 Originally Posted by Exatreides
From one of the things i read, this was sparked partially by a police killing. if rubber bullets are used and someone is killed (which can happen very easily with rubber bullets) wouldn't that only exacerbate things?
A suspected gang member, so I've heard, and possibly something about an operation to deal with illegal firearms (perhaps some sort of gangland arms deal?) ... the story seems to be, from what I've heard anyway, is that the guy tried to kill a police officer and was killed in the struggle.
Regardless of that, or anything that wimpy wishy washy Guardian columnists and well-to-do student 'protesters' might say (i.e. the vast minority), there is no political agenda to this thuggery and looting. (Disclaimer, I'm not lumping you in with that lot Exatreides, I would never be so cruel).
It's a bunch of twats who deserve harsh and swift justice, and they've seen a weak response (up until now at least - I hope) and have just gotten into mob mentality and gone out looting and causing untold amounts of destruction. They're not only ruining countless lives of those around them, but they're also destroying their own areas.
Furthermore, they're not protesters. They have no agenda and no grounds for any sort of moral group stance. They're also not impoverished or deprived - if you can organise a riot via Blackberries, you're not fucking deprived. The only people who are actually truly deprived in this country are the homeless and those living in such shockingly terrible conditions, their experiences are used in horrific examples in the Sociology textbooks like I used to read at A-Level.
And another thing - I'm sick of the few morons interview on television who claim that "da yoof are angry abaht their pozishun in loife 'n' tha' they 'ave no prozpekts n' that" ... you know what, practically fucking everybody in my generation (and on either side of it on the cusps) are suffering from diminished prospects. We won't get a state pension by the time we're old enough. Our degrees are damn near meaningless for the most part. We can't afford to move out of the family home and set up on our own, or alternatively live entirely on our own (i.e. not in a rented house shared with 3 or 4 other people, so you're living like a bloody student far beyond your time when you actually lived like a student). Our job prospects coming out of university or high school or college are nothing like they were 30 or 40 years ago when you could walk straight into a job ... now we've got graduates manning the tills at MacDonald's for fuck sake ... ... I could go on, but the point is, there's an entire generation of young people who are facing diminished or very hard prospects at getting their lives off the ground, but we're not all running around like A Clockwork Orange was a documentary or motivational recruitment film! It's only a handful of c**ts - the same handful of c**ts you'll find in all counties of this nation, and indeed, in all countries of this world.
Ugh ... this horrid nonsense is shameful and disgusting, and I look forward to the bastards responsible getting dealt with harshly, and the first stop are the baton rounds - pulled out at least 24 hours too late in my view, if not 48 hours too late ... ... perhaps even 72 hours too late. We should at least be 24 hours ahead of our current position at this stage. At least.
Plus there's the simple issue of - if you don't want to get injured, get off the bloody streets and don't break the law so abundantly like the grotty little fetid turd that you are has been doing. Plain and simple as. If you break into someone's house, you deserve to receive a golf club or a baseball bat (or a shotgun if you're in America) to the back of the head ... likewise, if you're burning cars, looting shops, and destroying innocent people's lives (in your own community!), then you deserve a kick up the arse with a rocket fired from a tank, straight into the English Channel.
/rant
It must be absolutely awful living in the affected areas. I can't even imagine the worry and stress and fear that so many innocent people must be feeling on their own streets - and in their own homes - right now. 
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