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Offline wombatie

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English Riots
« on: August 10, 2011, 01:57:57 am »
I have just heard that riots have broken out in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich.  I was born in West Bromwich so I still have family and friends there and I am just heart broken for them.  My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the innocent people caught up in this mayhem.

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Re: English Riots
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2011, 11:47:27 pm »
Hi Marg,
Sorry to hear about the famliy over there.  I seen in the paper that they have increased the law enforcement by adding over a 1000 more police.  I will be praying for you family to be alright.

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Re: English Riots
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2011, 04:51:57 am »
Hey!

The riots have been going on since Friday.
They came up after a peaceful demonstration after a young man got shot by the police under unclear circumstances.

To understand what's going on there you'd have to know some facts:
-Policeman in England are not armed in general. So it must have been some special action going on there in which the man got shot.
- Also do have British citizens no ID-card. So a lot of illegal emigrants want to live in England.
- England currently has a high unemployment rate on young people.

The riots started in the workers suburbans of London. The police had quite some problems - because they do not have water cannons and do not use teargas in general too. So there is not much to get the crowd under control.

I think they will bring it back under control the next days/nights. It's not pretty at all.

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Re: English Riots
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2011, 08:36:56 pm »
making "concealed carry" not such a radical idea in this country
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Re: English Riots
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2011, 02:48:58 am »
Hummm
In the workers suburbs, fancy that!
I'll bet none of them were egged on by any union organizers. Naw that would never happen.
Would it?

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