08-10-2011, 08:57 AM
Greetings all,
I live in Britain and have been watching the events of the last week with concerned interest.
One omission from this discussion that I feel is pertinent is what started this current wave of unrest...
Almost a week ago a man was shot and killed by the police in London, with the police changing their accounts of the events leading to this man's "murder" numerous times, the man in question may well have been "coke dealing scum" to paraphrase a friend of mine, and may well have been armed, but the IPCC have determined that the dead man did not fire a shot and therefore I would ask you this:
Did he deserve to be executed?
The family and friends held a peaceful protest at their local London police-station and waited for 5 hours for some answers from anyone - but none was offered - and it was after this lack of response to reasonable questions that eventually led to the disturbances that have now spread across England.
Of course I am not attempting to excuse pointless violence, looting and destruction - BUT - the fact remains that the police do routinely harass "ethnic minorities", not only in London, but across Britain, and I am certain that this situation is at least a contributing factor to the unrest we have witnessed in recent days!
I hope that the actions of the "criminal underworld" creating so much destruction are curtailed by the authorities - because if they aren't - we may well end up with Martial law - and then we're all screwed!!!
This is a complicated situation, with complex reasons for its existence, but I feel that it erroneous to simply attribute all of this unrest to criminals bent on destruction and theft!
I sincerely hope that the situation is brought under control sooner rather than later - for everyone's sake!
Jim
I live in Britain and have been watching the events of the last week with concerned interest.
One omission from this discussion that I feel is pertinent is what started this current wave of unrest...
Almost a week ago a man was shot and killed by the police in London, with the police changing their accounts of the events leading to this man's "murder" numerous times, the man in question may well have been "coke dealing scum" to paraphrase a friend of mine, and may well have been armed, but the IPCC have determined that the dead man did not fire a shot and therefore I would ask you this:
Did he deserve to be executed?
The family and friends held a peaceful protest at their local London police-station and waited for 5 hours for some answers from anyone - but none was offered - and it was after this lack of response to reasonable questions that eventually led to the disturbances that have now spread across England.
Of course I am not attempting to excuse pointless violence, looting and destruction - BUT - the fact remains that the police do routinely harass "ethnic minorities", not only in London, but across Britain, and I am certain that this situation is at least a contributing factor to the unrest we have witnessed in recent days!
I hope that the actions of the "criminal underworld" creating so much destruction are curtailed by the authorities - because if they aren't - we may well end up with Martial law - and then we're all screwed!!!
This is a complicated situation, with complex reasons for its existence, but I feel that it erroneous to simply attribute all of this unrest to criminals bent on destruction and theft!
I sincerely hope that the situation is brought under control sooner rather than later - for everyone's sake!
Jim
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