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Posted on 08/10/2011 6:44:31 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
When the rioters came to attack the premises of Kurdish and Turkish businesses in Hackney's Stoke Newington High Street and Kingsland Road on Monday night, the owners were waiting for them. "It was between about nine and 10 at night," said Yilmaz Karagoz, sitting in his coffee shop next to a jeweller's shop that has been shuttered since Sunday when the rioting began and a pharmacy that closed a day after. "There were a lot of them. We came out of our shops but the police asked us to do nothing. But the police did not do anything so, as more came, we chased them off ourselves." ... read more
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Frank Rizzo, former Philadelphia police chief and mayor: “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.”
in normal times the UK police would have these shopowners and cooks arrested in a second. maybe they still will, self-defense is a serious crime.
if any looters are actually hurt, it is very possible the govt will go out of its way to arrest and charge the defenders.
Right now, what the UK needs a whole passel of “jack-booted thugs.” I wish we could send ‘em the cops from some of our, ummm, more “excessive” police departments. Say the entire LA police Rampart department and the entire LA anti-gang division...
I bet they’d kick some sense into these rioters in no time flat.
I am angry about cops who told them to “do nothing” and that they couldn’t use their utensils outside their shops.
Damn right!! We don't need, or want their kind around here.
The Republican party has been doing just fine without them.
The Party is too big to fail, and we are sick of being
bailed out by libertartians & Tea partiers.
The best way to win them over is by insult. Damn cop haters!!
Just dang.
It was amazing to see the academics trying to justify the "feral youth" activities as righteous disaffection.
It was even more amazing to see the handwringing over whether to use water canons on mobs. Water canons? Oh no! The horror!
And libertarians.
Did I really need a sarcasm tag? Just....just dang.
okay, you had me there for a moment ... more understand of the post now ... my bad ... slinking over to the corner.
I just want to tell you that your post was excellent! You are well informed and especially knowledgeable in history. You have predicted the future perfectly. Thanks.
Sweet! Thanks.
I was talking to a couple of transplanted Brits. One lives in NY, the other in SF. They are both smokers so both were lamenting the smoking ban and how it was a bad thing, then the subject turned to the gun ban and how it was a good thing, "Because guns kill people". I pointed out how knives, bats, rocks - anything could kill people. They reasoned that with guns, you could stand far away and kill.
The SF one was thinking maybe he needed one because he was putting his earthquake kit together and in the event of the "Big One" would want to protect it. The NY one was all aghast. "Let them have it if they want it!"
’ the police asked us to do nothing’
‘I think I recognize a big part of the problem.’
It gives the cops less job security if the citizens take out the trash instead.
When things broke down after Katrina hit New Orleans, the cops were the thugs...
“The cop hating libertarians here at FR will learn to be more temperate when the thugs come after them.”
Um, nope. So far the cops have been nearly useless. Our cops wouldn’t be much better. If you are thinking that you’ll just wait for a cop to protect you, well, if the thugs don’t kill you I hope you at least have good medical insurance because they’ll probably beat you to pieces.
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