Posted on 08/10/2011 6:39:14 AM PDT by marshmallow
Shortly after 9pm on Monday, as daylight bled from the sky, the police finally lost control of London.
A gang of boys and girls, most no older than 15, and some apparently as young as eight, broke into a row of shops in Bethnal Green, in the East End. As they left carrying piles of clothes, a police car drove past. It did not stop.
Forty minutes after the first 999 calls were made, two police vans arrived at the scene, already too late.
On a night of untold destruction that left businesses and homes across the city in flames, it counted as a small incident. But the detail said so much about how life in Britain’s capital city had changed over the course of the past four days. As rioters looted and burned their way through London’s shopping centres and high streets for a third successive night, Scotland Yard’s 6,000 street officers were hopelessly outmanoeuvred. In many cases, they were simply outnumbered.
When they eventually arrived at riot scenes in force, such as during Monday night’s first clashes in Hackney, the police were forced to retreat as youths bombarded them with bottles and stones and set cars ablaze. Not even the deployment of armoured vehicles to protect neighbourhoods such as Clapham in the south and Ealing to the west could prevent the destruction from spreading.
The victims — London’s hard-working shopkeepers, commuters and families, proud of their homes and their well-kept streets — began to lose faith in the law.
Returning early from his Tuscan holiday, the Prime Minister appeared to reflect the growing anger of many in the capital as he called for “more robust” action against the rioters. He promised 16,000 officers would be on the streets to maintain order last night, an unprecedented number that represented............
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What?! No National Guard-type outfit? England has turned into a bushel of pansies. Rubber bullets?! What good are they when the “enemy” is most likely using the real thing?
Send in the Army.
Yikes! And the progressives want us to be more like Europe? No thanks!
A secondary consequence of the Socialist Welfare State. Police turn into pansies who can’t do anything other than arrest Christians for saying homosexuality is a sin.
We only use rubber bullets on the micks!
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Korean_armed_resistance_in_the_Los_Angeles_riots
Bad analogy
Here in the US it is conservative women who are preventing the GOP from “going all wobbly” on conservative values
You might wish you had Maraget Thatcher back in office today
Arm the police with one gun that has rubber bullets and one with actual bullets.
Rubber for the looters. Real bullets for those throwing bottles and burning cars.
Remember Kent State? Once the hippies got fired upon, they became WAY less violent.
Hey, I resent that! being married to one and all. (if I understand the meaning of Mick (Mc) correctly. ;)
(Don't ask me what this means....I'm too gobsmacked to even try).
Leni
I losy mine a loooong time ago.
Hey,so is my mother.They reported that the English used rubber bullets in Northern Ireland but never in Britain.
losy S/B lost
“We might use rubber bullets”? Seriously, JHP will solve your problem in a second. Once the first punk goes down with two to the chest and one to the head, I guaran-damn-tee you that would be the end of the rights.
“We might use rubber bullets”? Seriously, JHP will solve your problem in a second. Once the first punk goes down with two to the chest and one to the head, I guaran-damn-tee you that would be the end of the riots.
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