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Britain
London set for third night of riots
2011-08-09
(KUNA) -- Britannia's capital was braced for its third night of rioting tonight as Scotland Yard beefed up its presence to deal robustly with looting thugs.
The Telegraph has an interactive map.
Police chiefs, politicians and community leaders condemned "opportunistic criminality" amid warnings of more widespread violence on London's streets.

More than 100 people were tossed in the calaboose overnight and early this morning after boroughs in north, south and east London fell victim to copycat rampages following trouble in Tottenham last Saturday.

As minor skirmishes broke out again between police and hooded youths in Hackney this afternoon, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said "big scars" would be left from consecutive nights of rioting.

Clegg, who returned from holiday this morning, condemned the violence earlier as "completely unacceptable".

Home Secretary Theresa May was arriving back in London to meet acting Metropolitan Police commissioner Tim Godwin.

Scenes of violence in Hackney echoed those in other areas of the capital over the past two nights, with skirmishes between gangs of youths and police, reportedly prompted by a stop and search incident earlier today.

Rioters, many wearing hoods and masks, were confronted by police lines spanning the width of streets, occasionally moving forward to push the groups back.

Officers in riot gear tried to control the situation, coming under fire from objects including chairs and pieces of wood.

At one point, several people broke into the back of a stationary lorry, pulling its contents out on to the road, with some hurling it at police and others using it to smash windows of a bus.

Later, UK Home Secretary Theresa May has condemned the riots that have blighted the UK capital for three days as "sheer criminality".

At least 215 people have been tossed in the calaboose and 25 charged following the riots across London, she said. Police chiefs, politicians and community leaders condemned "opportunistic criminality" amid a fresh wave of violence.
Posted by:Fred

#19  Just as long as they don't unpack some Daleks for riot control, they should muddle through...
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-08-09 22:30  

#18  Riots are repor also starting to take place OUTSIDE OF BRITAIN, as per ECON ANXIETY.

IIRC FOX FIVE > JUDGE NAPOLITANO = POTUS BAMMER tells the US-World that the US is "still a AAA Country", + THE WORLD STARTS A'RIOTIN??

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SHOCK & AWE AS LONDON BURNS - IS AMERICA NEXT?

ARTIC = All of the basic or general underlying factors behind the London-UK Riots are also present in the US.

[THE SIMPSONS = GREAT SPRINGFIELD SOCCER RIOT here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-08-09 21:29  

#17  Call up the professional soccer hooligans - they'll stop it in short order.
Posted by: Barbara   2011-08-09 21:02  

#16  The English Defense League has announced it is taking to the streets to quell the riots, in that the police are "incapable" of doing so.

"We're going to stop the riots — police obviously can't handle it."
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-08-09 20:25  

#15  Vomit gas.

Use fire hoses to wash down the streets the next day.

Hard to loot when you're barfing your guts up in the gutter.
Posted by: Barbara   2011-08-09 19:36  

#14  An M134 should be able to clear out a riot in short order, probably less than 2 minutes after deployment. Alternatively, Apaches can do a good job on large crowds as well.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division   2011-08-09 19:21  

#13  Call out the Horse Guards or what ever the heck they're called. This goes for the same type of clowns that tore up the WI State Fair last week. If you wish to be treated like a human being act like one. If you act like an animal you should treated accordingly
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2011-08-09 18:33  

#12  These riots are a direct effect of the British Left's successful campaign to not only disarm the public, but imprison any and all British citizens that dare use force to defend themselves. The Korean merchants in LA showed the rioters there that there was a cost to trying to loot their shops; the British need a bunch of those guys with their AR-15s and the right to use same in self-defense in London about now. Of course, the rioting is not all bad news for everyone, the BNP has been pushing to repeal much of the British gun laws and have an armed public that has protection under the law to defend itself. They are probably going to gain seats in Parliament from this.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2011-08-09 18:17  

#11  Yes, that one :)
Posted by: Shakey Steve   2011-08-09 15:17  

#10  "This sounds like an organized insurrection. Parliament should send in the Army..."

You mean the one they've cut to the bone?
Posted by: Barbara   2011-08-09 15:10  

#9  This sounds like an organized insurrection. Parliament should send in the Army...
Posted by: Shakey Steve   2011-08-09 14:37  

#8  Rioting is now spreading far north beyond London, to the West Midlands, including Birmingham and Manchester.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-08-09 14:32  

#7  My daughter and I were talking about this as we were walking the dog this morning: she has a lot of British cyber-friends and twitter-followers, some of whom live in London. She says she has often gotten a bit of stick from them on us being violent & gun-loving freaks ... but we were trying to imagine a similiar event taking place in San Antonio. Say a group of Southside gang-bangers came up to Retama Park for a rock concert or something, and decided to loot and vandalize the shops in the Forum and along Pat Booker road ... it would happen maybe once. Between local citizens, and the police forces of several separate towns, to include San Antonio proper, Bexar & Guadalupe counties, the state highway patrol ... they'd need some squeegees and mops to clean up all that would be left of the gangbangers.
I'm afraid, unless the forces of law enforcement in London grow a pair and start firing for effect, this is just going to escalate. The people who do have homes and businesses at risk must be close to the edge by now.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2011-08-09 12:14  

#6  The shops targeted are sports, mobile phones, jewellers, electronic and clothes stores.

Yes. All the essentials the poor need for survival.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-08-09 10:42  

#5  Its a free for all for every scumbag to loot shops without being caught.The police are overstretched!

The shops targeted are sports,mobile phones,jewellers,electronic and clothes stores.
Posted by: Glatle Glealing7009   2011-08-09 10:22  

#4  Yep, one day the Danegeld runs out.


Rudyard Kipling -
Dane-Geld

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-08-09 08:40  

#3  Left-wing politicians are blaming government spending cuts for the spate of violence spreading across the capital.

And they're right, as long as you regard the government spending as blackmail payment rather than welfare.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-08-09 07:41  

#2  Answer, Shoot to Kill.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-08-09 06:51  

#1  
LIVE UPDATES: London landmarks go up in flames amid reports of rioting gangs trying to break into homes.


http://www.news.com.au/world/london-burns-as-215-arrested-for-rioting/story-e6frfkyi-1226111341895
Posted by: Oztralian   2011-08-09 04:50  

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