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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

If these riots had taken place in America, the outcome would have been very different. America has the intellectual and emotional tools necessary to deal with this kind of social disaster: Britain doesn’t. The riots were caused, prolonged and misinterpreted by English bad manners. We don’t know how to talk to one another anymore. Our yin and our yang are out of chi. We brought this on ourselves and we need Oprah’s help out of this mess.

Here’s what the Americans would have done different.

1. The public would have fought back more aggressively. America has a tradition of self-reliance that extends even to the sphere of criminal justice. When the 1992 riots broke out in Los Angeles, the Korean community didn’t flee: they set up barricades and shot looters. Here in Britain that spirit of individual autonomy has long been surrendered to the state. It makes a mockery of routine calls by Conservative politicians for people to tackle vandals and thieves by themselves. What unarmed man would be foolish enough to do that? Britain needs a National Rifle Association.

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4. In America, the riots would have been followed by a national day of prayer. In Britain, no one has yet mentioned God. That’s a pity, because Yahweh is a useful tool in these situations

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banglist; londonriots
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1 posted on 08/13/2011 9:13:33 AM PDT by george76
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2 posted on 08/13/2011 9:15:13 AM PDT by twistedwrench
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There were lots of good reasons why we left there.


3 posted on 08/13/2011 9:25:23 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (To ACLU & its plaintiffs: Stop dragging the public into your personal struggle w/ God. -Mark Baisley)
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I liked this portion.

"A lot of our problems probably stem from our emotional introversion. Americans vocalise their “issues” and their ideas about resolving them. Their society is far less stratified, far less neurotic than ours. The British live their lives through patterns of passive aggression (hating everyone, but never having the bad manners to say it) that inevitably erupt in occasional bouts of mysterious violence. And when they happen, we have no way of expressing why they happened. Our political leadership is inarticulate and out of touch. These last few days, the three main parties have displayed all the emotional sensitivity of a firm of particularly boring management consultants. In many ways, America’s social problems (especially race) are bigger than ours. But they are articulated better too."

4 posted on 08/13/2011 9:25:36 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Bristol Palin's book "Not Afraid Of Life: My Journey So Far" became a New York Times, best seller.)
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England needs a 2nd Amendment. When a police officer has to fill out papers in order to check out a weapon, he loses. When you have meeting with the politicians, trying to figure out what to do, you lose. They, and we, need to react to riots right now and sort it out later. Mistakes will be made but the people didn’t ask for the riots or to have their lives and businesses put in danger.


5 posted on 08/13/2011 9:26:42 AM PDT by RC2
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If these riots had taken place in America, the outcome would have been very different.

Uh, like Watts?

6 posted on 08/13/2011 9:34:26 AM PDT by Vinnie
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we need Oprah’s help out of this mess.

They are more than welcome to take Oprah off our hands.

7 posted on 08/13/2011 9:35:42 AM PDT by bgill (just getting tagline ready for 6 months after '12 - Told you so.)
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Interestingly, we witnessed point number 3 this week. Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia’s speech was pretty much a call to stop the behavior.


8 posted on 08/13/2011 9:36:32 AM PDT by PrincessB (Drill Baby Drill.)
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“Yahweh is a useful tool in these situations”

And they wonder what is wrong with their country. God is not a tool.


9 posted on 08/13/2011 9:37:31 AM PDT by Library Lady
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Very glad I don’t live across the pond. Look forward to the battle here. Ain’t gonna be pretty.


10 posted on 08/13/2011 9:40:24 AM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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These are my people. Where is the cooler?


11 posted on 08/13/2011 9:40:51 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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It also helps that many states have the Castle Doctrine. So if ten “urban youths” bust in your door, you are perfectly within your rights to cut all 10 of them down with a couple well placed shotgun blasts and all that's left for the authorities to do is haul away the bodies and pat you on the back.
12 posted on 08/13/2011 9:43:56 AM PDT by apillar
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If only England had the resolve NOW as they had in 1939!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9UktXoM6Zw&feature=youtu.be


13 posted on 08/13/2011 9:47:50 AM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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Nothing like a dose of wood shampoo and buck shot and tear gas to get some ones attention. And after wards use the water cannon to wash down the mess. And before some one tells me I am over reacting, the NYPD has tear gas ready when ever there is the potential for any situation to get out of control. If it needs to be used it will.
14 posted on 08/13/2011 9:50:26 AM PDT by JimC214
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Americans better know, it is coming.


15 posted on 08/13/2011 9:52:21 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (I'll follow an eloquent Allen West out of hell.)
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To: Psalm 144

In my Pickup, Were You at? :)


16 posted on 08/13/2011 9:55:58 AM PDT by twistedwrench
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Todays new rioters in America wear Union shirts.

SEIU predominant among them.


17 posted on 08/13/2011 9:56:44 AM PDT by Venturer
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Some of the Brit comments are realllly sad. The mighty Empire has fallen so far.


18 posted on 08/13/2011 10:03:58 AM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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Bad guys should “beware the green laser dot on their chest.”
That dot is the point of the bullets impact.


19 posted on 08/13/2011 10:07:01 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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The SEIU symbol on a purple t-shirt front (usually size 3X on a Walmart stroller frame) makes a fine target.


20 posted on 08/13/2011 10:14:33 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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