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Sky News’ Mark Stone Asks London Rioters: ‘Are You Proud Of What You’re Doing?’

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As violence and riots sweep through sections London, the rest of the western world can only watch stunned. Earlier, we showed you some of the terrifying pictures taken by British photojournalists, but there’s also tons of video, recorded by Londoners on their cell phones and Flip cameras from rooftops and windows. A journalist however, Sky News’ Mark Stone, was brave (foolish?) enough to go right down on the street and record a pretty stunning video as he forces his camera right in the face of a group of looters.

Fortunately for Stone the area he was in (Clapham Junction) doesn’t seem to be, as of his filming, as bad as some other areas we’ve seen footage of. What’s amazing about this video though is seeing him forcing the looters to speak about their actions. He claims not to be a journalist and, sure enough, the anger in his voice makes it clear this isn’t typical objective reporting. “Are you proud of this?” he keeps asking. “We’re getting our taxes back,” the woman yells back.

It’s a pretty stunning clip. Watch from YouTube below:

(h/t The Daily What)

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  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Gee, where’s the furor over the WHITE looters!  

  • Anonymous

    Race card!  *drink*

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    It’s hard to use the word “brave” when he is just politely asking a meek young girl what she is doing in a British accent.  It was more funny/absurd than anything.

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    It’s amazing to me that so much damage has been done and the police are only threatening to use rubber bullets. The Brits need to knock if off with the political correctness and appeasement. The police need to start cracking heads. People who throw flaming petrol should be shot dead. When you throw flaming gasoline at someone it’s because you intend to kill them. Therefore, the police should respond in kind. The rioters know how timid the response to their anarchy will be which is why it continues. It’s time to introduce some American style policing. Those idiots won’t know what hit them.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Give too many Entitlements that you don’t have the money for, then tell them you have to cut their dope to survive and the little entitlement junkies riot. Worked in Greece now Britain so we need some of that kind of fun here! Give me my entitlement dope because I’m entitled!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Entitlement dope does wonders!

  • Darladoon

    what if the government and the wealthy screwed over the taxpayer to such a degree
    that the following ceased to exist:

    *affordable education

    *free and fair elections

    *public transportation

    would you be pissed off?

    what if your landlord quadrupled your rent?

    what if food quadrupled in price?

    what if you had no hope, no future?

    wouldn’t YOU wanna smash the place up?quit blaming “entitlements” you moron!!the workers fought long and hard for those…..why should they give themup, just because of some “crisis” caused by greedy bankers and corruptpoliticians?you’re a fascist, just4thefax, admit it

  • Darladoon

    btw, you can’t compare greece and britain

  • Anonymous

    You are an idiot.  

  • Nature Freak

    What is happening is disgusting and very wrong, but is also complicated as well.

    What is happening is beyond a partisan soundbite. This is the sort of tragic situation that separates statesmen from partisan opportunist.

    Give me a solution beyond “kill them all” or “let them rot for the rest of their life’s in jail.”

    Give me a practical and humane solution. If you do, Nature Freak may actually respect you.

  • Anonymous

    Well aren’t they arguing the Tea Party point of view? Getting their taxes back?

    If the Tea Party could do this to America they would, as long as they got their way in the end. You should get out there and start rioting with your fellow Baggers, you guys can hit liberal hotspots like the library, or a college. 

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know, there’s something wrong about police officers being judge, jury, and executioner… 

  • Anonymous

    One might have asked the same thing to the rioters at the Wiconsin state fair this week. You have a choice today Wisconsin, more excuses, or decisive well thought out action. The choice is yours. Vote progressives out.

  • Anonymous

    Breaking story on MSNBC….

    Sarah Palin put up a targeted map of London on her web site….

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    *affordable education – the government pays for education there. They’re demanding the students chip in becuase it’s too expensive to send everyone.

    *free and fair elections – still there.Nothing to do with “the rich.”

    *public transportation – still there. Nothing to do with “the rich.”

    would you be pissed off? – At big-government statists who shackled the society to their political wagon, sure.

    what if your landlord quadrupled your rent? – Find another apartment.

    what if food quadrupled in price? – Nothing to do with “the rich.” See: Energy prices, bad agri policy.

    what if you had no hope, no future? – Whose fault is that? “The Rich?” Surely, setting the city on fire will increase the chances that you’ll have “hope” and a “future.”

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    *affordable education – the government pays for education there. They’re demanding the students chip in becuase it’s too expensive to send everyone.

    *free and fair elections – still there.Nothing to do with “the rich.”

    *public transportation – still there. Nothing to do with “the rich.”

    would you be pissed off? – At big-government statists who shackled the society to their political wagon, sure.

    what if your landlord quadrupled your rent? – Find another apartment.

    what if food quadrupled in price? – Nothing to do with “the rich.” See: Energy prices, bad agri policy.

    what if you had no hope, no future? – Whose fault is that? “The Rich?” Surely, setting the city on fire will increase the chances that you’ll have “hope” and a “future.”

  • marsm2

    GIven the chance everyone of those looters would have voted for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party would never lower themselves to the point where they destroy other’s private property.  This is something Obama voters and union thugs do.  Have you seen the messes they leave when they have a gathering?  Did you see the capital building in WI?  The Tea Party will continue to make changes at the ballot box, not through intimidation.  Just because you don’t agree with their ideology, doesn’t mean you should just make things up and assign false motives to them.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    What they’re showing us is a clear picture of where the “progressives” are leading societies around the world with their policies.

    Riots, violence, mobs, arson, vandalism, and chaos.

  • CaptRealEstate

    ……and liberals started biting off the fingers of the rioters…..

  • Miljanamandich

    Reverse immigration policy and welfare. But its probably too late. The West has commutted cultural suicide.

  • laughing@libs

    Yeah…………………..right……………..  This is progressive strategy 101.  Class warfare, public dissent, destruction of others property, “if they have a knife, bring a gun” stuff straight out of the annointed ones mouth.  Snowspot you have drunk the kool-aid like a good little liberal and are spouting off the media talking points like the good little unthinking sheep that you are……    What a dolt…….

  • Farnsworth

    The only post so far that isn’t standard ‘us vs them’  insular claptrap. The rest of you should probably consider shutting up.

  • Miljanamandich

    The Tea Party is the exact opposite of these human excrements

  • Anonymous

    I thnk the Tea Party is incredibly dangerous and will turn this country into a third world country if left to their own devices. Instead of looking back in the future and saying “wow I wish someone just did something instead of letting the loudmouth idiots ruin the country”, I’d rather call them out on there crap now. Not only that, I will spell out exactly every feeling going through a Tea Partiers head as he stands up for the ultra-rich instead of the average citizen, so everyone can understand the complete cluster**** that is a Tea Partiers thought process.

  • Farnsworth

    You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.

  • Michelle

    NO they aren’t, here’s a quote from one of the liberal thugs:

    “This is the uprising of the working class. We’re redistributing the wealth,”Nice try, though!!

  • Michelle

    Liberals are against pulling their own weight.  They think everything should be handed to them.

  • Jciesielsk

    Snowspot….
    I am a member of the tea party and I can assure you we would not stoop so low….if you even followed the tea party and it’s gatherings you would see that there have never been many if any arrests at our protests, contrast that with leftist protests. There little if any garbage left behind at the protests, contrast that with leftist protests. By and large WE are the law abiding ones. WE are the respectful ones. Our major way of getting our taxes back willnbe thru the ballot box when we vote the politicians out who keep wasting them.

    Jim

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    I thnk the Tea Party is incredibly dangerous and will turn this country
    into a third world country if left to their own devices.

    As opposed to the Democrats, who have succeeded in turning every inner-city in America into violence-ridden third-world country, while maintainign that it is their ideas that are actually saving humanity.

    Instead of
    looking back in the future and saying “wow I wish someone just did
    something instead of letting the loudmouth idiots ruin the country”, I’d
    rather call them out on there crap now.

    “Calling them out” by being a shameless Obama flak in a blog comment section? LOL. Carry on.

    Not only that, I will spell out
    exactly every feeling going through a Tea Partiers head as he stands up
    for the ultra-rich instead of the average citizen.

    So you’re a mindreader, huh?

    Here’s what’s rattling around in your head: “I think Obama is a great President and it’s just Fox News and evil teabagging redneck racists that keep him from getting all the credit he really deserves. Anything these dangerous killer teabagger terrorists get is too good for them, and I’d attack them violently if it were legal and I could get away with it unharmed.”

    Wow. That was hard. What a skill you possess.

  • Anonymous

    Then how is the mainstream media liberal? How are they all working? How did the liberals get media control if they are so lazy? Jon stewart is a millionaire, with a show every night… so strange because I think he’s liberal.

    If Republicans are so hard-working, why do 1 in 2 benefit from entitlements? Or does that not jibe with YOUR reality?

    I bet there are more poor Republicans than liberals. And anyone poor that claims to be a liberal, only is one because Republicans basically want to throw poor people in the trash, it’d be crazy if you fell on hard times, were poor, and still voted conservative.. it’d be like voting for people to treat you like crap.

  • Darladoon

    wow!  just f*cking wow! 

    suddenly, we have people pro-actively:

    1.  defending the wealthy

    2.  offending the poor

    now THAT is astonishing

  • Michelle

    And beating black Conservatives. 

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Who are the terrorists and destroyers again?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424

    Two girls who took part in Monday night’s riots in Croydon have
    boasted that they were showing police and “the rich” that “we can do
    what we want”.

    The pair who were drinking wine looted from a local shop at 09:30 BST on Tuesday morning, spoke to the BBC’s Leana Hosea.

    Wow! Sounds just like a teabagger and nothing like a progressive or a leftwinger!

    LOL

    This is what we mean when we say that this rioting, looting and destruction is where the left wants to take our society.

    This is their ideal state of being. Chaos. Crime. Inebriation. Aimless hate. Poverty. No hope.

    Progressivism.

  • Anonymous

    aimless hate, poverty, no hope? Sounds more like your southern poor Tea Beggers.

    The Tea Begger party would like to beg you to not elect a black man again.. didn’t people call him a muslim too? Isn’t that the defintion of aimless hate? You don’t even know what to say about the guy so you just make up stuff? And then act like being muslim is insulting.. YEEEHAWWW u guys are smart.

    Then again, what can you expect for people who lined up to read a book by Sarah Palin.

  • Michelle

    You’re beating your head against a wall Jim.  We know the truth.   99.999% of violence comes from liberals and they know it. 

  • Michelle

    Hey Lora Doon, get a job so you can pay that huge tax bill you have.  Stop living off the gov’t teet!

  • Michelle

    Hey Lora Doon, get a job so you can pay that huge tax bill you have.  Stop living off the gov’t teet!

  • Harry Flashman

    Well said.

    The aimless, mindless, ugly stupidity of the entitled class is on display in London for all to see. By the way, note that this type of thing always happens where the citizens are defenseless, places with strict forearms laws. Like…London and Wisconsin for instance.

    God bless the Second Amendment.  

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately, it was actually a map of France, she’s not very good with this sort of thing.

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately, it was actually a map of France, she’s not very good with this sort of thing.

  • TiredOftheLies

    Snowspot, you’re delusional. The Tea Party is about lowering government spending… period. No matter how you “try” to portray them as something else. They are primarily members of the middle class of the US who work, pay taxes and vote. Have you ever actually been to a Tea Party rally? Try looking at an area where a rally has finished… it is clean, no discarded papers, cans or other garbage on the ground. Now look at the area any liberal group has had a rally at. Garbage strewn everywhere… Members of the Tea Party respect and revere America and know quite clearly what the problems are and how to fix them. Liberals on the other hand are bent on creating a “new” America… In the process of creating this new socialist America, they are killing our country bit by bit.

  • TiredOftheLies

    Snowspot, you’re delusional. The Tea Party is about lowering government spending… period. No matter how you “try” to portray them as something else. They are primarily members of the middle class of the US who work, pay taxes and vote. Have you ever actually been to a Tea Party rally? Try looking at an area where a rally has finished… it is clean, no discarded papers, cans or other garbage on the ground. Now look at the area any liberal group has had a rally at. Garbage strewn everywhere… Members of the Tea Party respect and revere America and know quite clearly what the problems are and how to fix them. Liberals on the other hand are bent on creating a “new” America… In the process of creating this new socialist America, they are killing our country bit by bit.

  • Harry Flashman

    Sorry, that’s “firearms”, not forearms. As far as I know, forearms aren’t illegal anywhere. Yet. At least, until the Obamaites figure out how to regulate them to their advantage.

  • Harry Flashman

    Sorry, that’s “firearms”, not forearms. As far as I know, forearms aren’t illegal anywhere. Yet. At least, until the Obamaites figure out how to regulate them to their advantage.

  • Michelle

    I’ll bet she knows how many states are in the US.

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t bet on it…

  • Anonymous

    We don’t care about the looters, we’re busy worrying about Wisconsin, maybe you guys should be paying attention too XD

  • TiredOfTheLies

    What you’re seeing here is what your people have wrought… If you think members of the Tea Party want America to become a third world party, what are you basing that on? I have no idea why you would think that lowering government spending would harm our country in any way. Ask yourself this question… If you were earning $60,000 dollars a year but had been borrowing money every year, so that you could spend $70,000… How would it hurt you to cut back your spending to $60,000? The lack of logic of those who demonize the Tea Party is staggering.

  • Michelle

    WI, is going just fine, they’ve got a SURPLUS!! 

  • Anonymous

    Are you presenting your justification for being in the streets breaking windows when the riots arrive here? Are you an organizer?

  • Anonymous

    Lol….I am just finding it funny that many Americans here are bringing their own partisan politics into the London riots. The riot started from the peaceful demonstration in Tottenham for the shooting of Mr Duggan, who they believe  was wrongly shot by the police.  Hatred towards the police already exists between the youth in London (probably even worse in Asian and black youth). Mix the shooting, youth unemployment and anger towards the police and this is what you get.

    This has nothing to do with entitlements. The problem is that criminals took advantage of the situation to start looting. Who caused this situation? the government and the police. The government started it by not tackling youth unemployment and rising tuition fees, therefore leaving idle youths to roam the street. The police started it by stopping and searching innocent black  and Asian youths wrongly, even after the shooting.

    Criminals will always look for an opportunity to steal. The govt and police gave us the criminals (idle youth from  unemployment and unaffordable education) and also gave  the opportunity (police discrimination towards youth).

    Its also funny that the police force was stretched- some policemen had to be brought from outside london while the new conservative UK govt has been cutting police jobs.   

     

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I’m entitled and you can’t stop us from what we are entitled too! Progressives cult crap period!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Deep thoughts from darladoon.

    Here in reality, we have people:

    1) Defending the civilized and the productive.
    2) Offending the unemployable entitlement junkies and violent thugs who leech off them.

    I know that confuses you.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Why don’t you provide us with some of your facts professor? Add a few links too!

  • TiredOfTheLies

    Snowspot, ok, you’ve been placed in charge of the response to this rioting… How would YOU handle it?

  • Anonymous

    entitled to what? what a moron.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly! Those rioter thugs are Obama supporters.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: More dope please more more more!!!!!! Piss off! God didn’t promise anything all you get is earned by deads and faith alone!

  • Jp7077

    or……..where’s the fury over the media’s full blown push now to portray this as anything but what it is…….A RACE RIOT…..

  • Jp7077

    or……..where’s the fury over the media’s full blown push now to portray this as anything but what it is…….A RACE RIOT…..

  • Anonymous

    Like Michael Steele? Isn’t he an MSNBC contributor now?

  • Anonymous

    You seem to have your politics confused in your little mind.
    The Tea Party does not care what color you are or the President is – you seem to care a lot.
    The Tea Party is not into demanding more from the government – they want less.
    The Tea Party never called anyone anything – you do, and you did.

    You don’t even know what to say about the Tea Party – so you are smearing and showing your ignorance by confusing all your points.

    You proved how silly and smarmy you really are – keep up the good work there spot.  

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    aimless hate, poverty, no hope? Sounds more like your southern poor Tea Beggers.

    That’s why your rich-hating buddies are the ones burning one of the world’s great cities to the ground becuase they have to chip in to their college tuition. 

    Nope, I think the video and article I linked illustrate your strain and what they are pretty nicely. The Tea Party has NO equivalent.

    The Tea Begger party would like to beg you to not elect a black man
    again.. didn’t people call him a muslim too? Isn’t that the defintion of
    aimless hate? You don’t even know what to say about the guy so you just
    make up stuff? And then act like being muslim is insulting.. YEEEHAWWW u
    guys are smart.

    And having not made a counter-argument to speak of – perhaps seeing a bit too much of yourself in that riot video for your own comfort – you then resort to calling everyone who disagrees with you a raaaaaaacist.

    Then again, what can you expect for people who lined up to read a book by Sarah Palin.

    And in one comment, you’ve thrown the race card, tried to insult Palin and changed the subject to avoid having to confront your rich-hating brethren in that video.

    Congratulations. The Fail is strong with you.

  • Anonymous

    Just like those peace loving leftist Greeks who riot out of control two to three times a year when the government runs out of money and needs another infusion of German Euros.

  • Anonymous

    I guess you have nothing intelligent to say about what the Pres. said and is doing about our tanking economy.  Focus man, Focus!  Maybe so vitamins will help 

  • Anonymous

    I guess you have nothing intelligent to say about what the Pres. said and is doing about our tanking economy.  Focus man, Focus!  Maybe so vitamins will help 

  • Anonymous

    This article is about the London Riots, what are you talking about?

  • Anonymous

    They’re not taxpayers.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    THE RIOTS ARE EXACTLY IN THE REPUBLICAN/TEATERRORIST PLAN FOR “THEIR” AMERICA! THEY HAVE SET THE STAGE FOR THE HATE TO BOIL OVER! KEEP UP THE BS AND YOU WILL BE SEEING THIS IN AMERICAN STREETS!

  • Anonymous

    Show me an American shithole and I’ll show you a place that Democrats are in charge of.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Liberals are to lazy for college or go to the library just send checks please! Give me gime me!!!

  • Anonymous

    “What we have on the streets of London and elsewhere are welfare-state
    mobs. The youth who are ‘rising up’ – actually they are simply
    shattering their own communities – represent a generation that has been
    more suckled by the state than any generation before it. They live in
    those urban territories where the sharp-elbowed intrusion of the welfare
    state over the past 30 years has pushed aside older ideals of
    self-reliance and community spirit. The march of the welfare state into
    every aspect of less well-off urban people’s existences, from their
    financial wellbeing to their childrearing habits and even into their
    emotional lives, with the rise of therapeutic welfarism designed to
    ensure that the poor remain ‘mentally fit’, has helped to undermine such
    things as individual resourcefulness and social bonding. The
    anti-social youthful rioters look to me like the end product of such an
    anti-social system of state intervention.”

    http://tinyurl.com/3s3tfta

    Read the whole thing. Seriously. Snowspot, have someone read it to you.

  • Anonymous

    The government started it by not tackling youth unemployment and
    rising tuition fees, therefore leaving idle youths to roam the street.

    The government started it by enabling idleness.

  • TiredOfTheLies

    Please provide evidence to your assertion that 1 in 2 Republicans benefit from entitlements. You can’t because it is a false assertion (a polite way of calling you a liar)

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    There are 57 states. Obama said so.

    DUH.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Liberals are like baby birds following their parents yelling with mouths wide open feed me because they are entitled and will not go out and feed themselves until made too!

  • Anonymous

    So poor people riot when the economy goes bad? Then why is the Tea Party making the economy bad on purpose?

    And what is spiked online? Has anyone ever heard of this news source? I know I haven’t.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    “REAL” AMERICANS ARE TAKING NOTICE! THE REPUBLICAN/TEATERRORISTS HAVE BEEN SEEN BY THE WORLD! THESE POSTERS HERE SEEM TO HAVE BLINDERS ON! BEING LEAD AROUND BY THE “JOB CREATORS”!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    They’re tax-eaters.

  • Owl22

    Bottom feeder Limbaugh has already called the rioters Obama voters. LOL

  • Owl22

    Bottom feeder Limbaugh has already called the rioters Obama voters. LOL

  • Anonymous

    Fact: It’s astonishing that minimum wage went up to approx 8 dollars an hour across all of US and when I go thru a fast food joint they screw up my order then can’t count my change back to me properly if in English at all then riot saying I am entitled for higher pay as much as you got and you should pay more taxes on my behalf! Piss off Darladoon!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: It’s astonishing that minimum wage went up to approx 8 dollars an hour across all of US and when I go thru a fast food joint they screw up my order then can’t count my change back to me properly if in English at all then riot saying I am entitled for higher pay as much as you got and you should pay more taxes on my behalf! Piss off Darladoon!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah. A teenager or young adult who is not at school and has no job is a potential criminal. 

    Tell me, who is likely to go looting among these three; an employed person, a student or an idle youth? 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah. A teenager or young adult who is not at school and has no job is a potential criminal. 

    Tell me, who is likely to go looting among these three; an employed person, a student or an idle youth? 

  • Jciesielsk

    Yes they do….I was in DC march 2010 prior to Obamacare vote…..pretty peaceful…was there in 2009 as Well at the 8/28 rally….

    Jim

  • Jciesielsk

    Yes they do….I was in DC march 2010 prior to Obamacare vote…..pretty peaceful…was there in 2009 as Well at the 8/28 rally….

    Jim

  • Anonymous

    It is merely nature, parasites devouring the host.

  • TiredOfTheLies

    Hey Darladoon. I’m middle class, not wealthy… I’m not defending the wealthy, I’m defending the middle class. Your “poor” are hardly held down in America… they are for the most part a bunch of lazy bloodsucking leeches, who would rather sit on their @sses and B!tch than do an honest days work like the rest of us. They expect their fellow citizens to pay for their lifelong vacation through “entitlement” programs. Housing, foodstamps, a little cash in the pocket every month… Meanwhile every hardworking poor person I ever saw ended up NOT being poor. Screw offending the poor, I’m sick and tired of seeing our country finacially destroyed by payouts to these lazy b@stards.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Where on Budget act of 2011 did Tea Party sign? Obama did and he got downgraded!

  • Anonymous

    Soon to be coming to an amerikan city near you courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama ll.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry but the Tea Party owns this downgrade, lock, stock and barrel. 

  • Anonymous

    Please stop your bad habit of using caps.  It doesn’t help your cause.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I’m about too faint I need a fix of more entitlement kool-aid!!! YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Even with this undeniable evidence right in front of you and the facts laid out from one side of the internet to the other, you remain willfully deaf and blind.
    How do you hope to be taken seriously with comments like that?

  • Anonymous

    Entitled just means “not a Republican”, I wouldn’t worry about it, they sound really dumb, lol.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Downgrade was change you can count on!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Downgrade was change you can count on!

  • Anonymous

    There is a continuum for the proper use of force that goes from no force to deadly force, and where you are on the scale depends on the behavior you’re trying to control. When that behavior is lethal, then deadly force is appropriate.

    Why do you think police carry guns?

  • Anonymous

    There is a continuum for the proper use of force that goes from no force to deadly force, and where you are on the scale depends on the behavior you’re trying to control. When that behavior is lethal, then deadly force is appropriate.

    Why do you think police carry guns?

  • Anonymous

    Michele, sorry NOT all of us have had everything handed to us.  Why do you group every one together?  Shows how uninformed you are.   

  • Anonymous

    Michele, sorry NOT all of us have had everything handed to us.  Why do you group every one together?  Shows how uninformed you are.   

  • Anonymous

    You brilliant little wonder – you go meandering and call out someone for calling you out? lol

  • Anonymous

    Those aren’t taxpayers.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Anything I can get for free just like Tax Cheat Tim!!!!!!

  • Nature Freak

    Thank you.

    Many people here do not have a clue about how the world works.

    They prefer to caterwaul. Give us solutions rather than projecting your personal anger.

  • Nature Freak

    Thank you.

    Many people here do not have a clue about how the world works.

    They prefer to caterwaul. Give us solutions rather than projecting your personal anger.

  • Anonymous

    lol…..thanks for the laugh

  • Anonymous

    link please. 

  • Nature Freak

    Farnsworth has an idea what he is talking about. Thank you Farnsworth.
    just4thefax, you do not have to agree, but listening to others is a good thing.

  • Nature Freak

    Farnsworth has an idea what he is talking about. Thank you Farnsworth.
    just4thefax, you do not have to agree, but listening to others is a good thing.

  • Anonymous

    Accuse the middle class of stealing from the rich – after awhile they will.  What do they have to lose?  The conservatives already accuse the middle and lower classes of stealing – so now they decided to show the upper class what stealing is.  Funny, the rich do this on a grand scale and we sing the praises of capitalism…

  • Anonymous

    Accuse the middle class of stealing from the rich – after awhile they will.  What do they have to lose?  The conservatives already accuse the middle and lower classes of stealing – so now they decided to show the upper class what stealing is.  Funny, the rich do this on a grand scale and we sing the praises of capitalism…

  • Anonymous

    No, that’s Frances Fox-Piven’s plan. http://tinyurl.com/ykwa7nn

    The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward (1926-2001) and Frances Fox Piven (b. 1932) that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system
    in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of
    the welfare system with a national system of “a guaranteed annual income
    and thus an end to poverty”. Cloward and Piven were a married couple
    who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in left-wing[1] magazine The Nation entitled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty”.

    Whoomp, there it is. Annnnnddd….there it goes. Boom.

  • Anonymous

    No, that’s Frances Fox-Piven’s plan. http://tinyurl.com/ykwa7nn

    The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward (1926-2001) and Frances Fox Piven (b. 1932) that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system
    in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of
    the welfare system with a national system of “a guaranteed annual income
    and thus an end to poverty”. Cloward and Piven were a married couple
    who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in left-wing[1] magazine The Nation entitled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty”.

    Whoomp, there it is. Annnnnddd….there it goes. Boom.

  • Nature Freak

    just4thefax,

    It is more complicated than this.

  • Nature Freak

    just4thefax,

    It is more complicated than this.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is sooooo 2008. Tired. Old and busted. No game left. Weak, plaintive and small. Carter with a tan.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    President Downgrade owns this downgrade.

    He inherited a AAA rating – one that every President since it started in 1917 had managed to keep at AAA. On his watch, under his supervision and “leadership,” it was downgraded. For the fist time in our history.

    Congrats.

    You voted for President Downgrade and got what you wanted. Have a cookie.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    President Downgrade owns this downgrade.

    He inherited a AAA rating – one that every President since it started in 1917 had managed to keep at AAA. On his watch, under his supervision and “leadership,” it was downgraded. For the fist time in our history.

    Congrats.

    You voted for President Downgrade and got what you wanted. Have a cookie.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    How’s this new source? Is the BBC credible enough for you?

    Watch as liberals and rich-hating leftists burn London to the ground, and then try whining about Tea Partiers peacefully protesting Obama’s insane attempts to remake our society in their image.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424

  • Anonymous

    I’d rest it too – it’s obviously much too heavy for you.

    Did that rant make sense at some point in your little mind? lol

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Begger party would like to beg you to not elect a black man again..

    Herman Cain is a Tea Party favorite. The NY Tea Party was started by David Webb. Then there’s Lloyd Marcus, Alonzo Rachel, and plenty of other black Tea Party regulars.

    Try again. Or, don’t. You’re only preaching your own hate to yourself, bigot.

  • Anonymous

    Like I said, have someone read it to you. You really suck at it. For instance, you can’t recognize when you’re reading an opinion piece.

  • Anonymous

    I started working when I was 13. When I went to high school, most kids had a job. Not anymore. This is not an improvement.

  • Nature Freak

    It is easy to criticize.
    It is easy to project ones own hatred and disappointments.
    Just because your girlfriend or boyfriend left you does not mean you have to scapegoat.
    The same goes for being passed over and pushed aside for another employee. I have been. It sucks.
    Try not to project.
    Violence is wrong.
    The adult thing is to come up with actual solutions.
    Violence is a dead end.
    Some here need to grow up.
    There are riots. Bad things are happening. We need real life solutions.
    Thank you for the minority of adults here at Mediaite.
    Yes, what I have said is relevant.
    Many deal with anger. I do. We all deal with it differently.
    Have compassion.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Who are the terrorists again? Oh, yeah. It’s the leftwing progressives, liberals and rich-hating class warrior fascists who got told they have to start chipping in.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-1...

    Two girls who took part in Monday night’s riots in Croydon have boasted that they were showing police and “the rich” that “we can do what we want”.

    The pair who were drinking wine looted from a local shop at 09:30 BST on Tuesday morning, spoke to the BBC’s Leana Hosea.

    I know that when I hear drunken looting vandals in the street screaming about “the rich,” I think THOSE DAMNED RICH-LOVING TEABAGGURZZ!!!!lol!!

    Get help, champ.

    http://lolpics.se/pics/47.jpg

  • Lamontagnem88

    Why do you have so much hate towards the Tea Party I am an independent because both parties are equally corrupt and responsible for this debt we have. I mean come on the left uses the poor (for their vote) while the right uses the rich (for their money). Except I don’t understand your logic by calling the Tea Party pro ultra-rich when they are the middle class.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Bunny’s a clinical case in psychological projection.

    It’s sad, really. I worry for unstable people like that.

  • Anonymous

    I love your in-depth analysis thus far:  “It’s more complicated than you think”.  Here’s a newsflash, without giving some evidence or facts backing up that empty bit of rhetoric, you prove that the only person that it’s “complicated” to, is yourself.

  • Anonymous

    I am better than you.
    I’m the smartest man in the room.
    I’m glad others see how smart I am
    Being smart isn’t easy, but I work hard at it.
    I am the only adult who posts here.
    Why are you all such babies.
    When will everyone grow up like me.
    Damn I am sexy.
    Obama sure has a great smile.
    Did I leave my government cheese on the counter.
    Is it almost the 1st of the month, I need some new kicks.
    What am I gonna wear today.
    I sure hope Subway takes EBT.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you tell us how the world works?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    tell the middle class that you need to spread the wealth around, and take from the rich and give to the poor – eventually they will. 

    how is burning people’s homes, and stealing from small shops, and 89 year old barbers *stealing from the rich*. They are just plain ol’ criminals, taking advantage of a situation, and ruining lives, destroying dreams, and hurting their neighbors. 

  • Anonymous

    What Rush states is unremarkable.
    Rush merely stated the obvious. Prognosticators said months ago that this
    very thing would happen in London and around the world. The police
    protest only provided the catalyst.
    I can’t confirm it right now, but I’m sure it was the same class warfare we hear in the US that incited London’s riots.
    We’ve got the far left like Frances Fox Piven and union leaders advocating
    for the riots to start here. You don’t have to be psychic or an expert
    to see that we need to get out in front of this to prevent it.
    Meanwhile, we have a President and other political leaders actively engaging in this same sort of class warfare rhetoric.
    How do we shut them down and unite the people peacefully?

  • Bay46th

    I don’t know. Is he proud of representing the Murdochs, cop bribing, tax cheating and being overpaid. Methinks Mr. Stone is quite proud of the lovely lifestyle his work provides.

  • DEFENDER-90

    What happens if Obama is not re elected NOV /6 / 2012.Will the cities burn?

  • Anonymous

    Typical Tea-begger… gets medicare, welfare and government cheese himself… then complains about entitlements.

    so sad, lol.

  • Anonymous

    Have you heard the tale of Robin Hood? 

    It’s a disney movie… but I guess time has made that movie evil now..

    because now to steal from the rich is a treason of the utmost consequences!

    Or maybe the rich have conditioned you all to feel bad for them as they take your money. Oops.

  • Anonymous

    Nah it’s the Tea-begger looters that are disturbing the peace, they “want their taxes back!” just like you lot. This is what it will be like when Obama is elected again, Tea Beggers rioting, I can’t wait :D

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    not sure if you’ve ever heard of the law, but stealing is illegal. if you want money or things, you get a job, and you buy them. you don’t smash windows, and burn houses down, and steal everything inside. 

    what rich people are taking my money? (besides those in the government)

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Two girls who took part in Monday night’s riots in Croydon have boasted
    that they were showing police and “the rich” that “we can do what we
    want”.

    Hey! Those drunken looting vandals sound like…you!

    What do you think of that?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Obama dropped 3 points last night. Gallup has him at 40%.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

    Here’s a newsflash, snow:

    40% = one term.

  • Anonymous

    does that somehow make sense to you?  

    They either hate or partake.  OK spot – see spot run to the mailbox – gift time!

  • Anonymous

    ahhh you silly goose.  

  • Jerky138

    “Methinks”?   Are you a pirate?

  • Anonymous

    “see spot run to the mailbox – gift time!”

    Fantastic!

  • Anonymous

    Apparently it wasn’t glaringly obvious to you but I was mocking the freak for his condescending post, they were supposed to be his thoughts.  I know some of you progressives are a little slow.

  • Anonymous

    hell spot rested his case – too heavy (think it’s balancing on his toes).  Perhaps it’s full of all the stuff he took from “the rich”.  After all – he figures “what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine also”.  The cute little gaffer.  

  • Dukelegend07

    these posts are typical of tea baggers. you have the right wing media pick out some uneducated chav saying something pathetic, and relate this article to progressive’s in a negative way. the riots are because of a police shooting, nothing to do with class warfare. the looters are far more likely conservative than labour party. the garbage that republicans have been told about all who want socialized medicine and govt handouts being people too lazy to go to work, well thats just absurd. its the people who build your houses and cook your food and so many other working class jobs that simply cant afford to go to the doctor. the very backbone of america needs healthcare. its also the patriotic thing to do.

  • http://twitter.com/cek100248 charles kirtley

    Sadly, I suspect most of the rioters are indeed proud of what they are doing.

  • Jerky138

    No…people that build houses and cook our food are known as tax-payers..like me… the backbone of America as you describe.  I pay for health care the same way I pay for car insurance and every other expense in life.  Get a high deductable if you don’t go to the doctor for every bump, bruise, or prescription drug with a “street value”
     
    It’s funny how people will throw down $2500 dollars on a new transmission in their car, but consider it a travesty to pay a $100 bucks at the doctor when you get sick.
     
    You know what is patriotic?  Pulling your own weight and taking responsibility for yourself and your family.  Unfortunately by doing that…it cuts into a lot of your “me” time…which is what liberals hate.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    i think you need to do a little more reading on what is going on in London. 

    what is going on there now has nothing to do with the shooting.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJcparImeQ

  • Dukelegend07

    i am talking to a friend there now. i dont need any media to tell me what is going on when i can find out from people in the midst of it all.

  • Dukelegend07

    i wish i lived in your dreamworld mate. btw, look up patriotism in the dictionary.

  • Dukelegend07

    i wish i lived in your dreamworld mate. btw, look up patriotism in the dictionary.

  • Anonymous

    Lol… what an moron Snowspot is… the average education to the tea party is a college graduate and 98% employed. The average Obama supporter right now highest grade level completion is around 3 grade with 3 out of 5 supporters on government welfare. It always amazes me that liberals seem to ignore Facts and statistics all the time!

  • Anonymous

    Spoken like a loony lefty.

    Why is everything you ass’s perceive filtered through the lens of race, gender and sexual orientation?

    oh yeah… and Bush was a nazi…

  • Anonymous

    Spoken like a loony lefty.

    Why is everything you ass’s perceive filtered through the lens of race, gender and sexual orientation?

    oh yeah… and Bush was a nazi…

  • Anonymous

    I don’t care what they say about me in the papers….. Just make sure they spell my name right!

    Progressives are college, oh so special chosen one’s. Media is part of the frat club. Some are more equal than others…

    Beware the academic, media, government complex !!!

    Libs are subjecting our country to a form of “munchausen by proxy”. It really is the  lefty’s that are defective

  • Anonymous

    The world of self reliance? Yeah, I wish you lived in it too. Why don’t you move?

  • Johannes

    3 out of every 2 progressives are insane.

  • snapdragon

    Is that sort of like, “don’t retreat, reload” ??

  • Anonymous

    Sure, but there is nothing wrong with them doing their jobs and sometimes that means being the judge- as in good judgment.  If the safety of others is threatened, their job is to end violence if that requires a jury then we are screwed.  Then have been trained to assess a situation and determine the best scenario  to take action. If that requires that they have to a pull a trigger – well it’s not only their job, it’s their duty.

  • Anonymous

    “And anyone poor that claims to be a liberal, only is one because Republicans basically want to throw poor people in the trash…”

    WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?

  • Anonymous

    They shot a gang member.

  • Anonymous

    They shot a gang member.

  • Anonymous

    Robin Hood didn’t steal from the rich. He stole from the tax collector, the church and the government.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    THE ANSWER TO THESE PEOPLE?

    You don’t pay any taxes.

  • Anonymous

    well, you must be old.

  • Wacavender

    I think you probably have about a room temperature IQ,    But then  maybe I am giving you too much credit.

  • Wacavender

    Read my reply to Snowspot, it also applies to you.

  • Wacavender

    I do not hate Muslims, but I  have no problem with defending myself and others from Radical Terrorists who would kill us because we do not  thing Allah is great and and who  for sure is not the one true God, whose son is Jesus Christ.

  • Philipsk

    I am neither Republicrat or Demican. I am an  American.I want nothing more than to be let alone,in peace,to earn my own living.run my own business as I see fit.pay my own bills,and otherwise live as I please harming no one.The malignant foolishness of ”From each according to his abilities,to each according to his needs”is the altruistic slavery that caused the death of at least 100 million innocent people in the 20th century-and its happening all over again.Grow up people! Government enslaves-they need us,but we dont need them.

  • Jerky138

    pa·tri·ot·ism   /ˈpeɪtriəˌtɪzəm or, especially Brit., ˈpæ-/ Show Spelled[pey-tree-uh-tiz-uhm or, especially Brit., pa-] Show IPA
    noun devoted love, support, and defense of one’s country; national loyalty. So based off the dictionary definition of patriotism as you smugly suggested I look up, how does this somehow equate to expecting government to take care of your every need and want while putting the nation in financial ruin?  

  • Jerky138

    pa·tri·ot·ism   /ˈpeɪtriəˌtɪzəm or, especially Brit., ˈpæ-/ Show Spelled[pey-tree-uh-tiz-uhm or, especially Brit., pa-] Show IPA
    noun devoted love, support, and defense of one’s country; national loyalty. So based off the dictionary definition of patriotism as you smugly suggested I look up, how does this somehow equate to expecting government to take care of your every need and want while putting the nation in financial ruin?  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Vinc/1615118477 Jon Vinc

    Besides the fact that this story is supposed to be about the London riots, Snowspot needs to get off the LSD stamps.

    In the US, Dems had the majority in both houses of congress from 2007 to 2011.  Guess when the economic downturn started?  2007.
    When did the horrible bailouts start?  2008, when GWB was snookered into the supposedly limited TARP bailout.  Dems promised it would be limited, one time, not expand, be managed to the penny.  We know how that turned out.
    Which party passed the destructive trillion dollar Stimulus?  Dems with their president, Obummer.
    How’d the stimulus turn out?  Supposed max 8% unemployment is reported at +9%, and actual unemployment is close to 20%.  Not to mention underemployed people.
    When was the last time an actual documented budget was passed?  2009.  Reid, Pelosi, Obama failed to pass any budget in 2010 because they didn’t want to go on the record right before an election for what they stand for.
    And now, because the House which has a Republican majority refuses to continue writing blank checks for Obama, the Tea Party supposedly owns the downgrade?  How about the moron who insists on increasing spending, increasing debt in the face of report after report from the credit agencies that they are concerned with the unsustainable level of debt?
    Look to B. Hussein Obama and his party for proper ownership of the downgrade.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Vinc/1615118477 Jon Vinc

    Besides the fact that this story is supposed to be about the London riots, Snowspot needs to get off the LSD stamps.

    In the US, Dems had the majority in both houses of congress from 2007 to 2011.  Guess when the economic downturn started?  2007.
    When did the horrible bailouts start?  2008, when GWB was snookered into the supposedly limited TARP bailout.  Dems promised it would be limited, one time, not expand, be managed to the penny.  We know how that turned out.
    Which party passed the destructive trillion dollar Stimulus?  Dems with their president, Obummer.
    How’d the stimulus turn out?  Supposed max 8% unemployment is reported at +9%, and actual unemployment is close to 20%.  Not to mention underemployed people.
    When was the last time an actual documented budget was passed?  2009.  Reid, Pelosi, Obama failed to pass any budget in 2010 because they didn’t want to go on the record right before an election for what they stand for.
    And now, because the House which has a Republican majority refuses to continue writing blank checks for Obama, the Tea Party supposedly owns the downgrade?  How about the moron who insists on increasing spending, increasing debt in the face of report after report from the credit agencies that they are concerned with the unsustainable level of debt?
    Look to B. Hussein Obama and his party for proper ownership of the downgrade.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Spilker/100002436645232 Joseph Spilker

    Once aagain Life Imitates art , anyone remember “Lord of the Flies”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Spilker/100002436645232 Joseph Spilker

    I don’t see rioters prevailing for long  in the USA, here the police rarely bother with rubber bullets and  many Law abiding citizens here are able to carry a concealed weapon Legally in States that Have a clue. In Arizona Law abiding citizens with a clean record and not adjuecated mentally Ill have a legal right to carry a concealed weapon, since about one year ago.
     As a member of the criminal justice community I have been carrying for nearly 30 years. So far I have not had occasion to use it. rather like a spare tire, travel without one and you might get a flat tire soon.
     I regularly carry a weapon at work as an official part of my duties. a semi auto handgun and a riot shotgun.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Spilker/100002436645232 Joseph Spilker

    The USA started with a Tea Party in Boston Harbor.
    . todays Taxed Enough Already Partiers leave their Rally sites cleaner than they find them. Most T.E.A.party members Work for a living. many of those wo oppose them only vote for a living. In the words of Socretes ” A democracy can only last until the electorate discoveres that it can vote for an increase at the public trough”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Spilker/100002436645232 Joseph Spilker

    I was taught When I first started with the County sherriffs department in Colordo with regard to use of force issues “It’s better to be judged by 12 ( for you libtards that would be a Jury)  than Carried by six” ( pallbearers at your funeral) a fire bomb is lethal force it is proper to meet lethal force with lethal force. unless you are suicidal I suppose.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Spilker/100002436645232 Joseph Spilker

    a survey of journalist a few years back resulted in a finding that 98 % of Journlists are liberal by their own admission

  • Cyberscan

    Both the Socialists and Tea Partiers will hate me for my suggestions, but here goes:

    There are plenty of good solutions.  One, everyone’s RIGHT to earn a living should be upheld by the government instead of the governments prohibiting entry into occupations with oppressive licensing schemes.  Two, proper tariffs should be set on imported goods in order to prevent economies from being flooded with cheap, slave made goods.  Three, schools should stop lying to children telling them that everybody who works hard enough will be rich and that kids can be anything they want to be.  When students grow up and work hard only to find themselves
    barely making ends meet, they are wonder why they cannot obtain what they have been promised (entitlement attitude).  Schools should also teach right from wrong and make sure students know that it is wrong to steal what someone else worked so hard to earn.  Four, governments and schools need to quit forcing excessive educational requirements for just about any decent paying job.  Five, government mandated purchases need to go.

    In Florida, if I decide to unclog pipes for a living, I could be put in prison for 5 years simply because I don’t have the money to buy a contractor’s license and pay off the insurance companies.  Multinational, billion dollar corporations are allowed to sell their products and services internationally (“Free Trade”), while the average person is not allowed to do the same (immigration control) with his or her labor.   Get rid of the monopolies and crony capitalism, and it will be amazing what kind of economic growth will occur. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1216389086 William Keeley

    If there were “Tea Baggers” there, they would likely have tried to protect that shop from being looted (burglarized) or would have at least tried to discourage the looters (burglars).  That shop was probably owned by a middle class family, maybe even an immigrant family.

    Those who think the looters are justified, please tell me how you would feel if a group of rioters broke into your home and destroyed or stole everything you have?  I am a proponent of direct action.  However, these rioters are going after the wrong targets.  What about going after the councils and governments which put up barriers for the working class to start their own business or live their lives in freedom?  What about going after the criminals in power.  If you are going to riot, go after the ones who are guilty and leave the shops alone.

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