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16,000 police to retake London: PM recalls Parliament as the police lose control of Britain's street
Daily Mail (London) ^

Posted on 08/09/2011 6:15:16 AM PDT by quesney

16,000 police to retake London: PM recalls Parliament as the police lose control of Britain's streets

--Prime Minister David Cameron recalls Parliament on Thursday as Government tries to quell uprising

--'Unprecedented' 16,000 police on duty in London - compared with just 6,000 last night

--Man, 26, shot in Croydon last night dies in hospital England game against Netherlands at Wembley tomorrow called OFF

--400% surge in 999 calls on night of violence with 20,800 dialling the emergency services in London

--Cost of clean-up expected to run into 'tens of millions'

--Metropolitan Police use armoured vehicles to push back 150 rioters in Lavender Hill, Clapham

--'There are no plans for the Army to get involved,' says police chief

--Three arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of police officer

--525 people arrested in total and more than 100 people have been charged

--Jamie Oliver's restaurant in Birmingham ransacked by rioters

--All police cells in London are now FULL

--Man seriously ill after being shot in Croydon

--Copycat riots reported in Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham, Liverpool and Leeds

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023874/LONDON-RIOTS-David-Cameron-returns-home-police-face-gangs-petrol-bombs.html#ixzz1UXI1VrCk

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: birmingham; bristol; croydon; diversity; leeds; liverpool; london; nottingham; parliament; police; rioters; riots; unitedkingdom; uprising
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To: sam_paine

Yeah, it seemed more cautionary and a bit more obscure in 1999.


121 posted on 08/09/2011 8:11:47 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: littleharbour

LIke another poster stated: how long before the Obozo administration recognizes the rioters as the official UK government?

Poor Queen. What will become of her and hers? Probably a Romanovesque fate awaits them at the hands of Britain’s new anarchial leaders, their hands all greasy from fish and chips.

Even the police recognize them as legitimate.

What nation will clandestinely slip in armaments? Since Mr. and Mrs. Obozo now despise the Brits and love the Frogs it may be the USSA.


122 posted on 08/09/2011 8:12:01 AM PDT by IbJensen (God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made politicians.)
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To: Glenn

Oh, yeah you can bet these are decent, productive, law-abiding citizens out there attacking the police and people.

Are you an idiot?


123 posted on 08/09/2011 8:12:18 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: JenB987; Glenn
"Except the majority of these people are anarchists and Commies wishing for redistribution, Marx style."

I've often wondered, with some posters, if they were anarchists masquerading on FR as "libertarians."

But I do know from history that "anarchists" always prove to be communists, once the government is toppled.

So, I could see why one of these would see looters and arsonists as comrades.

124 posted on 08/09/2011 8:12:41 AM PDT by drpix
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To: quesney

"See, I told you so."

125 posted on 08/09/2011 8:12:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Glenn

[It’s a bit of acting out, to be sure, but people are frustrated, don’t you think? Wouldn’t you like to throw a brick or two through a window some days?]

No, I wouldn’t. I don’t see how damaging property solves anything.


126 posted on 08/09/2011 8:14:38 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: drpix
But I do know from history that "anarchists" always prove to be communists, once the government is toppled.

The anarchists are useful idiots who are done away with , once the Communists gain power.

127 posted on 08/09/2011 8:14:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: drpix
I've often wondered, with some posters, if they were anarchists masquerading on FR as "libertarians."

That's it. You've unmasked me. Drat. And I'd been doing so well.

128 posted on 08/09/2011 8:15:35 AM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: KansasGirl
I don’t see how damaging property solves anything.

Property like tea?

129 posted on 08/09/2011 8:17:18 AM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: Glenn

Bingo! I was hoping to hit a button to get you back to face the heat.


130 posted on 08/09/2011 8:19:23 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Glenn

Bingo! I was hoping to hit a button to get you back to face the heat.


131 posted on 08/09/2011 8:19:30 AM PDT by drpix
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To: ransacked
Ah, jolly old England, nothing like a little cultural diversity to brighten your day,(and night), eh?

Here we watch a country's buildings being burned to the ground, it's native citizenry beaten, robbed and murdered, all do to its immigration policy.

And do you think there government will change that policy after this? No.

Do you think Washington will change ours? Of course not.

What are we to do if we don't wish to be killed in our homelands by invited barbarians?

132 posted on 08/09/2011 8:19:45 AM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: oh8eleven

“...the 1863 NYC Draft Riots.”

The NYC Democrat Riots were only stopped by bringing in troops who had been at Gettysburg and using warships cannons.

The Democrats were trying to kill every Black they could get their hands on, including the children in the Negro Orphans’ Home.

Kent State, on the other hand, set off the shutdowns of thousands of universities across the nation and assured the victory of the Anti-War Movement. But those shooting were not planned and, like most unplanned things, did not accomplish what was intended, but it’s opposite.

There is a difference between a demonstration and a riot. Firing on the demonstration, much like all those before and after, turned it into a riot. Dumb mistake on the part of the Guard.


133 posted on 08/09/2011 8:20:39 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: Glenn

Not the same and you know it.


134 posted on 08/09/2011 8:21:20 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: ladyvet
What the German Blitzkrieg couldn't destroy their own punk kids will. Disgusting...

These "punk kids" (an awfully light term I'd say), aren't England's "own".

135 posted on 08/09/2011 8:22:51 AM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative; Glenn; Apple Pan Dowdy

These riots are pure thuggery by the ticks who were created by the welfare state. It’s a bunch of angry young men who were raised by single mothers on the dole. One of them even said “We’re redistributing the wealth.” as he was looting.

If the shop owners were armed, this would have been over days ago. The British police should be shooting these criminals. If government won’t fulfill it’s first duty, which is to protect life and property, then civilization will collapse.


136 posted on 08/09/2011 8:23:35 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: quesney

Coming soon to a nation near you.


137 posted on 08/09/2011 8:25:00 AM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: KansasGirl; Glenn
Here's what some see as just like the "Boston Tea Party."

Injured boy mugged during disturbances in London

London rioters: 'Showing the rich we do what we want'

138 posted on 08/09/2011 8:25:54 AM PDT by drpix
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To: AuH2ORepublican
Some FReepers had speculated that Turks may be involved as well, but, according to this, in these riots the London Turks are playing the part played by L.A. Koreans in the Rodney King riots

It's not impossible for them to play both sides: some staying to protect their own, while others go out and play.

139 posted on 08/09/2011 8:26:00 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: Glenn

No Glenn, I don’t have days like that.

Destroying other people’s dreams is not my way of getting what I want.

Marching on city hall and demanding action would be. If any violence were to take place, that’s where it should, but even then you’re destroying something that will have to be rebuilt at the cost of you, if you’re working, or some other poor slob who’ll get stuck with the taxes to do it.

Massive peaceful protest is the way to go.

Bring things to a halt by peaceful means. Make demands.

Where do you get the idea that these are merely people who are fed up? Hell, a lot of us are fed up, but do we burn down our neighbor’s businesses or loot their stores?

These are criminals.


140 posted on 08/09/2011 8:27:05 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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