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'Britain needs to ask itself why it is so hated' says New York Times [ Blames Riots on...Tea Party!]
telegraph.co.uk ^ | Aiug 11 2011 | telegraph.co.uk

Posted on 08/12/2011 4:16:02 PM PDT by NoLibZone

Well you could argue, I suppose, that it’s payback for the nauseating apologia for terrorism written by the Guardian’s resident Wykhamist Trot Seumas Milne the day after 9/11 (”They can’t see why they are hated”).

But I surely can’t be the only Londoner for whom it sticks, ever so slightly, in the craw to be told by a Chicago-born professor of sociology and his Dutch sociologist wife in the New York Times is that the riots are kind of our fault because Britain has become such a hotbed of Tea Party values. The American right today is obsessed with cutting government spending. In many ways, Mr. Cameron’s austerity program is the Tea Party’s dream come true. But Britain is now grappling with the consequence… Read More

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: blame4teaparty; blamexxxteaparty; londonriots
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1 posted on 08/12/2011 4:16:08 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

Teap Party is the lefts biggest threat...ever.


2 posted on 08/12/2011 4:17:00 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Life as Nancy Pelosi knows & wants it, must end, Life As Nancy Knows it is to raise Debt 10% annualy)
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To: NoLibZone

Tell the sociology professors: so, is it okay to rape women because they wear short skirt? I bet they’ll scream, ‘You always blame the victim!,” which, ironically, can also be applied to this situation.


3 posted on 08/12/2011 4:21:54 PM PDT by paudio (The 0bama Downgrade Two (a possible sequel to the current horror movie))
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4 posted on 08/12/2011 4:22:20 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: NoLibZone

TEA Party values??

The UK is the opposite of TEA Party values, they are the result of a longtime leftwing nannystate


5 posted on 08/12/2011 4:24:07 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: NoLibZone

Apparently the Tea Party in the US is so effective that the politicians in the UK are listening.


6 posted on 08/12/2011 4:30:03 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: GeronL
..that being said, the youth programs they stopped funding cost much less than the extra police action & damage.
7 posted on 08/12/2011 4:37:38 PM PDT by de.rm ('Most people never believe anything you tell them unless it isn't true."-Groucho Marx)
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To: GeronL

Ill reared illegitimates, dumbed down hence jobless, unChristian, entitlement mentality dregs.

Only one of the four can be remedied in short time which could mend the other three, over a long time if individual responsibility is accepted and not perpetually opposed by the current state policies.


8 posted on 08/12/2011 4:41:29 PM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: NoLibZone

An Epitaph for Britain
August 10, 2011 12:15 P.M.
By John Derbyshire
I disagree with the editors that “Race … does not seem to be the explanation” for the North London riots. Or rather, while it may not be the explanation, it’s a big part of the explanation; though the protocol over there seems to be that you have to be differently-raced yourself to say this out loud.

Plainly there are white kids among the rioters. Equally plainly, blacks are wildly over-represented. The population of the U.K. is two percent black. Does anyone think the proportion of black people among the rioters is two percent? It looks to me more like 60-70 percent.

Race was also a big factor in the police non-response to the riots. In London especially — but other jurisdictions take the lead from London — the police have been thoroughly race-whipped by the PC establishment. The Macpherson Report of 1999, which charged the Metropolitan force with “institutional racism,” was a turning-point. The mentality of the London police leadership now is pretty precisely that of General George Casey. The Daily Telegraph’s David Green has a good article on this.

The native British underclass is unruly, to be sure (see our own Tony Daniels on this in the current U.K. Daily Mail). They are quite capable of breaking windows without instruction.

The British, however, have lived with their class problem for a millennium and more. To deliberately add a race problem on top of that, as the post-WW2 British did, for no reasons other than sentimentality, crank economics, and post-imperial noblesse oblige, was an act of folly for which history offers few parallels. A few brave souls among Britain’s leaders said so at the time, but they were shouted down and hustled out of public life.

I quoted Lord Melbourne the other day. I should do so more often: he is very quotable. Here he is again:

What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.
You could inscribe that on Britain’s tombstone.


9 posted on 08/12/2011 4:44:36 PM PDT by ventanax5
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To: NoLibZone
Who the hell is James Delingpole? Is he really as stupid as this article makes him look?

To wit:

"The American right today is obsessed with cutting government spending."
Does this mean that Delingpole isn't???

Government spending is going to be cut,

either by

(1) Voluntary cuts by Congress and the President, which will be limited cuts,

or

(2) The bankruptcy of the U.S. and the destruction of the economy, rendering the dollar worthless, which will be TOTAL cuts.

Are you sure this article's not a spoof? He can't be serious. Can he?

10 posted on 08/12/2011 4:44:37 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("That's the great cosmic question: Are 'Liberals' evil or stupid." Ann Coulter)
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To: NoLibZone
Actually, leftist newspapers need to ask themselves why they are so hated.
11 posted on 08/12/2011 4:47:39 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: NoLibZone

Yeah that’s what the Anglo-Saxons whined in 1066.
Why do those mean Normans hate us so much?


12 posted on 08/12/2011 4:58:05 PM PDT by Rytas
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To: Blood of Tyrants

hey, at least some politicians are responding to the tea party message. Most here are not.


13 posted on 08/12/2011 5:02:00 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: NoLibZone
"the riots are kind of our fault because Britain has become such a hotbed of Tea Party values."

Get ready for it folks! It's just a matter of time until the 9/11 attack and invasion of Iraq is blamed on the TEA Party. He!!, they may blame us for Civil War and Pearl Harbor before it's over.

14 posted on 08/12/2011 5:09:50 PM PDT by CharlyFord (t)
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To: ventanax5

I have to laugh when I read samizdata.net. Over there, they fall over backwards to explain that race is NEVER an issue. Yes, they’re Libertarian.


15 posted on 08/12/2011 5:18:49 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: ventanax5

“I disagree with the editors that “Race … does not seem to be the explanation”....”

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Ooooooh, how racist!


16 posted on 08/12/2011 5:19:56 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: ventanax5

“I disagree with the editors that “Race … does not seem to be the explanation”....”

.
Ooooooh, how racist!


17 posted on 08/12/2011 5:22:22 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: NoLibZone

Shot heard ‘round the world?


18 posted on 08/12/2011 5:29:22 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: GeronL

People don’t have a clue do they?

For as smart as they pretend to be, they are pretty stupid.


19 posted on 08/12/2011 5:31:07 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Savage Beast

One way to shut them up is to ask them if they think that we have a debt problem.


20 posted on 08/12/2011 5:34:06 PM PDT by dhs12345
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