London riots: Violence erupts for third day

BBC News ^ | 8/8/2011 | BBC

[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....

[NFHale]

Regarding that video:
Would DEARLY love to have seen a hail of full-metal jacketed lead come flying out of that shop, from the owner and drop these vermin in their tracks.

Oh, wait....I forgot....It’s disarmed England.

Never mind. Ya gets what yas settles for.

They’re getting it now.

Hey Brits:
This is your reward for letting your government disarm you. All you “law-abiding” British SUBJECTS are now at the mercy of the thugs. Your property smashed and stolen, your lives and your families, well, you can’t even protect them anymore.

But don’t worry. Your “government” will protect you....maybe...as long as the thugs aren’t of the protected professional victim class.

Sucks to be you.

[Berlin_Freeper]

A38M in central Birmingham closed by rioting.

[GeronL]

What?? They still have an army? They have been slashing it to the bone.

Now we just await the fall of England and the rise of Englastan.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ but my favorite is an S & W 357 mag” <<

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Yep, they never jam, either. Easy to clean with a brush and a spray can.

[Berlin_Freeper]

London riots: the third night – live coverage

[ml/nj]

He said people were smashing the windows of a Ladbrokes, a Wimpey and a hairdressers.

I don't know what "Wimpey" is but Ladbrokes is a "Turf Accountant." (Bookie joint.) There really is nothing inside to steal except some stools and a few copies of the Sporting News. I doubt hairdressers have much worth stealing either but I've never visited one in London. This doesn't make sense to me.

ML/NJ

[PLMerite]

“To bring in the army they’ll have to pull back in Libya and Afghanistan.”

Might be the plan.

[Shqipo]

I've been listening to London talk radio over the last 3 days (LBC 97.3) and no one is sympathetic toward the Yutes and all highly critical that the police are not busting heads. The hosts are great, in that British way. Good stuff.

[Berlin_Freeper]

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Looting spreads to more parts of London, including violence reported in Ealing to west and Camden to north
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[rintense]

Where is the England Defense League in all this?

[ronnie raygun]

Hillary is trying desparately as well as many others to sign us up to the UN ban on guns, we can see how well this worked out for Great Britain.

[Berlin_Freeper]

nickgriffinmep Nick Griffin MEP
Local English activists keeping out of way. So must all of ours, let the colonists cause all the trouble.
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[tgusa]

Oh, I’m sure the vast majority of law-abiding American Patriots who own guns would meekly turn them in to some scraggly UN “peacekeeper”. /heavy sarc

[silentknight]

What the heck is going on

[Berlin_Freeper]

LIVE London Riots

[cfrels]

GEESH!

Don't the police have tear gas or water hoses?

Seems to me they ought to give them a try....

[Chickensoup]

Birmingham is muzzie territory.

Looks like opportunity happens.

[Leaning Right]

Among the most durable and dispiriting images of that era, however, were those of Korean merchants taking to their rooftops in the opening hours of the riots, arming themselves

Durable yes, dispiriting no. If anything, that picture shows good old-fashioned American self-reliance.

[NikkiB]

I just watched the footage again and it looks like they were pulling the flat screens off the wall at Ladbrokes. Wimpy is a burger place, by the way.

[buccaneer81]

Wimpy is fast food. Remember the Popeye cartoons?

Wimpy