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Old 2011-08-09, 04:39 AM   #1
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London's Burning

I was visiting a friend yesterday and just before leaving his place he heard on the radio news that the riots in London had spread, and the area that I live in was one of the areas that the police expected trouble. I laughed at the idea, in a "nothing happens round here" type of way, and went home.

Got off the train, and the station was full of police "ready for trouble", again I laughed at "police overreaction to rumours".

Then I left the station:

Hundreds of teenagers, possibly thousands (I didn't count), crowding the streets. Most of the shops were closed with their shutters down. As I walked home, even the shops outside the city centre were closing and drawing down the shutters, one restaurant owner was running along the street yelling at any shop still open to close up and screaming "they're coming, they're coming". I'd stopped to get some fresh chilli's to use to make dinner and still thought they were over reacting, the teenagers would probably do a lot of yelling and throwing things at police cars, but that would be all.

Remind me never to go into the prediction business!

Mass rioting. Shops smashed up. Major league looting. And an entire block burned to the ground! All a few minutes from where I live.

I have not been out yet, but the pictures on the news make it look like some post apocalyptic nightmare, and the film of the actual looting looked like something from a movie, the sort of movie where you throw popcorn at the screen because it is too over the top and unbelievable.

Maybe I should move somewhere safer - like Afghanistan!

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Old 2011-08-09, 07:31 AM   #2
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Cool. In a freaky way.

So why are the kids sayin they are rioting? What's their beef?

And I don't mean the initial impetus, that guy who was shot by the cops, Why is it spreading?
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Old 2011-08-09, 08:00 AM   #3
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RIM to assist police over use of BBM in London riots

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RIM has said that it will co-operate with police investigations into the instigators of the London riots, according to The Guardian. London’s metro police claim that perpetrators of the riots used RIM’s encrypted BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service, possibly knowing that it would be difficult for police to track their communications. RIM’s managing director of regional marketing, Patrick Spence, confirmed via Twitter that contact had been made between the police and RIM.

"We feel for those impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can," Spence said. He added that RIM complies with UK legislation on the interception of communication and co-operates fully with the Home Office.

The riots in Tottenham are believed to have been largely organized through the BBM service, where previous signs of unrest had been predominantly organized through Twitter and Facebook.
RIM’s BBM service has been the subject of considerable scrutiny by various governments around the world, including those on the Asian continent and in the Middle East. The encryption that RIM uses on the service is extremely difficult to crack. RIM itself has claimed that it cannot unscramble the encryption it uses, helping to assure users that even it couldn’t snoop on its customers.

After the Mumbai terrorist attack in 2008, the Indian government was concerned that terrorists could potentially use the service to coordinate attacks using a mechanism that was almost impossible for them to carry out electronic surveillance to counter any potential threat. RIM avoided a ban in India by allowing the Indian government to lawfully intercept its BBM services.

A recent survey of the UK communications market showed that RIM’s BlackBerry was the most popular smartphone among UK’s teenagers. The preference for BlackBerry among teenagers was reportedly the popularity of RIM’s BBM service, which offers free messaging between BlackBerry devices.
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Old 2011-08-09, 09:42 AM   #4
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Global capitalism has created a pretty big gap between those that have a lot and those that have a little. A few cracks in the dam?
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Old 2011-08-09, 09:45 AM   #5
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From what I read over at CNN this is all over a police shooting of a man in a cab.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe...am/index.html?
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Old 2011-08-09, 10:11 AM   #6
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Absolutely insane. Be safe, though. You don't know what the mob is capable of.
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Old 2011-08-09, 11:24 AM   #7
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Global capitalism has created a pretty big gap between those that have a lot and those that have a little. A few cracks in the dam?
The Arab Spring has demonstrated how, and now started to move to the western countries!

The rich/poor gap has created the same kind of frustration, and time for the autocrats & politicians to go!

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Old 2011-08-09, 02:12 PM   #8
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This is a real shame that the people act out in this way. It does not change anything in the long term only makes things much worse
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Old 2011-08-09, 07:58 PM   #9
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Old 2011-08-10, 03:40 AM   #10
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So why are the kids saying they are rioting?
The original riot was sparked by anger at the police, but during the riot there was a lot of opportunistic looting. Watching the reports in TV the following day a lot of people realised that the police were powerless against such a large mob, and that if they organised themselves they could simply raid shops and take what they liked. So that is what they are doing.

Although this started as legitimate protest, what is happening now has nothing to with the original march. It is just organised thieving on a mass scale.

One major factor is that the courts are too lenient on under 18s, and the police know that there is little point in arresting them, so do nothing. Years ago I used to run a video shop in a tough area, we had a lot of trouble with kids either stealing, smashing stuff up, or even beating up younger kids just for the fun of it. The police were worse than useless. A perfect example was when a gang of teenagers seriously beat up a nine year old in the store. I had the whole thing on security video, I even got the name and address of the ringleader, but when I took it to the police, there response was "We don't have time to deal with this". So when kids learn they can get away with anything, some take what they can. On the radio this morning they were interviewing a kid who was not only prepared to talk about it, he was proud and boastful about it. When asked if he was worried about getting caught his reply was "What are they going to do about it? It is my first offence. They will give me an ASBO or community service" (an ASBO is little more than being banned from doing it again, and it being publicly recorded that you were warned).

After I posted yesterday I had to go into town. It was like a war zone (and I am not being dramatic, if you saw photos in the paper without captions, you would have assumed these were photos of a town in Afghanistan). Shop windows smashed in, buildings burnt out (in some cases just a charred frame remained), glass and rubble everywhere. A few streets were so badly damaged that the entire street was closed off because they were not safe to walk down. And the tram system will be out for ages. Not only were parts destroyed by vandalism, but in some places the fires were so hot, the rails melted (and we are talking solid, heavy metal tram rails). And according to the news, the area of London where I lived was not the worst hit area, there is a lot worse elsewhere!

This morning, on the radio, I hear that it is spreading, last night looting and rioting started up all over the country. Living in Britain really is becoming like one of those 70's movies about society breaking down and the gangs taking over!

I got an email from a local politician this morning. Surprisingly he was not trying to make political capital out of it, instead the point of the email was just to try and reassure his constituents. But to me the most poignant and frightening line in it was:

"When I get home tonight, I will have to explain what has happened to my eight year-old son. He will ask why people have done this. What can I tell him?"
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Old 2011-08-10, 06:35 AM   #11
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It will probably happen here in the states before all that long.

And when it does it won't be so nice. There will be many deaths, not just destruction and looting.

Then, after that, it's going to get really fucking crazy.

The people on top will be SHOCKED, SHOCKED I SAY!

How could the lower classes be such savages, just looting and destroying for no reason?
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Old 2011-08-10, 09:01 AM   #12
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should of brought in the water cannon and rubber bullets the 2nd Night .Maggie would have not let this have happened.

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It will probably happen here in the states before all that long.

And when it does it won't be so nice. There will be many deaths, not just destruction and looting.

Then, after that, it's going to get really fucking crazy.

The people on top will be SHOCKED, SHOCKED I SAY!

How could the lower classes be such savages, just looting and destroying for no reason?
Jim and I have discussed this same thing, it would not surprise me at all if this happens here.
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Old 2011-08-10, 03:07 PM   #15
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It happened here in 1982.

Seems sometimes people don't like people getting killed at the hands of the police.
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Old 2011-08-10, 03:43 PM   #16
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All of the looters should be arrested and from the number of photos taken it shouldn't be too hard to track them down. They should then be marched to the places they destroyed and publicly flogged. Then they should be prosecuted to the max and made to pay for everything destroyed and stolen no matter how long it takes them. Maybe then people would think twice about trashing the cities they live in and destroying other peoples lives with stupid acts of violence and theft. I would also go so far as to make sure that anyone arrested who was an immigrant still awaiting permission to live in the country permanently, be put on a plane back to where they came from. Its long overdue that someone stood up for the honest man in the streets and said enough is enough.
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Old 2011-08-11, 10:51 PM   #17
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I am still wondering what the folks doing the rioting and looting were thinking, what kinds of stories they were telling themseves in their heads.

Lore is, england is the most highly surveiled country in the world - did they not know they would be on cameras and likely be tracked down afterwards?

I saw some photos of a boy setting a store on fire, then standing there, face in full view, watching it burn.

What was the culture that made this seem like a good idea? If it was just dumbness, what does that say about the society that produced such dumb people?

The lenient on minors thing explains some of it - but why would kids decide to rampage? (I've watched a few vids, about a 16 year old girl the cops beat up, with commentary suggesting the rapid passing along of that video was a spark. But what poured on the gasoline that the spark ignited?)

I"m still waiting for followup articles that try to explain all this.
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I am still wondering what the folks doing the rioting and looting were thinking, what kinds of stories they were telling themseves in their heads.
During the riots, one radio station interviewed a few kids as they ran off and asked them that question. The replies I can remember were "It's a laugh", "I got a couple of free things", "I want to do this every night" and, probably the most telling reply "We are telling the police that we can do what we want, and they can't stop us".

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did they not know they would be on cameras and likely be tracked down afterwards?
In answer to this question, one typical reply was "What are they going to do about it? It is my first offence. They will give me an ASBO or community service" (an ASBO is little more than being told not to do it again, and it being publicly recorded that you were warned).
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