England riots

I'm not trying to undermine my stance here. This kind of violent "protest" and looting is horrendous. But what good is peaceful protesting going to do? We all know how viable that solution is. It isn't.

On one hand, I'm not surprised that they think peaceful protests won't work, the last 2 major peaceful youth protests all managed to do absolutely nothing. (Those being the huge campaign against tutition fees increases, which in the end tripled, and against Education Maintence Allowence which is being taken away, both of which I participated in, as did many university age people across the country), however we got lots of media coverage and interviews without resorting to violence.

When you start throwing bricks, the bricks become the message, not whatever it is you want changed. T hey should be dealt with as such, though hopefully its looking to be quieter tonight, but its oly just getting dark now, so we'll see...

Edit: from a guardian reports twitter feed:

100 white men, 30s-40s, sprinting along Hertford Rd. Shouts of "Get the Pakis."

Great, now we have people rioting back against the people rioting, and its become racism, just what we needed to diffuse the situation.