do riots ever achieve anything?

[bluestreak]

welling was when the police decided they needed to defend the bnp from a wandering collection of anti-fascists.

riots are good and healthy. they enable you to have a fun day out, meet new and interesting people, enter into dialogue with the forces of law and order, and just occasionally you can bounce a can, or bottle off a swappies' bonce.

 

[darren redparty]

In order to be liable for the offence the accused person must use violence and:

a) 12 or more persons (including the accused) who are present together use or threaten violence for a common purpose

are there more than 12?

 

[kakuma]

zombie riots are cool

 

[Chuck Wilson]

Surely this:- a) 12 or more persons (including the accused) who are present together use or threaten violence for a common purpose, and
b) their conduct taken together is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness to fear for their personal safety and
c) the accused’s use of violence was for the common purpose.


could be used to cover any repeat of the idiots who could not tell the difference between a paediatrician and a paedophile and some activities by some animal rights activists.

Wasn't this first example a bit of an anti working calss urban myth?

 

[Pickman's model]

Wasn't this first example a bit of an anti working calss urban myth?

no.

 

[tobyjug]

Wasn't this first example a bit of an anti working calss urban myth?

As far as I am aware it was factual but somewhat overhyped. (It was widely reported on TV newsbulletins with reports from outside the paediatricians house)

 

[where to]

It was a she and..er...she was rather sensitive to any questions. She called me "small and petty" for a "criticising a march that 2,000,000 people went on" and that I should go away and live in my "sad, deluded world".

I was rather hurt

No, honest, I really was.

you fancied her didn't you

 

[_angel_]

Isn't a riot a revolution that never quite made the grade?

riots are good for meeting people

I met my ex b/f at one!













but seriously they're not good news really. I don't think it helped Bradford, for example.

 

[darren redparty]

sw states

This is especially so if it is contained in isolated working class areas. Writing after the 1981 riots Socialist Worker’s Chris Harman described how “riots rise like a rocket, but fall like a stick”.

now i am an old cliffite and I recognise a cliffism when I see one, but now it seems that as well as pissing all over Cliffs politics Harman is also stealing his best lines.

 

[Chuck Wilson]

sw states
now i am an old cliffite and I recognise a cliffism when I see one, but now it seems that as well as pissing all over Cliffs politics Harman is also stealing his best lines.

"When Michael Foot was leading the Labour Party he turned up at the Cenotaph in a duffle coat and Labour went 20 points behind the Tories, Neil Kinnock turns up a year later at the Cenotaph with a suit and Labour are only 5 points behind the Tories. What is the lesson of this? Perhaps the Labour Pary should have elected the tailor as leader."