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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:08 AM Original message |
Brit youths demonstrate their "disenfranchisement" --by mugging an injured schoolboy: |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. Follow-up story - Victim is a Maylasian student. He's recovering in a hospital. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yes, that meme has been repeated here 25 times. No rebellion, no political content. Just bad guys |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. -this incident isn't a "meme"..it actually happened; one incident caught on tape |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:39 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Why would you describe a 20yr old as a 'schoolboy'? |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. He was a student, first month in the UK |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 11:09 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Vast difference between a 'schoolboy' and student..meme..tweak the public thinking |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 11:12 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Right. Because breaking the jaw of a 20-year old student is a legitimate fightback |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Not exactly news... |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 11:18 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. The real thugs are Conservative Govt..and the bribed Met Police |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 11:27 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Yes. When you are living under a Conservative Govt., breaking the jaw of a 20-year old student |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 01:48 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. It's wonderful he's only been there for a few weeks and was able to get free NHS healthcare |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 01:54 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. How do you know how the operation to fix his broken jaw was paid? |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 02:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Because he's in a NHS center hospital.. |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 08:57 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Link to where you found out that information, please. Anyway, all that does is say how... |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 01:57 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Your blowing off what happened to this |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 01:58 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. And taking it out on an innocent victim is okay? |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. it is cool. he doesnt have to pay for it. nor do those that loot even though they loot cause noone |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Prison is a cakewalk in the UK, so its not a deterrant |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. i guess where you and i see the issue is two different perspectives. you dismiss the injuried |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 11:12 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. see. i feel so much better about physical violence against this person cause he is 20 |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
3. That's right show the one vid over and over again. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. this is like rumsfeld saying they show the same person stealing the same vase over and over. |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
4. an injured schoolboy? He's 20...Media manipulation at its best.. |
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Wait Wut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 02:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
24. No kidding! |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 06:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
29. Yet you're not offended that he was an innocent victim. |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
8. Hey, that's how you fight back against the aristocracy! |
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Fleshdancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
10. Rioters mugging is simply one description of what is going on, not an explanation. |
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Bosonic (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
11. Wow, the same deluded reply crowd |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
20. So the subtext here is that no disenfranchisement has occurred |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 02:01 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. The fact that it has been happening increasingly everday for a decade |
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kickysnana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
31. But this may have happened even without rioting. Just sayin. n/t |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
32. "A 20yo isn't a "schoolboy". |
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