'Riot will always be the best day of my life'
vast minority | 05.12.2011 19:52
"I WAS actually doing it. I felt alive, there's no word to explain it. It was like that first day it happened will always be the best day of my life for ever."
This is just one of the comments from English rioters recorded in a new study by the Guardian and the London School of Economics.
Says the paper: "Hundreds of interviews with people who took part in the disturbances which spread across England in August revealed deep-seated and sometimes visceral antipathy towards police."
The findings cut through all the propaganda about criminals and gangs to reveal the obvious truth about the uprisings - they were directed at the police and everything they represent.
And the authorities will be scared witless to hear that thousands of the rioters are up for doing it all again - soon!
Reports The Guardian: "An overwhelming majority of people interviewed about their involvement in this summer's riots believe they will be repeated and one in three said they would take part in any future disorder, a study by the Guardian and the London School of Economics shows.
"Of the 270 questioned in the Reading the Riots study, 81% said they believed the disturbances that spread across England in August 'would happen again'. Two-thirds predicted there would be more riots before the end of 2014.
"Despite more than 4,000 riot-related arrests, and harsher than average sentences in the courts, many of those interviewed said they did not regret their actions."
Some other comments:
"For the record: yeah, I do hate the fucking police ... I was caught up in the situation. And it was like: let's cause fucking chaos – let's cause a riot."
"I think the looting came about because it was linked to police. We're showing them that, yeah, we're bigger than the police, we are actually bigger than the police. Fair enough, we are breaking the law and everything, but there's more of us than there are of you. So if we want to do this, we can do this. And you won't do anything to stop us."
"I just see bottles flying. I've never seen police so scared before – it was like they had no control whatsoever. Like even the police cars, the police vans, they was just throwing rocks at them."
"It felt good, that police car – it felt really good [she torched it]. Especially when my friend took the radio and started saying all this hullabaloo over the radio and confusing them and all that. It was fair for us to do that."
‘It felt like I was part of a revolution, showing these stupid police that, you know, they’re not invincible’
http://vastminority.blogspot.com/2011/12/riot-will-always-be-best-day-of-my-life.html
Says the paper: "Hundreds of interviews with people who took part in the disturbances which spread across England in August revealed deep-seated and sometimes visceral antipathy towards police."
The findings cut through all the propaganda about criminals and gangs to reveal the obvious truth about the uprisings - they were directed at the police and everything they represent.
And the authorities will be scared witless to hear that thousands of the rioters are up for doing it all again - soon!
Reports The Guardian: "An overwhelming majority of people interviewed about their involvement in this summer's riots believe they will be repeated and one in three said they would take part in any future disorder, a study by the Guardian and the London School of Economics shows.
"Of the 270 questioned in the Reading the Riots study, 81% said they believed the disturbances that spread across England in August 'would happen again'. Two-thirds predicted there would be more riots before the end of 2014.
"Despite more than 4,000 riot-related arrests, and harsher than average sentences in the courts, many of those interviewed said they did not regret their actions."
Some other comments:
"For the record: yeah, I do hate the fucking police ... I was caught up in the situation. And it was like: let's cause fucking chaos – let's cause a riot."
"I think the looting came about because it was linked to police. We're showing them that, yeah, we're bigger than the police, we are actually bigger than the police. Fair enough, we are breaking the law and everything, but there's more of us than there are of you. So if we want to do this, we can do this. And you won't do anything to stop us."
"I just see bottles flying. I've never seen police so scared before – it was like they had no control whatsoever. Like even the police cars, the police vans, they was just throwing rocks at them."
"It felt good, that police car – it felt really good [she torched it]. Especially when my friend took the radio and started saying all this hullabaloo over the radio and confusing them and all that. It was fair for us to do that."
‘It felt like I was part of a revolution, showing these stupid police that, you know, they’re not invincible’
http://vastminority.blogspot.com/2011/12/riot-will-always-be-best-day-of-my-life.html
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You rioted burned and looted for no reason though!
05.12.2011 20:08
Veteran of the Irish troubles.
Transition between child and adult
05.12.2011 20:37
At that age, generally most people like to go on a mayhem against the 'adults'
The thing is - you grow up and realise its stupid.
Heres one for you - how many of the rioters were 35+ years old?
20 years from now, these rioters will not be rioting.
Basically - its an age thing. That is not a valid excuse, its adults flipping back into the child-like state of throwing toys out of the pram.
anon
@Veteran of the Irish troubles
05.12.2011 21:22
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some1
The NI strawman
05.12.2011 23:15
" To stay that the recent riots which swept mainland Britain were similar to our fight back in Northern Ireland is totally laughable."
Only nobody said it, did they?
ACAB
@Veteran of the Irish troubles
06.12.2011 00:59
anon
@Veteran of the Irish troubles
06.12.2011 08:39
Aunty Christ
Age unimportant
06.12.2011 08:47
anon
MESSAGE TO COPS - MORE THAN 27,000 ESCAPED ARREST
06.12.2011 09:00
Then the police held back on steaming in for several days, to make sure the riots really took hold, and (without excusing any of the anti-social crimes that took place during the riots) to make sure the communities suffered as much damage as possible. Some pundits said that if the riots had been political, rather than purely criminal opportunism, then the rioters would have attacked police stations and public buildings, while in fact 5 police stations were targetted in Nottingham alone (the BBC said that "More than 90 people have been arrested following a night of riots in Nottingham in which five police stations were attacked. Stations in The Meadows, Bulwell and St Ann's were targeted, while Canning Circus station was set alight after fire bombs were thrown at the building").
I can't find any figures for how many people rioted over all, but The Daily Telegraph says that "data from Scotland Yard also emerged that appeared to show as many as 30,000 people were involved in looting, arson and criminal damage during rioting", just "in London", and if 3,000 people were jailed, that means, nationwide, alot more than 27,000 people got away scot-free, and NEXT time I don't think many people will be stupid enough not to cover their faces.
So, cops monitoring Indymedia, you KNOW the vast majority of offenders got clean away, the way to stop your people getting hurt next time is NOT to brutalise any more protestors and NOT to kill any more members of the public (even if they are petty criminals)
Physics
You don't know what oppression means!
06.12.2011 09:54
In Ulster Catholics thousands were detained, beaten and interrogated on suspicion of being involved in nationalist paramilitary groups. The vast majority of those arrested, detained and interrogated were totally innocent of any involvement in paramilitary groups.
The British army was just as bad, they would sometimes impose curfews on nationalist areas sometimes imprisoning Catholics in their homes for days. They would also seal off and search every house in a Catholic area for weapons, which often resulted in many homes suffering extreme damage as floor boards were ripped up and home taken apart in the searches.
Furthermore we never looted any shops when we rioted. We knew that shops were owned by ordinary hard working people and had nothing against them. We also knew that destroying our own areas would only bring more hardship for ourselves so we restricted rioting to stoning and petrol bombing the security forces in oder to drive them out.
Also once we had driven out the security forces we patrolled and policed our own areas stopping anti-social crimes. Many of the punishments meted out to criminals were barbaric and extreme such as punishment beatings and punishment shootings We don't deny that and we are not proud of that but we were men and women of law, order and justice.
Finally we wanted peace, we wanted an end to the troubles we were prepared to negotiate with the other side. We would have got peace in 1974 had the loyalists accepted the new power sharing executive. We would also have got peace in 1986 had the loyalist accepted the Anglo Irish agreement.
Unlike us you rioters in mainland Britain have not put forward any political demands. You have not drawn up a list of grievances. You have looted shops to satisfy personal greed, you have burned out ordinary peoples cars out of sheer spite, you have violently attacked innocent passersby.
Veteran of the Irish troubles
@Veteran of the Irish troubles
06.12.2011 10:26
Get over it
From Britain to Greece No Justice No Peace Fight the Police
06.12.2011 12:56
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i loved that quote...
06.12.2011 17:06
haha, yeah howcomes every rioter i've spoken to claimed they only looted shops of big brands, if that was the case, most of Oxford street should of been looted empty, and not a single family run bussiness touched!
joe blogs
Reply to 27,000 escaped arrest.
06.12.2011 18:47
Police spokesperson
reply to police spokesperson
06.12.2011 19:41
To everyone else: don't be panicked by police scare tactics. Fear is their biggest weapon.
V
in solidarity
06.12.2011 20:35
happy days
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Yeah...
06.12.2011 20:52
Dan Factor
Send in the camels.
06.12.2011 21:45
Bankster
Dan Factor
06.12.2011 23:56
Or maybe they weren't? Maybe you're just a reactionary sod who can't tell the difference?
The major hits were taken by chainstores and the businesses that leech of the poor.
Try reading the Guardian reports and understanding them.
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