tottenham rioters burn resident's homes
concerned resident | 07.08.2011 11:06
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picture of burning bus
07.08.2011 12:12
this is not good anarchism
anarchist
details? evidence? anything?
07.08.2011 12:16
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How many definitions can you provide?
07.08.2011 12:34
I feel better to have police control and organized world than an anarchist community consisting of few thousand people who know what it is and a thousand communities made of addicts, fascists, terrorists and thieves surrounding it.
Post-anarchist or anarchist within
evidence
07.08.2011 12:47
pictures in news. interviews with residents in news. stop being lazy and having to be spoon fed. its on the internet and you should easily find it
agree with other commenter - anarchists cant force everyone to become an anarchist
jobsworth
new anarchists
07.08.2011 12:48
bah you lame wankers you want every one to conform to ure version on anarchy!
BAH i say!
this is sooooo preverlant in the climate change "movment"
Bus SMUSH Working CLASS blerking blass Climate change blimate blange
who gives a shit!
old skool
loser at life
07.08.2011 12:53
old skool
knob head. i'll take wild stab in dark that you've been in prison a lot and you are poor?
and that you have a massive chip on your shoulder about it and how it is 'everyone else fault'.
who gives a shit!
new school
Aren't we missing the point?
07.08.2011 13:24
So their dissent may be instinctive rather than pre-meditated, and untamed rather than managed and confined to moralistic limitations of 'right and wrong', but we should think to the un-manageability of this eruption of violence as a strength and not as something that we can dismiss cos 'we know better'. No-one is denying that it isn't shit for the people who's houses got burnt, and that should not be dismissed as mere collateral damage, and of course what happened should be critiqued, but to overshadow the value of this expression of rage by focussing solely on the people who unfortunately got caught up in it against their will is just taking on a role of moralistic superiority that is badly missing the point. We can't always try to manage and confine people's rage against their daily oppression into the confines of moralistic parameters set by some ideologue. . This isn't about ideology or a certain prescribed politik, it's about FUKKING RIIIOOOOOOT
phoolan
The Rule of the Mob in Tottenham
07.08.2011 13:38
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sorab-shroff/the-rule-of-the-mob-in-to_b_920369.html
As I write, I can still smell the smoke and the helicopters buzzing atop. I live in Tottenham and have for fourteen years now. As I returned home on Saturday night, our bus was abuzz with worries about whether our partners and friends - whom we were returning to - were safe. We could see a police cordon and behind that, familiar buildings surrounded by flames with young men, faces covered, leading a stand-off.
Tottenham is one of the most deprived boroughs in the country. I live streets away from where eight-year-old Victoria Climbié died because of her abusive guardians. A few years ago, Ikea opened up at the edge of Tottenham, with a deep discount on the first day. It became a scene of a stabbing over sofas. A few years ago, my partner and I were beaten up, yards from my home by several thirteen year old boys and girls.
No doubt, once more, some commentators will come out blaming "deprivation and poverty" for these riots. I reject this view completely. I grew up in India, where there is real, abject poverty - families without homes, food, shoes. Anger about a fatal police shooting does not necessitate burning buses and looting shops. This view is also unfair to the many, many families in Tottenham and elsewhere, who live on a tiny income and never once think about going out and ruining our public streets. I just received a phone call from an elderly Jamaican lady, who misdialled her daughter's number and connected to me. All she cared about speaking to her daughter, making sure she was safe. She doesn't want to burn cars and shops to make a point.
The actions of this small, but significant group tarnishes the entire area and it shouldn't. My area of Tottenham is one of the most diverse in Europe, from Holocaust refugees to Eastern Europeans.
Every day, when I sit at my bus stop, overlooking the spot in Tottenham where those kids kicked and punched my partner to the ground, I know whose side I am on. Not on the side of those who think looting widescreen TV's from shops is a way to express a view, but on the side of the ordinary resident - the Turkish hairdresser, the takeaway owner, all of us who choose not to allow the rule of the mob to triumph over the rule of law.
Rioters-need-caning
reports are that some homes have been looted.
07.08.2011 14:29
pre terror regime indian
i assume that is some sick reference to the gay indian's post above?
Fuck off back to stormfront you sicko
feel sorry for the innocent residents who have lost their homes
on the ground
Real Thugs Wear Suits and Uniforms
07.08.2011 14:36
This eruption of anger and aggression was a symptom of a sick society and we can expect more. Those responsible may not be well educated but they know they have been screwed by the state and ignored by the 'middle classes' who don't want to venture out of their comfort zones to deal with these festering problems.
While I don't agree with what has happened, I do understand that it was inevitable.
Klamber