United Kingdom 01 (Dec 10 to Jan 12)

[LenaHuat]

Hi K
Check the Mail. It's got excellent up-to-coverage of the riots:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024203/UK-riots-flare-Manchester-Birmingham-London-s-FOURTH-night-violence.html

[kennynah]

Thanks L;)
I've made the decision to delay the return. No point taking the risks.

[Poles]

i think this serves as a good reminder to our MOE not to keep all good eggs in only a few schools....

[millionairemind]

i think this serves as a good reminder to our MOE not to keep all good eggs in only a few schools....

Watching the news now.. some arrested for rioting were only 11 yrs old!!!

[LenaHuat]

That boy on the right, clutching his booze, is only 9 yrs old

[winston]

Mob Mentality at work. When you see everybody else committing a crime, suddenly, it's ok to do it.

Doesnt looked like a racial thing to me. It;s a Have-Nots VS the Haves ..

[LenaHuat]

The racial issue counts when it gets to defense. A big group of Kurdish Turks, brandishing poles and chairs, scared off a big group of looters. A big group of Sikhs, brandishing their religious kris, also deterred a group of looters.

[winston]

Nothing compared to the Koreans, who were armed with sub-machine guns, during the 'Rodney King's Riot" in LA, a while back ...

"When time is peaceful, prepare for war & vice-versa " - Sun Tzu

[LenaHuat]

Under British law, it is an offense to carry firearms. Exceptions are rarely granted. Some British media are pressing for charges against the Sikhs for brandishing 'knives' even if they are religious ones

[Poles]

It was fun. It made life interesting. It got people to notice them. As a girl looter told a BBC reporter, it showed ‘the rich’ and the police that ‘we can do what we like’.


Most have no jobs to go to or exams they might pass. They know no family role models, for most live in homes in which the father is unemployed, or from which he has decamped.

They are illiterate and innumerate, beyond maybe some dexterity with computer games and BlackBerries.

They are essentially wild beasts. I use that phrase advisedly, because it seems appropriate to young people bereft of the discipline that might make them employable; of the conscience that distinguishes between right and wrong.

They respond only to instinctive animal impulses — to eat and drink, have sex, seize or destroy the accessible property of others


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