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London riots: Violence erupts for third day
BBC News ^
| 8/8/2011
| BBC
Posted on 08/08/2011 2:49:53 PM PDT by Nextrush
Alan McCabe, pub manager in Crodyon: "Area is an absolute war zone"
Violence ha broken out for a third consecutive day in London, with riot police deployed and firefighters tackling blazes across the capital.
Cars were set on fire in Lewisham and a bus and shop were set ablaze in Pekcham. A large furniture shop in Croydon is also well alight.
In Hackney, police sealed off an area after police car windows were smashed.
The prime minister is returning early from holiday to chair a meeting of the government's emergency committee Cobra....
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; United Kingdom
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Rumors on BBC's live riot blog that the army will be deployed to London.
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:49:55 PM PDT
by
Nextrush
To: Nextrush
America, behold thy future.
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:51:24 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(When in the Course of human events...)
To: Nextrush
If Brits don't deal with decisively, they'll have cities burning all over England for the next twenty years.
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:53:14 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(The end of our great nation - caused by 'give it all away' dems. May dems reap what they sown...)
To: Nextrush
Here’s a message to the London Police from Troy on Swamp People: SHOOT!
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:54:30 PM PDT
by
Terry Mross
(I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
To: TSgt
One HUGE difference - America is heavily armed.
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:54:35 PM PDT
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger......)
To: Terry Mross
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:56:18 PM PDT
by
seeker41
(CULPRIT CHINESE COMPANY INFO.)
To: Nextrush
Theresa May keeps repeating over and over again that there is no excuse for violence. I wonder if they are really cracking down or just talking tough.
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:56:33 PM PDT
by
samtheman
To: Nextrush
Some of the reports coming from people on twitter is shocking.
“rockmother astrid
There are not enough police to deal with this. The situation at Clapham Junction has been going on un-policed for nearly 2 hrs #londonriots”
Police are over stretched and the riots are spreading, trouble makers are making there way into the capital from other areas. I’ve never seen anything like it.
To: Nextrush
Amish again, they must be on hloiday in the UK.
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:56:57 PM PDT
by
boomop1
To: Nextrush
To: Terry Mross
Here’s a message to the London Police from Troy on Swamp People: SHOOT! ...that's "Thoot! ... Thoot 'im Now!"
To: Nextrush
Britain cannot win in London. (sarc)
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:58:05 PM PDT
by
junta
("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
To: tgusa
You got it. We have what is called Admendment #2.
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:58:42 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: tgusa
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:58:56 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(When in the Course of human events...)
To: Nextrush
NPR had a soundbite of a woman with a wonderful British accent, completely distraught, she lost everything to fire and looters. She was in tears -- but she was at pains to explain that the looter she saw was a white guy with blonde hair.
I bet NPR thought that clip was gold.
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posted on
08/08/2011 2:59:38 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: ClearCase_guy
The Looter Class crosses all races.
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posted on
08/08/2011 3:01:21 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(My mind is like a steel trap: rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
To: TSgt
Philly is trying to STEM the violence from the SAME group of agitators...here on North Amerucan soil...
with
CURFEWS!
LMAO...
wait until the Philly feral rats and their twitters demand they converge on an area and start the fires....
WHITE AMERICA wake the F up!
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posted on
08/08/2011 3:01:30 PM PDT
by
antivenom
(visit SBPDL.com and at least read what you and the liberal media are too afraid to say)
To: TSgt; Biggirl
Watching your neighbor exsanguinate tends to cool the hottest of heads.....
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posted on
08/08/2011 3:02:14 PM PDT
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger......)
To: TSgt
Shouldn’t be a shotgun and a rifle instead of two rifles?
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posted on
08/08/2011 3:02:42 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: Inyo-Mono
Oh, ROTFLMAO!! LOVE that tagline!!
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posted on
08/08/2011 3:05:10 PM PDT
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger......)
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