"You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?"

[kpete]

In one NBC report, a young man in Tottenham was asked if rioting really achieved anything:

"Yes," said the young man. "You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?"

"Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."

the rest:
(think about it)
http://www.alternet.org/story/151952/british_riots%3A_elites_%22shocked%22_the_poor_are_rising_up_against_brutal_austerity_measures?akid=7385.15156.Nm9Ism&rd=1&t=2

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. and he is so correct. Sadly.

Racist policies coming home to roost again.

[The Midway Rebel]

2. Inb4...

criminals, thugs, thuggery, mindless, brats, bad kids, thieves, hoodlums, unsupervized, chaos, anarchy, how would you feel if they torched your shop?, lock them up and throw away the key, nonpolotical, if the good citizens only had guns, law and order, law and order, law and order

[Drale]

3. So your saying sit back and take it?

If our founding fathers felt that way, there would be no United States of America.

[leeroysphitz]

5. The founders could have had a peacful protest or maybe send a strongly worded letter to Georgie boy.

That would have worked just fine.

[Drale]

7. Yeah maybe in big red bold print.

:rofl:

[leeroysphitz]

4. A taste of things to come. n/t

[pintobean]

6. Pay attention to us or else

we'll steal or destroy the property of the innocent and terrorize our own neighborhoods.