Posted on 08/09/2011 1:46:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Officers accused of inaction as looting mobs go wild Cameron leads calls for more robust policing Top Yard commander: 'We need to do more for London' All able-bodied officers and special constables called in Plastic bullets would be used for first time 'if deemed necessary'
Shopkeepers joined an increasing chorus of voices today demanding to know what the police were doing as swathes of London descended into chaos last night.
Business owners accused police of adopting a softly-softly approach which left their shops and businesses vulnerable to attack by baying mobs.
While police were criticised in some quarters for being far too slow to get to riot scenes, officers were accused by shopkeepers in Hackney of standing just yards away from looters as windows were smashed and armfuls of goods were scooped up.
Cypran Asota, who has run the Boots opticians for 25 years, told the London Evening Standard how he watched as the shop was destroyed.
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Wouldn’t that be great with the word ‘Again” handwritten after the sentence, “Send a Gun To Defend a British Home.”
And repeated after the sentence, “British civilians, faced with the threat of invasion, desperately need arms for the defense of their homes” - again.
And somewhere near the bottom - “just once more, this time will get it right (maybe)”.
And you are surprised? Both France and the UK have let an unbridled flow of Muzzie “immigrants” come in from their former “colonies.” The idea that the Brits would even allow the Muzzies to talk about “sharia law zones” tells you that they too have the wrong people running their government. At least here there are millions of guns in the hands of the citizens so the individual has something with which to fight back. The Europeans, “disarmed” as they are, are sitting ducks for these Islamic killers.
Man, I appreciate the 2nd Amendment.
I saw one police officer nearly lost his composure during a press briefing and called the behavior "unacceptable".
According to PC world, baseball bats have taken a jump in sales at Amazon UK.
they need Sergeant Angel.
IIRC. The Brits took those beautiful weapons, sent by families in the US, for home defense of the UK.....and destroyed them after the war......
Send in the Miami (FL) police department, they know how to shut down riots.
Where were the police?....
One huge thing Free Rebublic has taught me well about is when the stuff hits the fan you better be prepared to defend yourself.
Most know when you call police a crime can be in play and done long before they get there....that’s just a fact. We’ve seen these kids doing group crime across the USA as well....and the police arrive after the fact. The kids do hit and runs because it works.
The store owners finally got it and armed themsleves and stood together to protect their businesses.....even Cameron called people to stand against this.
What were they doing? Why, choking their chickens, to the tune of “Rule Britannia.”
I have never seen a more feckless police force than what pretends to be one in the UK.
I wonder if any of the Sharia no go zones were bombed, Yeah, didn’t think so....
“plastic bullets” I think the problem is obvious.
This happy state of affairs was undermined by the social turmoil of the Edwardian era. Early in that monarch's reign a large violent strike paralyzed the Port of London and this began to focus the ruling classes fear of continental style class warfare coming to the UK. The constant and often violent strikes in the coal, cartage, and engineering sectors made rich Liberals and Conservatives alike fear the potential for armed mob action. This fear was aggravated by the so called Siege of Sidney Street where the Home Secretary Winston Churchill used regular army personnel for the first time in decades to confront a band of armed protocommunists who had killed police officers. Churchill was embarrassed by the blowback from Sidney Street introduced the first significant gun licensing and restrictive legislation.
After World War One with the specter of real armed revolt by communists haunting the UK and with armed riot and revolt the daily news from the continent and the terrifying example of the Russian Revolution and Civil War was fresh in everyone’s mind more gun control became the order of the day. After the General Strike of 1926 detailed registration laws were passed and ownership of hand guns tightly controlled.
In the 70’s and 80’s Tory and Labor were happy to strip gun owners of residual rights and after a mass shooting at a school in Scotland pistol ownership was forbidden and truly impossible restrictions on long gun ownership were put in place. Again this was a ruling lass issue. Lady Thatcher was no friend of gun rights and was always quite vocally contemptuous of the ‘American gun culture’. The same ruling lass types both Conservative and Labor have moved on from stripping the right of gun ownership to eliminating both the castle octanes and the right to pro active self defense.
The lesson for the US is that rights such to bear arms, castle doctrines and defense of person and property have to be written into law and constantly defended from erosion by governing elites for any purportedly
socially beneficial purpose.
The British seem thoroughly brain washed by a century of government action that self defense and owning and being comfortable with the willingness to use deadlyforce to defend home and person are impermissible doctrines. I will always remember the absolute contempt for ‘Americans and thier guns’ that one upper class older British woman spat out at me in a conversation. This woman was very much a Tory but could not grasp the need for any decent person to be able to really think of killing another ‘human being’ for any reason. That is what the police and those rough characters in the armed force's are for.
With the Muslims and the black underclass flexing their muscles these sniffy sanctimonious attitudes are going to collide with reality.
I bet a lot of Londoners are thinking that an AR-15 might come in handy about now.
Does he have bullets and can he use it?????
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