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08-08-2011, 06:40 PM | #21 (permalink) |
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My apologies Jack trying to lighten the mood a bit. Actually the LA riot was nothing but a reason to pillage, loot, and beat up innocent people. Seems like the London riots have a bit of reasoning behind them. Well at least they began that way. Hope everyone remains safe, good day.
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08-08-2011, 06:49 PM | #22 (permalink) | |
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Flip the coin the other way in that we live in relative peace over here so why start a riot? Something, somewhere is pissing people off. We don't just become an unruly mass for the sake of it. I don't know what it is but AGAIN this is not mere coincidence. People are pissed off and public protests have been commonplace for over a year now when it was relatively quite up until then.
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08-08-2011, 06:58 PM | #23 (permalink) | |
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Then Brits will do what they do best and that is try to understand why this happened, they`ll reach a conclusion and then as per usual do nothing about it and just sweep it under the carpet until the next riots occur, these could be in either a years time or in the next decade. |
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08-08-2011, 08:14 PM | #25 (permalink) | |
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Did it not all kick off before this guy was shot? He was shot because he had a gun if I'm not mistaken.
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08-08-2011, 08:18 PM | #26 (permalink) |
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No, the guy was shot last thursday. The trouble started on saturday night during a protest about the situation that lead to his shooting that got violent, and its just escalated from there. The shooting isnt the cause of all of this, its just the spark that lit the fire.
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08-08-2011, 08:21 PM | #27 (permalink) | |
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Oh well, the news I read insinuated it was because the guy was shot "for no reason". You just about can't trust any news anyway. I'm just a little glad I'm 400 miles away. I'd be bricking it. I hope everyone from London's alright!
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08-08-2011, 08:25 PM | #28 (permalink) |
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This is what these grade A cunts are doing all over the city. This particular instance is a Croydon furniture shop founded in 1876, it's been a family run business for over 100 years and because of this mindless activity it's now been completely obliterated. I'm watching the news now and an absolutely gigantic fire is rumbling in Essex at the moment, there are no videos on the internet of it yet but I can tell you it's vast, if anyone is watching BBC News you'll know what I mean. The violence seems to be increasing in severity, the acts of vandalism are becoming bigger and more devastating It's become a major crisis, one that just cannot be swept under the carpet in a few days. |
08-09-2011, 01:02 AM | #29 (permalink) | |
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I'm not British, but whenver these arguments occur vis-a-vis something in the states, it annoys me. "It's not a riot, it's an expression of rage" wrong mother****er, these are jackasses who are looking for an excuse. Whenever you say, "I don't agree with riots, but...." - you're excusing their behavior. Oh, boo ****ing hooo. University fees went up. So? Let's do a mental exercise; how many rioters are Uni students who both go to school & work full time? How many are "fulltime students" who lack regular full time employment and have a middle class family to fall back upon? This isn't a revolution, and I'd be damned if any workingclass mofo is going to risk prison time & a rap sheet over something political.
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08-09-2011, 01:16 AM | #30 (permalink) | |
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Riots in general are retarded. I haven't really followed this much aside from a google search I did because of this thread. But you see it happen all the time, all over the world for dumb reasons (like every sports championship ever). I think people justify their actions in the moment because everyone else seems to be doing it. Rioting just hurts your own community. Lighting shit on fire and destroying property really doesn't solve anything. I hope everyone caught on camera faces criminal charges. |
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