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NBC Stokes British Class Warfare: 'Economic Inequality' Sparked London Riots
NewsBusters.org ^ | July 31, 2012 | Kyle Drennen

Posted on 07/31/2012 7:17:05 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/31/2012 7:17:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 07/31/2012 7:22:24 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Kaslin

I’m surprised Boyle didn’t have a lengthy, inane dance number at the opening ceremony to publicizes the poor economy in England. He must have run out of money.


3 posted on 07/31/2012 7:22:34 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Kaslin

I know what they mean, it’s economic inequality that forces me to hand over the paycheck to the wife every payday. (Ducking, running very very fast, now!).


5 posted on 07/31/2012 7:59:02 PM PDT by Free in Texas (Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
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To: Kaslin

I would like to tie this bolshevik worm to a chair and tell her the story of my family, who arrived as migrants after world war two, the men sent off as labourers regardless of their trade or professions, the women and children left behind in migrant camps in the middle of no-where in army camps until their husbands and fathers could find them a place to live in some small country town - there was no accommodation provided for dependants and no welfare.
In the town where we ended up (my mother worked as a live-in cook on a farming property) while my stepfather lived in a construction camp, the men built huts in a wooded region near the town tip without plumbing or electricity.
And no one spoke the language when we arrived, we came from all over europe, couldn’t even talk to each other, and I recall clearing thistles and picking tomatoes on my hands and knees after school, to earn a few shillings.
Did we riot? Did we steal? Did we burn down the shops in town? Did we blame anyone?
Of course we didn’t. We were, man woman and child, without exception, grateful for the basic shelter we had, the plentiful food, the FREEDOM!

We weren’t marxists, and that’s got to be the difference.


6 posted on 07/31/2012 8:01:31 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
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To: Free in Texas

We really need to address attractiveness inequality. We could start by disfiguring these shills.


7 posted on 07/31/2012 8:05:40 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: papertyger

Come to think of it....a thousand percent tax on beauty products and fashion accessories wouldn’t be a bad idea, either.

Give all these unfairly gifted media personalities a bowl haircut and a pair of coveralls.


8 posted on 07/31/2012 8:26:00 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: Fred Nerks; CaptainKrunch; Kenny Bunk
"King believes economic inequality was a driving force behind London's riots last year...."

Steaming Pantload of Leftist BS Alert!

The trigger event of the 2011 riots - the shooting of Mark Duggan - is still mired in controversy a year after the event. The official Home Office government report of the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel goes to extraordinary lengths to state that the 2011 riots were not racially motivated, nor were the nationwide looting and arson that followed perpetrated exclusively by the black underclass.

The fact is, Mark Duggan would be best described, in America parlance, as a "gang-banger". Unnamed police sources claimed via The "Daily Telegraph" that Duggan was a "well known gangster" and a "major player and well known to the police in Tottenham". Operation Trident, a London Metropolitan Police unit responsible for gun crime within the black community, had Duggan under surveillance.

On August 6th, 2011, Duggan's relatives and local residents marched on Tottenham Police Station. The demonstrators wanted information from police about the circumstances of Duggan's death. A chief inspector spoke with the demonstrators, who demanded to see a higher-ranking officer. A younger and more aggressive crowd arrived at the scene around dusk, some of whom were carrying weapons. Police responded strongly to a 16-year-old girl who threw a missile at them. This was the flash point which led to the nationwide riots.

9 posted on 07/31/2012 8:41:37 PM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: Free in Texas

A regular welfare or disability check will qualify you for an Escalade these days.


10 posted on 07/31/2012 9:11:34 PM PDT by Sicvee (Sicvee)
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To: Kaslin

And yet, that wealth doesn’t trickle down anywhere, you know?

Yes, it does trickle down.They’re bitching about not enough trickling down to deadbeats. Too much trickles down to deadbeats everywhere is the problem


11 posted on 07/31/2012 9:32:57 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Kaslin

Keep fanning the flames, NBC, and they will end up with “Economic Equality”.


12 posted on 07/31/2012 10:37:43 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: Fred Nerks
Between the age of 5 and 11, my great grandfather would rise early, milk the cows, walk 5 miles to the lead mine, put in a 10 or 12 hour day, walk home, milk the cows and call it a day. That work in the lead mine was compensated at the rate of less than 1 US dollar in today's currency. At age 11, he sprouted up and was too big to get into the mine. He was assigned sheep herding duties. The rest of the family were butchers, tailors and cobblers. Both of his parents died from tuberculosis. His father at age 1 and mother at age 9. He escaped that life in Wales and worked in Liverpool until he was old enough to sign on as ship's company to come to the United States. He arrived in 1863 and promptly joined the US Army. When the Civil War ended, he returned to Pittsburgh, PA and married his fiancee from Aberystwyth. They raised 19 children. Engineers. Farmers. Most earned 4 year degrees. Some went further. None of them had success handed to them. They worked for it. Success is not a gift. It is the reward for work well done.
13 posted on 07/31/2012 11:24:32 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

It’s pure marx/leninism, it doesn’t have to be logical, all it has to do is create as much envy and hatred as possible. If it didn’t, then they would all get some kind of work, like we did, and never dream that someone owed them a living. There’s the power there to destroy the nation, as did the bolsheviks.
Marxists never stop. Parisites, they have that in common with islam.


14 posted on 08/01/2012 1:32:27 AM PDT by Fred Nerks
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To: CaptainKrunch

I can’t believe Britain allows the flotsam & jetsam of the Third World to come in and whine about such things; without this sanctuary from the horrors of their native lands these people would be bathing in the collective urine of their village. What kind of country allows these malcontents to spew such Bolshevik rhetoric?

Oh, never mind; I can see Britain through my glass house...


15 posted on 08/01/2012 1:52:09 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Fred Nerks

The problem for these career malcontents is that they are interchangeable; here in the US we are trading in our black underclass for a Hispanic one (with less of a grudge). Urban blacks are being displaced by Hispanics in the workforce, in political office, even in prison and the drug trade.


16 posted on 08/01/2012 1:59:57 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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...Urban blacks are being displaced by Hispanics in the workforce, in political office, even in prison and the drug trade.

And converting to islam?

17 posted on 08/01/2012 3:29:02 AM PDT by Fred Nerks
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To: Fred Nerks

“And converting to islam?”

Isolated cases; pork products are too deeply ingrained in Latin America for Islam to ever hope to take hold (never mind the alcohol ban).


18 posted on 08/01/2012 3:47:48 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: CaptainKrunch
they can see it

just as big a house and car

A remarkable amount of leftism is simply visible size envy.

19 posted on 08/01/2012 3:59:20 AM PDT by Reeses (Sustainable energy? Let's first have sustainable government.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Not the hispanics, I meant the coloured people...it makes sense historically, the arabs (muslims) have always used the blacks to do their dirty work. How many ‘african-americans’ have converted to islam?


20 posted on 08/01/2012 4:19:33 AM PDT by Fred Nerks
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