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Kajex
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Are any of you guys following this ?  It's some pretty intense stuff, seems to be worse than the Vancouver incident.  Hopefully no one else gets killed.
Aug 8 2011 3:56AM
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Mike-O
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Baseball bat and Telescope tonfa (Jesus Christ!!!) sales have skyrocketed...

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Aug 10 2011 3:50AM
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vandersteeze
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Because the first night there were not nearly enough officers on duty
Aug 10 2011 3:52AM
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ohmythugaim
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The nice thing about England is you can at least have a somewhat civil debate about the matter on the news. Sure, they'll usually have some dumbass just shouting moronic arguments (was the editor of the sun, a tabloid "newspaper" last night)... but you can at least listen to various ideas from completely different people in the community without the interviewer interrupting everyone and spouting their news-channels official opinion on the matter.
Aug 10 2011 4:09AM
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hoodratz47
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/09/oakland-riots-oscar-grant-shooting-verdict



vept that one time....
Aug 10 2011 4:51AM
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PacificRimJob
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That was NOT rioting...

That was a MOTHER FUCK THE PO-LICE situation..

They had every right to go apeshit on the cops that night. The cop was later charged with manslaughter (should have been straight murder...)



Think of how apeshit LA would have been if Rodney King had been MURDERED.. I'm surprised a cop car being set alight was the only serious thing that happened that night in Oaktown...
Aug 10 2011 4:56AM
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Mike-O
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Yeah... that's called rioting.
Aug 10 2011 4:58AM
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hoodratz47
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if he had been murdered those cops would have been found guilty.
Aug 10 2011 4:58AM
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PacificRimJob
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Oh and FUCK DAN ASHLEY too...

He bought skis from a ski shop I was working at for his son and expected all this special treatment as if he was Ron fuckin Burgendy...

He basically asked us to break the law for him, and then went ripshit pissed at us when he didn't get his dumbass way. What a douchebag.
Aug 10 2011 4:58AM
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PacificRimJob
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Lol There wasn't thousands of people in the streets looting stores and shit, homie.

one cop car? Please.
Aug 10 2011 4:59AM
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PacificRimJob
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Eh.. you decide...

(shot happens at 1:00)

Aug 10 2011 5:02AM
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Laurent.
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This almost made me shed a tear: 23: Aaron Biber, 89, assesses the damage to his hairdressing salon after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #
Aug 10 2011 5:41AM
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Static
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"oh no the magazines are strewn about!"

Honestly it doesn't look that bad, the mirrors arn't broken, crappy chairs are still there...
Aug 10 2011 5:46AM
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PacificRimJob
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It's sad. Because he's old.


And... is that Justin Biber's Grandpa?
Aug 10 2011 5:48AM
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JibbaTheHutt
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at the risk of getting the shit ripped out of me, i want to say it is just *beiber* ???? so no i do not theink it is his granfather espically considering he is from tottenham....
Aug 10 2011 7:12AM
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e.wait
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Just heard on the news that RIM got hacked. The hackers threatened to release the addresses of RIM employees if they worked with the police any further.
Aug 10 2011 7:38AM
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e.wait
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Sorry that should read release the addresses *to rioters*
Aug 10 2011 8:03AM
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MitchPee
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You do realize institutionalizing people will take further tax dollars and still contribute nothing to society right?

If you think it is 100% welfare slugs that are the cause of this problem you are very naive my friend. Obviously any unproductive member of society that doesn't reciprocate productivity needs to be dealt with. However, there is a much bigger picture, not your emotional talking points that are only relevant to your life because of your obvious anger at the situation given the status of your step sister. (ie you have an emotional bias and using terms like 100% when a problem obviously isn;t 100% one factor).
Aug 10 2011 10:56AM
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Static
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you bring nothing to the table, yes it will cost money to house prisoners, but society will be improved by their removal.

"However there is a much bigger picture" well then what is it?

because to me it's pretty clear: people who don't take care of themselves or their children because they can rely on the state. This forces the burden onto the responsible citizens. What else could it be? I'm dying to know.
Aug 10 2011 11:38AM
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SkierX
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Well this thread has turned out to be nearly as much of a shitshow as London...

Anyone who thinks destroying other people's livelihoods are a means of enacting positive change needs to die in a fire they set.

I would not feel the slightest bit bad if the rioters started getting slaughtered by the police. The rioters are pure scum and the world would be better off without them.
Aug 10 2011 12:02PM
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CliffyByro
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exactly this
Aug 10 2011 12:28PM
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B-runge
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Those bobbies have such pussy ass bucklers, they need to get some tower shields like we have in MURCA
Aug 10 2011 12:32PM
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VT_FLO
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you should stop trolling
Aug 10 2011 1:05PM
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-Otto-
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This, this, this aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this... I'm getting enraged just watching this shit. I really wouldn't mind if the police/army took a machine rifle and shot everybody who was rioting... Yeah, I said it.
Aug 10 2011 2:03PM
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Chuffin
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Two girls talking about rioting.


That video just proves how moronic and pointless the rioting is. It's pathetic, sad and really really embarrassing for us as a country.

I couldn't believe what was coming out of these stupid fucking girls' mouths whilst my friends have had to board up their homes to avoid getting mobbed.

They all deserve to be shot.. Not with rubber bullets, but big fucking metal ones that explode inside them.
Aug 10 2011 2:31PM
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B-runge
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that video was fucking ridiculous.
"good fun"
now i just think that english kids are fucking crazy like they are in skins, haha
Aug 10 2011 2:50PM
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Yossarian
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Yup I agree.

Protest is about standing against an issue and if someone says that looting in Birmingham, Manchester and Salford has anything to do with a protest in Tottenham about a dodgy police action then they've seriously underestimated the ability of people to be greedy and self serving.

The riots are just that riots. NOT protests. Anyone who tries to equivocate the actions of a few deliquent members of society with genuine protest are demeaning every form of peaceful demonstration in history.

I heard an interview on BBC Radio 4 this evening with a 17 year old girl in Liverpool and her reasoning for looting was (and I'm paraphrasing):

"We have to do this to make money because the only other option is to do some training and get a job."

THAT is the kind of person who is wrecking businesses and burning cars. It makes me feel sick to my stomach.
Aug 10 2011 3:12PM
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PacificRimJob
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Whos to say he can't have an English grandpa?

And.. I was entirely joking anyways, I knew there was an E in there hah.
Aug 10 2011 3:57PM
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CrotchKiller
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argument is invalid due to the fact the world is going to end in 2012
Aug 10 2011 4:39PM
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CliffyByro
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the man in green is doing it right:

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Aug 10 2011 5:38PM
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e.wait
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These girls don't deserve to be shot. They deserve to covered in female chimpanzee pheromones and put in a cage with male chimps. Oh, and the male chimps should be infected with ebola.
Aug 10 2011 5:47PM
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Hoppy
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'Yeah like its the governments fault.............who ever it is, i dunno'

'its the rich people who have their own businesses'



my god.





I propose a new act. Next year, in England, the safety labels will be taken off everything.
Aug 10 2011 5:58PM
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jason...
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that was in vancouver.
Aug 10 2011 6:00PM
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-AWC-
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looting is a serious business haha: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.232806823422695.51547.232804136756297&type=1
Aug 10 2011 6:08PM
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PJS.
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that was AWESOME.

if i owned a business in london I'd have like a motherfuckin knife in my boot and a motherfuckin baseball (sorry, cricket) bat and sit outside my store, fucking anyone up who tried to loot.
Aug 10 2011 6:14PM
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PacificRimJob
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I'd have like 50 pellet guns or something... since those are legal... ALL loaded to the max
and just go fucking matrix on their asses.
Aug 10 2011 6:17PM
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JibbaTheHutt
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the looters have stepped their game up....
Aug 10 2011 6:19PM
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PacificRimJob
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I have reason to believe the Staynes Massive is behind this...

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Aug 10 2011 6:22PM
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blindside
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Some of you have probably seen this, but I'll add it in here anyway:


Aug 10 2011 6:25PM
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J-Evs
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crazy

Aug 10 2011 6:31PM
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PJS.
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rofl
Aug 10 2011 6:40PM
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shibby
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This is hilarious coming from a mod. Yet ignorant on so many levels.
Aug 10 2011 6:45PM
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.Annydrew.
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Looting at its finest
Aug 10 2011 7:18PM
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.Annydrew.
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in size scale we are one of, if not the most powerful country in the world, our empire may of ended many years ago, not 150 years ago, infact it ended in 1997 in hong kong, get you're facts straight before you start chatting shit. but either way we are still brothers, now lets defend the gates of minas tirith.
Aug 10 2011 7:50PM
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SkierX
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Elaborate? Is it because in my opinion I think people who riot and loot and destroy people's property are trash? Is it because I wouldn't shed a tear if they got what in my opinion, they deserved for being said trash? Explain why you think this stance is ignorant. The rooters in Vancouver were idiot trash scum, just as those in England are. You protest causes. Rioting is detrimental in every way and does everything to destroy reputations and reduce causes while destroying many people's lives through acts of terror in cowardly manners.
Aug 10 2011 9:02PM
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Liam.Butler
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Thank you.
Aug 10 2011 9:24PM
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las.
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Hey Egypt, Libya and Sudan...are you hearing this? Yeah i know right, listen to this fucking guy...

My god you are dumb.
Aug 11 2011 12:37AM
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las.
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p.s. rioting can still have a cause. derp
Aug 11 2011 12:39AM
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FLBP
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If I'm not mistaken, England has a huge censorship problem, they can't even make fun of parliament on tv. If the youth have absolutely no voice how the fuck are we supposed to look out for ourselves. I think there would be better ways to handle it than rioting but there are too many injustices in our world in this day and age, it's impossible to get a foothold on life when the established system works against you.
Aug 11 2011 12:56AM
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FLBP
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Riots are more of a punitive expedition tho against the people with money, not every business owner is a money hoarding prick.
Aug 11 2011 1:00AM
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fujarome
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the egyptians didn't loot the hell out of sports and electronics stores as soon as the opportunity presented itself.


i can already tell you're not going to last long here...
Aug 11 2011 1:11AM
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