Quote from WinstonSmith on August 10, 2011, 12:33 am

iWork925 wrote:

But seriously, their overall idea is solid but their method is way off, why rob? What does that achieve. Burn the police station down.

That's a horrible idea. Riot violence in this case of any form isn't the answer to dealing with problems, peaceful protest is.

iWork925 wrote:

Although I cant work out why they are stealing random crap.

They're "stealing random crap" because the focus for them isn't the issue of questionable police brutality. In fact, I'm willing to bet most of them don't even know much or care much about the issue. For them, it's simply an excuse to go out and be pointlessly destructive.

Quote from walropodes on August 10, 2011, 12:49 am

iWork925 wrote:

But seriously, their overall idea is solid but their method is way off, why rob? What does that achieve. Burn the police station down.

Most of these dumb cunts don't even believe in this stuff, they're just in it for the free stuff and so they can smash things into bits

Quote from Lostprophetpunk on August 10, 2011, 1:49 am

You will see that most of the people who are actually committing these offences, are on benefits. None of them actually know the valid reason why all this is happening.

I'm happy to see that people are helping to clear up what has been done.

Another shocking act was that of Mr Reeves business being burnt to the ground, whilst he was celebrating his 21st wedding anniversary.

Also, iWork925...they have no real goal or achievement. It's just the fact that they do it because they can.

Also, to those of you who think it's just the youth of the communities that are the main cause of this, are wrong. Most youths who are seen around the scenes of the violence and rioting, are simply there to watch and be there to witness it, as they have nothing else to do, or they have come back to london to get caught up in the rioting.

The riots got the stage where football matches are being postponed. All of this is continue to spread.

However, Twitter and other social media companies are now taking the brunt of the blame.

Quote from msleeper on August 10, 2011, 2:43 am

Like I said, whatever idealistic spark started all of this has long since faded, and at this point the people who are "rioting" and looting are just human garbage who have an easy excuse to burn down buildings and rob stores.

Quote from Hober on August 10, 2011, 8:55 am

And nobody to stop them.

Quote from The Irate Pirate on August 10, 2011, 1:17 pm

These underclass scumbags are rioting at the perceived injustice of spending cuts on public services, and yet they can afford to own Blackberries, can riot on a weekday evening, i.e. none of them work, leech of the British state and suck our country dry.

I live in London so this is affecting me, the town I live in was shut down for the entire of yesterday evening and filled with dozens of riot police.

And the whole "ineffectual" police thing is just you Americans way of dick waving, if the Police don't use guns, the criminals don't bother using guns. It explains why America has so many gun crimes, it's an arms race between criminals and law enforcement. The British just use fists, bats and clubs like any self respecting scumbag would.

Quote from msleeper on August 10, 2011, 3:13 pm

I keep telling my eurofriends that the reason there wouldn't be looting like this over here is because store owners are armed and will defend their property. But as for the police being ineffectual, I'm just shocked their not using beanbag or rubber ammo, or way more tear gas, or one of those insane sound cannons they used at G20 to disperse protesters. In all of the videos I've seen, they just stand in front of things and watch while the rioters burn cars and other buildings or go looting nearby. And when pressed, they flee.

I think the notion that police should bare-fist brawl criminals is insane at best, and I get that you are trying to be nationalistic and say the UK is better than the US because you don't have gun crime or whatever - but that's irrelevant. They should be protecting themselves as well as stopping the people doing the looting. Getting into the fray is putting them unnecessarily in harm's way when they could use shotguns with beanbag ammo to stop the looters in their tracks.

Quote from satchmo on August 10, 2011, 3:38 pm

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I'm really not that proud to even be human.

Perhaps we should look into the option of storing our personality in AI cores.

Humanity's stupidity does not surprise me anymore. People are far more likely to surprise you with their ignorance rather than their intelligence.

The riots remind me of the movie "Children of Men".
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Quote from Jomonay on August 10, 2011, 4:19 pm

iWork925 wrote:

No one should stay silent to such injustice, including the obvious Duggan cover up.

I'm sorry? I'm lead to believe that Duggan was holding a firearm at the time, whilst being in certain knowledge that the police were following him. You show a gun to an armed police officer in the UK it's not going to end well, any idiot can see that. Even if they were covering up how vicious they were, there is a certain degree of accountability.

Also, the riots in Birmingham/Manchester ect are all copycat riots, purely because people want to loot stuff. There's been peopole trying to start a riot near where I live in the city of Leicester, just because they want to smash windows and steal stuff. No other reason.