For Fourth Night in Row, U.K. Set Ablaze by Rioters
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LONDON (The Blaze/AP) — Thousands more police officers flooded London streets Tuesday in a bid to end Britain’s worst rioting in a generation as nervous shopkeepers closed early and some residents stood guard to protect their neighborhoods. An eerie calm prevailed in the city, but unrest spread across central and northern England on a fourth night of violence driven by poor, diverse and brazen crowds of young people.
Scenes of ransacked stores, torched cars and blackened buildings frightened and outraged Britons just a year before London is to host the summer Olympic Games, and brought demands for a tougher response from law enforcement.
London’s Metropolitan Police department put thousands more officers in the streets and said that by Wednesday there would be 16,000 – almost triple the number present Monday.
Violence flared in Hackney’s Mare Street area today. John Domokos talks to local residents as police dog units move in
Britain‘s riots began Saturday when an initially peaceful protest over a police shooting in London’s Tottenham neighborhood turned violent. That clash has morphed into a general lawlessness in London and several other cities that police have struggled to halt with ordinary tactics.
While the rioters have run off with sneakers, bikes, electronics and leather goods, they also have torched stores apparently just for the fun of seeing something burn. They were left virtually unchallenged in several neighborhoods, and when police did arrive they often were able to flee quickly and regroup.
Some saw Britain’s economic crisis and deep cuts planned for social benefits as a deeper underlying cause for the outburst of violence.
The Guardian brings us footage of the violence that flared up in Hackney’s Mare Street area Tuesday, reporting that John Domokos talked to local residents as police dog units moved in:
The show of strength by police appeared to have quelled unrest in London late Tuesday, but in a move that could raise tensions, a far-right group said about 1,000 of its members around the country were taking to the streets to deter rioters.
“We’re going to stop the riots – police obviously can’t handle it,” Stephen Lennon, leader of the far-right English Defense League, told The Associated Press. He warned that he couldn‘t guarantee there wouldn’t be violent clashes with rioting youths.
Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to the bombing and massacre that killed 77 people in Norway last month, has cited the EDL as an inspiration.
Firefighters were tackling a major blaze at the site of a recycling center and fuel depot in Tottenham early on Wednesday, but it was unclear whether the fire was linked to any new outbreak of rioting. Outside of London, chaos continued to spread.
In the northwestern city of Manchester, hundreds of youths rampaged through the city center, hurling bottles and stones at police and vandalizing stores. A women‘s clothing store on the city’s main shopping street was set ablaze, along with a disused library in nearby Salford. Looters targeted stores selling designer clothes and expensive consumer electronics.
Manchester’s assistant chief constable Garry Shewan said looting and arson had taken place there on an unprecedented scale, but appeared to have little motive.
“We want to make it absolutely clear – they have nothing to protest against. There is nothing in a sense of injustice and there has been no spark that has led to this,” he said.
The Manchester News provides footage of the looting from Foot Asylum in Manchester’s Arndale Centre:
While ITN News brings images of rioters setting fire to a shop in Manchester, while smashing their way into other stores in the city center:
In the central England city of Nottingham, police said rioters hurled firebombs though the window of one police station, and set a vehicle alight outside a second. Eight men were arrested, but there were no reports of injuries.
Neither Manchester nor Nottingham had previously been involved in unrest. There also were minor clashes for the first time in the central England locations of Leicester, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich.
The ITN News footage below features vehicles that were set alight in West Bromwich and violence erupting for a second night in Birmingham:
In London, stores, offices and nursery schools closed early amid fears of fresh rioting. Many usually busy streets were quiet as cafes, restaurants and pubs also decided to shut down for the night.
Many shops had their metal blinds pulled down, while other business owners rushed to secure plywood over their windows before nightfall.
Some London residents prepared to defend their homes and stores. Outside a Sikh temple in Southall, west London, residents stood guard and vowed to defend their place of worship if mobs of young rioters appeared. Another group marched through Enfield, in north London, aiming to deter looters.
In east London’s Bethnal Green district, convenience store owner Adnan Butt said residents were tense.
“People are all at home – they’re scared” of the rioters, he said.
Police offered advice on what actions people could legally take to defend homes from attack. “As a general rule, the more extreme the circumstances and the fear felt, the more force you can lawfully use in self-defense,” London police said in advice circulated late Tuesday.
Senior officers said they were considering the possible use of plastic bullets – blunt-nosed projectiles designed to deal punishing blows to rioters without penetrating the skin. Such weapons, formally called baton rounds, still are used to quell riots in Northern Ireland but have never been used by police on Britain’s mainland.
Prime Minister David Cameron’s government rejected calls by Conservative lawmaker Patrick Mercer and some members of the public for strong-arm riot measures that British police generally avoid, such as tear gas and water cannons.
“They should have the tools available and they should use them if the commander on the ground thinks it’s necessary,” Mercer said.
The disorder has caused heartache for Londoners whose businesses and homes were torched or ransacked, and a crisis for police and politicians already staggering from a spluttering economy and a scandal over illegal phone hacking by a tabloid newspaper that has dragged in senior politicians and police.
“The public wanted to see tough action. They wanted to see it sooner and there is a degree of frustration,” said Andrew Silke, head of the criminology department at the University of East London.
So far 685 people have been arrested in London and 111 charged – including an 11-year-old boy – and the capital’s prison cells were overflowing. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said it had teams of lawyers working 24 hours a day to help police decide whether to charge suspects, allowing them quickly clear police station cells.
About 230 people were arrested after two days of violence in Birmingham – where police were investigating reports of shots fired in a restive inner-city neighborhood. In the northern city of Liverpool, about 200 youths hurled missiles at police in a second night of unrest.
A total of 111 officers and 14 members of the public have been hurt so far in the rioting, including a man in his 60s with life-threatening injuries, police said.
The unrest has been Britain’s worst since race riots set London ablaze in the 1980s. London’s beleaguered police force noted that it had received more than 20,000 emergency calls on Monday – four times the normal number. Scotland Yard has called in reinforcements from around the country and asked all volunteer special constables to report for duty.
A soccer match scheduled for Wednesday between England and the Netherlands at London’s Wembley stadium was canceled to free up police officers for riot duty. Britain‘s soccer authorities said they were in talks with police to see whether this weekend’s season-opening matches of the Premier League could still go ahead in London.
Prime Minister David Cameron cut short a holiday in Italy to deal with the crisis, reversing an earlier decision to remain on his vacation. He recalled Parliament from its summer recess for an emergency debate on the riots Thursday.
Cameron described the scenes of burning buildings and smashed windows as “sickening,” but refrained from tougher measures such as calling in the military to help restore order.
“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 a crisis meeting at his Downing Street office.
Other politicians visited riot sites Tuesday – but for many residents it was too little, too late.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was booed by crowds who shouted “Go home!” in Birmingham, while London Mayor Boris Johnson – who flew back overnight from his summer vacation – was heckled on a shattered shopping street in Clapham, south London.
Johnson said the riots would not stop London from “welcoming the world to our city” for the Olympics.
“We have time in the next 12 months to rebuild, to repair the damage that has been done,” he said. “I’m not saying it will be done overnight, but this is what we are going to do.”
Violence broke out late Saturday in the low-income, multiethnic district of Tottenham in north London, after a protest against the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old father of four who was gunned down in disputed circumstances Thursday.
Police said Duggan was shot dead when officers 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 that there was no evidence it had been fired. An inquest into Duggan’s death was opened Tuesday, but a full hearing will likely take several months.
Duggan’s death stirred memories of the 1980s, when many black Londoners felt they were disproportionately stopped and searched by police. The frustration erupted in violent riots in 1985.
Relations have improved since then, but tensions remain and many young people of all races mistrust the police.
Seeking explanations for the unrest, 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 country’s huge budget deficit, swollen after the country spent billions bailing out its foundering banks.
But many rioters appeared simply to relish the opportunity for unchecked violence Monday night. “Come join the fun!” shouted one youth as looters hit the east London suburb of Hackney.
In Croydon, fire gutted a 140-year-old family run department store, House of Reeves, and forced nearby homes to be evacuated. “No one’s stolen anything,” said owner Graham Reeves, 52. “They just burnt it down.”
Police said a 21-year-old man was arrested late Tuesday in connection with the blaze.
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Comments (203)
13th Imam
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:19pmWhere is JUMBLES??
Out for a night setting London ablaze? Having a hot time in the old town tonight?Hear London is a Blast to party in. JUMBLES? JUMBLES? Back here in the colonies many of the citizens have weapons. Harder for your playmates to cause mayhem, when they might be stopped, cold.
Report Post »smartgirl
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:16pmThis is very sad. We need to restart the engine of capitalism so that our immigrants – legal immigrants – can find jobs and work their way into better lives like the generations before them. That‘s the promise of America and we mustn’t let it die because the socialist in the White House thinks otherwise.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:53pmI agree. I don‘t know that England ever had true Capitalism though and America’s system has been messed up since Woodrow Wilson, worsened by FDR, worsened again by Lyndon Johnson, and basically every President since Johnson; except for Reagan who had to battle dishonest Liberals that made promises for tax hikes which they never intended to keep and we have too many of those dirtbags who are still there. Pelosi, Frank, Reid, Rangel…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:51amThis is one of the things that happens under social-progressive moves when the people are disarmed and have to totally depend on the government for their own defense, and the defense of their families, homes and ways of life and property.
THIS is what Obama wants us to become for the opening stages.
Report Post »Affirmative Blaction
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:13am@ rabman1,
A smith & wesson is a dam good handgun, but if things go the way they appear to be going, I would recommend something of higher power. Everyone should be purchasing high power semi auto rifles, especially if you are on a border state, as i am. AR15‘s and M4’s are good choices but will run you a good penny. AK‘s and SKS’s a good choice price wise. I’m running the middle ground with a ruger mini 14 and tactical stock. Anything in .223, 5.56, or 7.62 will work though.
Report Post »oregonrr
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:04amWe need to allow immigrants who contribute to society, bring money and skills and jobs. We need to deport any immigrant who is a drain on our society, just like Thailand, Burma, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Mexico, and just about every other nation on earth.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 5:57amHow many regulations are piled on every day to stop new “businesses”. You got your IRS, DOJ, FTC, FCC, SBA, EPA, and banking regulations. I would point out to anyone that says “we gotta restart the economy”. . . You can’t do it with consumnption based economics. The businesses that survive MUST provide a necessity, or a baisc commodity. Look what has happened. Citites and towns do not have that central anchor endeavor anymore. The factories, foundries, and mills are gone because of over- regulation, labor cost and costs associated with labor. A blind must be able to see this!
Report Post »swkimbl
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:18amComing to a city near you!!!
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:33amIs this the ignition of Europe that Glenn said would happen a year or so ago? It doesn’t look like they are slowing down on their rioting, looks like they are amping up the unrest. He did say it would spread from the middle east into Europe, but I never thought it would start in the UK. Makes one wonder how long it will be until it starts here, and what steps the Obama regime will take when it does; can you say Martial Law? Top Down, Bottom Up, Inside Out(from the heart). Now just where have we all heard that before……oh yeah, that super patriotic communist Van Jones! We see you Van! He has a dream, but not the same dream as Martin Luther King had, no sirree! He wants unrest to start, so Obama can come in and “save the day” and take TOTAL control of the government! Kinda sounds like someone else in history that rose from humble beginnings to take control of a powerful nation, circa 1933. I won’t mention any names, but you all probably can figure it out yourselves…….
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:56amthey could solve the problem in the uk with gallons of pepper spray and real bullets.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:08amDo the London Police not have real bullets in their guns…..the headline “should” read…hundreds of Anarchist lotters killed as London Police protect themselves and public at large.
Report Post »IntransigentMind
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 4:32pmWe can’t permit this to start here. It must be opposed, and mostly, American parents are going to need to flex their muscles a bit. It’s no surprise who is doing this:
Report Post »http://markamerica.com/2011/08/10/coming-to-america/
NuffSaid
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:16pmThe Brit government is obviously powerless in the face of possible violation of Political correctness. You Brits, who’ve always looked down on us pitiful colonials as immature and silly, can now go suck wind. How do you like the fires of tolerance? Heating up a bit eh?
Screw the authorities where are the hard hitting, mo BS British people? Out of the pubs and into the streets (of London) fools. The ethnic are burning your history, your society and your history down around your necks! The Muslims will be there next, rope in hand. It’s old Bailey for the Brits!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:26pmThis is class warfare-it is not about racism or immigrants as many of the youth are white brits. This is about the rich getting richer and the youth getting nothing.If we don’t stop taking away from the working class to give to the rich and our youth are economically dis enfranchised with no opportunites except the military then this can and should happen here!
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:41pmRose Ellen,
Report Post »This is what happens when 1) the government destroys the economy, 2) the government creates a class of greedy thieves on welfare. Make people dependent on the money of those that earn it and then when the people being robbed try to stop it the greedy thieves rebel. Don’t blame the successful people for this.
psst
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:50pmUm Nuff: The Moslems won’t have rope in hand.
Report Post »First they would have to find a tree, get some rope, make a noose, throw it over a limb, then they would have to get/have a horse . That’s just too much trouble.And time consuming.
They can lop of about 50 heads by the time they do all that.
Londonistan will soon be coming to London.for real. The Moslem population will export the Limeys to Pakistan, Bangladesh and other Moslem parts unknown to be cab drivers, rickshaw peddlers.
But Londonistan will continue it’s caste system. All the rich Arab Sheikhs from the ME ( the swarthy kinds)that lives in Londonistan will still look down on the Moslems from Pakistan and Bangladesh, Nigeria and other such areas.
So much for those who think this is a black white thingy.
RABMAN1
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:13pm@ RoseEllen – Hey idiot, it wouldn’t happen like that here in the US! We have a means to protect ourselves under the wonderful Second Amendment; I’d dare some d*&ba$$ to try and break into my business and burn it down- they would meet the business end of my Smith&Wesson!
Report Post »robert
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:13pmOf course the riots are about race in the last analysis, although classism enters the picture to a slight degree.
This is what occurs in a society that imports third world hordes who can’t compete in a first world civilization. They always occupy the lower tiers of society. You know, doing the work the natives won’t do.
Well, this is what happens when the children of those imported workers grow up. They have Rolls Royce desires and Yogo abilities. They can’t compete and survive without handouts, and they can’t be cared for during hard economic times like they have been, because the money just isn’t there.
It is classism to the extent the white greed mongers of Western societies refuse to do peon labor and insist on importing workers from the third world.
It is racism mostly, however, because these people have been taught to hate whites by the same kind of instigators that prompt the thugs and flash mobs to attack whites here.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/katharinebirbalsingh/100099830/these-riots-were-about-race-why-ignore-the-fact/
As the world economy continues to plummet, these incidents will continue to get worse.
Report Post »Virgil_Lance
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:46amDid anyone see the movie “Demolition Man”? In the year 2032 Rob Schneider’s character states “we’re the police – we’re not trained to handle this kind of violence” – so they “unfroze” Sly Stallone (a policeman from the past). I would bet that if the blokes from WW2 were still around we wouldn’t see this in England.
Report Post »freeweever
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:32amJust shut-up rose-ellen you are whats happening here,you and your ilk, should happen here rose. come here you I’ll show what should happen here be careful what you wish for rose be very careful your just like the british progressives you put us all in danger you idiot. Go home and that is not America for you, A rose by any other name for you “Dumb-ss” is not a rose. You’re the thorn.
Report Post »MyTurnNow
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:15pmWhen will you stop playing with these anarchists? Do you really believe that this is merely social unrest or is it more an organized strategy to overwhelm the system ala Frances Fox Piven?
When it becomes the equivalent of an undeclared war you’re going to have casualties ….. start having casualties! Would anyone describe this as a peaceful demonstration? You can’t save everybody so stop playing with them …… they need to be put down …. NOW!
Report Post »SFsuper49er
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:14pmAll i had to here was UK were going to cut social programs 50% and that is all i needed to know why this happened. No more free checks. If these cuts take place here in the U.S the same thing will happen
Report Post »mils
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:42pmagreed it will happen here…and it will happen in Ca and the NE…they deserve it. they have the largest concentration of free loader, drugs, smart asse liberals in the US. Esp WA<DC…they will get hit by the poor dog slaves to the system that they have created and fed over the years.
we're just hunkering down out here in the land of the great "unwashed"..
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:15amWhen the freeloaders stop getting their free money, it will be the paymasters that will still be paying but then through violence instead of willful dependence.
We who do not live in this culture of corrupt wealth redistribution will be mostly unaffected. And I’d be more than happy to defend my material possessions and supplies from redistribution.
Report Post »Dicker
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:15pmGee, how come I knew what the rioters would look like even before I saw the video?
Report Post »mils
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:43pmbllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacccccccck…………..young fools …muslim driven?
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:26amYou don’t want to imagine what they must smell like!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:09pmWhat is wrong with police? No balls?
Report Post »Ella
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:33pmNo guns
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:41pmI think they need to rethink that whole .. no gun thing .. if I were a CITIZEN I would be DEMANDING the right to defend myself .. that GOD for the SECOND AMMENDMENT!
TEA!
Report Post »firstgenesis
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:05pmTo Blaze Editor,
Report Post »On the main Blaze page, this story says, “Come join the fun,” should one youth as looters hit the streets. I believe the word should should be shouted. I am only trying to help this site look professional. You may delete this comment without repercussion at anytime. Thank you!
vanman60
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:09pmwtf?
Report Post »KSherrell
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:03pmThe scriptures says that the whole world will be filled with violence before the return of Jesus for the rapture of the church. Then the real chaos starts with the 21 judgments, the 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 bowels. The ppl who thumb their nose at God WILL see HIS wrath.
Report Post »Gita
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:42pmThe rapture is a man made idea and a poor one at that. God will come in His glory to judge the living and the dead.
Report Post »vanman60
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:24pmbowels? sounds stinky!
Report Post »MyTurnNow
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:02pmAnd this is enforcement? ……. golly gee, what do you do next send in Bozo the Clown? Why don’t you just surrender if that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:05pmand the ‘arab spring’ extends to London during hot august nights…
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:31pmNo…this is the London stimulis package. Look at all the jobs they will have rebuilding all of England after it burns….
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:45pmWow, the classic “broken window” economics example on steroids.
Report Post »psst
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:09pmI guess “Stop or I‘ll toot doesn’t cut it afterall.”
Report Post »But what da hey. We tried to tell the Limeys it would not work.they thought differently.
They thought wrong.
Mebbe they need bigger whistles.
lonewolf57
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:02pm“Seeking explanations for the unrest, 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 country’s huge budget deficit, swollen after the country spent billions bailing out its foundering banks”
Geez,what a bunch of poontangs the welfare crowd in Britain have become.A measley $130 billion in cuts and they turn into animals.Pray tell that this happens in the USA where a couple $Trillion needs cut.And actually doe’s.
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:10pm**doesn’t happen**
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:25pmYour forgetting, their economy is tiny compared to the US. But, I do agree.
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:21amBritain‘s economy isn’t tiny, it’s 2.1 trillion to our 14.6 trillion. A little more than a seventh of our size, but number six in GDP of countries on planet.
Still, if this is the proportional blowup we can expect when we have to start cutting Welfare, it will get messy fast in this country.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:02pmGlenn must be salivating for a major US riot. Glued to the Telly I’m sure.
Report Post »BetsyRoss1513
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:42amNow why would you go and bring Glenn into this?
Report Post »What does HE have to do with this?
I‘m certain he’s as dismayed as we all are about this.
If you EVER watched his shows, you would have heard him say, OVER AND OVER AND OVER:
“I hope I’m wrong; I WANT to be wrong.”
But he’s not.
Does that irk you?
That he knew this was coming?
go2mikerenzi
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:01pmIrolas: It is as the Lord Denethor predicted. Long has he forseen this doom.
Report Post »Gandalf: Forseen and done nothing!
freedom_gurl35
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:18pmVery appropriate!
Report Post »chicago76
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:07amProphetic
Report Post »biggreenboo
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:52amNerd!… (but you’re correct)
Report Post »armywife77
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:01pmThis is coming to a large urban city near you real soon. We are already seeing glimpses of this in Wisconsin and Philadelphia. Anybody remember the flash mobs that have moved through some cities? LA does not need an invitation to start a riot- they riot when they are happy- what is going to happen in the urban communities when the gov’t starts cutting food stamps and HUD? The only reason they are not cutting through welfare like they want to gut military retirement and pay is to keep the poor uneducated masses happy. DC does not want a scene from London appearing on the news here, and they will do what they have to in order to keep the poverty stricken inner cities from exploding in violence.
Report Post »vivrobbins
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:14pmWI state fair.
Report Post »vanman60
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:27pmlaser dot on the cranial-occular cavity….works for me
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:24am@ Vanman60
Bah, lasers are just advertisement. I prefer to be unseen but heard. Fear becomes a powerful weapon.
Report Post »KSherrell
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:00pmHey moron in the white hat…if you don’t want to get bit by the dog, you should have never went down there in the first place.
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:00pmThose are the coolest riot shields I’ve ever seen.
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:12pmBut they hurt when slammed on a human head.and rightfully so.
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:23pmIt will be where you are before long. Would like to know if you think it’s “COOL” then? Let us know.
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:28pmIt was a joke. Ha, Ha.
Report Post »plugthedamnhole
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:00pmI didn’t do anything
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:58pmThe English army needs to come in with orders of “Shoot to Kill”.
Report Post »It‘s not a game and it’s not a matter of political protests.
These are animals and if they are not stopped by all means possible, they will start the dominoes falling around the world.
YellowFin
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:01pmThe dominoes are already falling.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:26pmYellowfin:
Report Post »I guess you’re right…but strong messages still need to be sent, and here in the states, at least we still have the second amendment.
JustaThought
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:26pmAbsolutely positutely … shoot first and ask questions later. You don’t fire with fire unless it comes after … ready … aim …
Report Post »mils
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:47pmsecond amendment is fine and dandy…if you already have stuff stored..or money to get out and do it now…and aren’t afraid to invoke the power of the firearm.
why looting?…it only proves the point of what the riots are all about..
Report Post »go2mikerenzi
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:57pmthis is what happens when you make people dependant on Government, then take the handouts away, and when you take away law abiding citizens right to own guns… coming soon to a city near you… lock and load!
Report Post »plugthedamnhole
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:57pmJust like Obama, it is someone elses fault.
I didn’t do anything.
Report Post »HD Veteran
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:28pmI follow.
Report Post »vanman60
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:43pmNo…it‘s george Bush’s fault….everything is w’s fault. for the next 20,000,000 years!!!
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:57pmHey Guys, Just STFU and maybe they’ll let you got home!
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:55pmWhere does the right to defend ones self become the policy of the government, it seems to me as I was reading that the law abiding citizens were suffering more injurious restriction by the authorities then the hoodlums.
Report Post »politicaljules
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:54pmThis is all spelled out in “The Coming Insurrection”
Buy it on Amazon. Read it and know what is coming. The flash mobs are in the book too. There is evil afoot and I do not know if we can stop it.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:52pmEngland, another fine example of socialism at its best. Yes they have created utopia and it is where we are going if we keep limp wristed obama in office.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:59pmThe shop owners can do nothing, the police are ineffective, the government is toothless.
Report Post »The thugs control all matters now in merry ol’ England.
Psychosis
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:51pmmy favorite quote ever
CAN WE SHOOT THEM ???? -= 10 points for naming the show, 20 point for naming the actor
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:12pmBurn Notice, Gabrielle Anwar = 30 points
Report Post »Eyeball
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:33pmKent State?
Report Post »Parnell3rd
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:30amNo you can’t, because in England it is against the law to own a gun. In England and other foriegn countries like NYC ans DC it is agianst the law for a citizen to protect himself or his property.
Report Post »Mysterynovus
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:47pmThank God I don’t live in England….
Report Post »cantbelieveallthisgarbagecouldhappenwhodoislap
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:44pmThink we about to!!!!!!
Report Post »kdzndogdad
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:29amLike somebody posted earlier:
Report Post »“Coming to a city near you.”
It wouldn’t take much for this to happen in… Detroit? LA?, Chicago? Where are “the rich” oppressing minorities in this country? (Maybe I should say, where is the press saying that the “rich” are oppressing minorities.)