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Race Riots in Britain

Aug 10, 2011 08:01

Wanna know why there are race riots in Britain? Here's why.

And why the violent reaction? It has happened before. The Guns of Brixton say it all, don't they?

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badnewswade August 10 2011, 15:11:11 UTC

They aren't race riots, you fucktard.

theheretic August 11 2011, 19:49:47 UTC

Since you're nearly always wrong I'm going with the news on this one, fucktard. Please stay in Britain. NEVER come to the USA. You aren't welcome here. If you even attempt it, I WILL contact Homeland Security.

badnewswade August 11 2011, 20:01:33 UTC

Why one earth would I want to go to a country full of paranoid racist nuts with guns in the first place?

theheretic August 11 2011, 20:07:28 UTC

Glad we understand each other.

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evilref August 10 2011, 15:29:28 UTC

Well, the more interesting thing is that the fellow killed last Thursday, that triggered it all off, was some kind of big man in the Broadwater Farm estate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwater_Farm_Estate#The_Broadwater_Farm_Estate

If you follow the link away to the "Broadwater Farm Riot" you'll find it's not this riot, it's the last riot -- the one where a policeman was hacked to death with a machete.

The Metropolitan Police shot the fellow before he drew a gun, and the police radio that was mentioned in the news turns out to have taken a bullet from a Met gun. Now this fellow was some sort of gangster, it seems (or should that be "gangsta"?) but the Met have a long and dark history of shooting citizens, then being exonerated in the subsequent years of inquiry.

Perhaps the most famous case was a Brazilian electrician -- back when I still lived close to London -- and within 24 hours street traders were selling T- ( ... )

Good Info, if Depressing theheretic August 11 2011, 20:07:01 UTC

Yikes. Britain is pretty awful isn't it? My ancestors left there centuries ago, though I suspect I still have lots of blood relatives left behind, just none I know of personally. Britain has a long history of civil wars and appalling violence condoned by authority, including torture. Kettling is mild compared to burning Protestants when my family fled for America. Considering just how easy it is to get from Wales or Scotland to Ireland, I really hope your border guards are firm about "Kettling" the English so they can resolve their own problems internally. It seems, from this side of the Atlantic, that Britain and Europe have barely been holding back their racism below the surface and now that the economics is unravelling, the Race Card Blame Game is being played. We've done that in the USA, of course, not blameless here. Its just the typical superiority nonsense that cultural incompatibility and unwelcome attitudes that prevent folks really getting along. It is amazing to me that riots are far more common in "superior" Europe than ( ... )

Re: Good Info, if Depressing evilref August 29 2011, 08:44:23 UTC

Kettling is mild compared to burning Protestants when my family fled for America.

As I remember my history, the last Protestant-burnings stopped in 1588, some four decades before the Mayflower sailed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Persecutions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

The last Catholic monarch was Mary, and since then the State-sanctioned religious persecutions have all been in the other direction.

On the other hand, two of my ancestors fled Waterford in the 1880s because he was Protestant and she was Catholic, they weren't married, and there was a baby on the way. They moved to Sussex.

History tends to be full of this sort of stuff. It comes and goes. Right now in Britain it's in full flow, but there have been times of peace and prosperity in the past, and there will be in the future.

It seems, from this side of the Atlantic, that Britain and Europe have ( ... )

buckfush530 August 12 2011, 09:39:59 UTC

Yeah, this is a giant fucking neon sign to leave this community. Bye.

The Neon Sign theheretic August 12 2011, 18:42:55 UTC

When was the last time you made a meaningful post here? Years? Really. We've been predicting economic based riots due to energy depletion since what, 2003? Finally happens, under the stresses of a racial killing, a long time shameful problem of one of the "civilized" countries that's always had its nose in the air over how superior it is, Britain. It is totally worth rubbing their noses in the puddle of pee they've created here. As EvilRef pointed out with the relevant link, Britain is a hole and this is just more of the same ( ... )