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London riots spark shock and gloating around the world
telegraph.co.uk ^ | August 10, 2011

Posted on 08/09/2011 7:21:24 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

The extraordinary spectacle of anarchy, arson and looting on London’s streets resulted on Tuesday in some of the world’s most authoritarian regimes - including those of Iran, Libya and even Robert Mugabe - gloating over the 'failure’ of Britain’s liberal society. ....

In an address to his regime’s armed forces, Mr Mugabe railed against his country’s former colonial master and used the London riots to demand it stop meddling in Zimbabwean affairs.

“Britain I understand is on fire, London especially and we hope they can extinguish their fire, pay attention to their internal problems and to that fire which is now blazing all over, and leave us alone,” he said.

“We do not have any fire here and we do not want them to continue to create unnecessary problems in our country. We want peace, and the people of Zimbabwe want peace.”

China meanwhile observed that riot-swept Britain had tasted the “bitter fruit” of failure to introduce Chinese-style crack downs on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

“The West have been talking about supporting internet freedom, and oppose other countries’ government to control this kind of websites, now we can say they are tasting the bitter fruit [of their complacency] and they can’t complain about it,” wrote one commentator in the official Communist Party mouthpiece, People’s Daily. ....

Hojjatoleslam Hossein Ebrahimi, the vice-Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s foreign policy committee, demanded that British MPs allow Iran, a country noted for itsviolent suppression of opposition street protests, to send human right observers to London. ....

Libyan state-run Al-Jamahiriyah television ran an English language broadcast addressed to rioting inner city dwellers urging them to “defeat this British regime” which “killed their brothers” by leading Nato military operations to overthrow Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

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London riots: international reaction - Libyan state-run Al-Jamahiriyah TV showed a programme called "Homeland's Desire". The presenter, Yusuf Shakir, midway into the programme, began to address the British people in English, urging them to "defeat this British regime" which "killed their brothers". He said the Libyan people and their leader supported "black power in America and Britain" and always defended blacks who "suffered racial discrimination" in the UK. He said blacks and the poor took to the streets in London to demonstrate against the British "fascist" government. He added that Libyans would hold demonstrations holding up pictures of Mark Duggan, the man shot by police in Tottenham. Source: BBC Monitoring

1 posted on 08/09/2011 7:21:30 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Two words: Flash Mob


2 posted on 08/09/2011 7:22:56 PM PDT by Bean Counter ("He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.".....Nietzsche)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

GB’s liberal society IS a failure.


3 posted on 08/09/2011 7:25:06 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

We get to TRY Cloward Piven to find out whats in it.


4 posted on 08/09/2011 7:26:03 PM PDT by omega4179 (Hope for Change)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

12 guage shotguns are excellent crown control devices.


5 posted on 08/09/2011 7:26:52 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (0 - 537 They ALL must go.)
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To: Bean Counter

Two words: Second Amendment


6 posted on 08/09/2011 7:27:13 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Drill Thrawl

I meant crowd.


7 posted on 08/09/2011 7:27:29 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (0 - 537 They ALL must go.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

We witness the Suicide of the West.


8 posted on 08/09/2011 7:27:29 PM PDT by ngat
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To: omega4179

I think I know, and I don’t want any of it!


9 posted on 08/09/2011 7:27:52 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: Tailgunner Joe

If every western country simply de-immigrated their population 99% of crime would disappear. Don’t question my statistics! It took a twelve pack of deep thought to come up with it. Prove me wrong.


10 posted on 08/09/2011 7:29:15 PM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard / Still Think You're Free?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The headline on Drudge reads ... RIOTS BREAK OUT AROUND GLOBE AMID ECONOMIC ANXIETY

Maybe I do not understand economics very well.  If your area is having economic problems, how does vandalism, looting, and other acts of violence help the situation?

Guess the rioters know more than I do about these things.

11 posted on 08/09/2011 7:31:48 PM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: DTogo

Two more: Got mine...

Cheers!


12 posted on 08/09/2011 7:32:15 PM PDT by Bean Counter ("He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.".....Nietzsche)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Gloating?


13 posted on 08/09/2011 7:32:40 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Well I’d say something, but the smartest people in the room running GB would sneer and call me a “racist” (or whatever cutesy liberal buzz word they’re throwing around these days.)


14 posted on 08/09/2011 7:35:01 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Time to send robert mugabe’s worthless parasite “chickens back home to roost”.


15 posted on 08/09/2011 7:36:04 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: Tailgunner Joe; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono

Wolld wide revolution, Vladimir’s Lenin’s and his descendants like Stanley Dunham’s and the poor Rosenberg orphans dream.

“I never thought I would live to see this day” Fidel Castro. “I can now die in peace”.
(Incidentally, General Jaruzelski was quoted saying exactly the same thing earlier today, only in Russian, his second language.)

Social justice for all, at last.

Proletarians of the wolld untie!


16 posted on 08/09/2011 7:37:01 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: ArchAngel1983

Those of us with a brain KNOW what the solution is ...Unfortunately those with no SPINE will do what must be done .


17 posted on 08/09/2011 7:37:51 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: softwarecreator
Guess the rioters know more than I do about these things.

99.9% of them know nothing beyond "free shit". They are the ignorant and indoctrinated morons that socialism created.
18 posted on 08/09/2011 7:38:34 PM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: DTogo
The Brits couldn't accept armed citizens so look what they got now. This is a big lesson for the local gun control crowd.
19 posted on 08/09/2011 7:39:32 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (Layte Gulf Beach Club)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They need to deploy an army of Social Workers to understand their frustrations.

//sarcasm


20 posted on 08/09/2011 7:39:42 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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