And now we read of the ‘man who sparked riots’ in 2011 telling us it could ‘happen again.’
Well, yes, it could, but not if the government makes it very clear there will – for a change- be consequences.
The lesson should have been taught them thirty years earlier, after the riots when PC Blakelock lost his life to an evil mob.
0000000000

000
Had Maggie listened to Oliver Letwin, rather than that wet weasel Heseltine, things might have been put right.
“Lower-class, unemployed white people lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale; in the midst of the depression, people in Brixton went out, leaving their grocery money in a bag at the front door, and expecting to see groceries there when they got back.
—————————–

- ………………………………………..
- “Riots, criminality and social disintegration are caused solely by individual characters and attitudes. So long as bad moral attitudes remain, all efforts to improve the inner cities will founder.”
——
But millions were pumped in and thirty years later, it was made manifest that bribery doesn’t work. The savages went rioting again.
The obvious consequence for any savage who runs amok should be a bullet in the brain, a ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy that would restore law and order inside 24 hours if applied wherever outbreaks of mayhem occur.
Incredibly, a convicted malignant called Mark Knox-Hooke (where do these louts get their double-barrelled names!?!) is described as one of the stars of a new film…that explores the root causes of anger and alienation in the community – not bad for a jail-bird who appears to have, like the post-French Revolution Bourbons, learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

Scumbag extraordinaire –
Knox-Hooke was also caught on CCTV kicking police cars and holding up the shutters of the Paradise Gems Jewellery store as rioters burgled it and burnt it to the ground. https://www.pappzd.com/2012/11/tottenham-riots-london-riots-uk-riots/
========================================
- Knox-Hooke makes this absurd, arrogant declaration.
“…my fight was towards the police. The riots could happen again. If you oppress a people for too long, eventually they’ll want to stand up to you. Because they look at it like,
‘We ain’t got nothing to lose’.’
===========

- ———————–
- They would have their lives to lose, if law enforcement was properly equipped, with the right weaponry and authority to use it.
But sensible measures are unlikely, given the police personnel quoted.
‘To see that burning bus, to see crowds, to see officers who were fearful, it was a completely disturbing image, a disturbing time,’ said Commander Mak Chishty, the Met’s hate crime lead, who was area commander for north London during the 2011 riots. http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/europe/2016/08/06/man-who-sparked-riots-says-it-could-repeat.html
Disturbing?
A wake-up call, more like, as to the menace of undesirables, so unlike the decent people who went through years of hardship and unemployment in the inter-war years and did not resort to foul lawlessness. Letwin knew that, saw that, said that, but was subsequently coerced into a pitiful apology.
And for sure, Chishty is hardly a man to rely on, a man whose men were cowed by the rabble, but whom we can’t blame because that clown Chishty didn’t give them the high-powered guns they could have used to put the scum to flight.
And now he’s the go-to guy for the nonsense offences called ‘hate-crimes?’ Are there no real cops in the upper ranks of the Met these days?
Like this:
Like Loading...
JazPen 10:24 on August 27, 2020 Permalink |
Morning, Ross. I sympathise with you on the workman issue. A lot of my neighbours in Jakarta rise at dawn. They don’t appreciate the advantages of WFH.
I watched the BBC World News after I read your comments on it and you are correct.
I also noticed, never used to notice but more alert these days, that on their news at the top of the hour that they now refer to Blake as a ‘black man,’ but not an ‘unarmed black man.’
A reality check? Then they switched to the Sports News and the little man there went back to the ‘unarmed’ script.
Hopeless!
LikeLike