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London riots: Americans would have known how to respond to the violence and looting
Telegraph ^ | August 11th, 2011 | Tim Stanley

Posted on 08/13/2011 9:13:31 AM PDT by george76

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To: Vinnie

If these riots had taken place in America, the outcome would have been very different.

“Uh, like Watts?”

Ha! Shows how perceptions from a foreign country can be totally at variance with reality.


21 posted on 08/13/2011 10:23:05 AM PDT by ngat
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To: twistedwrench

About to go to the store. What do we need?


22 posted on 08/13/2011 10:33:03 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: Vinnie

Yep, and add in Detroit. The cops just tried to contain the riots to certain area’s. In other words, keep it from spreading to the whole city. Add in forced busing and you have the reason’s for Detroit’s final demise. Many cities in the states were blazing during that time period..


23 posted on 08/13/2011 10:59:32 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: george76

Put a bounty on rioters. Cheap and efficient.


24 posted on 08/13/2011 11:03:00 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: goat granny
The cops just tried to contain the riots to certain area’s. In other words, keep it from spreading to the whole city.

That's the name of the game.

Contain the riots to the areas that need burning.

25 posted on 08/13/2011 11:12:29 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: george76
America has the intellectual and emotional tools necessary to deal with this kind of social disaster

You think so. All I see anymore is a superabundance of scared rabbits. They pay their taxes, obey the police, entrust their children to public schools, avoid objecting to bathhouses and mosques and abortuaries, and they pass meekly through the checkpoints. They are almost ready for the showers.

When the police come for the guns, 99% of Americans will give up the guns rather than face the consequences of resistance.

26 posted on 08/13/2011 11:19:21 AM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: george76

Depends on which part of the country. If it happened in the cities, the police and National Guard would have sat on rears and would have done little. RE: LA riots.

Ironically, it is the cities where guns are controlled or banned outright. The people are at the mercy of the thugs.


27 posted on 08/13/2011 11:22:30 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

Depends on the color of the rageboys, too.


28 posted on 08/13/2011 11:23:16 AM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: seowulf
Yup. I heard a bleeding heart complain about how businesses haven't returned to parts of LA many years after the riots.

The response to that statement should be “DUH!!!”

29 posted on 08/13/2011 11:26:35 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Lady Lucky

Very good point. I am sure that they considered that when they decided to let the city burn — let the animals have their fun and then go in a clean later.

Probably step #1 in the play book.

All the more reason to be armed.


30 posted on 08/13/2011 11:31:20 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: PrincessB; george76
Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia’s speech was pretty much a call to stop the behavior.

Actions speak louder than words:

Nutter helped create the behavior, and destroy his own city!

31 posted on 08/13/2011 12:15:18 PM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: george76

The United Kingdom is soft on crime, hard on its citizens.

The good citizens of the UK must reclaim their land, now!


32 posted on 08/13/2011 12:20:25 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: george76

Oprah!?!!

Oprah would have made things worse by labeling those rioters as “victims” of the unjust society.

The Oprah’s of the world are what has been creating the problems with the dependent societies.


33 posted on 08/13/2011 12:30:21 PM PDT by adorno
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To: twistedwrench

Pathetic...he blames “years of anger at never-ending queues, patronising social workers, government incompetence, casual police brutality, angry silences, hire-purchase agreement gone-awry, tax hikes and bad weather culminated in a giant British brain storm.”

He DOES NOT blame the very immoral and amoral abyss that is UK socialism and all the ills that it eventually spawns. They have a permanent underclass that has never worked a day in their miserable lives and expects perpetual government handouts. The author barely hints at this root cause of the problem. It is a lot like Obama blaming bad weather, Arab uprisings, and a Japanese tsunami for all of our financial ills.


34 posted on 08/13/2011 1:43:59 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: george76

Americans would have known how to respond to the violence

Yup, just spread the word to all the unions that a Tea Party mob is demonstrating in the streets and they’ll arrive in a large group of busses in record time.


35 posted on 08/13/2011 2:28:50 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: twistedwrench

A picture is STILL worth a thousand words....LOL~


36 posted on 08/13/2011 3:34:42 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo (Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.)
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To: Lady Lucky
When the police come for the guns,

They won't have to come for you. If they know you have a gun, they'll just issue a warrant. Then in traffic, run your plate. If there's a hit, pull you over for a "traffic violation" and put you in cuffs "for you safety".

Game over, with no bloodshed, and little publicity.

37 posted on 08/13/2011 4:22:31 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: george76
I just don't understand why a computer generated graphics video has not appeared of rioters doing their thing (duplicating real-life news video) where the rioters are kicking, throwing large objects or flaming material at a shop window or building, then...
A red dot appears on the body of a rioter...

Bang
One rioter crumples.

Bang!
Second rioter crumples.

Bang!
Third rioter crumples...

Bang!
Fourth rioter crumples...

Repeat as necesary, until someone says,

Where did everybody go?

I figure the video need not be more than 15 seconds to deliver the message.

38 posted on 08/13/2011 5:14:01 PM PDT by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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I just don't understand why a computer generated graphics video has not appeared of rioters doing their thing (duplicating real-life news video) where the rioters are kicking, throwing large objects or flaming material at a shop window or building, then... A red dot appears on the body of a rioter... Bang One rioter crumples.

Wow!

It sounds like a great idea for a video-game. It could train the public how to deal with such anarchistic crap when the police won't.

39 posted on 08/13/2011 5:21:34 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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