Fears of More Violence after Worst London Riots for Years
LONDON (Reuters) - London braced on Sunday for more violence after some of the worst riots in the British capital for years which politicians and police blamed on criminal thugs but residents attributed to local tensions and anger over hardship.
Rioters throwing petrol bombs rampaged overnight through the deprived district of Tottenham in north London, setting police patrol cars, buildings and a double-decker bus on fire.
"There is Twitter conversations that people are being asked to meet again down in Tottenham, so we are all concerned but clearly we will be much better prepared this evening," Richard Barnes, London's Deputy Mayor, told BBC TV.
Well, here we go then.
AntwortenLöschenToo bad the americans don't ahve the balls to do something like this. But most are too busy drinking their government distributed kool-aid.
AntwortenLöschenI'm embarrassed to say, you are correct.
AntwortenLöschenAmericans should have been in the streets long ago as, they are not used to this sort of thing.
They have been enchanted into subservience (Kool-Aid) indeed.
I wouldnt say enchanted...more like conditioned. Most americans would stand by and watch a family memeber getting raped rather than take the risk of legal action if they hurt the person doing the raping in the process of trying to stop them. Yeah...it's that bad.
AntwortenLöschenI have yet to meet one of those 'Most Americans' and I can guarantee you that I'm not one of them.
AntwortenLöschenEasy on that reach....you might fall over.
Why are they rioting?
AntwortenLöschenOstensibly due to the death of a man who the police described as a "gangster" but those around him said he was a "family man" (which is true, go figure) The area is one of the poorest in London and has a very high immigrant population.
AntwortenLöschenWhy are they destroying their own neighborhoods?
AntwortenLöschen"Nor are these explicitly political riots: There is no message, no motive, no cause, no slogan. Efforts by some opposition politicians to link these events to Prime Minister David Cameron’s spending cuts have been met with incredulity in the affected neighbourhoods, where those cuts have not yet had any municipal effect."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/london-police-overwhelmed-in-explosion-of-violence-by-futureless-youth/article2123444/
I side with law and order. I hope the punks go down.
Because they can.
AntwortenLöschenThats what Mubarak said.
AntwortenLöschenI don't condone such violence but i at least understand the anger and frustration at the bottom of it.
AntwortenLöschenIt shouldn't take much to "get it".
Some of you are too young to remember the riots of the 60's in the US.
They destroyed their own neighbourhoods out of utter frustration.
Such frustration is much the way a kid having a tantrum trashes his room... or in extreme individual cases the way a person out of control cuts him/herself or worse yet, attempts suicide.
Must be nice to be so comfortable you cant understand such frustration.
Again... not to condone it.