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

[chickened]

Do we need to send our cops over there and bail them out again?

 

[RHRanch]

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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.

Thats my point. No one got organized to adress the problems in those slummy places and this riot, will not be sustainred and no change will occur.

 

[dela1991]

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Won't have to worry about that this year Matthew as the Fightin' Phillies are going to win the World Series.

On a more serious note, I have not been following the problems in England as close as I should as I have been on the picket lines with my union brothers and sisters since last Sunday morning.

Go Phillies!

 

[debilorrah]

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Won't have to worry about that this year Matthew as the Fightin' Phillies are going to win the World Series.

On a more serious note, I have not been following the problems in England as close as I should as I have been on the picket lines with my union brothers and sisters since last Sunday morning.

Go Phillies!

I hate to point out that your Phillies and my Dodgers are battling for last place.

 

[welsummerchicks]

Sorry, Boyd, it already happened here.

 

[dela1991]

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Won't have to worry about that this year Matthew as the Fightin' Phillies are going to win the World Series.

On a more serious note, I have not been following the problems in England as close as I should as I have been on the picket lines with my union brothers and sisters since last Sunday morning.

Go Phillies!

I hate to point out that your Phillies and my Dodgers are battling for last place.

I don't want to hijack this thread but want to point out that the Philadelphia Phillies currently have the best record in MLB. Is there another team called the Phillies that the Dodgers play? Maybe little league?

 

[cassie]

The question was how soon will it happen here. It already has several times. Remember Watts? Then there was a big riot in Miami several years ago. There have been others but those are the two I can remember off the top of my head.

 

[Q9]

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I want this.

 

[Ferrret]

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I want this.

The masks are cheap, you can buy them at any Halloween shop. The case would be easy enough to make from a bathroom cabinet and paint the glass with whatever message you want.

 

[Ole and Lena]

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst. If it should happen here... know your neighbors, know who to trust, know who to rely on. If you live in a major city, prepare to get the hell out with as much as you can carry. If you live in the country, prepare to defend yourself in the harshest way possible. A violent mob will understand only overwhelming violence directed back at them.

The small township I lived in in WI had no standing police force and due to a dispute with the county, the sheriffs dept. would not render mutual aid off a county road. They simply resurrected an ordinance from the heydays of bootlegging in the '20s and instituted a town posse. Every upstanding citizen who owned property was required to respond if called. Active members were required to keep a rifle or shotgun, 2 days food and 40 rounds of ammo ready for service. One night I got called up to look for an escaped prisoner from the town lockup. He assaulted and injured the constable while escaping and stole his sidearm. I was the most firearms savvy member and was issued a Browning Automatic Rifle from the 30's they had stored in the town hall when we surrounded the house he was holed up in! Fortunately for him he surrendered peacefully. Lots of small towns have dozens of potential deputys in their citizenry. They own rifles already and know how to use them. I think any rioting would be confined to major cities.