London:
* Several fires broke out in Croydon, including one at a large sofa factory which spread to neighbouring buildings and tram lines
* In Hackney 200 riot officers with dogs and mounted police were located around Mare Street where police cars were damaged
* Looters raided a Debenhams store and a row of shops in Lavender Hill in Clapham, as well as shops in Stratford High Street
* More than 100 people looted a Tesco store in Bethnal Green, the Met said, and two officers were injured
* Cars were set on fire in Lewisham
* A bus and shop were set alight in Peckham
* Buses were diverted as the violence spread to Bromley High Street
* There were reports of looting of phone shops in Woolwich High Street, in south London, and a torched police car
* Shops and restaurants were damaged in Ealing, west London, and there was a fire in Haven Green park opposite Ealing Broadway Tube
* Football matches at Charlton and West Ham which were due to be played on Tuesday have been postponed at the request of the police
* At Clapham Junction looters stole masks from a fancy dress store to hide their identity
Davy of old England
Senior Reporter
Parliament recalled to address riot situation
Parliament is being recalled on Thursday in response to rioting in England, the prime minister has said.
The government's emergency committee Cobra met on Tuesday after rioting spread across London, with violence flaring in other major cities.
"We will do everything necessary to restore order to Britain's streets and make them safe for the law-abiding," David Cameron said in Downing Street. More than 16,000 officers will be on London streets on Wednesday, he said.
All Metropolitan Police leave has been cancelled, with the ranks swollen by reinforcements from other forces and community support officers.
More than five times the usual number of officers for a Tuesday will patrol London's streets later.
Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement on the England riots outside Downing Street David Cameron described the scenes of violence as "sickening"
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard said a 26-year-old man found shot in a car in Croydon, amid the rioting in the town, had died in hospital.
Mr Cameron met officers in the Met Police's Gold command in Lambeth on Tuesday afternoon. He condemned the "sickening scenes of people looting, vandalising, thieving, robbing", which the Met Police said had resulted in 525 arrests and more than 100 people being charged.
He told rioters: "You will feel the full force of the law. And if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punishment."
The recall of Parliament will allow MPs to "stand together in condemnation of these crimes and to stand together in determination to rebuild these communities", he said.
The prime minister returned early from his holiday in Tuscany to discuss the unrest, which first flared on Saturday after a peaceful protest in Tottenham over the fatal shooting of a man by police.
London has seen a wave of "copycat criminal activity" over the past three days, the Met Police said. More than 69 people have been charged with various offences following hundreds of arrests.
Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol are among the other cities where violence broke out.
Looters in a convenience store in Hackney Shops have been looted across the capital.
Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steven Kavanagh said it was a "shocking and appalling morning for London to wake up to".
"The Met was stretched beyond belief in a way that it has never experienced before," he told BBC Breakfast.
Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin ruled out bringing in the Army to help police tackle the violence, but said: "We will be out there in ever greater numbers tonight."
In other developments:
Three people are being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was injured by a car in Wembley, north-west London, while trying to stop suspected looters
Tube stations closed during the riots have now reopened, apart from Ealing Broadway
Part of London's Tramlink between has been suspended as a result of a fire
Elsewhere, 138 people have been arrested in Birmingham after scores of youths smashed windows and looted shops in the shopping area
West Midlands Police said a police station in Holyhead Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, was set alight
Up to 200 youths with masks roamed through Toxteth in Liverpool, while Bristol police said they dealt with outbreaks of disorder involving about 150 people
A Nottinghamshire police station was attacked in the St Ann's area and 200 tyres were set alight in the street
Police dealt with "small pockets of disorder" in the Chapeltown area of Leeds
Monday's violence started in Hackney, north London, after a man was stopped and searched by police, who found nothing.
Groups of people there began attacking officers in Hackney at about 16:20 BST, throwing stones and a bin.
Police cars were wrecked by youths armed with wooden poles and metal bars, while looters smashed their way into shops before police dispersed them.
Nine other forces are supporting the Metropolitan Police, as well as the City of London Police and British Transport Police. Some people had complained there were too few police to deal with the violence.
The Met said Monday's was "the worst" disorder in "current memory" after incidents across the capital.
Several fires broke out in Croydon, including one at a sofa factory which spread to neighbouring buildings and tram lines
Hackney MP Diane Abbott said a London-wide curfew should be considered after 200 riot officers with dogs and mounted police were needed to deal with violence there
Looters raided shops in Stratford High Street and Clapham Junction, where police used armoured vehicles to push back more than 150 people
A Sony warehouse in Enfield, a shopping centre in Woolwich New Road and a timber yard in East Ham were all on fire
Police said two officers were injured when more than 100 people looted a Tesco store in Bethnal Green, while vehicles were set alight in Lewisham and Peckham
There were reports of looting of phone shops in Woolwich High Street, in south-east London, and set a police car on fire
Shops and restaurants were damaged in Ealing, west London
Tuesday's Carling Cup matches at Charlton, West Ham, Crystal Palace and Bristol City have been postponed at the police's request
England and Holland's friendly at Wembley on Wednesday was also called off has also been called off
Hackney resident Catherine Holmes said: "Our community has been hurt and damaged by causeless violence. We spoke to looters trying to get home - the only explanation they gave for their behaviour was that they had no money."
'War zone'
Christian Potts, 29, described Ealing as "like a war zone".
"There were about 25 to 30 masked youths on Haven Green and they just started tearing into a florist with bricks. It's a local family-run business so I can't see why they are doing this."
London's mayor Boris Johnson cut short his holiday to return to the city, while Home Secretary Theresa May did the same to meet Met chiefs.
"These have been the worst scenes of violence and disturbance on our streets for many, many years, and this sort of violence, this level of criminality, this thuggery, this looting, this theft, is completely unacceptable," Ms May told BBC Breakfast.
However, she said the authorities could deal with the situation through robust policing, good use of intelligence and with the support of local communities.
She called on anyone involved in the violence to speak to police.
The trouble follows two nights of violence over the weekend which started after police shot a man dead in Tottenham.
A peaceful protest in Tottenham on Saturday over the death of Mark Duggan, 29, was followed by violence which spread into this week.
Parliament is being recalled on Thursday in response to rioting in England, the prime minister has said.
The government's emergency committee Cobra met on Tuesday after rioting spread across London, with violence flaring in other major cities.
"We will do everything necessary to restore order to Britain's streets and make them safe for the law-abiding," David Cameron said in Downing Street. More than 16,000 officers will be on London streets on Wednesday, he said.
All Metropolitan Police leave has been cancelled, with the ranks swollen by reinforcements from other forces and community support officers.
More than five times the usual number of officers for a Tuesday will patrol London's streets later.
Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement on the England riots outside Downing Street David Cameron described the scenes of violence as "sickening"
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard said a 26-year-old man found shot in a car in Croydon, amid the rioting in the town, had died in hospital.
Mr Cameron met officers in the Met Police's Gold command in Lambeth on Tuesday afternoon. He condemned the "sickening scenes of people looting, vandalising, thieving, robbing", which the Met Police said had resulted in 525 arrests and more than 100 people being charged.
He told rioters: "You will feel the full force of the law. And if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punishment."
The recall of Parliament will allow MPs to "stand together in condemnation of these crimes and to stand together in determination to rebuild these communities", he said.
The prime minister returned early from his holiday in Tuscany to discuss the unrest, which first flared on Saturday after a peaceful protest in Tottenham over the fatal shooting of a man by police.
London has seen a wave of "copycat criminal activity" over the past three days, the Met Police said. More than 69 people have been charged with various offences following hundreds of arrests.
Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol are among the other cities where violence broke out.
Looters in a convenience store in Hackney Shops have been looted across the capital.
Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steven Kavanagh said it was a "shocking and appalling morning for London to wake up to".
"The Met was stretched beyond belief in a way that it has never experienced before," he told BBC Breakfast.
Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin ruled out bringing in the Army to help police tackle the violence, but said: "We will be out there in ever greater numbers tonight."
In other developments:
Three people are being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was injured by a car in Wembley, north-west London, while trying to stop suspected looters
Tube stations closed during the riots have now reopened, apart from Ealing Broadway
Part of London's Tramlink between has been suspended as a result of a fire
Elsewhere, 138 people have been arrested in Birmingham after scores of youths smashed windows and looted shops in the shopping area
West Midlands Police said a police station in Holyhead Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, was set alight
Up to 200 youths with masks roamed through Toxteth in Liverpool, while Bristol police said they dealt with outbreaks of disorder involving about 150 people
A Nottinghamshire police station was attacked in the St Ann's area and 200 tyres were set alight in the street
Police dealt with "small pockets of disorder" in the Chapeltown area of Leeds
Monday's violence started in Hackney, north London, after a man was stopped and searched by police, who found nothing.
Groups of people there began attacking officers in Hackney at about 16:20 BST, throwing stones and a bin.
Police cars were wrecked by youths armed with wooden poles and metal bars, while looters smashed their way into shops before police dispersed them.
Nine other forces are supporting the Metropolitan Police, as well as the City of London Police and British Transport Police. Some people had complained there were too few police to deal with the violence.
The Met said Monday's was "the worst" disorder in "current memory" after incidents across the capital.
Several fires broke out in Croydon, including one at a sofa factory which spread to neighbouring buildings and tram lines
Hackney MP Diane Abbott said a London-wide curfew should be considered after 200 riot officers with dogs and mounted police were needed to deal with violence there
Looters raided shops in Stratford High Street and Clapham Junction, where police used armoured vehicles to push back more than 150 people
A Sony warehouse in Enfield, a shopping centre in Woolwich New Road and a timber yard in East Ham were all on fire
Police said two officers were injured when more than 100 people looted a Tesco store in Bethnal Green, while vehicles were set alight in Lewisham and Peckham
There were reports of looting of phone shops in Woolwich High Street, in south-east London, and set a police car on fire
Shops and restaurants were damaged in Ealing, west London
Tuesday's Carling Cup matches at Charlton, West Ham, Crystal Palace and Bristol City have been postponed at the police's request
England and Holland's friendly at Wembley on Wednesday was also called off has also been called off
Hackney resident Catherine Holmes said: "Our community has been hurt and damaged by causeless violence. We spoke to looters trying to get home - the only explanation they gave for their behaviour was that they had no money."
'War zone'
Christian Potts, 29, described Ealing as "like a war zone".
"There were about 25 to 30 masked youths on Haven Green and they just started tearing into a florist with bricks. It's a local family-run business so I can't see why they are doing this."
London's mayor Boris Johnson cut short his holiday to return to the city, while Home Secretary Theresa May did the same to meet Met chiefs.
"These have been the worst scenes of violence and disturbance on our streets for many, many years, and this sort of violence, this level of criminality, this thuggery, this looting, this theft, is completely unacceptable," Ms May told BBC Breakfast.
However, she said the authorities could deal with the situation through robust policing, good use of intelligence and with the support of local communities.
She called on anyone involved in the violence to speak to police.
The trouble follows two nights of violence over the weekend which started after police shot a man dead in Tottenham.
A peaceful protest in Tottenham on Saturday over the death of Mark Duggan, 29, was followed by violence which spread into this week.
Nigtarded
Da TNB Reporter
Forced to strip naked in the street: Shocking scenes as rioters steal clothes and rifle through bags as people make their way home
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:55 PM on 9th August 2011
Humiliation: A young man is forced to strip to his underpants in the street, having apparently already handed his t-shirt and trainers to a looter. There were unconfirmed reports last night of victims being made to strip in Deptford, south London, and in Birmingham
Daylight robbery: The boy becomes aware of what is happening as the gang closes in around him
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-clothes-rifle-bags-people-make-way-home.html
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:55 PM on 9th August 2011
Humiliation: A young man is forced to strip to his underpants in the street, having apparently already handed his t-shirt and trainers to a looter. There were unconfirmed reports last night of victims being made to strip in Deptford, south London, and in Birmingham
Daylight robbery: The boy becomes aware of what is happening as the gang closes in around him
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-clothes-rifle-bags-people-make-way-home.html
Nigtarded
Da TNB Reporter
Mark Duggan was carrying converted blank-firing handgun when he was shot dead by a single police bullet
Probe into 29-year-old's death could take six months
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:51 PM on 9th August 2011
Investigation: An inquest said the true details of Mr Duggan's death could take six months to emerge
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-handgun-shot-dead-single-police-bullet.html
Probe into 29-year-old's death could take six months
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:51 PM on 9th August 2011
Investigation: An inquest said the true details of Mr Duggan's death could take six months to emerge
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-handgun-shot-dead-single-police-bullet.html
Nigtarded
Da TNB Reporter
While niggers destroy, White people rebuild...
#RiotWombles on the march: After yobs devastate London streets, Twitter-inspired community clean up begins
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:00 PM on 9th August 2011
#riotwombles: Volunteers wait to clear up after overnight disturbances in Clapham Junction, in south London
'London hates looters': More volunteers in Clapham Junction, where they have congregated after call outs on Twitter
Helping hands: Part of a group of about 300 volunteers help clear the remains of destroyed vehicles in Hackney, north London
Aftermath: A fire fighter douses a burnt out building in Croydon, Surrey, following a third night of civil unrest on the streets of London
Wreck: A fireman walks past the burnt out shell of 140-year-old Reeves Furniture store in Croydon this morning
Counting the cost: A woman speaks on the phone in Big Jim's Trims, a shop looted in Ealing
The Sony Distribution Centre in Enfield that was looted and set alight by rioters on Monday evening
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Twitter-inspired-community-clean-begins.html
#RiotWombles on the march: After yobs devastate London streets, Twitter-inspired community clean up begins
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:00 PM on 9th August 2011
#riotwombles: Volunteers wait to clear up after overnight disturbances in Clapham Junction, in south London
'London hates looters': More volunteers in Clapham Junction, where they have congregated after call outs on Twitter
Helping hands: Part of a group of about 300 volunteers help clear the remains of destroyed vehicles in Hackney, north London
Aftermath: A fire fighter douses a burnt out building in Croydon, Surrey, following a third night of civil unrest on the streets of London
Wreck: A fireman walks past the burnt out shell of 140-year-old Reeves Furniture store in Croydon this morning
Counting the cost: A woman speaks on the phone in Big Jim's Trims, a shop looted in Ealing
The Sony Distribution Centre in Enfield that was looted and set alight by rioters on Monday evening
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Twitter-inspired-community-clean-begins.html
Nigtarded
Da TNB Reporter
140 years of business up in flames: Family-run furniture shop that survived the blitz is ravaged by riot fires
House of Reeves, established in 1867, is now just a charred shell
Family owners say 'Our lives have been ruined by the fire'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:47 PM on 9th August 2011
The fires burned through the night as Croydon was hit by rioting and looting
Ablaze: Fire rips through the London Road shops as desperate firefighters attempt to extinguish the flames
Bonfire: Hot are sent spluttering into into the air as fire takes a hold of the Reeves building in the midst of the riots that swept through the town last night
Wreck: The burnt out shell of the 140-year-old Reeves Furniture store in Croydon is littered with charred rafters and bricks today after being set alight in the riots last night
Aftermath: Firefighters continue to pour water onto the smouldering remains of the family-run independent store this morning. The iconic building is now likely to be demolished
Lives ruined: Reeves owner Maurice Reeves, left, is devastated as he returns to his shop this morning to see the damage inflicted by the rioters, and right, the sign on the road which has been named after the iconic store
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...niture-shop-razed-ground-rioters-Croydon.html
House of Reeves, established in 1867, is now just a charred shell
Family owners say 'Our lives have been ruined by the fire'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:47 PM on 9th August 2011
The fires burned through the night as Croydon was hit by rioting and looting
Ablaze: Fire rips through the London Road shops as desperate firefighters attempt to extinguish the flames
Bonfire: Hot are sent spluttering into into the air as fire takes a hold of the Reeves building in the midst of the riots that swept through the town last night
Wreck: The burnt out shell of the 140-year-old Reeves Furniture store in Croydon is littered with charred rafters and bricks today after being set alight in the riots last night
Aftermath: Firefighters continue to pour water onto the smouldering remains of the family-run independent store this morning. The iconic building is now likely to be demolished
Lives ruined: Reeves owner Maurice Reeves, left, is devastated as he returns to his shop this morning to see the damage inflicted by the rioters, and right, the sign on the road which has been named after the iconic store
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...niture-shop-razed-ground-rioters-Croydon.html
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Looks like the blacks are on a campaign to turn London into a European equivalent of Detroit. It will be interesting to see how the libtard media handles this. Usually, they resort to the same old tired excuses that racism by white Americans and the oppression suffer by blacks as a result of slavery are the root cause of these riots. However, NONE of that applies here so they will probably have to work overtime to come up with reasons for this other than the fact that it is just plain TNB. Hopefully, this will wake up the Brits and they will realize that this diversity BS they have been brainwashed with is just that: BS. The solution to this problem is simple: less blacks equals less crimes, riots, drugs, welfare, poverty, etc. (i.e., basically ALL the bad things that can ruin a civilized society). Hopefully, the BNP will make some gains as a result of this.
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"The presence of the negro is the real problem"-President Theodore Roosevelt
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Already, the excuses are being made for black people who are simply acting like black people.
London’s burning: a mob made by the welfare state
Yes, there’s a ‘political context’ to the riots: it is that British youth have been so suckled by the state they have zero sense of community spirit.
Brendan O’Neill
Many commentators are on a mission to contextualise the riots that have swept parts of urban London and other British cities. ‘It’s very naive to look at these riots without the context’, says one journalist, who says the reason the violence kicked off in the London suburb of Tottenham is because ‘that area is getting 75% cuts [in public services]’. Others have said that the political context for the rioting is youth unemployment or working-class anger at David Cameron’s cuts agenda. ‘There is a context to London’s riots that can’t be ignored’, said a writer for the Guardian, and it is the ‘backdrop of brutal cuts and enforced austerity measures’. The ‘mass unrest’ is a protest against unhinged capitalism, apparently.
These observers are right that there is a political context to the riots. They are right to argue that while the police shooting of young black man Mark Duggan may ostensibly have been the trigger for the street violence, there is a broader context to the disturbances. But they are wrong about what the political context is. Painting these riots as some kind of action replay of historic political streetfights against capitalist bosses or racist cops might allow armchair radicals to get their intellectual rocks off, as they lift their noses from dusty tomes about the Levellers or the Suffragettes and fantasise that a political upheaval of equal worth is now occurring outside their windows. But such shameless projection misses what is new and peculiar and deeply worrying about these riots. The political context is not the cuts agenda or racist policing – it is the welfare state, which, it is now clear, has nurtured a new generation that has absolutely no sense of community spirit or social solidarity.
What we have on the streets of London and elsewhere are welfare-state mobs. The youth who are ‘rising up’ – actually they are simply shattering their own communities – represent a generation that has been more suckled by the state than any generation before it. They live in those urban territories where the sharp-elbowed intrusion of the welfare state over the past 30 years has pushed aside older ideals of self-reliance and community spirit. The march of the welfare state into every aspect of less well-off urban people’s existences, from their financial wellbeing to their childrearing habits and even into their emotional lives, with the rise of therapeutic welfarism designed to ensure that the poor remain ‘mentally fit’, has helped to undermine such things as individual resourcefulness and social bonding. The anti-social youthful rioters look to me like the end product of such an anti-social system of state intervention.
The most striking thing about the rioters is how little they seem to care for their own communities (Sound familiar?). You don’t have to be a right-winger with helmet hair and a niggling discomfort with black or chavvy yoof (I am the opposite of that) to recognise that this violence is not political, just criminal. It is entertaining to watch the political contortionism of those commentators who claim that the riots are an uprising against the evils of capitalism, as they struggle to explain why the targets thus far have been Foot Locker sports shops, electrical goods shops, takeaway joints and bus-stops, and why the only ‘gains’ made by the rioters have been to get a new pair of trainers or an Apple laptop. In past episodes of rioting, for example during the Brixton race riots of 1981, looting and the destruction of local infrastructure were largely incidental to the broader expression of political anger, byproducts of the main show, which was a clash between a community and the forces of the state. But in these new riots, smashing stuff up is all there is. It is childish nihilism.
Many older members of the urban communities rocked by violence have been shocked by the level of self-destruction exhibited by the rioters. Some shop-owners have got together to defend their property, even beating up rioters who have turned up with iron bars. In one video doing the rounds on social-networking sites, a West Indian woman in her fifties braves the rubble-strewn streets to lecture the rioters: ‘These people worked hard to make their businesses work and you lot wanna go and burn it up. For what?’ On Twitter, the hashtag #riotcleanup is being used by community members to coordinate some post-riot street-cleaning, to make amends for what one elderly Tottenham resident described as ‘the stupid behaviour of the young’ (he probably said the stupid behaviour of blacks but they changed it).
But it’s more than childish destructiveness motivating the rioters. At a more fundamental level, these are youngsters who are uniquely alienated from the communities they grew up in. Nurtured in large part by the welfare state, financially, physically and educationally, socialised more by the agents of welfarism than by their own neighbours or community representatives, these youth have little moral or emotional attachment to the areas they grew up in. Their rioting reveals, not that Britain is in a time warp back to 1981 or 1985 when there were politically motivated, anti-racist riots against the police, but rather that the tentacle-like spread of the welfare state into every area of people’s lives has utterly zapped old social bonds, the relationship of sharing and solidarity that once existed in working-class communities. In communities that are made dependent upon the state, people are less inclined to depend on each other or on their own social wherewithal. We have a saying in Britain for people who undermine their own living quarters – we call it ‘****ting on your own doorstep’. And this rioting suggests that the welfare state has given rise to a generation perfectly happy to do that.
This is not a political rebellion; it is a mollycoddled mob, a riotous expression of carelessness for one’s own community. And as a left-winger, I refuse to celebrate nihilistic behaviour that has a profoundly negative impact on working people’s lives. Far from being an instance of working-class action, the welfare-state mob has more in common with what Marx described as the lumpenproletariat. Indeed, it is worth recalling Marx’s colourful description in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon of how that French ruler cynically built his power base amongst parts of the bourgeoisie and sections of the lumpenproletariat, so that ‘ruined and adventurous offshoots of the bourgeoisie rubbed shoulders with vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds, swindlers, pickpockets, tricksters, gamblers, brothel-keepers, organ-grinders, ragpickers, knife-grinders, tinkers, beggars… and from this kindred element Boneparte formed the core of his [constituency], where all its members felt the need to benefit themselves at the expense of the labouring nation.’ In very different circumstances, we have something similar today – where the decadent commentariat’s siding with lumpen rioters represents a weird coming together of sections of the bourgeoisie with sections of the underworked and the over-flattered, as the rest of us, ‘the labouring nation’, look on with disdain.
There is one more important part to this story: the reaction of the cops. Their inability to handle the riots effectively reveals the extent to which the British police are far better adapted to consensual policing than conflictual policing. It also demonstrates how far they have been paralysed in our era of the politics of victimhood, where virtually no police activity fails to get followed up by a complaint or a legal case. Their kid-glove approach to the rioters of course only fuels the riots, because as one observer put it, when the rioters ‘see that the police cannot control the situation, [that] leads to a sort of adrenalin-fuelled euphoria’. So this street violence was largely ignited by the excesses of the welfare state and was then intensified by the discombobulation of the police state. In this sense, it reveals something very telling, and quite depressing, about modern Britain.
Brendan O’Neill is editor of spiked. Visit his personal website here.
reprinted from: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10970/
"Truth is NOT racism"-Glenn Beck
"The presence of the negro is the real problem"-President Theodore Roosevelt
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London’s burning: a mob made by the welfare state
Yes, there’s a ‘political context’ to the riots: it is that British youth have been so suckled by the state they have zero sense of community spirit.
Brendan O’Neill
Many commentators are on a mission to contextualise the riots that have swept parts of urban London and other British cities. ‘It’s very naive to look at these riots without the context’, says one journalist, who says the reason the violence kicked off in the London suburb of Tottenham is because ‘that area is getting 75% cuts [in public services]’. Others have said that the political context for the rioting is youth unemployment or working-class anger at David Cameron’s cuts agenda. ‘There is a context to London’s riots that can’t be ignored’, said a writer for the Guardian, and it is the ‘backdrop of brutal cuts and enforced austerity measures’. The ‘mass unrest’ is a protest against unhinged capitalism, apparently.
These observers are right that there is a political context to the riots. They are right to argue that while the police shooting of young black man Mark Duggan may ostensibly have been the trigger for the street violence, there is a broader context to the disturbances. But they are wrong about what the political context is. Painting these riots as some kind of action replay of historic political streetfights against capitalist bosses or racist cops might allow armchair radicals to get their intellectual rocks off, as they lift their noses from dusty tomes about the Levellers or the Suffragettes and fantasise that a political upheaval of equal worth is now occurring outside their windows. But such shameless projection misses what is new and peculiar and deeply worrying about these riots. The political context is not the cuts agenda or racist policing – it is the welfare state, which, it is now clear, has nurtured a new generation that has absolutely no sense of community spirit or social solidarity.
What we have on the streets of London and elsewhere are welfare-state mobs. The youth who are ‘rising up’ – actually they are simply shattering their own communities – represent a generation that has been more suckled by the state than any generation before it. They live in those urban territories where the sharp-elbowed intrusion of the welfare state over the past 30 years has pushed aside older ideals of self-reliance and community spirit. The march of the welfare state into every aspect of less well-off urban people’s existences, from their financial wellbeing to their childrearing habits and even into their emotional lives, with the rise of therapeutic welfarism designed to ensure that the poor remain ‘mentally fit’, has helped to undermine such things as individual resourcefulness and social bonding. The anti-social youthful rioters look to me like the end product of such an anti-social system of state intervention.
The most striking thing about the rioters is how little they seem to care for their own communities (Sound familiar?). You don’t have to be a right-winger with helmet hair and a niggling discomfort with black or chavvy yoof (I am the opposite of that) to recognise that this violence is not political, just criminal. It is entertaining to watch the political contortionism of those commentators who claim that the riots are an uprising against the evils of capitalism, as they struggle to explain why the targets thus far have been Foot Locker sports shops, electrical goods shops, takeaway joints and bus-stops, and why the only ‘gains’ made by the rioters have been to get a new pair of trainers or an Apple laptop. In past episodes of rioting, for example during the Brixton race riots of 1981, looting and the destruction of local infrastructure were largely incidental to the broader expression of political anger, byproducts of the main show, which was a clash between a community and the forces of the state. But in these new riots, smashing stuff up is all there is. It is childish nihilism.
Many older members of the urban communities rocked by violence have been shocked by the level of self-destruction exhibited by the rioters. Some shop-owners have got together to defend their property, even beating up rioters who have turned up with iron bars. In one video doing the rounds on social-networking sites, a West Indian woman in her fifties braves the rubble-strewn streets to lecture the rioters: ‘These people worked hard to make their businesses work and you lot wanna go and burn it up. For what?’ On Twitter, the hashtag #riotcleanup is being used by community members to coordinate some post-riot street-cleaning, to make amends for what one elderly Tottenham resident described as ‘the stupid behaviour of the young’ (he probably said the stupid behaviour of blacks but they changed it).
But it’s more than childish destructiveness motivating the rioters. At a more fundamental level, these are youngsters who are uniquely alienated from the communities they grew up in. Nurtured in large part by the welfare state, financially, physically and educationally, socialised more by the agents of welfarism than by their own neighbours or community representatives, these youth have little moral or emotional attachment to the areas they grew up in. Their rioting reveals, not that Britain is in a time warp back to 1981 or 1985 when there were politically motivated, anti-racist riots against the police, but rather that the tentacle-like spread of the welfare state into every area of people’s lives has utterly zapped old social bonds, the relationship of sharing and solidarity that once existed in working-class communities. In communities that are made dependent upon the state, people are less inclined to depend on each other or on their own social wherewithal. We have a saying in Britain for people who undermine their own living quarters – we call it ‘****ting on your own doorstep’. And this rioting suggests that the welfare state has given rise to a generation perfectly happy to do that.
This is not a political rebellion; it is a mollycoddled mob, a riotous expression of carelessness for one’s own community. And as a left-winger, I refuse to celebrate nihilistic behaviour that has a profoundly negative impact on working people’s lives. Far from being an instance of working-class action, the welfare-state mob has more in common with what Marx described as the lumpenproletariat. Indeed, it is worth recalling Marx’s colourful description in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon of how that French ruler cynically built his power base amongst parts of the bourgeoisie and sections of the lumpenproletariat, so that ‘ruined and adventurous offshoots of the bourgeoisie rubbed shoulders with vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds, swindlers, pickpockets, tricksters, gamblers, brothel-keepers, organ-grinders, ragpickers, knife-grinders, tinkers, beggars… and from this kindred element Boneparte formed the core of his [constituency], where all its members felt the need to benefit themselves at the expense of the labouring nation.’ In very different circumstances, we have something similar today – where the decadent commentariat’s siding with lumpen rioters represents a weird coming together of sections of the bourgeoisie with sections of the underworked and the over-flattered, as the rest of us, ‘the labouring nation’, look on with disdain.
There is one more important part to this story: the reaction of the cops. Their inability to handle the riots effectively reveals the extent to which the British police are far better adapted to consensual policing than conflictual policing. It also demonstrates how far they have been paralysed in our era of the politics of victimhood, where virtually no police activity fails to get followed up by a complaint or a legal case. Their kid-glove approach to the rioters of course only fuels the riots, because as one observer put it, when the rioters ‘see that the police cannot control the situation, [that] leads to a sort of adrenalin-fuelled euphoria’. So this street violence was largely ignited by the excesses of the welfare state and was then intensified by the discombobulation of the police state. In this sense, it reveals something very telling, and quite depressing, about modern Britain.
Brendan O’Neill is editor of spiked. Visit his personal website here.
reprinted from: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10970/
"Truth is NOT racism"-Glenn Beck
"The presence of the negro is the real problem"-President Theodore Roosevelt
"Reading NNN could save your life"-Ranger
White Sail
Junior News Editor
http://news.yahoo.com/uk-pm-recalls-parliament-london-riot-crisis-122431993.html
UK PM recalls Parliament for London riot crisis
By DANICA KIRKA ,JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press
AP – 49 mins ago
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer recess Tuesday and nearly tripled the number of police on the streets after three days of rioting in London blossomed into a full-blown political crisis.
Cameron described the scenes of burning buildings and smashed windows in London and several other British cities as "sickening," but refrained from more extreme measures such as calling in the military to help beleaguered police restore order.
Instead, he said 16,000 officers would be on the streets of the capital Tuesday night, almost tripling the number that were out Monday night.
"People should be in no doubt that we will do everything necessary to restore order to Britain's streets and to make them safe for the law-abiding," Cameron told reporters after rushing home from an Italian vacation to chair a crisis meeting at his Downing Street office.
A wave of violence and looting has raged across London since Saturday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s.
Some 525 arrests have been made in London alone and dozens were arrested in other cities. Police announced Tuesday that plastic bullets would be "one of the tactics" available to officers to quell the riots.
The riots also claimed their first death — a 26-year-old found shot dead in a car.
Parliament will return to duty on Thursday, as the political fallout from the rampage takes hold. The crisis is a major test for Cameron's Conservative-led coalition government, which includes Liberal Democrats who had long suspected its program of harsh budget restraints could provoke popular dissent.
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 into the wee hours of Tuesday. The spreading disorder was an unwelcome warning of the possibility of violence during London's 2012 Summer Olympics, less than a year away.
England's soccer match Wednesday against the Netherlands in London's Wembley stadium was canceled to free up police officers for riot duty.
Cameron said leaves have been canceled for police in London, and reinforcements have been called in from all over the country. Armored vehicles were deployed in some of the worst-hit districts, but authorities still struggled to keep pace with the chaos unfolding at flashpoints across London, in the central city of Birmingham, the western city of Bristol and the northwestern city of Liverpool.
"The violence we have seen is simply inexcusable. Ordinary people have had their lives turned upside down by this mindless thuggery," police commander Christine Jones said.
London's police said 14 people were injured. It was unclear if the man who died had been among them.
The rioters appeared to have little unifying cause — though some claimed to oppose sharp government spending cuts, which will slash welfare payments and cut tens of thousands of public sector jobs through 2015. Typical nigger reaction to cuts in gibsmedat YT.
But many were attracted simply by the opportunity for violence. "Come join the fun!" shouted one youth in the east London suburb of Hackney, where shops were attacked and cars torched.
Rioters were left virtually unchallenged in several neighborhoods and able to plunder from stores at will or attempt to invade homes. Restaurants and stores closed early across London again Tuesday, fearing more looting.
Graham Reeves, 52, stood dumbstruck in front of the smoldering ruins of his family store, the House of Reeves on Croydon in south London. The store is a local landmark run by his family for decades — he said his 80-year old father was hysterical when he heard the news.
"No one's stolen anything," Graham Reeves said. "They just burnt it down."
Disorder flared throughout the night, from gritty suburbs along the capital's fringes to central London's posh Notting Hill neighborhood.
Police said all London police holding cells were full and prisoners were being taken to surrounding communities. At least 100 have been charged, including an 11-year old. Police were also monitoring Twitter, and warned that those who posted messages inciting the violence could face arrest.
Three people were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was struck by a car in north London early Tuesday. About 44 police officers have been injured in the violence.
The images of London's violence recalled the 2005 riots in France, when hooded and masked youths fought police in three weeks of raging overnight battles in housing projects, confrontations that became a challenge to the French state itself.
Mass deployments of police eventually subdued the rioters, but tensions between French police and youth in the projects continue today, with periodic clashes between youths with Molotov cocktails and police with tear gas. French police say between 30 and 50 cars are set on fire during an average week. On the most fiery night of the 2005 riots, more than 1,400 cars went up in flames.
Violence in London first broke out late Saturday in the low-income, multiethnic (isn't diversity great?) northern district of Tottenham, where protesters demonstrated against the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old father of four who was gunned down in disputed circumstances Thursday.
A brief inquest hearing into Duggan's death was being held Tuesday, though it will likely be several months before a full hearing.
Duggan's death stirred old animosities and racial tensions similar to those that prompted massive U.K. race riots in the 1980s, despite efforts by London police to build better relations with the city's ethnic communities.
But, as the latest unrest spread, some pointed to rising social tensions in Britain as the government slashes 80 billion pounds ($130 billion) from public spending by 2015 to reduce the huge deficit, swollen after the country spent billions bailing out its foundering banks.
Sony Corp. said a major blaze had broken out at its distribution center near Enfield, north London, damaging DVDs and other products. So many fires were being fought in the capital that Thames Water warned that some customers could face water pressure drops. In the Clapham Junction area of south London, a mob stole masks from a party store to disguise their identities and then set the building on fire.
Dozens of people attacked shops in Birmingham's main retail district, and clashed with police in Liverpool and Bristol.
"This is the uprising of the working class. We're redistributing the wealth," said Bryn Phillips, a 28-year-old self-described anarchist, as young people emerged from a store with chocolate bars and ice cream cones.
Some residents called for police to deploy water cannons to disperse rioters, or call on the military for support. They questioned the strength of leadership within London's police department — particularly after a wave of resignations prompted by the country's phone-hacking scandal.
Youths used text messages, instant messaging on BlackBerry phones and social media platforms such as Twitter to coordinate attacks and stay ahead of the police.
About 100 young people clashed with police in the Camden and Chalk Farm areas of north London on Monday night. In the Peckham district of south London, where a building was set ablaze along with a bus — which was not carrying passengers — onlookers said the scene resembled a conflict zone. Cars were torched in nearby Lewisham, and in west London's Ealing suburb the windows of each store along entire streets had been smashed.
"There's been tension for a long time. The kids aren't happy. They hate the police," said Matthew Yeoland, a 43-year-old teacher watching the unrest in Peckham. "It's like a war zone and the police weren't doing anything."
Police said Duggan was shot dead last week when police from Operation Trident — the unit that investigates gun crime in the black community — stopped a cab he was riding in.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is investigating the shooting, said a "non-police firearm" was recovered at the scene. But the Guardian newspaper reported that a bullet in the officer's radio was police-issue, indicating Duggan may not have fired at the officer.
Duggan's partner, Semone Wilson, insisted that her fiance was not connected to gang violence and urged police to offer more information about his death. But she rejected suggestions that the riots were linked to protests over his death.
"It got out of hand. It's not connected to this anymore. This is out of control," she said.
The past year has seen mass protests against the tripling of student tuition fees and cuts to public sector pensions. In November, December and March, small groups broke away from large marches in London to loot. In the most notorious episode, rioters attacked a Rolls-Royce carrying Prince Charles and his wife Camilla to a charity concert.
However, the full impact of spending cuts has yet to be felt and the unemployment rate is stable — although it remains highest among youth, especially in areas like Tottenham, Hackney and Croydon.
Some residents insisted joblessness was not to blame. "It's just an excuse for the young ones to come and rob shops," said Brixton resident Marilyn Moseley, 49.
UK PM recalls Parliament for London riot crisis
By DANICA KIRKA ,JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press
AP – 49 mins ago
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer recess Tuesday and nearly tripled the number of police on the streets after three days of rioting in London blossomed into a full-blown political crisis.
Cameron described the scenes of burning buildings and smashed windows in London and several other British cities as "sickening," but refrained from more extreme measures such as calling in the military to help beleaguered police restore order.
Instead, he said 16,000 officers would be on the streets of the capital Tuesday night, almost tripling the number that were out Monday night.
"People should be in no doubt that we will do everything necessary to restore order to Britain's streets and to make them safe for the law-abiding," Cameron told reporters after rushing home from an Italian vacation to chair a crisis meeting at his Downing Street office.
A wave of violence and looting has raged across London since Saturday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s.
Some 525 arrests have been made in London alone and dozens were arrested in other cities. Police announced Tuesday that plastic bullets would be "one of the tactics" available to officers to quell the riots.
The riots also claimed their first death — a 26-year-old found shot dead in a car.
Parliament will return to duty on Thursday, as the political fallout from the rampage takes hold. The crisis is a major test for Cameron's Conservative-led coalition government, which includes Liberal Democrats who had long suspected its program of harsh budget restraints could provoke popular dissent.
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 into the wee hours of Tuesday. The spreading disorder was an unwelcome warning of the possibility of violence during London's 2012 Summer Olympics, less than a year away.
England's soccer match Wednesday against the Netherlands in London's Wembley stadium was canceled to free up police officers for riot duty.
Cameron said leaves have been canceled for police in London, and reinforcements have been called in from all over the country. Armored vehicles were deployed in some of the worst-hit districts, but authorities still struggled to keep pace with the chaos unfolding at flashpoints across London, in the central city of Birmingham, the western city of Bristol and the northwestern city of Liverpool.
"The violence we have seen is simply inexcusable. Ordinary people have had their lives turned upside down by this mindless thuggery," police commander Christine Jones said.
London's police said 14 people were injured. It was unclear if the man who died had been among them.
The rioters appeared to have little unifying cause — though some claimed to oppose sharp government spending cuts, which will slash welfare payments and cut tens of thousands of public sector jobs through 2015. Typical nigger reaction to cuts in gibsmedat YT.
But many were attracted simply by the opportunity for violence. "Come join the fun!" shouted one youth in the east London suburb of Hackney, where shops were attacked and cars torched.
Rioters were left virtually unchallenged in several neighborhoods and able to plunder from stores at will or attempt to invade homes. Restaurants and stores closed early across London again Tuesday, fearing more looting.
Graham Reeves, 52, stood dumbstruck in front of the smoldering ruins of his family store, the House of Reeves on Croydon in south London. The store is a local landmark run by his family for decades — he said his 80-year old father was hysterical when he heard the news.
"No one's stolen anything," Graham Reeves said. "They just burnt it down."
Disorder flared throughout the night, from gritty suburbs along the capital's fringes to central London's posh Notting Hill neighborhood.
Police said all London police holding cells were full and prisoners were being taken to surrounding communities. At least 100 have been charged, including an 11-year old.
Police were also monitoring Twitter, and warned that those who posted messages inciting the violence could face arrest.Three people were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was struck by a car in north London early Tuesday. About 44 police officers have been injured in the violence.
The images of London's violence recalled the 2005 riots in France, when hooded and masked youths fought police in three weeks of raging overnight battles in housing projects, confrontations that became a challenge to the French state itself.
Mass deployments of police eventually subdued the rioters, but tensions between French police and youth in the projects continue today, with periodic clashes between youths with Molotov cocktails and police with tear gas. French police say between 30 and 50 cars are set on fire during an average week. On the most fiery night of the 2005 riots, more than 1,400 cars went up in flames.
Violence in London first broke out late Saturday in the low-income, multiethnic (isn't diversity great?)
northern district of Tottenham, where protesters demonstrated against the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old father of four who was gunned down in disputed circumstances Thursday.A brief inquest hearing into Duggan's death was being held Tuesday, though it will likely be several months before a full hearing.
Duggan's death stirred old animosities and racial tensions similar to those that prompted massive U.K. race riots in the 1980s, despite efforts by London police to build better relations with the city's ethnic communities.
But, as the latest unrest spread, some pointed to rising social tensions in Britain as the government slashes 80 billion pounds ($130 billion) from public spending by 2015 to reduce the huge deficit, swollen after the country spent billions bailing out its foundering banks.
Sony Corp. said a major blaze had broken out at its distribution center near Enfield, north London, damaging DVDs and other products. So many fires were being fought in the capital that Thames Water warned that some customers could face water pressure drops. In the Clapham Junction area of south London, a mob stole masks from a party store to disguise their identities and then set the building on fire.
Dozens of people attacked shops in Birmingham's main retail district, and clashed with police in Liverpool and Bristol.
"This is the uprising of the working class.
We're redistributing the wealth," said Bryn Phillips, a 28-year-old self-described anarchist, as young people emerged from a store with chocolate bars and ice cream cones.Some residents called for police to deploy water cannons to disperse rioters, or call on the military for support. They questioned the strength of leadership within London's police department — particularly after a wave of resignations prompted by the country's phone-hacking scandal.
Youths used text messages, instant messaging on BlackBerry phones and social media platforms such as Twitter to coordinate attacks and stay ahead of the police.
About 100 young people clashed with police in the Camden and Chalk Farm areas of north London on Monday night. In the Peckham district of south London, where a building was set ablaze along with a bus — which was not carrying passengers — onlookers said the scene resembled a conflict zone. Cars were torched in nearby Lewisham, and in west London's Ealing suburb the windows of each store along entire streets had been smashed.
"There's been tension for a long time. The kids aren't happy. They hate the police," said Matthew Yeoland, a 43-year-old teacher watching the unrest in Peckham. "It's like a war zone and the police weren't doing anything."
Police said Duggan was shot dead last week when police from Operation Trident — the unit that investigates gun crime in the black community — stopped a cab he was riding in.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is investigating the shooting, said a "non-police firearm" was recovered at the scene. But the Guardian newspaper reported that a bullet in the officer's radio was police-issue, indicating Duggan may not have fired at the officer.
Duggan's partner, Semone Wilson, insisted that her fiance
was not connected to gang violence and urged police to offer more information about his death. But she rejected suggestions that the riots were linked to protests over his death."It got out of hand. It's not connected to this anymore. This is out of control," she said.
The past year has seen mass protests against the tripling of student tuition fees and cuts to public sector pensions. In November, December and March, small groups broke away from large marches in London to loot. In the most notorious episode, rioters attacked a Rolls-Royce carrying Prince Charles and his wife Camilla to a charity concert.
However, the full impact of spending cuts has yet to be felt and the unemployment rate is stable — although it remains highest among youth, especially in areas like Tottenham, Hackney and Croydon.
Some residents insisted joblessness was not to blame. "It's just an excuse for the young ones to come and rob shops," said Brixton resident Marilyn Moseley, 49.
vorlos
Junior News Editor
http://voxday.blogspot.com/
Multiculturalism runs amok across England:
"Violence and mayhem were spreading like wildfire through the capital last night with police apparently powerless to act. Scenes of mob rule became more terrifying by the minute as widespread arson and anarchy was added to the orgy of looting. By midnight flashpoints had multiplied around London, with Clapham, Hackney, Dalston, Peckham, Woolwich and Lewisham added to the list which already included Enfield, Walthamstow and Tottenham. And there were fears that the chaos could spread nationwide, with Croydon to the south of the capital ablaze, and even Birmingham and Bristol joining in the destruction as hundreds of youths smashed shop windows and looted the contents."
Come on, everyone! Let's all join hands and sing a rousing chorus of "People are People". Surely what we have here is merely a failure to communicate and mutually understand!
The fact is that the Post-Modern West has forgotten what both the Imperial Chinese and the Republican Romans very well understood 2,000 years ago. Barbarians are barbarians. They are not civilized people.
They do not build, they do not produce, they have no capacity or interest in doing anything more than breed, subsist, and destroy. You build a wall to keep the barbarians out, and when they try to invade, as they eventually will, you utilize civilized discipline to slaughter them.
You can try to convert them to civilization in their own lands, and sometimes they will be able to maintain one if the population possesses sufficient average time preferences, but whatever you do, you don't permit them to move in next door.
The picture above is an apt metaphor for Western multiculturalism. The man being beaten up is a press photographer, most likely a nice left-liberal who up until the very moment that the photo was taken was a staunch believer in multiculturalism and human equality. But this image is perhaps even more apt.
And don't fool yourself. This is coming to America soon. Be prepared. Take some of those gold profits and invest in wood, blued steel, copper, and lead. You don't need an arsenal sufficient for the Apocalypse, but at a minimum, you need enough to prove a sufficiently hard target to encourage the barbarians to seek easier prey.
Here is an example of the difference between civilization and barbarism. Note that the barbarians quail before practically ANY show of discipline and determination by the civilized.
"Earlier, a social divide revealed itself in Clapham this morning. Looters stopped sacking shops at the junction between St Johns Road to the north and Northcote Road to the south. To the north are council estates and chain stores such as Debenhams, JD and Currys. These shops were looted. To the south are Victorian terraces and shops like Jack Wills, White Stuff and artisan bakeries. These were untouched. Am told Northcote Road residents formed a line at where the roads meet and let no-one pass."
It's not a social divide, but rather a societal divide. This is why segregation is not only vital, it is a moral imperative supported by thousands of years of evidence. Mass immigration and forced desegregation is literally societal suicide by the civilized.
Multiculturalism runs amok across England:
"Violence and mayhem were spreading like wildfire through the capital last night with police apparently powerless to act. Scenes of mob rule became more terrifying by the minute as widespread arson and anarchy was added to the orgy of looting. By midnight flashpoints had multiplied around London, with Clapham, Hackney, Dalston, Peckham, Woolwich and Lewisham added to the list which already included Enfield, Walthamstow and Tottenham. And there were fears that the chaos could spread nationwide, with Croydon to the south of the capital ablaze, and even Birmingham and Bristol joining in the destruction as hundreds of youths smashed shop windows and looted the contents."
Come on, everyone! Let's all join hands and sing a rousing chorus of "People are People". Surely what we have here is merely a failure to communicate and mutually understand!
The fact is that the Post-Modern West has forgotten what both the Imperial Chinese and the Republican Romans very well understood 2,000 years ago. Barbarians are barbarians. They are not civilized people.
They do not build, they do not produce, they have no capacity or interest in doing anything more than breed, subsist, and destroy. You build a wall to keep the barbarians out, and when they try to invade, as they eventually will, you utilize civilized discipline to slaughter them.
You can try to convert them to civilization in their own lands, and sometimes they will be able to maintain one if the population possesses sufficient average time preferences, but whatever you do, you don't permit them to move in next door.
The picture above is an apt metaphor for Western multiculturalism. The man being beaten up is a press photographer, most likely a nice left-liberal who up until the very moment that the photo was taken was a staunch believer in multiculturalism and human equality. But this image is perhaps even more apt.
And don't fool yourself. This is coming to America soon. Be prepared. Take some of those gold profits and invest in wood, blued steel, copper, and lead. You don't need an arsenal sufficient for the Apocalypse, but at a minimum, you need enough to prove a sufficiently hard target to encourage the barbarians to seek easier prey.
Here is an example of the difference between civilization and barbarism. Note that the barbarians quail before practically ANY show of discipline and determination by the civilized.
"Earlier, a social divide revealed itself in Clapham this morning. Looters stopped sacking shops at the junction between St Johns Road to the north and Northcote Road to the south. To the north are council estates and chain stores such as Debenhams, JD and Currys. These shops were looted. To the south are Victorian terraces and shops like Jack Wills, White Stuff and artisan bakeries. These were untouched. Am told Northcote Road residents formed a line at where the roads meet and let no-one pass."
It's not a social divide, but rather a societal divide. This is why segregation is not only vital, it is a moral imperative supported by thousands of years of evidence. Mass immigration and forced desegregation is literally societal suicide by the civilized.
Rasp
Senior Editor
A 4th night of riots in Britain
A shop is looted in Hackney. Youths (niggers) set fire to shops and vehicles in a host of areas of London and clashed with police in the city of Birmingham
Looters (niggers) run from a clothing store in Peckham, Riots spread to new areas of London on Monday and looting erupted in the city of Birmingham as Britain's worst unrest in decades escalated in another night of violence.
A photographer holds his head after he was attacked by (niggers) protesters in Hackney
A shop is looted in Hackney. Youths (niggers) set fire to shops and vehicles in a host of areas of London and clashed with police in the city of Birmingham
Looters (niggers) run from a clothing store in Peckham, Riots spread to new areas of London on Monday and looting erupted in the city of Birmingham as Britain's worst unrest in decades escalated in another night of violence.
A photographer holds his head after he was attacked by (niggers) protesters in Hackney
Rasp
Senior Editor
U.K. far right promises vigilantism in riots
Stephen Lennon, 28, leader of the English Defense League, poses for a photograph following an interview with The Associated Press in Luton, England.
Stephen Lennon, 28, leader of the English Defense League, poses for a photograph following an interview with The Associated Press in Luton, England.
Ranger
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U.K. far right promises vigilantism in riots
Stephen Lennon, 28, leader of the English Defense League, poses for a photograph following an interview with The Associated Press in Luton, England.
They had better arm up. That is the ONLY way to deal with TNB. You CANNOT reason with it nor can you be soft in dealing with it. Equal or overwhelming force is the ONLY thing that can deter/neutralize TNB. I remember that during the LA riots of 92, some of the Korean shop owners armed themselves heavily with assault weapons and stood guard in front of their shops. Their shops were NOT looted and burned to the ground. Shop owners who relied on the police for protection or put up stupid signs like "Black owned", "I support the black community" or "I employ blacks" had their shops looted and burned. The law abiding people in London have a GREAT advantage in regards to these riots... Blacks are ALL the same no matter where they live in the world so the TNB is ALWAYS the same. So what works against TNB in the US will work against TNB in London. For example, the US Post Office put an end to the LA riots by putting out the word that it would NOT deliver welfare checks while the rioting was going on. I bet the SAME thing would work in London. There is NO doubt in my mind that practically ALL of the blacks looting and burning are in the British welfare system in one form or another.
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Sky News reporting TNB outbreak in the city of Gloucester. Also, this:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/195...-uk-riots-pictures-tottenham-gloucershire.htm
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/195...-uk-riots-pictures-tottenham-gloucershire.htm