Posted on 03/26/2011 3:03:48 PM PDT by passionfruit
I chance to be passing through London today. Picked the wrong afternoon for it. Every sleepy side-street in this normally agreeable corner of Mayfair is awash with union heavies and other unlovely types who’ve wandered loose from the supposedly half-million-strong protest march against alleged government “spending cuts” – of which, in fact, there are distressingly few.
As I write, I am approximately fifty feet from the scene of this balaclava-ed anarchist’s heroic stand. Looks rather less exciting in close-up, I have to report. The livelier lads have already rampaged through Fortnum & Mason, the upscale Piccadilly emporium, and attacked the Ritz. Obvious targets, you might say. But I found it more poignant earlier in the day when I went to a favorite coffee place hoping to enjoy a beverage outside on a pleasant spring day as the massed ranks of British layabouts marched by. Instead, the Polish and Balkan baristas were hurriedly dragging in all the sidewalk tables and chairs before the Socialist Workers’ Party chaps showed up in search of projectiles. Nobody in the Socialist Workers’ Party actually works, which is one reason why it’s Mitteleuropeans frothing your coffee rather than any of the natives.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
'Riot tourist' Briton, 35, faces two years in jail for 'hurling a stone at a policeman'
There’s no such thing as a “right” to ignore reality if it entails violating the real rights of others or hastening the bankruptcy of a nation that recognizes real rights.
...of course, I know Mark Steyn’s tongue was planted firmly in his cheeck...
Those young animals will never see a ‘tax’ bill. Britain appears to be in the same position as us and even closer to WI & CA; as they can no longer keep up with filling the trough.
the Polish and Balkan baristas were hurriedly dragging in all the sidewalk tables and chairs before the Socialist Workers' Party chaps showed up in search of projectiles. Nobody in the Socialist Workers' Party actually works
MS on FR.
Mark Steyn ping.
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Thanks again slings and arrows.
De nada.
A sweet and smooth opening paragraph... What a gift Steyn is.
Bump
You won’t see anything close to this in the U.S.’s burgeoning number of states with concealed carry and no duty to retreat laws. A couple of these hooded punks would get shot and the party would be over. It is what should have happened in the UK, by the police.
“You can evade reality but you can’t avoid the consequences of evading reality.” Ayn Rand
Still waiting for Chris Matthews and the rest of the leftist media in the US to denounce the violence and incivility of the British mobs. I’ve already seen them try to excuse it by saying it was only realtively few of the 500K protesters who took part.
Nobody in the Socialist Workers’ Party actually worker.
They are more socialist than they are worker.
great read!
No chance. Why should they? Most of the people who were protesting (and none of those who were rioting) will be paying for it, after all.
Great quote!
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