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2011-08-08 Britain
Tottenham riots condemned as area counts cost
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Posted by Fred 2011-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 Yuuuppp - you know thingys is serious in the UK when their beloved iconic DOUBLE-DECKER BUSES START GETTIN' TORCHED = GET SET ON FIRE.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-08 00:18||   2011-08-08 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Just a tiny number of "extremists" responsible for the horrors. Just like Afghanistan, and Gaza, and Somolia, and Washington D.C....
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-08-08 01:51||   2011-08-08 01:51|| Front Page Top

#3 that "small number", across several London suburbs, continued looting last night
Posted by Kojack 2011-08-08 03:07||   2011-08-08 03:07|| Front Page Top

#4 What can one say? London Mob.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-08-08 03:44||   2011-08-08 03:44|| Front Page Top

#5 A small price to pay for the wealth of diversity from multi-cultural enrichment.

I just wish we were allowed to "celebrate Diversity" in the Instapundit T-shirt way...
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-08-08 07:35||   2011-08-08 07:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Unfortunately this gang culture we have in the UK look up to the likes of LA and New York re gangster rap/lifestyles-sad!
Posted by Paul 2011-08-08 07:45||   2011-08-08 07:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't be true; firearms and pointy things are illegal.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-08 08:46||   2011-08-08 08:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Al Jazeera uses the term "Youths" which is usually code for mooselimb.
Posted by newc 2011-08-08 11:02||   2011-08-08 11:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Mark Duggan, 29, was bumped off by police.

One British account has it that he was an armed "gangsta" leader who shot an officer from Scotland Yard’s elite firearms squad CO19 in the side of his chest with a handgun.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-08 13:53||   2011-08-08 13:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Like the LA riots the rioting is spreading throughout London which i have never seen before living here for 40 years!
Posted by Paul D 2011-08-08 15:17||   2011-08-08 15:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Go carefully and come home safe, Paul, and any other Rantburgers in the vicinity.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-08 15:20||   2011-08-08 15:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks TW.I am at home and the trouble is happening in the rougher parts of London.

I can see this happening in many areas in UK where black gangs are present eg.Manchester and Birmingham.It seems to be organised by social media.

Might spread overeas to Amsterdam and Paris.

Keep you posted.

Paul
Posted by Paul D 2011-08-08 15:53||   2011-08-08 15:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Might spread overeas to Amsterdam and Paris.
Keep you posted.
Posted by Paul

.......Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C., Philly, Detroit, (there still is a Detroit right?)
Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-08 16:17||   2011-08-08 16:17|| Front Page Top

#14 ...where it will end as sit usually does with the National Guard. Then the recriminations will begin by portraying the predators as victims.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-08 17:13||   2011-08-08 17:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Musta been the King of the Yobs.
Posted by mojo 2011-08-08 18:05||   2011-08-08 18:05|| Front Page Top

#16 London Broil. Very sad.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-08-08 19:17||   2011-08-08 19:17|| Front Page Top

#17 Ms. Lotp and her new husband live in London. It's hard not to be worried for them both.
Posted by lotp 2011-08-08 19:21||   2011-08-08 19:21|| Front Page Top

#18 buy pepper spray. Keep it close. An illegal defensive shotgun would be nice as well
Posted by Frank G 2011-08-08 19:57||   2011-08-08 19:57|| Front Page Top

#19 Normally when the dust settled there would be rebuilding and attempts to understand. I'm not sure we have the money or tolerance anymore.

Since London supposedly has massive security camera coverage hopefully we will see a number locked up, or locked up and later deported.
Posted by Rjschwarz 2011-08-08 20:07||   2011-08-08 20:07|| Front Page Top

#20 Reminds me of Bronze Night in Estonia a few years back.
The violence didn't stop until the second night, when police went in and started cracking skulls.
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2011-08-08 20:24||   2011-08-08 20:24|| Front Page Top

#21 WAFF > SPENDING CUTS, [Uncaring]POLICE BEHIND UK RIOTS: LCOALS SAY, + pervasive High Unemployment.

"No Jobs, No Prospects, No Anything", + now cuts in Public-Social benefits as coupled wid long-standing civilian allegations of local/area Police seemingly stopping + arresting, etc. anyone widout cause or proper Warrant [Abuse of Police-Govt Authority]???

versus

* CHINESE MIL FORUM POSTER > claimss that many of the Rioters are Caribbean, Mixed-Race = Black-White descendants from former British Colonies, NOT ASIANS OR MUSLIMS???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-08 21:18||   2011-08-08 21:18|| Front Page Top

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