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Just my opinion, but that seems clearly intended as a light hearted comment rather than an attempt to actually kick anything off.

 

FREEDOM OF SPEECH MOTHERFUCKER!!

 

And if it was an attempt to kick something off? Fuck... we must like being told what to do and be quiet yeah??

 

There's a group of people in charge and forever will it remain when meek arseholes pander to them with quiet obedience.

If Hitler rose to power.... nope, don't riot.

If the police start shooting everyone... nope, don't riot.

 

There must surely be a case for a good riot now and then.

 

When the dollar collapses, these riots will be nothing. The Army will come and shoot you for robbing food then.

 

I guess peaceful protest makes some people feel powerful. The blind fuckers who think this shit musty have failed to realise that silent protests have achieved fuck all ever.

You need some poor cunt to set himself on fire these days.

 

So, when that US Dollar collapses.... you stay indoors and do what you're told. Leave the looting to those with a survival instinct left intact.... or wake the fuck up you poor, poor slaves.

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Freedom of speech doesn't cover intent to create criminal activity, and never did.

And these riots, for the most part, really weren't focused at regime change, moving the status quo, anything like that. I'd have thorouhgly approved of them if they were, but they weren't.

You're right about the economic crisis to come though, will be the eurozone that goes first, once that's gone the dollar busting will just be another part of it. And yeah, it will make the last crash look like nothing.

Of course you're right about peaceful protests acheiving fuck all, but looting jd sports acheives less, and creates an enviroment when a proper uprising is harder to acheive.

This is the main problem with this fucking country, the people angry enough and passionate enough to actually kick off are too retarded to understand what they're fighting for, only what they're fighting against. Most depressing.

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Freedom of speech doesn't cover intent to create criminal activity, and never did.

 

And these riots, for the most part, really weren't focused at regime change, moving the status quo, anything like that. I'd have thorouhgly approved of them if they were, but they weren't.

 

Of course you're right about peaceful protests acheiving fuck all, but looting jd sports acheives less, and creates an enviroment when a proper uprising is harder to acheive.

 

 

All of this is bang on.

 

As far as the harsh sentencing, I remain convinced that a big reason for the actions of many of the participants in these riots was a feeling that they wouldn't be held accountable for those actions - either because their experience of 'punishment' for crimes in the past has amounted to ASBOs and other ineffectual bullshit, or because they feel that the anonymity of the mob or technology means they'll never be caught. Well, now they (and anyone of a similar mind in future) know that there's a good chance they CAN be caught and WILL be punished, and I'm all for that.

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All of this is bang on.

 

As far as the harsh sentencing, I remain convinced that a big reason for the actions of many of the participants in these riots was a feeling that they wouldn't be held accountable for those actions - either because their experience of 'punishment' for crimes in the past has amounted to ASBOs and other ineffectual bullshit, or because they feel that the anonymity of the mob or technology means they'll never be caught. Well, now they (and anyone of a similar mind in future) know that there's a good chance they CAN be caught and WILL be punished, and I'm all for that.

 

Correctomondo, it was group mentality. Everyone thought they wouldnt get pulled up for it, 1. because there was so many of them out there doing it and 2. because they didnt expect the uproar and people to help people catch people who were nicking

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And I guess that's the best disincentive of all - seeing how many looters have been apprehended and had the book thrown at them, will discourage similar behaviour in the future. A friend of mine who's a criminal barrister tells me that a significantly high percentage of those charged with the worse crimes already had a criminal record as well.

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Ill admit the 4 years for the Facebook thing seems harsh but I dont know the details, I dont know the extent of what they had written, whether they had threatened violence on Police etc etc.

 

According to one of the papers yesterday, the group was called 'Smash Dwn in Northwich Town' and one of their first comments was 'we'll need to get this kickin off all over'. As far as I'm concerned, any punishment they got was deserved for their chavvy mong spelling. If you can't be arsed to type a simple letter 'o' or 'g', I can't be arsed to care about the big sentence you got.

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Do you think we're soft on crime Kris?

In some cases we are. In some cases we don't even bother. An example of my own, a few years ago my car got damaged in the town centre while I was working in the club. It was only a few feet away from CCTV. I contacted the police via email and was pleased to receive a swift reply. Sadly it was to tell me there was no point in looking at CCTV as at night they don't really pick much up unless the operator zooms in on something, and since nothing had been reported by the operator then they won't have anything. Clearly I was disappointed, but appreciated the honesty of the response. What I didn't appreciate was seeing in the local paper sometime later closeups of the faces of people who had dropped litter. The paper was appealing for people to grass them up so they could be fined. The photos came from the CCTV on the same street and some of them were taken on the same night!

 

I have a friend who was on a tag for a month, he broke his curfew 18 times and he got an extra 3 hours community service. He's actually a very good lad, but he handles his problems the wrong way and frankly he needs to learn a lesson. I no prison isn't the right place for him, but fuck me, 3 hours community service for pissing all over his tag seems to basically say, fuck it do what you want and get away with it!

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And I guess that's the best disincentive of all - seeing how many looters have been apprehended and had the book thrown at them, will discourage similar behaviour in the future. A friend of mine who's a criminal barrister tells me that a significantly high percentage of those charged with the worse crimes already had a criminal record as well.

These people had nothing to lose by the sounds of it, got little and have little prospects. Lots of people get locked up yet there is a problem with rehabilitation it would seem, so the problem isn't solved. The root cause of why these people offend needs to be addressed, coupled with rehabilitation of offenders.

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