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16,000 police to retake London: PM recalls Parliament as the police lose control of Britain's street
Daily Mail (London) ^

Posted on 08/09/2011 6:15:16 AM PDT by quesney

16,000 police to retake London: PM recalls Parliament as the police lose control of Britain's streets

--Prime Minister David Cameron recalls Parliament on Thursday as Government tries to quell uprising

--'Unprecedented' 16,000 police on duty in London - compared with just 6,000 last night

--Man, 26, shot in Croydon last night dies in hospital England game against Netherlands at Wembley tomorrow called OFF

--400% surge in 999 calls on night of violence with 20,800 dialling the emergency services in London

--Cost of clean-up expected to run into 'tens of millions'

--Metropolitan Police use armoured vehicles to push back 150 rioters in Lavender Hill, Clapham

--'There are no plans for the Army to get involved,' says police chief

--Three arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of police officer

--525 people arrested in total and more than 100 people have been charged

--Jamie Oliver's restaurant in Birmingham ransacked by rioters

--All police cells in London are now FULL

--Man seriously ill after being shot in Croydon

--Copycat riots reported in Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham, Liverpool and Leeds

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023874/LONDON-RIOTS-David-Cameron-returns-home-police-face-gangs-petrol-bombs.html#ixzz1UXI1VrCk

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: birmingham; bristol; croydon; diversity; leeds; liverpool; london; nottingham; parliament; police; rioters; riots; unitedkingdom; uprising
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

Wow...that is just so sad. Proud of the staff.

Too bad you can’t cut off their internet communications for a bit to help stop these organized attacks....no Twitter or Facebook, etc.

These are some sick and twisted individuals.


141 posted on 08/09/2011 8:27:31 AM PDT by txmissy
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To: Joe Boucher

The Tea Party has GOT to become a reality. We have GOT to have a separate entity from the Republican party to represent conservatives. The two party system has got to go. It does NOT REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.


142 posted on 08/09/2011 8:27:55 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Nuts; A house divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: DoughtyOne

This is a big party to these people, a chance to break stuff and get away with it.


143 posted on 08/09/2011 8:28:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Glenn
Property like tea?

Do you have eyes? Or haven't you bothered to watch any of the video coverage? And do you realize that the people running things there are elected representatives? It isn't the monarchy making policy.
144 posted on 08/09/2011 8:28:22 AM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: MediaMole

“being shot in Croydon”


That has to HURT


145 posted on 08/09/2011 8:28:51 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: txmissy

Well, I don’t know actually, after re-reading the post, it sounds like Twitter is what gave the cops the heads up.


146 posted on 08/09/2011 8:28:54 AM PDT by txmissy
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To: littleharbour
Glen Beck has been speaking about the threat of anarchists for at least the past two years and, of course, was vilified as a kook.

These aren't "anarchists". They're imported barbarians.

As for anarchists, well ours in the early 20th Century were also imports, from Eastern Europe. And most of their descendants are still lefties, and still agitating to bring in more barbarians.

The Euro-riots of the 1930’s aren’t exactly ancient history, but western society seems to think it can’t happen again. Past is prelude.

That sort of thing tends to happen when centuries old monarchies fall overnight all over a continent, and then the commies start starving millions to death.

147 posted on 08/09/2011 8:29:58 AM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

Well, I don’t know actually, after re-reading the post, it sounds like Twitter is what gave the cops the heads up.


148 posted on 08/09/2011 8:30:26 AM PDT by txmissy
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

“Rivers of Blood.
.. Enoch Powell.”

You said it all in five words.

No one could have been more right about postwar Britain.

This is the fate that they brought upon themselves.

What we see from the rioters are symptoms, not causes.

It is (was) the white Brits themselves who are fundamentally responsible.

Methinks this will do very well for the B.N.P. in the next elections!

Just sayin’....


149 posted on 08/09/2011 8:30:28 AM PDT by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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To: ecomcon

It only took 20 years to transform Ross Perot from “crazy chicken little” to “Told You So.”

2018 will be 20 years after obscure Alex Jones released his first film, “America: Destroyed by Design.”

Just sayin!


150 posted on 08/09/2011 8:30:47 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Madame Dufarge
Good for him.

London is still debating whether to use water cannons or not. Use of water cannon on rioters backed from right and left, but doubts remain ?????????

Meanwhile citizens are left to defend their own properties, hospital staff are left to defend their wards. Wake up, London.
151 posted on 08/09/2011 8:31:06 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: dfwgator

My high school years were all about that! Urban; social-welfare; “get-what-weez-got-comin (cuz whitey kept us as slaves!)

In the curent vernacular: “We gonna get PAAAAAIIIIID!”


152 posted on 08/09/2011 8:31:50 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: Glenn

The feral humanimals “uprising” are immoral and lawless humans without any conscience. They aren’t people wanting government out of their lives other than wanting to be able to commit arson, theft, violence and other crimes without the cops catching them.


153 posted on 08/09/2011 8:32:30 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Pining_4_TX
These riots are pure thuggery by the ticks who were created by the welfare state.

Just like the flash mobs in Philadelphia. They just "assume" they're entitled to anything they want. So far, the politicians have given them everything to encourage that belief, but now it's just too much trouble for them to wait for elections (and the new free handouts that accompany them). They've decided the democrat politicians aren't stealing fast enough, so they're taking over.

154 posted on 08/09/2011 8:37:45 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: ZX12R

The thing started in the “cultural/ethnic diversity” part of London and the major rioters in the beginning with Jamaican/others of “diverse ethnicity” aka not British isles ancestry. Photos of the first night at least show all black rioters. Apparently other thugs have joined in but since press are beaten trying to take photos, helicopter photos are standard lately, and they don’t show race easily.

I am sure the media in Britain does not want people in general to know the racial makeup of rioters. Unless it’s mostly white people.


155 posted on 08/09/2011 8:38:30 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: concerned about politics

I know these rioters are dumber than a bag of hammers, but have the anarchist types ever wondered where the goods they steal come from? Or why anyone would continue to produce goods if they are just going to be stolen? It boggles the mind.


156 posted on 08/09/2011 8:39:32 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: dfwgator

It sure is. Quite a bit of it is just for kicks too. They get a rush by being out there at night creating mayhem.

Here...

1. implement a sunset to dawn curfew
2. anyone on the street without just cause (going to and from work, picking up the kids, etc., would be arrested on the spot, car impounded
3. anyone looting or burning would be shot on sight
4. enact new laws that cover rioters, where they would have to spend 5 to 15 years in prison without the chance of early release, depending on what they were caught doing
5. if you’re a foreign national, or someone who just came over in the last few years, deportation would take place within 24 hours

This will put a dent in the problem, I guarantee you.


157 posted on 08/09/2011 8:39:53 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: ilovesarah2012

Most English cops have no firearms. A small subset is trained in the use of fire arms.

On another forum some British and Irish members are giving details.


158 posted on 08/09/2011 8:40:11 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Texas Fossil
What is the common denominator?

They're all members of the looter/moocher class.

159 posted on 08/09/2011 8:40:52 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (My mind is like a steel trap: rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
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To: Girlene
Unbelievable, the rioters might get a boo-boo. Can't have that!

There are doubts about how viable water cannon would be in London, where riots broke out almost simultaneously in many different areasin the last 48 hours, quite apart from elsewhere in the country. Obtaining water supplies may be difficult in riots, and there is the risk of internal injuries to demonstrators.

How about the police just call the rioters "Poo-Poo Head" through bullhorns and see how that works?

Of course, then the government would have to sponsor self-esteem workshops to repair any psychological damage that ensued.

160 posted on 08/09/2011 8:43:12 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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