Greta Van Susteran host of On the Record wrote the following today: "I realize riots are different than economic meltdowns but if you don’t have a job, and if you are worried about putting food on the table, your economic situation is as violent to you as a riot. Your whole world is turned upside down. You don’t know which way to turn and you don’t know what tomorrow will bring. You are scared.
Now, despite what I wrote above, I do admit there is a difference between riots and economic meltdown but both are urgent. You don’t put off dealing with either."
To which I replied: I agree the general population are facing dire circumstances as a direct result of INEFFECTIVE and SELF-SERVING government policy making the world over. However, destroying/defacing other peoples property and community is making matters worse. There's no excuse for what these thugs are doing in the UK. They're angry with the government. Yet the people these thugs in the UK are harming are INNOCENT, have done NOTHING to them. Like teenagers who TP houses for fun, well these thugs are the same only they are expressing VIOLENT UNCONTROLLED RAGE they have toward their parents, the government and life in general! I see them as mindless drones!!!
Drone is defined as: a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen. Does not produce anything. One that lives on the labors of others. An unmanned aircraft or ship (or person) guided by remote control. [source: Merriam-Webster dictionary]
Drone is defined as: a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen. Does not produce anything. One that lives on the labors of others. An unmanned aircraft or ship (or person) guided by remote control. [source: Merriam-Webster dictionary]
The UK is over-regulated as is evident with The Telegraph UK reporting today that:
Hundreds of Londoners took to the streets this morning to clean up damage caused during last night's riots – but the Twitter-organised community action was partially hampered by health and safety rules. The clean-up operation had been expected to begin at 1pm after police dealt with the crime scene. Officers told the volunteers that the decision had been made for the clean-up to be done by the council.
The Sun UK paper posted a photo expose today of rioters in the UK titled: Name and Shame a Rioter. RIGHT ON!!!
THESE are just some of the 2,000 suspects being hunted today over Britain's riot mayhem. Police issued the CCTV shots and appealed to witnesses to identify anyone they recognise. Sun readers are urged to name and shame any morons they saw looting or committing arson and wrecking property.
The Telegraph UK
written by By Martin Beckford, Andrew Hough and Mark Hughes
Tuesday August 9, 2011
Rioting and looting has spread to towns and cities throughout England, 24 hours after police were accused of losing control of the streets of London.
Officers were fighting disturbances in Manchester and Birmingham involving hundreds of youths who set fire to shops and smashed store windows.
The fourth night of riots came after David Cameron returned early from his holiday and called on police to be more robust in their response. The Prime Minister announced that the number of officers on the streets of the capital would rise from 6,000 to 16,000 in a bid to stamp out escalating lawlessness.
The Metropolitan Police also said it would consider firing plastic bullets, never before used on the mainland, against the rampaging gangs, while police leave was cancelled and special constables drafted in.
The Army’s emergency infantry battalion, known as the Spearhead Lead Element, has been put on standby should the civil unrest worsen, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
London was placed in lockdown after three nights of anarchy with shops being boarded up early in the afternoon and office workers hurrying home before dark as rumours swirled that mobs were forming at locations throughout the city. But as police officers from 30 forces poured into the capital it became increasingly clear that the tactic had left the provinces exposed. By early evening a number of outbreaks of violence were confirmed.
In Birmingham, police clashed with up to 200 looters who attacked shops inside New Street station, closing off much of the city centre. Masked youths roamed the streets smashing windows and setting fire to cars.
In Manchester, hundreds of masked and hooded youths gathered in Piccadilly Gardens and threw bricks at officers. A Miss Selfridge clothes shop was set alight while looters broke into a Foot Locker sports store in the Arndale Centre. Some reports said rioters were being allowed to ransack properties without police intervening. Residents claimed gangs were highly organised, with leaders warning them when to move on to avoid officers.
Nearby in Salford, where the BBC is setting up a vast Media City, there were “pockets” of disorder with reports that buildings, including a youth centre, had been set on fire. A BBC cameraman was assaulted as journalists increasingly came under attack.
In West Bromwich, seven miles north-west of Birmingham, up to 200 hooded youths went on the rampage from late afternoon. Dozens of shops and businesses in the centre were smashed and looters carrying baseball bats and tools fought police. In nearby Wolverhampton, youths broke into shops.
There were also reports of clashes in Canning Town, east London. With no sign of a let-up in the trouble – first sparked on Saturday after a fatal police shooting two days before – senior politicians struggled to convince the public they had a grip on the situation. Boris Johnson, the London mayor, was heckled during a visit to Clapham Junction with some in the crowd calling for his resignation. Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, was booed in Birmingham and told to go home.
The Prime Minister will chair a second meeting of the Government’s emergency committee, Cobra, this morning and Parliament will be recalled tomorrow to discuss the developments. George Osborne, the Chancellor, has become the latest Cabinet minister to cut short his overseas break.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission, investigating the fatal police shooting, disclosed that Mark Duggan, the victim, was carrying a real gun when he was killed in Tottenham, north London but had not fired at officers, as first thought.
Insurers and business leaders warned that the costs of the riots would reach “hundreds of millions of pounds” in damage to property, stolen goods and loss of business, putting the fragile economic recovery in further jeopardy.
By last night Scotland Yard said there had been 563 arrests, with 105 people charged with offences ranging from burglary to possessing an offensive weapon.
“Unprecedented” violence against police had left 111 officers injured along with five police dogs. Officers have faced volleys of bricks and bottles. One was injured by a car as he tried to stop looters in Brent, north-west London.
Evidence emerged that the crisis is damaging Britain’s reputation abroad, less than a year before London hosts the 2012 Olympic Games. Several countries, including the United States, updated advice to nationals thinking of visiting.
Many domestic football matches have been called off, including England’s friendly against Holland at Wembley.
Some of the world’s most authoritarian regimes, including those of Iran, Libya and Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, gloated over the “failure” of Britain’s liberal society. If the violence continues, it is likely that police officers will begin using plastic bullets, only previously deployed during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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