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Will UK Violence Abroad Spark Unrest in the US?

A black man killed by police. Mobs of looters. Cities charred and shaken. The riots in London mirror some of the worst uprisings in modern U.S. history.

And there are more parallels: Stubborn poverty and high unemployment, services slashed due to recessionary budget cuts, a breakdown of social values, social media that bring people together for good or bad at the speed of the Internet. And finally, there are a handful of actual attacks, isolated and hard to explain, by bands of youths in U.S. cities.

As Americans look across the Atlantic, a natural question arises: Could the flames and violence that erupted in Britain scar this country, too?

Police, elected officials, activists and regular citizens offer varied answers, reflecting the unsettled mix of race, class, lawlessness, and the chasm between haves and have-nots that may lie behind the unrest.

“History shows that the social tinder for such eruptions of massive violence and looting is usually widespread poverty without hope, and the spark is typically an incident of police brutality in the absence of a culture of police accountability,” said Benjamin Todd Jealous, CEO of the NAACP. “Such conditions exist in almost every major American city.”

Others, like British Prime Minister David Cameron, blame “criminality, pure and simple.” That echoes descriptions of some recent episodes of mob behavior in places like Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Chicago and Ohio. Stores have been pillaged, passers-by robbed, and random victims brutally attacked by dozens or occasionally hundreds of youths summoned through tools like Facebook and Twitter.

Philadelphia has responded by tightening youth curfews, and the Cleveland City Council passed a bill (later vetoed by the mayor) making it illegal to use social media to organize a violent mob.

Racial friction is an uncertain element. In Britain, TV images have shown mixed-race crowds creating mayhem. In recent mob violence in Philadelphia and Milwaukee, attackers were black and victims white.

The recent violence raises frightening memories of past racial unrest — the police club fracturing black civil rights marcher John Lewis’ skull in 1965 Alabama, or the cinderblock smashing white truck driver Reginald Denny’s head in 1992 Los Angeles.

Even though it‘s unclear how much race motivates today’s mob violence, many see it as one of a combination of factors, which together make the grip of American law and order feel less secure.

“What we’re seeing on the streets in Britain right now is something we may be starting to see here,” columnist Peggy Noonan wrote in Friday’s Wall Street Journal.

“The cause was not injustice … (it was) greed, selfishness, a respect and even lust for violence, and a lack of moral grounding,” she wrote.

In Milwaukee, where there have been two cases since July of large group attacks, Bob Donovan, an alderman, said a “terrible disrespect for the police” has convinced him that what happened in London could definitely take place in America.

“If one person goes out on a rampage and is apprehended, they’re going to be held accountable,” he said. But when you have 100 or 200 or 400, the likelihood of holding everyone accountable just isn’t there.”

But Michael Coard, a black lawyer and self-proclaimed “agitator” in Philadelphia, sees no possibility of rioting there, despite the crimes that prompted the new curfew.

“In the United States, and certainly in Philadelphia, there is a buffer. We have a lot of black police officers, a black police commissioner, black city council members, a black mayor, and ultimately a black president,” Coard said.

“And it’s a buffer that might be open to solving the problem,” he continued. “I don’t have to burn this building down, I can go and talk to the mayor … When our parents and grandparents fought for black political representation, this is essentially what they were fighting for.”

Philadelphia also has a black district attorney, Seth Williams. He said that unlike the youths in London, many who engage in mob violence in the City of Brotherly Love simply think it’s fun to hurt people. He is prosecuting those who have been caught.

In the 20 years since Los Angeles tore itself apart after four white police officers were acquitted in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King, the city has elected mayors who are Latino and black, and the police force has been overhauled.

Los Angeles police Capt. Jon Peters said he’s not overly concerned about riots, “knowing how well this organization is prepared to deal with any sort of crowd situation.” He noted that crime has not increased since the recession.

Jervey Tervalon, a writer who grew up in Los Angeles and edited the anthology “Geography of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992,” has seen change in the police, too.

Leading up to the riots, there was so much racial tension “you could see it coming. It was a powder keg.” Today, “I don‘t think we’re going to have another riot, because I see much more understanding, more interaction with other cultures.”

The tension Tervalon senses today comes from people who can’t find work or support their families.

“I feel that rage,” he said. “We just endured this huge recession, but the oligarchs came out looking pretty. And then we have to cut Medicare and Social Security and leave us with no safety net?”

Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League, says budget cuts that lead to less jobs for young people could create problems: “I’m not prepared to say riots could happen here, but we need to pay close attention. To counteract negativity in young people, you have to create positive things.”

In Oakland, Calif., the community activist and journalist known as Davey D sees the potential for unrest from people of all ethnicities who are fed up with “institutions — police, economic, even media institutions.”

Last summer, Davey D witnessed the explosion of anger in Oakland after a white police officer who shot an unarmed, prone black man in the back at close range was acquitted of murder. Thirty downtown businesses were damaged, bank windows were smashed, a few stores looted and 78 people arrested.

He said there were more Asians and Latinos than black people on the streets that day, and that protesters specifically targeted the Bank of America and Wells Fargo to make a point about economic conditions. “It was a class thing in Oakland,” he said.

He added that there were many white rioters in Britain.

“Look at Spain, Greece, France, the Arab Spring,” Davey D said, naming scenes of recent civil unrest. “All it took was a spark. This time the spark came from the black community, but it touches into so much more.”

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

Comments (189)

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  • Atlappraiser
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:47pm

    Is this headline meant to be a rhetorical question?
    Of course it will spread because we have dumbass young people over here with nothing better to do with their time.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:07am

      With SO MANY people on the US Welfare system, it’s only a matter if time before crime rates sky rocket. Too many people with WAY TOO MUCH idle time on their hands and you know what they say about idle hands.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:56am

      And those dumbass young people are being fed the same socialist/marxist class warfare crap that the Brits were spoonfed in their commie schools too.
      Expect rioting during the summer of 2012, and more attacks and “flash robberies” this winter!

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 8:47am

      I will be surprised to see this happening in this country – but I could be wrong. I just don‘t think it will happen if it hasn’t happened already! http://wp.me/pYLB7-1nP

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  • jungle J
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:44pm

    the enemy within have been planning this or something like this since wilson was president.

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    • southernORcobra
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 11:34pm

      problem is we have guns the brits don’t

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 8:26am

      That‘s why gun control is one of Obama’s most important issues. That’s why the left emphasizes whenever a crime is committed with a gun. They hush up the fact that if they start gun control, it will mean one of two things: 1. only criminals will have guns or 2. it will turn law abiding citizens into criminals in order to get a gun. I won’t stand by and let them take my guns. I’ll buy off the black market just like the criminals do.

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  • 2ndAkeepsmefree
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:42pm

    A big difference between the U.K and the U.S. is that if the police are too busy clubbing rioters that leaves the British people as defenseless sheep to the rioting wolves. In the U.S. many households are covered by 12 gauge insurance. So bring on the wolves, this sheepdog is ready and waiting….

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    • Erabin
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:47pm

      The difference is also that the rioters in the US would be armed so better save a bullet for yourself.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:08am

      I’d rather fight a gun slinger WITH a gun than without one.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:01am

      ERABIN: This is why people with concealed weapons have to maintain cover. Also, the attacks so far are unarmed or only poorly armed with non-lethal weapons….so far. When the riots start hitting next summer, it would be a good idea to have a pistol/revolver in a major caliber (nothing less than a .40 cal) where you can keep it secured but available….better yet, if at all possible, don’t go into the cities! Rural areas will be safe because most are seriously armed with high powered weapons….and know how to use them effectively!!!

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    • Southernguy
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 9:09am

      http://www.cheaperthandirt.com has 1000 rounds .223 for $300. On sale now ;)

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    • 2ndAkeepsmefree
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:01am

      Erabin said “better save a bullet for yourself”

      Are you serious? that’s your philosophy? Suicide/surrender in the face of adversity? real nice… I suggest you move to France where that type of thinking is more prevalent.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 11:01am

      Man is that Erabin a wu$ or what? “Save a bullet for yourself” Ha, No, every last one of them are going into a commie prog.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:40pm

    It is indeed coming, this day I have seen two groups of teen thugs shoving people around and making threats at them trying to incite some kind of incident. Thankfully the police showed up and were able to get them to leave without any violence breaking out this time.

    And that is the key phrase, this time.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:07am

      Bide your time, be careful, and remember to squeeeeeeeeze the trigger…….But only when necessary. No need to go to Threatcon 1 until someone is getting attacked…let them start it, but make sure you can finish it. Otherwise, RUN!

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  • Jack2011
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:32pm

    Excellent website information. Thanks!

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  • BuckeyeSF39
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:31pm

    We could always just shoot them.

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    • RugDog
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:41pm

      Agreed.

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    • Ready2Rumble
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 8:52am

      Ditto. Dead rioters will stop the riots.

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    • joei234
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:02am

      You ever dealt with a dead body Ohio-boy? It’s no fun. A bleeding stinking gut-shot corpse can be quite a messy affair, especially if the corpse is 300 lbs. You people that are so ready to kill don’t know the reality of it.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 11:06am

      Hey Joe
      So what are YOU going to do? Let them shoot you and rape your wife? Are you one of those “peaceniks”? Let em rot. Let the animals eat their guts.

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    • joei234
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Mil dot, they’ll be frog marched out behind my barn and shot there so they fall into the old manure pit. The ones I get inside the house will be another story. Lots of cleanup. So you can STFU crab-crotch.

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    • azjeff1963
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:45pm

      they call it natural selection…if the Kids in AZ are stupid enough to go and do this in my part of AZ then thy will be done.

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  • GoldenSage
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:28pm

    History repeats; history repeats. Sure we have all heard this before. Well, it is true. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was only a matter of time before there would be a return of socialism and communism. With the increase in world population and the ever growing spending by countries, without the increase in revenues and the reduction of waste, it was only a matter of time before unrest would increase due to the organized movement of the 60′s socialists and communists. Give the “people”; give the people, give until you can’t give anymore and then the people will revolt. Well, the Middle East is revolting; Europe is revolting; the U.S. is right behind them. Obama has “nothing” to run on but getting the “people” to revolt. Next year, in desperation, beware!!!

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:05am

      Reminds me of the classic panels from the comic, “The Wizard of ID”. The king is standing on his balcony looking down on rioting peasants. Someone yells out, “The peasants are revolting!!!!” and the King looks down observing, “They certainly are!!!”. So true on so many levels!

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:23pm

    The Obama White House and liberal politicians have been stirring the pot of class envy and racial hatred for quite awhile now and indeed, the signal has been sent to the miscreant worthless LEFTISTS: Take what you want. Others may have earned but go ahead, take it away from them. This is the socialist model: Those who create wealth get demonized and those who “take” have it given to them one way or another. We may be in for a fight, one which we must not lose.

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  • BrokenHearted
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:17pm

    A question for all, “How many people do you know (in your heart and in your mind) that would not kill you over food and water?” If you take more than a second to start listing them, then you might want to start making true friends. It will take people standing together to hold off the evil that is coming. I never would have thought I would have been reading this type of stuff or writing it either, but here we are. Gather thy family and friends, unite in the name of God and stand fast against those that wish to do you harm.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:25pm

      Was that a black guy in a pink tutu pushing a shopping cart while running? No, they’ll never be able to identify him! Nice disguise.

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    • TrustHim
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:26pm

      Amen Brother

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:15am

      If you haven’t identified those you consider to be “true friends” by now, it’s time to do so and begin building your life boat for the hard times ahead. What Beck has been talking about for the last couple of years is coming closer as we speak. Collect those things that can be stored and may be used either for defense, or as trade goods. Also look around where you live, and determine if it is defendable. You may wind up like those Korean folks who were up on the roof tops during the Rodney King riots in the L.A. area, protecting their property with rifles because their neighbors saw the chance to steal them blind!
      But most of all….DON’T ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE A VICTIM!!!!
      It’s not too late, but don’t waste time wondering if it could actually happen…….IT CAN!

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:16pm

    Yes and we are seeing the beginnings of it in the flash mobs and it is being manufactured by the commie left. I just bought my first gun and will be getting my CCW soon. I will not be a victim to these animals. Armed robberies are on the rise in my city. I am seriously thinking about moving to Texas!

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    • Erabin
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:50pm

      A gun may save you against one. And against five? Ten? Remember, they can buy guns too.

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    • Gypsy123
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:51pm

      Don’t tell us exactly where you live but what area of the country is it in

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:21am

      UBETHECHANGE: You have the right idea…carry on with your preparations.

      ERABIN: You have no standing here as you are obviously a pacifist who expects others to protect you. In other words, you are a self made VICTIM and will be one of the first casualties in such an encounter as we are logically anticipating. There is strength in NUMBERS… and a properly prepared defensive position gives a 3 to 1 advantage over the attacker in any armed engagement……If you wish to trust to the police for your protection in such a situation, I suggest that you make sure your life insurance is up to date, and let your next of kin know where they might find the body because that‘s where you’re headed if you don’t pull your head out and prepare!!!!

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    • joei234
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:48am

      Have you seen the weather in TX this summer? It looks like God hates Texas. They are out of water. NO WATER. Hello! God has turned his back on Texas for some reason.

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    • Kinnison
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Erabin, “guns” don’t always mean pistols. Ten rioters, some with guns? No problem, my magazine holds 20 rounds and I am a combat veteran who has shot people before and I guarantee that I am a better shot under pressure than the kinds of bozos who run around in mobs looting houses and stores. Oh, and I have extra loaded magazines and can change one out in about a second. Better, I have friends who have guns too.

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:08pm

    Remember that YOU are your first line of defense. Talk to others in your neighborhood. Police are there to pick up the pieces. They will not be able to stop the burning and the looting. The military can do that, but will the govs. call out the Guard. Be prepared for the worse. I am armed to protect myself, family, and property. You Brits out there, take your country back!

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  • thekuligs
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:08pm

    Is it? Look around you! It already is, and I think we are one unfortunate event from all hell breaking loose. Corrupt men are setting the stage and we get to sit back and wonder; who it is that shall unwittingly give someone the false cause that sparks it.

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  • blackdogofwar
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:07pm

    Our political elite think that thier ponzi sceem will work. They have not got the memo that we the poeple are on to the game.

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:01pm

    Actually, was that Holder in the Pink Tutu practicing?

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    • Jack2011
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:37pm

      Eric Holder is racist and a Marxist but he is not gay or bisexual.

      The tutu wearer is Barrack Obama or Rahm Emmanuel

      Larry Sinclair And Obama Steamy Love Affair
      http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13389
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li19mPc-R3k

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 11:52pm

      That was Barry’s younger brother Billy running down the street in a pink tutu pushing a shopping cart. I hear the WH is going to name a beer after him as a tribute to Jimmy Carter.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 11:58pm

      @Jack2011
      I had forgotten about that. I remember it now that you bring it up. Now we know how he got the gay vote. Next thing we’ll see is a Rainbow flag flying on top of the White House!

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:00pm

    It is being planned as we speak. Do I know facts? No. Do I know liberals? YES!

    They are spoiled babies, bad sports, haters of God, and lovers of Evil. Always trying to “impress” people with their “open-mindedness”, until we close our wallets. Then they suddenly find that our “selfishness”, (as Obama calls it), is INTOLERABLE!!!

    Mark my words; – if the Dems think they are going to lose in 2012, they will try to disrupt the election. If they actually lose in 2012, they will use the unions, or launder money through THEIR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS to hire Rent-a-Mobs to burn the country down, and I predict this will start BEFORE Obama leaves office, and he and Eric (Racist) Holder will condone it!

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    • TrustHim
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:07pm

      I agree. This is exactly what is laid out in the Weather Undergrounds manifesto,

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    • ExTex
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 11:55pm

      You’re on the right track. However, I think that they’re already setting up a huge class/racial war that‘ll hit it’s zenith by next summer. BO has no chance of winning on his record. The only way to retain power is to provoke “whitey” into armed retaliation against the thugs he’s duping into a race war…thereby setting up forced gun control and martial law. Watch for next summer to be the summer from hell. We have to be careful not to be duped as well into using armed deadly force to protect ourselves. He has the corrupt media to spin it and the corrupt DOJ to inforce it.

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    • TrustHim
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:58am

      That’s Why Trust Him!!!!!!!!

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    • joei234
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:50am

      Nobody hates God. Some people don’t believe He ever existed, but they don’t hate God. They sure will get a surprise someday.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 11:14am

      Look people, wake up. The commie progs are only about 20-30% of the country MAX, on a good day. And most are too chicken to fight. They will not take us down. Terminate them with extreme prejudice. What is even more sickening are the federal cop goons that protect the communist government officials and will do so during the “uprising”. They are the most disgusting of all.

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    • JQCitizen
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:46pm

      Joe1234: Nobody hates God;

      I would beg to differ; I think God’s existance is SELF-EVIDENT, therefore His Superiority of Intellect, and His Power OFFEND THEM!! They then HATE HIM, and are VICERALLY SET AGAINST HIM! It dominates their thinking, their decision-making, and robs them of their peace of mind, their happiness, and if they persist, sometimes their sanity!!!

      Have you ever known a JOYOUS Atheist?

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    • joei234
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:03pm

      JQcitizen you pea-brained idiot. Your the kind of zealot that makes us believers all look like rabid dogs. Your comment is so extreme and full of crazy that you make us all look like delusional nutters. Jesus would knock you up side the head for that.

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    • JQCitizen
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 9:42pm

      Joe1234:
      I am making no attempt to have anyone think ill or good about me, or any man, Christian or Not. Actually,what I said is based on Scripture’s assessment of those who deny God.

      Romans 1:16-22
      16- For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everone who believes; to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
      17- For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, ‘The righteous shall live by faith.”
      18- For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
      19- For what can be know about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
      20- For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
      21- For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
      22- Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

      Not my words; – God’s

      For the believer, His Word is the final authority. I pray many will turn from darkness to light.

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    • azjeff1963
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:58pm

      i can tell you Brother….we are ready for the sh*t storm here in the great state of ARIZONA…..BRING IT ON BABY.

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  • sillyfreshness
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:00pm

    This is the result of years of political correctness. Bringing in foreigners who feel they are entitled to wealth in a country they have no business being in in the first place.

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  • Tyr
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:51pm

    Will UK Violence Abroad Spark Unrest in the US? Let’s hope so? I really don’t see any other way of ridding ourselves of the criminal, political elite class in the country!

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    • mr anarchy
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:57pm

      the conservatives only did cutting…i understand the point of the rioters.. one group demonized another one gets a break…a tax break
      only way it will not come over here… is if both the bottom and top are both forced to feel pain

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    • GOTT-EM-MAUSER
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:27pm

      Well ANARCHY,

      Get ready to FEEL the PAIN COMRADE, cause the TOP as you put it, is sick and tired of WORKING so YOU and the rest of the BOTTOM Don’t Have to. That, and they are out of MONEY to be Wasted on all you POOR UNDER CLASS, HELD DOWN, MISTREATED, USED and ABUSED WHINING DEAD BEATS.

      The ECONOMY you LEECHES have been sucking off of, IS DEAD. NOBODY in the MEAN OLD TOP is going to do ONE D@MN THING to try and start it up again, just so you can go back to Sucking off it, and Sniveling about how It’s NOT ENOUGH.

      So ENJOY YOUR PAIN, that will be the one in your Empty Belly, while you sit in the ashes of your burnt out burrows, while starving to death Slowly.

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    • EyeofthePatriot
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:40pm

      @MR ANARCHY

      Hrmmmm… so the top 1% of the tax paying RICH… pay 40% of the entire nations tax burden. No, that’s not pain… that’s EFFING TORTURE. You sluggish morons gtfo your ass and do something productive like the rich, in general, do in this country.

      What you morons don’t see is that these taxes you wish were raised will only hurt the small business owners. The true dirty RICH people will hunker down and sit on their cash. How do you expect to extract from them? Is there money, yours?

      You know what, I’m tired of dealing with morons such as yourselves. I’m done. My bridge over my moat is going up while people like you fall in it. The useful idiots will be the one’s being offed in the end by the same people who they helped support through times like this. And you sir, are one of them.

      Hell, there are two here.

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    • azjeff1963
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 5:05pm

      GOTT-EM-MAUSER
      im with you ….ef these people that think because they are born to intitlements think they can continue after adolescents. grow up and get some skills….then get a efen job like the REAL People….tired of paying for you idiots.

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  • Mike Benton
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:50pm

    It will come here next summer when the Black politicians like Lee and others, including Obama himself have stirred up the Black under class and the white trash, many of whom will have been unemployed for a year or more. It will start simply enough then spread just as the Watts riots and the British riots.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:28am

      My sentiments exactly….why waste a good riot when it won’t promote the efforts of the left. We’ll see rioting starting this summer…probably called by the marxist press, the “Tea Party Riots” since they’ll blame it on them anyway. Then the violence will continue right up to the Progressive Party (formerly known as Democrats) convention where they’ll call for an end to it all….but by then it’ll be too far gone, in too many cities……

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  • Just in time
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:46pm

    We are not having it happen here? How did they shoot that guy, when they don’t carry guns? How come they know what ethnic groups are involved and we can’t figure it out here?

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  • Just in time
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:42pm

    It is already here! Funny the officials there can and will report on the ethnic patterns. Why, can’t they do that here? Also, If the cops don’t carry guns there. How did they shoot and kill that drug dealer?

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    • Jack of Hearts
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 5:28am

      Can we please get it into people’s heads that OF COURSE the police are armed. Anyone who’s been to London would know that. Go to the Houses of Parliament – spot the machine guns they carry outside? Look at the police around the streets – see the handguns? All British police are trained in firearms and they all have access to them. The difference is they don’t need them all the time. Get real and stop believing the cliches.

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  • Banter
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:38pm

    Depends on how well seiu coordinates its resources.

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  • TrustHim
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:35pm

    i am glad to see they are so confident that riots wont be a problem here. Are they crazy? BO has already stated the campaign for this and is setting the stage for the year of rage coming to a town near you.

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  • Greenmanilishi
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:35pm

    If it starts We as Americans who have our second amendment rights will use those rights to protect our family and property

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:39pm

      You are right so the most that would happen is the ghetto would get torn up……and who would care?

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    • TrustHim
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:48pm

      Not this time. It’s not going to stay in the enter city. It’s going to look like a 4th of july block party in suburbia,

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:59pm

      ~~^^~~^^~~
      True true, but like Repulicorp says it will be focused on the ghettos and lower income areas of the nation. The radical left will empower and incite them to act out. Whats key is to identify and isolate those who will do this. We know already Gore, Jones, Pivens and some other high profiles names are calling for an uprising. Now that this is being suggested they need to have eyes on them. I would ask individuals like Rep Issa etc start watching them as well as the groups and unions like SEIU & AFL-CIO. Any major uprising here will have their fingerprints all over it.

      Best thing for those of us here and on the right side of whats going on is to network with like minds in our communities and have a plan. Understand this, WHEN this really starts here the police WILL BE OUTNUMBERED. They will not be able to help everyone it will be on us to protect our families homes and property and to help those neighbors and friends of like minds. We must show the radicals in this country any attempt of an uprising here is futile. They must also know we will not get sucked into a fight. I will defend my own and whats mine (for now) I/we will not be baited into a full on confrontation. Remember the handlers mentioned above want a left vs right fight DO NOT give them that. Use your heads stay cool and never be the one to draw first blood! http://SavingtheRepublic.com

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    • llotus
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:26pm

      Greenmanilishi……..and who is going to protect our rights to defend ourselves and family.I wouldnt hesitate to protect myself and the ones I love…..but what would be the price? We are not in Kansas anymore. Lotus.

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    • llotus
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:31pm

      It will be more than the ghetto, I fear this time. They are being very brazen. Even hick towns are at risk. I`m in a hick town. Lotus.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 11:03pm

      @Savingtherepublic

      Might be easy for you to say depending on where you are at. I live right in the middle of a city. I’m not looking for a fight or trying to start one. But if there is a mob coming down my street burning, looting, invading, etc they need to go back the way they came because I will have them in my cross hairs. All depends on what you define as “first blood”. First blood to me is any threat coming my way.

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    • TrustHim
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:05am

      Trust Him.
      When or if the time comes you will know what to do and how to do it or not to do anything at all.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 11:24am

      Savingtherepublic is right.
      The cops will retreat to a pre-determined, undisclosed fortress like encampment. They will pool together their resources and gather their cop families and relatives at that location. They will be outnumbered to the point of it being a comedy, only it won’t be funny. You will be on your own. They will hunker down in the encampment with night vision observation, snipers and night patrols. They will not be an easy target unless they are on the street. They are not stupid. They will survive. Many others will not.

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  • bs2722
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:30pm

    Will American men wear pink too toos when they’re rioting?

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    • mils
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:03am

      yes, in pelosi’s district…

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  • jhaydeng
    Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:29pm

    They will try here, but it won’t succeed. Actually it will start another wave of patriotism not seen in many years! It will be the true American Revival!

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    • TripleG
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 9:43pm

      yeah, I agree. They are trying to cram way too much socialism too fast. They will end up waking the sleeping giant which has slept way too long!

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    • godhatesacoward
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:05pm

      You can bend only so much before you break. If you are able to bend w/out breaking now, you have grown to soft! I hope you have survival skills.

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