The mob ruled in London as the anti-austerity protest turned violent. Check out these headlines:
It’s been reported that some of the police sympathized with the protesters. I doubt the ones hit by ammonia filled light bulbs felt much sympathy, or this guy whose face was covered with paint.
Follow the link for more photos of the rioting anarchists. So, what do these people want? Daniel Hannan looked into it. They want the same thing the union protesters here in the US want – for government to spend it’s way into oblivion.
Their website suggests that they think the answer to our debt crisis is more spending. In fact, they don’t think we have much of a debt crisis. They want higher taxes, particularly for the rich, whom they expect to wait around meekly to be fleeced. And they insist that higher state expenditure (”investment”) will create more jobs. Why so half-hearted, comrades? Why not go all the way, nationalise every business, place every adult on the state payroll and confiscate all income? By your logic, it would surely make Britain the most prosperous country on Earth.
I’d call it the Gimme Generation, but it spans generations.
Back to the police. Their plan for dealing with the riots was less than effective, as the mob ruled. John at Powerline notes that it doesn’t bode well for the English people.
The first duty of any government is to maintain order. Peaceful demonstrations are fine, but mob rule is incompatible with civilization. Any government that cannot maintain order deserves to fall, and will.
Watch the mob storm the Ritz, via the Telegraph.
Here’s more of the rampage, via American Power where it’s noted: “Americans should take careful note of events, for the London mob has American cousins who share similar attitudes about budget cuts.”
This is not what a civilized society looks like.
Memeorandum has links to many more reports on the day of rage.
Update: Also at American Power – American leftists endorse the violent protests.
Tags: Gimme, London riots, mob rule, video
They say they’re “Anarchists”, note in one of the photos the spray paint circle with the “A” in the center on the window, but they might as well be Communists and spray paint the Hammer and Sickle because that’s their foggy vision. The same as in the 60’s here in the U.S., the S.D.S. and Weathermen AKA Weather Underground (some members which are now advisors to the President) just wanted to “bring it all down, man”.
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Not looking good at all. I wonder who is really behind all of this.
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