UK riots

[particle-jim]

Oh Bricky. I wonder what area will go next?

Lewisham Bromley

i fucking hope not, i live in bromley and work in deptford!!!

[brettheaslewood]

http://twitpic.com/62m6nx

lol

[LA_Boxers]

just saw this on the guardian website

My colleague Paul Lewis has got hold of one of the BBM messages that was circulating on Blackberry phones last night.

He writes:

It is hard to verify, but multiple sources have sent me this identical message - still, we need to be cautious. If authentic, it explains one of the the less reported (and understood) aspects of last night's disturbances: the appearance of a small numbers of looters in the early hours of the morning in Oxford Circus. I don't know where they came from, but central London is a long way to travel from most residential areas in the capital with no public transport. That puts to rest any doubt that the disturbances are highly organised:

Everyone from all sides of London meet up at the heart of London (central) OXFORD CIRCUS!!, Bare SHOPS are gonna get smashed up so come get some (free stuff!!!) fuck the feds we will send them back with OUR riot! >:O
Dead the ends and colour war for now so
if you see a brother... SALUT!
if you see a fed... SHOOT!
We need more MAN then feds so Everyone run wild, all of london and others are invited! Pure terror and havoc & Free stuff....just smash shop windows and cart out da stuff u want! Oxford Circus!!!!! 9pm, we don't need pussyhole feds to run the streets and put our brothers in jail so tool up,
its a free world so have fun running wild shopping;)
Oxford Circus 9pm if u see a fed stopping a brother JUMP IN!!! EVERYONE JUMP IN Successful Black Man will be lurking about, all blacked out we strike at 9:15pm-9:30pm, make sure ur there see you there. REMEMBA DA LOCATION!!! OXFORD CIRCUS!!!
MUST REBROADCAST TO ALL CONTACTS!!!"

lets make a valid political statement... by stealing some fresh garms!!!

Exactly. This isnt about police brutality or for the memory of some guy. This is about saying fuck the system and causing some shit. The officers they will be coming up against are just doing their jobs, and have nothing to do with the original incident. The police are going to be more scared of them. I have friends who are police officers and they are going to get caught up in this shit, and who knows what might happen to them........all for the sake of some new nike dunks and some topman clothes!! This shit is plain stupid. I reckon 75% of the people that go to Oxford Street wont even know the name of the guy they looting in the name of!!!

[gage]

Oh Bricky. I wonder what area will go next?

Lewisham Bromley

i fucking hope not, i live in bromley and work in deptford!!!

lolol its what ive heard, meant to be on top for lewisham catford brockley and bromley tonight

take a shield to work

[particle-jim]

Oh Bricky. I wonder what area will go next?

Lewisham Bromley

i fucking hope not, i live in bromley and work in deptford!!!

lolol its what ive heard, meant to be on top for lewisham catford brockley and bromley tonight

take a shield to work

if it's that bad i wont even go to work... fuck that

[Gewze]

Oh Bricky. I wonder what area will go next?

Lewisham Bromley

i fucking hope not, i live in bromley and work in deptford!!!

lolol its what ive heard, meant to be on top for lewisham catford brockley and bromley tonight

take a shield to work

if it's that bad i wont even go to work... fuck that

dont be a pussy lets loot 99p store

[cityzen]

It will never get as far as Bromley. Those other places can all burn though... apart from Brockley, they have some absolutely beautiful houses.

[Mr Hyde]

This shit is plain stupid. I reckon 75% of the people that go to Oxford Street wont even know the name of the guy they looting in the name of!!!

Yeah but other than Oxford St, all of the other riots are in the poorer areas, 75% might not know the name of the guy but I reckon 90% of the rioters are poor and from poor backgrounds, if you create a society with huge divides (especially in London) where its hard to move up in life and have capitalism pushed down your throats then this is the sort of thing that happens.

London has £5million gated houses with security guards and sending their kids to £5k a term private schools, less than a mile away from rotting 60's tower blocks with kids going to schools with metal detectors at the doors. Then authorities go on about how totally unacceptable it is that people want to steal shit.

[gage]

dont be a pussy lets loot 99p store

lolol i wanna get morleys in catford, gave my auntie some chicken with pus in it
and 2 weeks later gave me change in some foreign currency

[particle-jim]

dont be a pussy lets loot 99p store

lolol i wanna get morleys in catford, gave my auntie some chicken with pus in it
and 2 weeks later gave me change in some foreign currency

it's all about the ladywell kebab centre really, 8 chicken wings chips and a drink for £2.50!!!

It will never get as far as Bromley.

agreed, tory safe seat... complacency at it's best

[gage]

dont be a pussy lets loot 99p store

lolol i wanna get morleys in catford, gave my auntie some chicken with pus in it
and 2 weeks later gave me change in some foreign currency

it's all about the ladywell kebab centre really, 8 chicken wings chips and a drink for £2.50!!!

It will never get as far as Bromley.

agreed, tory safe seat... complacency at it's best

Yeah i was surprised to hear bromley tbh, though the high street and park is riddled with wronguns (sips tea)

Also, chick chicken in charlton man, 1 pc of chigeon and chips for £1 & end of the night they just give shit away

[sonar]

probably just give the govt an excuse to pass some more big brother laws.

[wub]

Notting Hill Carnival is going to be fun this year.

[Mr Hyde]

Notting Hill Carnival is going to be fun this year.

If I was an aspiring photographer/journalist I'd be between ladbrook grove and kensal rise on that Sunday from 9pm.


.....I'm not though, so I'll be walking in the other direction to get to an afterparty!

[volcanogeorge]

probably just give the govt an excuse to pass some more big brother laws.

This was my first thought, seems altogether counter-productive.

[LA_Boxers]

probably just give the govt an excuse to pass some more big brother laws.

This was my first thought, seems altogether counter-productive.

Apart from the new TV and threads.

[hugh]

probably just give the govt an excuse to pass some more big brother laws.

This was my first thought, seems altogether counter-productive.

seeing as these sort of riots are indicative of a public mood that is no longer content with this Orwellian and economically divided state, I don't think this matters at all actually. It's just the first stepping stone as far as I am concerned.

[JBoy]

What a bunch of idiotic scum. Do they really think theyre stupid little riots will achieve anything. Thank fuck i dont live in london and dont have to deal with disgusting people like that, it pisses me off how people like that complain like: 'oh my areas so shit, my life has been so hard et etc blah blah'. Im sure there is thousands of people from rough areas with underprivaliged backgrounds that have achieved something in life and are doing well for themselves. The whole black card doesnt have any credability in the 21st century.

[cityzen]

^I live in London and I don't have to deal with 'people like that'.
I don't think it's as monochrome as your making it sound, JBoy.

[volcanogeorge]

I'd like to believe that this is indicative of something bigger to come, but looking at the BBM that's been posted above, if there's some kind of mass political disruption brewing, it's not the looters brewing it. I'm inclined to believe that a group with a more clear agenda and slightly more foresight would use this a jumping off point.

I can see the point that fighting people who don't care about the law by making new laws won't work, but it could well lead to further invasion of civil liberties for the average law abiding citizen.