Tottenham/ London riots/ Mark Duggan IPCC Investigation

[Vertigo]

A friend shared this on FB earlier.

I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for this, but these riots do little to surprise me. They are merely the violent and inevitable conclusion of the 'me first' shallow individualism and materialism that is the celebrated status quo of this country. The sum total of a generation taught, with ever increasing ferocity, that they are each precious little ‘snowflakes’ who owe nothing to society or history and that if they merely ‘apply themselves’ and show a little ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ they can each become celebrated millionaires. Of a generation taught to think that everyone’s in it for themselves and that if they don’t get a move on they won’t get their slice of the pie. Of a generation taught that there is no such thing as luck, or sentiment, or society, or country, or class. That life is just a game – there are winners and losers and nothing else. Of a generation taught to just ‘live in the moment’. Because nothing happens after you die – so you might as well indulge every impulse your reptilian mind can muster.Because who gives a f*ck right?You’ve got to look out for number one – because no one else is going to.Well now the little ‘snowflakes’ have taken to the streets. They’re ‘living in the moment’ and most certainly ‘winning’. They’ve acted like good entrepreneurs – where we saw tragedy in the small but heated protests that initiated this whole mess – they saw opportunity. An opportunity which they’ve ceased efficiently and comprehensively.Sure.A good chunk of them will probably be arrested. They’ve hurt a lot of people and done incredible damage to both themselves and those around them for a short term gain that will no doubt evaporate in the morning air. But if you don’t believe in a tomorrow then that looming specter does little to bother you.And hell – if you ‘apply yourself’ – maybe you’ll get away with it.If they were able to look past their impoverished attire and blood stained hands the crooked politicians, bankers and businessmen who hold dominion over this land would no doubt see kindred spirits in these thugs and thuggish children. A crude, less presentable version, of the ‘greed is good’ mantra which has elevated our leaders to power and forms the core of our economic and social philosophy.Last night I saw a little bit of a twitter debate going on between different parties about whether the correct term for these hooded waifs was ‘looters’, ‘rioters’ or ‘protesters’.I’m going to cheekily suggest ‘consumers’ as an accurate title.Happy Shoppers Stimulating The Economy Of Catchment Area No. 625When looking at the footage of these apolitical, amoral youths foraging through burnt out convenience stores for luxury goods – hefting TV’s into shopping trolleys as the country literally, and metaphorically, burns around them – I find it difficult to consider any title more appropriate.Happy shopping everyone.

[dom dom bullets]

f*ck going soloI am brining my amigos from the favelas Enfield will come like the slums from City Of God

so ur brazilian, i thought u were portuguese?

[dom dom bullets]

f*ck going soloI am brining my amigos from the favelas Enfield will come like the slums from City Of God

so ur brazilian, i thought u were portuguese?

[wvsf]

A friend shared this on FB earlier.

I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for this, but these riots do little to surprise me. They are merely the violent and inevitable conclusion of the 'me first' shallow individualism and materialism that is the celebrated status quo of this country. The sum total of a generation taught, with ever increasing ferocity, that they are each precious little ‘snowflakes’ who owe nothing to society or history and that if they merely ‘apply themselves’ and show a little ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ they can each become celebrated millionaires. Of a generation taught to think that everyone’s in it for themselves and that if they don’t get a move on they won’t get their slice of the pie. Of a generation taught that there is no such thing as luck, or sentiment, or society, or country, or class. That life is just a game – there are winners and losers and nothing else. Of a generation taught to just ‘live in the moment’. Because nothing happens after you die – so you might as well indulge every impulse your reptilian mind can muster.Because who gives a f*ck right?You’ve got to look out for number one – because no one else is going to.Well now the little ‘snowflakes’ have taken to the streets. They’re ‘living in the moment’ and most certainly ‘winning’. They’ve acted like good entrepreneurs – where we saw tragedy in the small but heated protests that initiated this whole mess – they saw opportunity. An opportunity which they’ve ceased efficiently and comprehensively.Sure.A good chunk of them will probably be arrested. They’ve hurt a lot of people and done incredible damage to both themselves and those around them for a short term gain that will no doubt evaporate in the morning air. But if you don’t believe in a tomorrow then that looming specter does little to bother you.And hell – if you ‘apply yourself’ – maybe you’ll get away with it.If they were able to look past their impoverished attire and blood stained hands the crooked politicians, bankers and businessmen who hold dominion over this land would no doubt see kindred spirits in these thugs and thuggish children. A crude, less presentable version, of the ‘greed is good’ mantra which has elevated our leaders to power and forms the core of our economic and social philosophy.Last night I saw a little bit of a twitter debate going on between different parties about whether the correct term for these hooded waifs was ‘looters’, ‘rioters’ or ‘protesters’.I’m going to cheekily suggest ‘consumers’ as an accurate title.Happy Shoppers Stimulating The Economy Of Catchment Area No. 625When looking at the footage of these apolitical, amoral youths foraging through burnt out convenience stores for luxury goods – hefting TV’s into shopping trolleys as the country literally, and metaphorically, burns around them – I find it difficult to consider any title more appropriate.Happy shopping everyone.

Mostly spot on. Pos.

[Guest Portuguese]

f*ck going soloI am brining my amigos from the favelas Enfield will come like the slums from City Of God

so ur brazilian, i thought u were portuguese?

Amigos means friends not familyWhat you don't have scottish/welsh/irish friends no?

[Guest Portuguese]

By the way this isn't the football factory it's real life.

[dom dom bullets]

f*ck going soloI am brining my amigos from the favelas Enfield will come like the slums from City Of God

so ur brazilian, i thought u were portuguese?

Amigos means friends not familyWhat you don't have scottish/welsh/irish friends no?

well i assumed u were portuguese cos of ur name, then ur talking all this favela city of god stuff so i then thought u were brazilian, were the f*ck are u from

[Dr Doom]

A friend shared this on FB earlier.

I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for this, but these riots do little to surprise me. They are merely the violent and inevitable conclusion of the 'me first' shallow individualism and materialism that is the celebrated status quo of this country. The sum total of a generation taught, with ever increasing ferocity, that they are each precious little ‘snowflakes’ who owe nothing to society or history and that if they merely ‘apply themselves’ and show a little ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ they can each become celebrated millionaires. Of a generation taught to think that everyone’s in it for themselves and that if they don’t get a move on they won’t get their slice of the pie. Of a generation taught that there is no such thing as luck, or sentiment, or society, or country, or class. That life is just a game – there are winners and losers and nothing else. Of a generation taught to just ‘live in the moment’. Because nothing happens after you die – so you might as well indulge every impulse your reptilian mind can muster.Because who gives a f*ck right?You’ve got to look out for number one – because no one else is going to.Well now the little ‘snowflakes’ have taken to the streets. They’re ‘living in the moment’ and most certainly ‘winning’. They’ve acted like good entrepreneurs – where we saw tragedy in the small but heated protests that initiated this whole mess – they saw opportunity. An opportunity which they’ve ceased efficiently and comprehensively.Sure.A good chunk of them will probably be arrested. They’ve hurt a lot of people and done incredible damage to both themselves and those around them for a short term gain that will no doubt evaporate in the morning air. But if you don’t believe in a tomorrow then that looming specter does little to bother you.And hell – if you ‘apply yourself’ – maybe you’ll get away with it.If they were able to look past their impoverished attire and blood stained hands the crooked politicians, bankers and businessmen who hold dominion over this land would no doubt see kindred spirits in these thugs and thuggish children. A crude, less presentable version, of the ‘greed is good’ mantra which has elevated our leaders to power and forms the core of our economic and social philosophy.Last night I saw a little bit of a twitter debate going on between different parties about whether the correct term for these hooded waifs was ‘looters’, ‘rioters’ or ‘protesters’.I’m going to cheekily suggest ‘consumers’ as an accurate title.Happy Shoppers Stimulating The Economy Of Catchment Area No. 625When looking at the footage of these apolitical, amoral youths foraging through burnt out convenience stores for luxury goods – hefting TV’s into shopping trolleys as the country literally, and metaphorically, burns around them – I find it difficult to consider any title more appropriate.Happy shopping everyone.

Seized not ceased but definitely agreed with this.

[Flojo]

Good little filmThe dark skinned yute at 3:40 has the vibe of somebody way older than him. Shout out to the rasta man stopping that building from getting burnt down.

[Guest Portuguese]

f*ck going soloI am brining my amigos from the favelas Enfield will come like the slums from City Of God

so ur brazilian, i thought u were portuguese?

Amigos means friends not familyWhat you don't have scottish/welsh/irish friends no?

well i assumed u were portuguese cos of ur name, then ur talking all this favela city of god stuff so i then thought u were brazilian, were the f*ck are u from

H-Town

[Bruno Di Gradi]

now these pub man are out..the looters dont want none.....to me it seems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0wsET8__Y

[Guest Portuguese]

Where were they on Saturday/Sunday/Monday?Only decided to jump on the wave when they heard feds will be 16k+ retired officers

[Im Broke]

f*ck going soloI am brining my amigos from the favelas Enfield will come like the slums from City Of God

U mean Enfield will come like Luanda.

[JOHN DOE]

f*ck going soloI am brining my amigos from the favelas Enfield will come like the slums from City Of God

U mean Enfield will come like Luanda.

telling u y does this angolan guy keep tryna rep portugal

[MatthewAkaDjSlimzeeBadBoy]

So i guess that's all folks for rioting/looting in London all that and they never managed to penetrate Central

[CarltonLeach]

were the f*ck are u from

Portugese is from the hard school of scouting excellence based in Clairfontaine, his resume boasts one of astounding worldwide sourcing of football talents including having access to many of the largest and smallest clubs in the world.He's mainly seen entering grounds with a rather large briefcase and binnoculars where he is escorted to his reserved sea as he pops out his notepad that has grided sections where he rates the promising talents infront of him as he drops messages on social network sites to keep his fans informed of latest transfers and talents.

[Guest Portuguese]

Congolese/Portuguese born in France.It's easy to be confused you did get twanged by a man once right?

[Natty]

hopefully this pubman ting dont start off a race war ting in enfield though

[YFSD]

can anyone confirm if uxbridge or ruslip got hit today

Nah just shops closed early, however Argos at the retail park in south ruislip go smashed in, but thats all I know

Suprised people are talking about Ruislip on here...I got a picture of inside Argos it got ripped apart I don't know if looted, the whole Victoria road parade had their windwos smashed and that's it thank god./I drove down Uxb. with my girlfriend to check it out dead apart from homeless people and police.

[Drift]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Well-done-to-the-Muslim-and-Sikh-community-fighting-off-the-London-rioters/200194256703988these man are LAPPING this up... sh*t

[Yardie 2.0]

the pub dons are moistwhere wer they wen brikky and totty got hit?

[Flojo]

21 year old arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life for setting alight the furniture store in Croydon.

[Guest Portuguese]

the pub dons are moistwhere wer they wen brikky and totty got hit?

This

[Skam!]

now these pub man are out..the looters dont want none.....to me it seems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0wsET8__Y

This is just spin and you know it. They were watching the city burn like the rest of us while the Turks decided to hold down their communities. With 16k officers on the beat now they feel safe enough to leave their homes. They're just as opportunistic as the looters IMO.

[Marly Mar]

f*ck going soloI am brining my amigos from the favelas Enfield will come like the slums from City Of God

U mean Enfield will come like Luanda.

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