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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Colonol Dekker on August 08, 2011, 01:24:44 pm

Title: Lewisham does what Lewisham does best!!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 08, 2011, 01:24:44 pm

http://m.mirror.co.uk/article?a=m4:23330086

Whoop!!

Title: Re: Lewisham does what Lewisham does best!!
Post by: StarSlayer on August 08, 2011, 01:28:05 pm

Why are they rioting?

Title: Re: Lewisham does what Lewisham does best!!
Post by: Grizzly on August 08, 2011, 01:55:19 pm

Someone got shot and killed. Same as in Paris a few years back.

For the pyrophiles. (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/london_riots.html)

Title: Re: Lewisham does what Lewisham does best!!
Post by: FireSpawn on August 08, 2011, 03:56:58 pm

London, I am disappoint.
 :arrr:

Title: Re: Lewisham does what Lewisham does best!!
Post by: Flipside on August 08, 2011, 04:02:04 pm

I'm in Enfield, and am old enough to remember the Poll Tax riots.

This isn't rioting, it started out with some anger in Tottenham, but now it's just bandwagon jumping and an excuse to smash-raid shops. There was genuine anger on the streets during the Poll Tax riots, even those who weren't involved pretty much understood why it was happening, but this? No-one even really knows why they are doing it this time round.

Personally, I think that what we're seeing here is more a product of bored disaffected youth with little chance of a bright future than any 'statement' being made.

Title: Re: Lewisham does what Lewisham does best!!
Post by: headdie on August 08, 2011, 05:00:20 pm

I read a few articles on Yahoo, its reads like general anarchism but there is little from the "protesters" side

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fresh-violence-erupts-streets-london-161218313.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/in-pictures-london-riots-1312800593-slideshow/

I can understand the origional protest in anger of the shooting but as flipside says it has gone beyond that now