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Another element that may not be obvious from afar: the police are not beloved of the righties, particularly in London. They have gone *so* PC. They specialize in sucking up to miscreants and making life a misery for the law abiding.

There’s a general feeling of “can’t they both lose?”

I wouldn’t say that was ‘the police’, rather, it’s the ACPO top brass, like the bag of wind Tim Godwin, current Acting Commish, who was wheeled out on Sky earlier to…ummm, I think his brief was ‘reassure Londoners’, but he didn’t reassure me.

He was heckled at the start of his outside broadcast, but I couldn’t make out what the heckler was saying. Some wag on a police blog suggested it was his own officers!

Oh! Do you follow a good police blog, JuliaM?

Non-fiction cop books were one of my favorite guilty pleasures in the States. You know, true stories of the gritty street, that sort of thing.

So I downloaded a Kindle sample of a UK cop book…and it was all about the sensitivity training they had to take, the lack of instruction on real policing matters…made my stomach hurt. I couldn’t take it.

Same thing with doctor books in the US and UK. One is about medicine, the other is about the trials of the NHS (though every one of them seems to start with a statement about how wonderful the NHS is and how they wouldn’t trade it for anything).

Wow. From Mike C. (via rayra at GCP): freakishly huge engine.

That thing pulls container ships. Or…pushes them, I guess.

What’s the betting that Godwin is part of the ‘Common Purpose’ movement – the Leftist plot that is doing so much damage to the UK’s unelected structure?

I used to follow A Copper’s Blog. But since PC “Copperfield” escaped to Canada, it’s been largely inactive (and a lot less amusing/horrible).

Second City Cop here in Chicago is red-hot, but pretty local, and it’s more for the troops to vent than to enlighten the public.

Hosing the misunderstood, needy, disenfranchised peaceniks with money, hand-holding, teary compassion works wonders. If your objective is to multiply the ranks of the same in exponential order, that is.

This most regrettable Tottenham unpleasantness should not be a police matter, that’s a job for motorized infantry.

We have more of these areas stateside than Jolly Oulde will have after the rest of mobile Brits will flee. There are already areas in Southside Chimpago where the USPS refuses to deliver mail, for instance. If the government (i.e. mail) lost the ability to perform, it would in saner days result in National Guard being deployed. Haaaaaaaaaaah-ha-ha-ha! But we have run out of these days around the War of Northern Aggression, 150 springs back.

Just by coincidence I did watch a “Harry Browne” movie the other day, with Michael Caine. It is quite rare for me to be appreciative of Britisher contemporary production but it is very well worth watching. Senescence will not be a happy ride, and it looks like my plans to be spoon fed under the gazebo on a meadow by an apron-clad busty Swiss nurse may need to be re-evaluated.

No doubt in my mind that the official reaction to the chimpout will be to establish a committee and appropriate resources for community organizing. Every day we prove the creatures correct.
We seem to have misplaced the will to keep on truckin’.

Fuck. This is terrifying. They’re kicking in residential doors and robbing old ladies now.

SkyNews.

I hope the old ladies keep their hands to themselves. If they hurt the perp, they need to be marched in chains to the tower.

/snark off/

From this side of the pond, kind of reminds one of NOLA after Katrina. One might have understood looting the grocery store, but walking out with a 50″ plasma and cuing to steal several pairs of $$trainers….well, maybe that would be just plain old thuggery and shitheadedness working. Kicking in granny’s door? How’s that whole “guns are bad disarmament” thing working out (says the girl who lives in no-gun Boston)?

Yep, In the words of my father, “Everythings gone ta shit. The end.” Mobs in wisconsin too. That getting kinda close to home for me. Just a state away…

These mobs are redominantly brown, and Muslim.

You know what I’m going to say – and I’ve been saying it for years.

Just an hour’s drive away for this “Cheesehead.” I assume the flash mobs will go after stores for a while. The state fair must have been a pretty tempting soft target. Baseball games have lots of cars caught in post-game jams, but more people might be willing to get out and swing tire irons. Octoberfest, maybe?

It’s been a bit . . . un-nerving here in North London tonight. Went out in the garden about 10 PM and could hear several sirens, mostly in the distance or travelling from north to the south. There hasn’t been any nonsense evident in this neighbourhood–and we have no reason to think it will occur. But it could. We hope it won’t. Talked to the neighbour (who is a London LFC fan and a tough old dog) and we’re all safe w/ home security and watching each others’ backs. Can’t come up with anything more profound to say other than prayers for All of Us, and special ones for the people who will suffer for a long time as a consequence of the lawlessness we’re sitting in right now.

Ach! Take care of yourself, MarkT.

So many people ruined tonight. Businesses burned down, no job to come to tomorrow, how do they pay the mortgage?

We’re glued to Sky News. It’s horrible to see places we know. I mean, it’s all horrible, but places we know really make my stomach hurt.

Good luck, Mark. I’m so sorry you’re having to go through this. It’s just unspeakable.

I expect it’ll be all of the above… Then they’ll start on the city’s

Will there come a tipping point where the folks in the UK arm themselves with two-by-fours and garden hoes since any protection by the supposed police is out of the question?

I keep hoping it’s not at all out of the question, beasn.

We’re forever blowing bubbles,
tiny bubbles in the air,

Aresenal always running,
Chelsea’s running too,

and we’re the Palace Boot Boys,
and we’re running after you.

Oh, wrong decade.

Jeebus, the Boot Boys were the good old days.

Glen Reynolds is linking to a site that is reporting that the riot is “spreading across London and beyond London” but it’s registration required so no details.

Unfortunately for y’all the government over there has repeatedly demonstrated that it is all too willing to prosecute people who dare to defend themselves.

Keep safe.

Keep safe

And have a place to hide the bodies.

@beasn (8/9/11, 12:37 am) — Will there come a tipping point where the folks in the UK arm themselves with two-by-fours and garden hoes since any protection by the supposed police is out of the question?

Alas, it appears that the plod are making things worse.

I’ve seen fotos of police clearly witnessing blatant assaults, arson, and looting – and blithely standing by and not intervening.

OK, maybe not “blithely” but certainly “deliberately.”

This is why, when it hits the fan in West Pondia, the swill passing themselves off as “Law Enforcement” will most likely be the first targets of those who choose to defend them and theirs. The stench is overwhelming HERE as well.

Smith and Wesson.

Off of Twitter: “BBC News producer Bill Hayton in Canning Town says about 25 people armed with hammers descended on a McDonalds restaurant.”

WTF

“Oh! Do you follow a good police blog, JuliaM?”

I follow one that used to be ( word here ). Like Guido Fawkes, it’s got too popular for it’s own good.

“Will there come a tipping point where the folks in the UK arm themselves with two-by-fours and garden hoes since any protection by the supposed police is out of the question?”

Was glued to Twitter last night as more and more familiar place names kept cropping up, and it seemed the riots (or rather, the opportunistic looting) were moving ever closer.

There were some reports of real communities banding together to chase away the jackals. That’s heartening. It’s also scary, to think it was necessary.

“Glen Reynolds is linking to a site that is reporting that the riot is “spreading across London and beyond London” but it’s registration required so no details.”

There was sporadic disorder (mostly looting and opportunistic burglary and arson) in some Northern Towns – the bad ones, Manchester and Birmingham.

Areas closer to London – but really on the outskirts – with large populations of scum (Barking, East Ham, Ilford) also had issues wiv da yoof.

In these situations, Twitter is your friend. Faster than the blogs.

“I’ve seen fotos of police clearly witnessing blatant assaults, arson, and looting – and blithely standing by and not intervening.

OK, maybe not “blithely” but certainly “deliberately.””

There’s a LOT of anger at the scenes witnessed last night. And a lot of dark suspicion, too…

Whilst I can imagine this sort of thing in downtown LA … with a bit of imagination … it troubles me to think it is spreading – and in England

What are they rioting over?

The inner me if there would want to climb up somewhere nice and high with my trusty 303 Parker Hale 🙂

I hang out on a forum for Americans who live in the UK. It’s stuffed full of reflexive lefties of the most unbearable kind. It’s only bearable to go there if I stay out of the news forums and stick with, you know, visas and “what do you call Elmer’s glue in the UK?” sections.

Lots of them live in London and are hopping mad. Consensus is that it’s all about the looting and it’s time to crack down hard. Remarkable.

For non-UK folks interested in an insightful view (in my opinion anyway), I recommend Richard North’s commentary at EU Referendum. Good S. Weasel has the link under “Anglosphere” above left. Be warned: Richard does not mince words.

For Uncle Al:
Heh. That blog has nailed the Universal Problem in Western “Civilization”. “Diversity” has become the overarching goal of society, and has been enabled, nay, even blessed, by those passing themselves off as “Law Enforcement”. I believe we are not far from the time when TSHTF. The UK “Law Enforcement” may not have much to fear, since by and large the UK Mere Citizens have been disarmed. Sure, 2x4s may hurt, but they are not very effective against water cannon and bullets. And even over here in West Pondia, the damnable swill have disarmed the Mere Citizens in MANY of the urban hellholes. But outside of those bastions of sewage, MANY Mere Citizens are appropriately armed. So when TSHTF over here, “Law Enforcement” will be among the first to go.

Enoch Powell nailed it in 1968 but no one want to hear.

@Mark Matis — I started reading North in the aftermath of the UEA CRU email leak (commonly known as “Climategate”), as well as Delingpole, Booker, and Montford, among others. All three have become regular reads about anything they care to discuss and not just about climate matters. I appreciate North’s Madam Defarge list.

Diversity is multiculturalism by any other name.

After the Fort Hood massacre when the good psychiatrist doc started to shoot unarmed soldiers (incl. pregnant women) for absolutely no discernible reason whatsoever (maybe his gun made him do it), this line which shall forever live in infamy was uttered:

“Our diversity not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

The fellow who said this was the Chief of Staff of the US Army, General Casey. Translation: kill our soldiers if you absolutely must, but leave Diversity alone!

If the indigenous personnel in Tottenham started to riot after one of the tribe was ventilated by a designated marksman (as opposed to, say, more common and accepted ventilation by a fellow tribesman over some shiny piece of bling), I can only imagine the consequences when the Sun-God Messiah, The Benevolent Chairman Obaba will be driven to the property gate on a wheelbarrow in January 2013.

Back in 1968 when 14th Street burned it was called “race riots”. Then we graduated to “sectarian violence”. There will be a new slicker term, maybe “traffic restrictions” and “real estate remodeling” or “outdoor youth activities”.

Diversity shall ye always have amongst ye. And if whatever little there was did not initially succeed, the overlords shall send plenty more. We the remaining taxpayers will fund the cruise liners sent to Mogadishu/Lagos/Khartoum to import diversity at any price if it comes to that.

I try to point out to those who will listen that as currently used the term “diversity” is quite the opposite of its historical meaning. Today, diversity involves subordinating the most valuable diversity, i.e. the diversity of individuality, to the expectation that all people who share some distinguishing racial, ethnic, religious, etc., characteristic are interchangeable and identical in any political or social role. “Diversity” is an insidious collectivist construct, an example of linguistic piracy, and quite effective in divide-and-conquer tactics.

Thanks Uncle Al, I wanted to have some place to go to stay abreast of the situation faster than the newspapers or blogs. I have senior friends outside of Winchester and am worried about Teh Crazee spreading to there.

I, too, occasionally lurk on that Americans in the UK forum–when I can bear it. Insufferable and clueless, most of them–lost in fantasy world about how how marvellous the UK is and how they no longer have to bear the dreariness of living in the USA. (But there’s no Targets or Bed, Bath, and Beyond!) You can cut the elitism with a dull knife. My loathing of this type of American is beyond the pale. The last time I read one of their postings, they were urging everyone to sign the petition protesting the Ronald Reagan statue being erected in Grosvenor Square. That didn’t work, so there was a new petition to have it removed and replaced with one of FDR. There was also a diatribe about how mean and nasty the Tea Partiers were being to Poor, Misunderstood Barry. At that point, I needed to power down and play with my puppy and drink cups of tea and go to my Happy Place.

Mark T,

you can indeed cut the elitism with a dull knife.
In a pinch you could also do it with a carpenter’s square.
But is it really the optimal choice?

Were you at it for so long as I have, you’d soon discover that certain types of implements are far more reliable performers if time, volume or ambient light are a factor.

Hey, watch your 6 out there in Londonistan. We are rooting for you.

Ugly Americans abroad. There’s a legion of them (us).

I would like to make a prediction that if the statue of FDR will prove to be a no-go, they’ll roll out Eugene Debs or Rev MLK Jr.
Made in China, just like the big red rock lump on The Mall.
http://tinyurl.com/3krw3l3

@ MarkT Yeah it’s getting hard to find people Over here (At least in my area) with decent common sense. I expect that soon it’ll be riots around here as well. Ah well.

And as far as the Mcdonalds thing, WTF? death to the big mac?

Amazon UK sporting goods sales jumped in the last 24 hrs.

Jai-Alai equipment notably absent.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and-shakers/sports/

@SSAF You can get Billy Clubs at sporting goods stores in UK? You can’t even get those in CA.

Gotta say it warms the heart to see a kid with a wood bat…
/wiggum

I never imagined that this would happen in London in my lifetime. Somehow the parallel of the Vandals sacking Rome keeps resonating in my mind.

If only they had universal health care and one of the world’s most generous welfare systems! Then they wouldn’t be so… what’s that?

Oh. I’m sorry. Never mind.

You should have no trouble recognizing my avatar at the UK-Yankee forum, Mark T. Not that I post there very often. It really is one of the most clueless and insufferable bunch of lefties I’ve ever run across on the web (they sure know their stuff about visas, though).

London has changed enormously even in the short time I’ve been coming here, some vegetable. The parts of the city going up in flames, you can play a game called Spot the White Face. You might have to wait a very long time to score any points, though.

After the Fort Hood massacre when the good psychiatrist doc started to shoot unarmed soldiers (incl. pregnant women) for absolutely no discernible reason whatsoeve

*cough*allah snackbar*cough*

*Gives beasn a lozenge*

“Britannia’s shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen […] O Britain! infamous for suicide.” Edward Young

Listening to the BBC feed and the talking heads’ attempts to deflect blame from the thugs makes one gag. Apparently nothing is their fault, the poor dears. We’re told to consider the history, the lack of voice in government, oh, woe is them.

I wish Britain the best, and I’m sure these things will die out when the scum gets bored but until the average Beeb turkey feels embarrassed to excuse and appease thugs, it will happen again.

And, no, that’s not to say that the States are in a dramatically better situation. Thanks for the live example of things going poorly, but I wish we both could call the whole thing off.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s going to happen soon here too, I mean, in a way were worse off than britain.(Snark on) They don’t have ole what’s name for president….. (Snark off)

Hoping you stay well Weasel and all others here.
As a 2nd generation American (maternal grand parents from Sussex, paternal grandfather from Clydebank (I hate myself go figure)I am fascinated/dismayed at what goes on in the “old country”)

I am amazed to find that Haddock on Friday and roast beef with Yorkshire pudding on Sunday is not American. Much less mince meat pies and Christmas pudding!

Sorry that was off topic, my bad.

Vmaximus, haddock etc. are as American as enchiladas. Or bratwurst. Or pizza. Or… you get the idea. If it’s food, at least some of us like it.

Regards,
Ric

I’m sure Glenn Beck’s name is “mud” in the UK since he’s no doubt lumped in with those “infernal conservatives.” But love him or hate him, he predicted this “summer of rage” quite a while ago when he recommended his audience read “The Coming Insurrection.”

He also predicted the US credit downgrade in 2008 and started on buying gold when it was at $700. He says he doesn’t have visions, but he sure sounds like one of the “dramers” in the Bible to me.

The other thing he says that throws me for a loop is “expect to see miracles,” because they’re going to happen in the midst of all this looniness.

Oh, and Weasie and all of our beloved ex-pats living through this, you might want to to a search on “potato gun.” Just sayin.’

Nice posts above.

But when are the commentors going to move on?

Should Multiculturalism be reversed? I believe it should, and forcefully.

After a few more nights of ‘Londonstan is Burning Down, Burning Down, Burning Down’ …. you will not only be placing the brown Vermin into concentration camps, but most of the white vermin as well.

Civilisation is too important a development to be left to social scientists and faggots to sodomise.

It is time for Eugenics.

Londonstan is burning! Londonstan is burning!
Fetch the fire engine! Fetch the fire engine!
A racially Diverse fire engine! A racially Diverse fire engine!
Londonstan is burning down! Burning down!
A Racially Diverse Burning Down!
A Racially Diverse Burning Down!
Pour on water! Pour on water!

Late last night when we were all in bed
A Copper shot an Immigrant Criminal in the Head.
(boom boom boom boom)
Immigrants with a winkle in their eye
Rolled over cars and kicked down doors,
Stole all the furniture,
And arsoned us all.
‘There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight’
Fire! Fire! Fire!

Oceania –
I pondered what you’re saying about exiling trouble makers and thieves… and I have to tell you that England has already tried that some centuries ago.
Perhaps you might ask your grandfather about it.

Having said that I will say that uncontrolled immigration has been disasterous for Western culture.

I can never quite get my head around the idea that people who really dislike us and our ways want to spend so much time among us.

“Kicking in granny’s door? How’s that whole “guns are bad disarmament” thing working out (says the girl who lives in no-gun Boston)?” – Armybrat

How can you say that? I mean if they could have guns they might both have guns. Clearly it’s more “fair” to have granny armwrestle the gangbanger than to let them both have guns

Oh, your granny can’t out-arm-wrestle a boxer? Well as might makes right (when you have no other source of defense or authority) she should have spent more time at the gym…

God Made Man; Samuel Colt Made Men Equal.

You show me a man who can take three to the chest and still ask, I’ll show you a man who can take my wallet. – ertdfg

We have the 2nd amendment to our constitution. People do not get better with the ages. Assholes are born every day, and the evil that recruits them is a constant. Enough said.

Ahhhh the Americans amongst us don’t understand the British period – and as such, probably not the present troubles in England.

The convicts went to Australia, and the Black Sheep to New Zealand. You should know this from my farcicle whit, charm, nice accent and unpretencious good looks!

And I have never proposed exiling these sub-humans.

If you stole a rabbit in the Olde Dayes, you were convicted for transportation for the rest of your natural born life.
If you Rioted like these Vermin, you were Hung, Drawn and Quartered.

I say bring back Ye Olde Dayes!

“Ahhhh the Americans amongst us don’t understand the British period…”
What is or was the British period – are we still in it?

This reminds me of something I heard a while back… that some protestant denomination in America decided to start sending some of its missionaries to the US, considering their own country a mission field where people had forgotten God.

I feel like Western Civilization has to start sending its own “missionaries” into its own homelands, such as England: bringing rule of law, truly equal treatment of all people, and the rights of free speech and self-defense. The London I’ve been reading about these past few years, and especially these past few days, bears no resemblance at all to the great capital city that my lovely wife visited years before our marriage. The whole damn place is like one long footy riot, and the police seem a less-effective version of Rowan Atkinson’s fictional precinct.

Just keep your head down and stay as safe as you can, Ms.
Weasel.

And to follow on to nightfly‘s thought, you as well UB. Might want to make sure Ms. Fox is not one of their spies…

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Glad to hear it’s not near y’all as yet. Certainly makes me want to increase the size of my weapons stockpile as I see this coming to the US in the not-to-distant-future. As they say, when seconds count, the police are minutes away.

Hmmm I’m thinking of having a quick trip to the local sporting goods store on my return the the USA.
I am particularly fond of the 22LR pistols that one can puchase in the USA.
They fit and conceal nicely into ones pockets, and are lite-weight.

Does anyone here recommend a good one? I’m after a lite yet robust construction, with considerable accuracy – yet I don’t want cheap and nasty … yet small.