London Burns - Riots all around England

The world's reaction to events over the past few days in England.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14471921

 

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This site shows a geopolitical map of London highlighting areas of social deprivation in red + markers where all the trouble has sparked off in the last few days. No surprises really.

http://mattstiles.tumblr.com/post/8696184447/mapping-london-riots-deprivation

 

Apparently amazon reports a 6000% rise in sales of ........

You guessed it: Aluminum baseball bats.

Someone's making money on this shit ....

 

No way! Are you shitting me?

 

Just saw it on CNN international.

Also saw an interview with this poor guy who related how he had practiced CPR on his son. The son's dead (he wasn't a looter) but I didn't get the details of what went down.

Fucking bad karma going down your side of the channel, man.

 

Just getting the update: the son got killed in a hit-and-run.

 

Meanwhile ....

• The Syrian government kills more of it's own people.
• Famine is having a field day in Africa
• Radiation is fucking the Japanese people big time
• Between the UE and the US, the economy is becoming a major fuck up


..... Politicians. They WILL fuck you up.

 

I always knew one day this country would get it's long overdue wake up call.

 

Probably not related then to the dickhead interviewed on Radio 4 this evening who said the reason he was rioting was "because the Poles are coming here and taking all our jobs". Actually, I think he was from Manchester, but that's still no excuse...

But really this isn't revolutionary, more reactionary. There's very little political content, and what there is seems to be more modelled on our friend above who blames the Poles.

What we actually have seems to be more a re-emergence of the soccer hooligans of the 1970s, if anyone remembers them. And I'd bet the violence is orchestrated on exactly the same lines - a small group of ring-leaders and a whole mass of bandwagon-jumpers out to smash anything / anyone they can get away with.

Really, this is just what happens in most British towns and cities most weekends [and other nights] but writ large. Once it kicked-off it expanded on the "monkey see, monkey do" principle, and, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, the IQ of a mob is equal to the IQ of its thickest participant.

Most of those involved probably couldn't name the guy whose death started all this off, I'm willing to bet a fair percentage of them wouldn't even have heard of the incident. They just jumped on the bandwagon because they like breaking things / people, especially if they're part of the herd and can get away with it due to weight of numbers.

Ok - a bit of personal experience. We've not had riots in this city, and I really hope we dont have any... we've lost a lot of shops and facilities already, the last thing we need is some arsehole burning everything down, or putting a few more small businesses out [remember: the multi-nationals will re-build. The small businesses will most likely be gone forever. Where's the revolution in that ?].

But there are people I happen to know in this city who would dearly like a riot. Not for any political or social reform reasons, they dont give a shit about that. But because it'd be a great cover for them to do a bit of thieving. They already have their shopping lists made out... not to mention their lists of customers. They dont think any further than that. They dont care beyond that.

Its not revolution, its actually capitalism at its most basic and brutal.

And yeah, I expect there are a few people who really think there's some social benefit in all this. I guess the question that should be asked here is why the same numbers of people cant get together and create, rather than destroy.

The answer, I suspect, is that as with the soccer hooligans, they just like to destroy. Trouble is, once you've destroyed what you already have, who's going to replace it ?



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The victim was one of three men killed while protecting their neighbourhood from any incursions of looters/burners.



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That is the problem. There is nothing that is a about change or protest. It's just useless violence that will make it so much worse for everybody.

The man on the street .... as usual.

 

Just what I feared. Fuck these guys.

 

I don't think that the rioters and looters are trying to prove a point,I believe it's just wanton vandalism. There have been many remarks on TV saying that these people are poor/deprived....well they all seem to look healthy and wearing up to date clothing, none are walking around in rags.
When I was bringing up my family, a good few years as a single parent there wasn't much around for them either,but they didn't go around looting or vandalising shops or buildings.
I think for me the saddest part of all this is the deaths and the attack on a young boy who's face was covered in blood, 2 lads appear to befriend him,all the while one of them is looting his rucksack that the young lad is still wearing, then you see both lads taking stuff from the rucksack,then leaving the young lad on his own.
A charity shop was completely vandalised and looted, the shop raises funds for Romanian children.....what sort of person loots a charity shop?

My wish is that all this violence stops sooner rather than later before more people have to die.

 

Basically, the same people who break into / trash charity shops even when there isn't a riot going on.



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They hate people from eastern Europe .... they take the jobs.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/aug/09/uk-riots-incident-map

Riot map's getting crowded.

Greenwich:
Bottles thrown at police. Presence of far-right political party English Defence League (EDL) 'protecting' Eltham residents.

Exactly the dickish behaviour that I predicted. God damn them. There was some interviews and footage of "vigilantes" in Enfield and they really just seemed like a bunch of dull-minded hooligan fucks, singing their football chants up and down the street, blaming the problem on foreigners and other races, as usual. And they looked jacked up on amphetamines or something. These fuck-heads are more trouble than they're worth, they're the kind of idiots that sire the "chav scum" that are rioting. This country makes me so fucking mad.

Any reports of activity anywhere tonight?

The riot map points to small incidents in Cardiff, hope IB is ok.

 

Just a little something for everyone who thinks what a jolly little game all these riots are...​

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I've not watched the news for 5 hours. getting pissed, like a lot of the new school looters are right now I expect (p.s. I bought my booze from ASDA my local ethical supermarket) I don't know what's happened and right now I don't want to because it's making me a bit sad to think about it right now

 

Oh, thank goodness we have these brainless cunts defending the streets, now that it's far too late and already finished. This country is fucked, look how stupd we are:

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