Police lose control of London’s streets for THIRD night…
Riots spread across UK…
MAP…
Rioters rob people on street, force them to strip naked…
Cameron cancels vacation, recalls Parliament…
Plans to triple police…
Gloves to come off, water cannons to come out…
‘Possible’ will use plastic bullets…
IOC frets about 2012 Olympics…
GUARDIAN LIVE…
What a complete shock. The far left is cheering on the rioters in London.
David Thompson reported:
Laurie Penny – who of course has “no problem with principled, thought-through political ‘violence’” – is telling her readers: “Violence is rarely mindless. The politics of a burning building, a smashed-in shop or a young man shot by police may be obscured even to those who lit the rags or fired the gun, but the politics are there.”
…Elsewhere, while Mothercare burned to the ground and female fire-fighters were dragged from their vehicles and punched insensible, a number of leftist anti-cuts groups announced their “solidarity” with the thugs, thieves and predators. “London,” we learn, “is the world’s biggest Black Bloc.” While student “activist,” chronic liar and Independent blogger Jody McIntyre was busy using his new media profile to urge further rioting and arson. No doubt the Indie, the Guardian and the New Statesman will be swollen with pride at the doings of their latest protégé. But remember, people. As the Guardian’s Priyamvada Gopal told us recently, setting fire to occupied buildings – resulting in this – isn’t “real” violence. Not when compared to “hypocritical language.”