England riots

Beating and robbing innocent people up and stealing is not a protest of any kind. Neither is breaking into stores and stealing stuff. These people seem to have zero braincells left.

They can't attack against people they protest against so they attack on people and stores who don't have a crap to do with anything?

It's more like they are throwing a tantrum to show their insatisfaction, since peacefully showing it got them nowhere.
I still think there are many who are just taking advantage of the situation to steal stuff, but it IS a form of getting attention to their cause.

It's more like they are throwing a tantrum to show their insatisfaction, since peacefully showing it got them nowhere.
I still think there are many who are just taking advantage of the situation to steal stuff, but it IS a form of getting attention to their cause.

Thing is that the poor people, the ones who rioters protest for, are the ones that will get most harm from this.

I hope police get REALLY mean and pineappleing make examples of people. No jail, no law system, treat those rooters like the animals they are.

Politically this is embarrassing for England and they are going to need to put a stop to this soon. Real soon. It's sad to say, political reasons will want them to stop this more than to help the people getting looted and injured by the rioters.

I look forward to seeing what they do.

As a fellow brit, I think its all so stupid. Started in Manchester last night (the nearest big city to me)
I even agree with the police.. The guy had a gun, In other countries they wouldn't hesitate and i don't believe they should here!

Now people are just rioting for the sake of causing one. Makes me ashamed to be British seeing them.

I note the riotcleanup movement.

I saw this coming when I learnt how bad things were with the poor in UK. I'm not exactly expecting this extent of riots, but hardly surprising, because it only reflects how serious things are in UK [if you realise why this is related to all the blatent looting and stuff].

Hadriel

Forget what I said about x5 worse than the Oakland riot, its more like x9000000000000000000000000000000000000000 worse.

I felt so sorry for the guy who got robbed after being beaten up :<

There were a few cases of people rioting near the town I live. I was pretty ashamed to find out a few people I used to go to school with were out setting fire to peoples cars and looting shopping centres too. :/ There was an interview on the BBC with a few girls who were part of the riots and when asked why they were doing it they replied: "because of all the rich people and the government. f'ucking conservatives, yeah. or whoever it is in power." SERIOUSLY? Blaming the government when you're not even f'ucking sure who's in power? Makes me want to punch a kitten.

I've read a lot of articles about this and I've seen a lot of (often older) politicians/people with a vague degree of authority blaming social networking sites for the rate at which the riots escalated too. It's like they try to find any means possible to throw the blame at. #riotcleanup has been trending on Twitter yet people still seem to want to blame social media for this. Makes me angry.

or whoever it is in power

Lol'd. Well, I don't know either- so I shouldn't be bitching.

@Mazz: Well, he might've meant that w/o social networks, the riots wouldn't have spread as much as it has. Which makes sense.

Bad/questionable influences are easy to spread through the internet due to the "bandwagon" phenomenon.


It is wrong of him to blame things on social networking alone though. But meh.

I vote bringing in the tear gas canisters.

So sad that London is getting this crap now. At least its not during the Olympics.

And apparently robbing people after beating the crap out of them is a way of showing frustration at the system.

It seems that the majority of the oraganization has been through blackberry messenger. Thats right folks, the poor and poverty ridden rioters have been organising riots on phones that cost £300+. Something about that is wrong, but I can't put my finger on what...

[quote]Lol'd. Well, I don't know either- so I shouldn't be peaching./quote]

Yes, but you're in california, theres a huge difference between not knowing who the leader of other countries is passively on an internet forum, and actively rioting/looting and not knowing.

(For reference, it's a Conservative/Liberal democrat coalition government, with David Cameron, the leader of the conservatives as the prime minister and Nick CLegg, the leader of the Lib Dems as the deputy prime minister.)

No words can explain how much faith in humanity I've lost... I feel that something like this can just as easily spark in other Western Democratic states just from how polarized the rich and poor are and how apathetic the youth of those countries are.

Lol'd. Well, I don't know either- so I shouldn't be bitching.

It's really not a funny situation, especially the part he said.

Man, that kid who got his bag looted through after people helped him up HAD A BROKEN JAW. Also what they stole was his PSP. Sony has pledged to send him a new PSP and some games to top it off. Too bad they can't send those guys a swift kick to their jaws just for good measure.

http://kotaku.com/5829812/man-has-jaw-br...ndon-riots

This is so so sad

A place I once thought was a great place to be and to explore its scenery is in shambles. I'm happy that the only (sorry if I forget) person I know that lives/d in London is safe along with his family.

They launched some website to collect money for the Malay student, he has only been in the UK for abouth 1 month for his study or so they said. (It's the one who got robbed)

Also, photoshops of looters can be entertaining.

Man, that kid who got his bag looted through after people helped him up HAD A BROKEN JAW. Also what they stole was his PSP. Sony has pledged to send him a new PSP and some games to top it off. Too bad they can't send those guys a swift kick to their jaws just for good measure.

http://kotaku.com/5829812/man-has-jaw-br...ndon-riots

Wow that is horrible =/
B> plane ticket to anywhere...

My sister is just a couple hundred metres from the riots. Not a very friendly situation [on all sides].

She'll live.

On a side note, I had a friend who died a violent death in London... 10 months ago. Knocked down by a bus and dragged for 2km. And I wanted to say hi to her after so many years...

Hadriel

[video=youtube;zzP-D0_Gm4c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzP-D0_Gm4c&feature=channel_video_title[/video]

Basically my take on this all. When governments pineapple with things that mean a lot to the majority of the poor, pomegranate hits the fan, especially when the government is still spending on frugal things such as their own salary.

The issue of being rich or poor does not justify robbing,looting, and destroying property >.>

And if you really think about it, the people we consider "poor" in society are not really "poor" in that there are people that are in far worse situations.