Category Archives: Rioting
Preparing a post on the riots
There is the totalitarian, truth scrubbing, politically correct rewriting of history taking place as usual in the UK. Something which is far far worse than any riot of course. A riot can be dealt with and prevented. But stopping people from getting real information that might allow them to make good decisions for themselves and for their community and nation, that is collective suicide both real and metaphorical. As I wait for the materials to be ready, here is a light short vid that makes a related point.
Riots: London 2012 Olympics ambassador in court for ‘hurling bricks at cops’
So… how is this about poverty again please? Or the disadvantaged? I look forward to the explanation in the light of this
From The Mirror
Rioters attacks police car (pic: Twitter)Teenage Olympics 2012 ambassador Chelsea Ives is led into court in handcuffs yesterday accused of vandalising a police car.
In a major blow to the Games image, the talented athlete, 18, was also said to have smashed up a Phones4U shop in riots.
Her mum called 999 after apparently spotting her on TV. Adrienne, 47, said: “I had to do what was right.”
Ives was taken into court early yesterday as magistrates in London, Manchester and Birmingham sat in unprecedented all-night hearings to deal with rioters.
The teenager was one of the young role models picked to encourage youngsters to take up sport in the run-up to 2012.
She has met Olympics chief Sebastian Coe, Boris Johnson and footballer Martin Keown. In 2009, Ives was invited to the Commons after the success of a football project run by Leyton Orient community sport programme.
But on Sunday night she was captured on camera allegedly causing more than £5,000 damage by hurling bricks at a police car in Enfield, North London. Continue Reading →
Ezra Levant and Robert Spencer on the British riots
Pat Condell: on the UK riots and police impotence
Britain’s liberal intelligentsia has smashed virtually every social value
From The Mail Online:
Last updated at 8:33 AM on 11th August 2011
So now the chickens have well and truly come home terrifyingly to roost. The violent anarchy that has taken hold of British cities is the all-too-predictable outcome of a three-decade liberal experiment which tore up virtually every basic social value.
The married two-parent family, educational meritocracy, punishment of criminals, national identity, enforcement of the drugs laws and many more fundamental conventions were all smashed by a liberal intelligentsia hell-bent on a revolutionary transformation of society.
Those of us who warned over the years that they were playing with fire were sneered at and smeared as Right-wing nutters who wanted to turn the clock back to some mythical golden age.
Looters in Peckham. The riots have been fuelled by moral collapse says Melanie Phillips
Now we can see what they have brought about in the unprecedented and horrific scenes of mob violence, with homes and businesses going up in flames, and epidemic looting.
More…
- STEPHEN GLOVER: Have the courage to be bold, Mr Cameron. Most of our country is on your side
- ‘If these thugs want a war, let’s send in the Army.’ In letters and emails, how ordinary people vented their fury this week
- Latest e-petition calls for looters to be evicted from council houses… and 78,000 sign up in 24 hours
- British youths are ‘the most unpleasant and violent in the world’: Damning verdict of writer as globe reacts to riots
Clearly, there is some as yet unidentified direction and co-ordination behind the anarchy. But what is so notable and distressing is that, after the first day when adults were clearly involved, this mayhem has been carried out in the main by teenagers and children, some as young as eight.
The idea that they should not steal other people’s property, or beat up and rob passers-by, appears to be as weird and outlandish to them as the suggestion that they should fly to the moon. Continue Reading →
More on the senseless random murder of three young men in Birmingham
“….that some could seek retaliation”
Let us hope not.
This is really sad. A man lost his son to a hit and run in the British riots.
I am a bit behind on this post for a few reasons, not the least of which is the host company has been having a few small problems and I have not been able to successfully upload anything at all today. This is tragic. I cannot imagine the grief of this man who lost his son for the most horrific of non-reasons. Someone deliberately drove their car into a crowd and killed 3 men.
Eltham hasn’t been touched by riots … we’re doing the job of the police’ – video
Guardian clip of people in one area that has had no rioting because the people who live there protect it, doing the job of the police.
My thoughts on the English riots
I wrote a comment to a reader about the taxonomy of these riots. Something the press has been avoiding discussing and for bad reasons. I felt it may be worth posting my reply as a post here, edited slightly, so it is a stand-alone.
A proper taxonomic study really needs to be done. For example, the papers and media in general are being extremely careful not to mention that blacks are disproportionately behind much or all of the violence in the current British riots. This of course leads to massively more anxiety about black people for obvious reasons. One knows who does the violence but also knows you aren’t even allowed to say the evidence of your own senses, which makes black people appear not only dangerous but to be a protected class.
I think it would be of value to deal with a deeper truth. Is it all blacks? Or are Jamaicans over represented while say, Barbadians under represented. Are there lots of Somalis looting and attacking while nearly no Ethiopians are? While race does play a role in behaviour, and anyone who accepts evolution as true simply cannot avoid this fact, culture plays a larger one, even if race and culture are a sort of cart and horse.
So it would be wise for British popular media like the BBC to maybe have the guts to reflect reality instead of trying to forge one with a palette of rainbow coloured lies. Really, who are the violent and law breaking rioters and who are not? It may be less a race thing that it appears.
Eeyore for Vlad
These riots were about race. Why ignore the fact?
From The Telegraph:
Katharine Birbalsingh
Katharine Birbalsingh is the teacher who exposed the failings of the comprehensive school system at the Conservative Party conference last year. Katharine has been teaching in inner London for over a decade and plans to set up a Free School in south London to help to serve underprivileged children. Her book, To Miss with Love, is out now. Follow @Miss_Snuffy on Twitter to see what Katharine’s doing now. Katharine’s personal website is www.katharinebirbalsingh.com.
These riots were about race. Why ignore the fact?
By Katharine Birbalsingh Politics Last updated: August 7th, 2011
A burnt-out carpet warehouse in Tottenham (Photo: Getty)
What colour is Mark Duggan? Mark Duggan is the man who was shot dead by the police on Thursday in Tottenham. The Tottenham riots last night were sparked when people protested his death. This morning, I first heard of the riots on the radio, then on the television. I read articles on the internet. But oddly, no one would say what colour Mark Duggan was. No one would say the unsayable, that the rioters were, I suspect on the whole, black. Then, finally, Toby Young’s Telegraph blog post on the riots was published. Is Toby Young the only journalist out there who will dare say that these riots are about race?
Still, one paper did carry a photo of Mr Duggan. When I saw the photo, it confirmed what I knew instinctively: black youths once again have set London alight.
Some of the black kids I used to teach will tell you that the riots are absolutely justified. A number of adults would agree with them. Everywhere I read that the protest was understandable because “people are very angry”. Continue Reading →
Police Overrun in Woolwich -London Riots 8/8/11
uploaded by someone who calls themselves, ‘the Somali flag’
This guy is a real flamer
Looters attack diners at Michelin-starred Ledbury
Now this is very multicultural. Typically, people going in to a restaurant and robbing everyone inside is more a central American thing. Britain should be pleased that it has achieved its multicultural goals.
From This is London
H/T Snaphanen
Looters attack diners at Michelin-starred Ledbury
Benedict Moore-Bridger
9 Aug 2011
Diners at the two Michelin-starred restaurant The Ledbury in Notting Hill were attacked by looters who stormed the dining room demanding jewellery and phones.
Only in the third world you say? Yes. England.
Gangs of masked youths wearing hoodies and wielding weapons smashed through the glass front door of the restaurant, ransacking the dining room before snatching jewellery.
Witnesses said that staff at the restaurant leapt to their defence, eventually managing to chase the intruders away with rolling pins and other kitchen implements. But a short while later the mob returned.
Restaurant staff ushered the stunned guests into other rooms before locking them in the wine cellar for their own safety.
Louise Yang, a programmer, had gone to the restaurant with her husband Will for a night out.
Today she described the horrific scenes on her blog page, and said her wedding and engagement ring were stolen.
She said: “The restaurant staff were yelling at us to get away from the windows. Before I knew it, the front door, a solid piece of glass, shattered and people came crashing in with hoodies, masks, and random weapons. Continue Reading →
British shop keepers defend their stores and selves
Why do I get the feeling that if they where indigenous British shop keepers they would be hauled off to jail for attempting to defend their own property? I guess cause that is what happens in the whole Western world now except the USA.