Are the UK rioters 'disaffected poor' or just criminals?

SLIDESHOW: Profile of a British Rioter

• Charles E 2011/08/18 01:58:37
  UK rioters are criminals

  

  The video pretty much says it all.

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• C. Hawkins 2011/08/17 02:43:25
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  I know of no legal provision that allows for the so-called "disaffected poor" to break the law.

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• sweetgreatmom 2011/08/17 02:22:03
  UK rioters are criminals

  

  They are trying to take advantage of a bad situation.

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• Charles E to sweetgr... 2011/08/18 02:00:26
  

  The bad situation is the shopkeepers and police who know they will be criminally charged if they attempt to stop the looting and vandalism.

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• 329ghr 2011/08/15 19:17:04
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  thats what happens when you let every breed of animal become citizens in your country.

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• Myrle Hulme 2011/08/15 08:57:27
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  Hooligans and nasty youngsters that have nothing better to do than draw dole and sit at home

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• Leinad 2011/08/15 04:08:48
  UK rioters are criminals

  

  as they should be WHEN OBVIOUS PILLAGING and LOOTING are present...
  
  PUNKS just disenfranchised from a SAFE and FAIR SOCIETY crap, arrest and try them and if GUILTY, JAIL the SPOILED BRATS of the NEW AGE COMMUNISM..
  
  so cool to be a TOTALITARIAN DESPOT THESE DAYS......
  
  DANGEROUSLY SPOILED and ILL-INFORMED MORONS.."ingrates"

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• Bureauc 0webama 2011/08/14 15:58:15
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  I am waiting for a politician to step forward with the cajones to say the things the man in the vid said so well.

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• hasher 2011/08/14 14:01:41
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  dissafected poor my ass!!! theyre simply using that as an excuse to behave like idiots.

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• jeri 2011/08/14 04:33:40
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  People that are starving may take what they need thats true- yet they sure don't detroy personal property and hurt innocent people for no reason at all

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• Maria R 2011/08/14 03:17:03
  UK rioters are criminals

  

  The reason for this happening was sent to me by a former exchange student who is living in London http://www.dailymail.co.uk/de...

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• johnnie.prewett 2011/08/14 01:09:58
  UK rioters are criminals

  

  They are criminals,.... however the rioters are not the only criminals. And in the big picture scheme of things, not the worst of criminals. Just among the most blatant/prominent at the moment.

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• cat 2011/08/13 22:41:58
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  They are no better than the illegals in the U.S. They are all criminals.

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• David 2011/08/13 22:18:16
  UK rioters are criminals

  

  ROE for dealing with rioters/looters ought to be "Shoot to kill." But, in the place that Britain has become, such a sensible is impossible.
  
  “Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide.” — James Burnham

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• Night71 2011/08/13 20:59:25
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  Whites turning black?
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

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• mzemma 2011/08/13 20:45:08 (edited)
  UK rioters are disaffected poor

  

  In other countries (and they have FREE education and health care - well not totally free they pay taxes, you know like tax payers in the USA do, only they demand free benefits in return - USA tax payers have been brainwashed not too expect anything in return for paying taxes) tax payers riot when they do not get decent paying jobs, or if they think they are not being treated fairly or if gov't or busn or corrupt.. they Protest.....we are limp noodles. In those countries the gov't, busn or agreed of the people, in the USA the people are afraid of the gov't and crooked busn

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• hasher to mzemma 2011/08/14 14:06:21
  

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  the reason doesnt matter, there is no excuse for behaving like a total idiot and destroying property that isnt yours.

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• Charles E to hasher 2011/08/18 02:03:49
  

  Not a reason. It's an excuse. Other than the wording I agree with you.

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• kick2head 2011/08/13 20:30:51
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  They are criminals plain and simple.

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• Josef 2011/08/13 20:29:32
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  Of course they are criminals, but this is too easy. There must be something more wrong, if so many people become rioters day-to-day.

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• seasba 2011/08/13 20:24:15
  UK rioters are disaffected poor

  

  People forget what started these protests, the government in England breaking the law. You have to fight fire with fire.

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• kick2head to seasba 2011/08/13 20:30:12
  

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  They didn't fight fire with fire, they acted hypocritically by attacking the people they claimed they where rioting to protect. To have fought fire with fire, they would have had to attack only the authorities who they saw as the perpetrators of injustice.

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• seasba to kick2head 2011/08/14 01:21:05
  

  Most of the violence was destroying property, you know why that's important? Because in England the government will pay back the people for any property destroyed in a riot.

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• Night71 to seasba 2011/08/13 21:00:37
  

  Mark Duggan obviously broke many laws.

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• hasher to seasba 2011/08/14 14:05:21
  

  so what? thats no excuse for destroying something that isnt yours. thats just them acting like idiots.

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• ScottyG - Faqueue 2011/08/13 20:23:02
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  Their economy is doing bad and now they are taking away free programs and making them pay!
  
  Well, nothing in life is free, so get off your dead asses and work for a change!

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• McCate 2011/08/13 20:09:18
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  you break the law its a crime, makes no difference of what economic, social class you are. If a rich man murders and rapes a woman he should go to jail and face the death penalty as a poor man. Justice is blind.

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• Daedalus 2011/08/13 20:02:32 (edited)
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  I found it interesting that the police were told to stand down early on when they may have been able to keep it under wraps. Also, social media was used during the London riots to further incite and stoke the rioting.
  
  Something dirty happened there.

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• Creative 2011/08/13 19:09:27
  UK rioters are disaffected poor

  

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  NONE OF THE ABOVE. Just the result of some really bad social engineering policies.

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• big bobber to Creative 2011/08/13 19:37:04
  

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  no it should be a wake up call for us this is what happens when you become a socialistic entitlement country and every body want the feds to feed you and wipe your butt then you go broke cause nobody wants to work or has too then when your broke and cant give themwhat they want they riot because they think they are entitled to if for life this is happening all over the world expecially in europe and if we dont change around to what we were meant to be a free market country that requires you to earn and work for everyhthing we will end up like this also...this is the path obama and the lib congress are leading us down and too many people cont care as long as they get their welfare check and free healthcare etc...

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• Creative to big bobber 2011/08/13 20:51:47
  

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  Thanks for defining bad social engineering policies.

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• big bobber to Creative 2011/08/16 21:51:47
• Creative to big bobber 2011/08/17 01:44:56
  

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  When did I say we did?

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• Jane 2011/08/13 18:59:52
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  Why is this suddenly the 'liberal narrative'? That's just blind prejudice, each political side is made up of a variety of people with a variety of views, this sounds like it's meant to be a point about the riots, not a chance to score cheap shots.
  However, I'll quote the leader of the Liberal Democrat UK party: "No excuse whatsoever."

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• Marek 2011/08/13 18:57:12
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  U.K. rioters are rich kids seeking thrills, regular criminals, thieves using the unrest to get what they want, young people easily manipulated to support leftist causes and hard core marxists who manipulate them. All that is designed to trigger bloody revolution in order to destroy existing system.

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• Harley Quinn 2011/08/13 18:44:41
  UK rioters are disaffected poor

  

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  Well it's half and half truthfully....

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• big bobber to Harley ... 2011/08/13 19:38:50
  

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  by choice because they have been an entitlement socialist government for too long and these people for generations have never ever had to work and now that they have bankrupted their country and they cant keep paying themthey riot instead of working..watch out we are heading this way now,.,..

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• Harley ... to big bobber 2011/08/14 06:04:17
  

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  My sister and I were talking about how close we are to getting riots too...it's sad ;/

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• Pedro Doller ~POTL-PWCM~JLA 2011/08/13 18:28:46 (edited)
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  If they are disaffected poor, they need to be moved to refuge camps in Dafur.

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• karmazopa khandro 2011/08/13 18:23:15
  UK rioters are criminals

  

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  a mountain of gold is not enough to satisfy one greedy looter !!! throw them all under the bus !!!

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