London on fire.. How long till it happens here?

[Whispering Winds]

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They had a riot when Vancouver lost the playoffs. Makes no sense. Take peoples rights away everyday and nothing. Lose a hockey game and look out!

soccer games turn ugly like that too!!!

Every time a game riot breaks out, I always think that is such a swell impression to give our kids. Sheesh.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

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X2.

Social unrest or not it takes a real loser to burn down someones home or business.

 

[chickened]

Perpetually self appointed un-employed youth ARE losers in my book. If you are a harder more reliable worker than the next guy most likely you will always have a job, I did and was able to "lower" myself to work some of them.
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X2.

Social unrest or not it takes a real loser to burn down someones home or business.

 

[Boyd]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/14/egypt-britain-riots-cleanup scary....

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/13/san-francisco-transit-blocks-cellphones-to-hinder-protest/ coming to a city near you......

No wonder I love food storage, target practice and living off the grid as much as possible...

 

[RHRanch]

It won't happen here - people are too content to let things go on unless they are directly affected, and then they have trouble getting organized or sustaining an effort of resistance. Sheeple.

 

[Q9]

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You joking? America is the ideal setting for such nonsense. Loads of unemployed youth with next to no moral guidance? Crap happening constantly? We're just waiting for the wrong guy to be in the wrong places.

What's happening in England is not resistance; it is idiocy. People are rioting for the sake of rioting - or they're rioting from envy. One girl (drinking a bottle of stolen wine) said that it's "to show the police that we can do what we want to," and responded "to show the rich people we can do it" when asked why they targeted local businesses. What a load of morons.

I respect those shopkeepers who have taken up arms - albeit with baseball bats rather than true defensive tools - and banded together to beat the living crap out of the rioters who would loot their shops. The rioters are cowards and idiots. The defending shopkeepers are the heroes in my book.

 

[Boyd]

look up the race riots in wisconsin, the later ones I posted a link on 2 posts above, or how we let LA or Detroit and Flint Burn the last time it wen't around.. The char is still there for anybody to look at who doesn't believe it can happen again..

 

[debilorrah]

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Every time LA burns down they change the area name. Watts became South Central, then Rodney King and now they call it something Heights. They are gonna run out names here pretty soon.

 

[chickened]

Yep, you got that right. Bet them shopkeepers wish they could defend themselves at that pivotal moment.
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You joking? America is the ideal setting for such nonsense. Loads of unemployed youth with next to no moral guidance? Crap happening constantly? We're just waiting for the wrong guy to be in the wrong places.

What's happening in England is not resistance; it is idiocy. People are rioting for the sake of rioting - or they're rioting from envy. One girl (drinking a bottle of stolen wine) said that it's "to show the police that we can do what we want to," and responded "to show the rich people we can do it" when asked why they targeted local businesses. What a load of morons.

I respect those shopkeepers who have taken up arms - albeit with baseball bats rather than true defensive tools - and banded together to beat the living crap out of the rioters who would loot their shops. The rioters are cowards and idiots. The defending shopkeepers are the heroes in my book.

 

[Stacykins]

You know, now they are starting to round up people who were caught on surveillance cameras, or whose pictures were taken during the riots by other rioters and posted on the web. I thought everyone in England had one of these