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London eyewitness: Tottenham unrest 'absolutely manic'
BBC ^ | 8/6/11

Posted on 08/06/2011 11:01:09 PM PDT by Kartographer

Police cars have been set on fire during a demonstration outside a police station in north London, according to witnesses.

Tottenham resident, Maria Robinson, says the disturbance is linked to the fatal shooting of a man during a Scotland Yard operation on Thursday.

Dozens of protesters have been gathering on the High Road in Tottenham.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; clothes; demonstration; disturbance; electronics; england; failbrittania; police; protestors; riots; scotlandyard; shoes; tottenham; youths
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To: bwc2221
The videos will tell all.
21 posted on 08/07/2011 12:22:04 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: americanophile
I don;t think Islam is involved here. This appears to be one of those Los Angeles - Detroit - Newark let's get free electronics and Nike clothes riots.
22 posted on 08/07/2011 12:39:41 AM PDT by bwc2221
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To: americanophile
Do I smell Islam? Tottenham has a large Muslim population.

Nope. This time it's home grown Africanus Britannicus.

23 posted on 08/07/2011 12:41:03 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Jonty30

too late, i think its over.


24 posted on 08/07/2011 12:47:46 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: buccaneer81
Nope. This time it's home grown Africanus Britannicus.

Not home grown Soccerus Hooliganus? First thing I thought when I saw the headline was that Tottenham Hotspur must have won or lost or something.
25 posted on 08/07/2011 12:48:15 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

This came out of a police shooting. The cops were serving a warrant and the guy opened up on them. He was quickly dispatched by an officer’s MP-5.


26 posted on 08/07/2011 12:50:39 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: GeronL

I don’t think it’s over. The government might have to go farther to establish law than it would have had to, but I think it still can be done.


27 posted on 08/07/2011 1:00:03 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: Lancey Howard

“How’s that working out for them?”

Not well, certainly.


28 posted on 08/07/2011 1:14:24 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Lancey Howard

“The trouble with the English is they never see the writing on the wall, until they have their backs to it”

A B Waring.


29 posted on 08/07/2011 1:32:07 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: dfwgator
“....and I live by the river.”

More like:

"When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?"

30 posted on 08/07/2011 2:28:22 AM PDT by Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness (Eenie meanie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak....)
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To: Kartographer

As someone who had lived in London a long long time, these type of people have always had a huge chip on their shoulder, they have no regard for law, think the gun is their god and have no qualms in stabbing, shooting or killing you, life to them is very cheap. When are these govts going to work out that multiculturism does not work, they live in ghettoes and act like it and think they are better than everyone else and deserve everything for free.

Its time London and the UK imposed zero tolerence and either jail them, or deport them for good. You do the crime...zero rights.

Frankly the UK’s problem is lefties gone mad.


31 posted on 08/07/2011 3:24:21 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: sunmars

its the same story alll across the world with black youth, just a different area, same old story, hey we dont get our way, we riot, steal and wreck. Hurtful but its true.


32 posted on 08/07/2011 3:37:59 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: sunmars

Are there any prosperous, democratic, financially stable black countries? I guess the Bahamas could be considered so, but other than that, I don’t know of any. Why is that?


33 posted on 08/07/2011 4:35:08 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Vanders9

Some English have been very aware of this sort of thing for years:

http://englishdefenceleague.org/

Originally made up of politicized “soccer hooligans,” they are a tough, anti-PC, anti multi-culti, anti Islamic group.
They are NOT fascists or Nazis, simply patriots.


34 posted on 08/07/2011 4:37:32 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: ilovesarah2012
Are there any prosperous, democratic, financially stable black countries?

You mentioned the Bahamas; Barbados might be another. Wherever British law and customs took deep root, society progressed. India is the best example.

So sad, then, that the British, themselves, abandoned it.

35 posted on 08/07/2011 4:49:14 AM PDT by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. -- L. Von Mises)
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To: BfloGuy

Ironic.


36 posted on 08/07/2011 5:01:55 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: BfloGuy

The British did not “abandon” their laws and customs in those former ‘colonies/protectorates’.

Under the UN group think of post WWII - Britain was shamed into ‘liberating’ them. When the former ‘colonies’ began to dissolve into chaos - Britain was then obliged to accept the fleeing multitudes into a very small island nation.

The refugees were British citizens with all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.


37 posted on 08/07/2011 5:02:23 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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To: Scanian

The EDL are not heroes.

As you said, the EDL are ex-football hooligans (which is bad enough). Sorry, but they are not simple decent patriots, many DO have links to neo-nazi and far right racist/antisemitic groups. If you think they are non-racist patriots, you are very nieve.

Vanders and I and a few others here are British. We know what the EDL are better than you or anyone. And they ARE a group with questionable links and identity.

Just because they oppose the Muslims dosent make them heroes or right. You want to support us, then support the decent British person who opposes extremism and mass immigration but does it without hatred of skin colour.


38 posted on 08/07/2011 6:25:51 AM PDT by the scotsman (I)
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To: the scotsman
You want to support us, then support the decent British person who opposes extremism and mass immigration

Any advice for the US?

39 posted on 08/07/2011 6:30:45 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: the scotsman

I know a couple of them personally and I am more interested in what they say about their group than what ultra-biased critics like the Anti-Fascists have to say.

The fact that they have put a wet blanket on some of Anjem Choudary’s planned activities is good enough for me.

Football hooligans? Formerly, yes. Some of them. And God bless them! The right needs more tough guys and fewer dilettantes on its side to match the strong-arm tactics of the left-—mainly union goons in this country.

I wish we had an analogous organization in the US. Confront the SEIU with a group like the EDL and you won’t get anywhere near the usual nastiness from them. Right now, they feel very safe in attacking blue-haired tea partiers (I’m one myself, only balding, not gray) and female candidates. If the TP’s had a contingent of EDL-type guardians, things might be different. Lefty thugs are known cowards. Beating up on wheelchair-bound flag salesmen is typical of their style.

Get a clue, please. The bad guys in the world today are Muslims and leftists, not patriots and lovers of Western culture like my hero Geert Wilders.


40 posted on 08/07/2011 6:56:38 AM PDT by Scanian
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