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Media demand mass arrests, reprisals against UK rioters

Magistrates’ courts in London and other cities in England are handing down the harshest possible sentences to those accused of involvement in the riots that swept across London and other cities in England earlier this week.

Race Riot:

The historian and broadcaster David Starkey has provoked a storm of criticism after claiming during a televised discussion about the riots that “the problem is that the whites have become black”.
In an appearance on BBC2’s Newsnight, Starkey spoke of “a profound cultural change” and said he had been re-reading Enoch Powell’s rivers of blood speech.
“His prophesy was absolutely right in one sense. The Tiber did not foam with blood but flames lambent, they wrapped around Tottenham and wrapped around Clapham,” he said.
“But it wasn’t inter-community violence. This is where he was absolutely wrong.” Gesturing towards one of the other guests, Owen Jones, who wrote Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Classes, Starkey said: “What has happened is that a substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/13/david-starkey-claims-whites-black

 Our 2 ¢ –  These Ultra-Whites don’t know the power and money for their empire came from Africa and South America. So what is their big problem????

Suspects accused of four of the week’s most infamous crimes are all behind bars

Some PHOTOS of the firebombed Police Station in Nottingham.

UK Indy Media has this – Summer of Unrest: an indymedia overview of the ‘riots’ 

A little humor: An open letter to David Cameron’s parents

"Dear Mr & Mrs Cameron,
Why did you never take the time to teach your child basic morality?"

AND ON THE CONVENTIONAL SIDE . . . 

Arrest total from British riots is around 1,700

Courts in London work day and night to process a stream of suspects, most accused of burglary, theft and arson, with some facing murder charges.

Threats hit Google group using facial recognition to ID London looters 

As London cleans up from riots, residents fume

Londoners are angry at rioters and at authorities’ response. Some analysts say the unrest springs from Britain’s social disparity. Violence eases in the capital but flares in other cities.

But one thing united the rioters who have left a trail of shattered glass and burned-out buildings across London and the residents left to clean up the mess: anger.

Portrait of UK rioters emerges in round-the-clock court cases

Portraits of those accused of violence, disorder and looting began to emerge Friday after another day of round-the-clock court hearings in London, Birmingham and Manchester for alleged offenders in Britain’s worst unrest in decades.
They included suspects with criminal records, but also a teenage ballerina, the mother of a 6-week-old child, college students, and a gifted track and field athlete who has served as a youth ambassador for the London 2012 Olympics.

Britons say PM failed to provide leadership on riots

From UK riots aftermath: live updates:

11.14pm: Stephen Bates has been listening to the accounts of people in Tottenham whose flats and houses were burnt in the riots:

It is only when the people burned out of their homes in Tottenham last Saturday tell their stories that the full horror of their experience strikes you.

Their quiet, prosaic words tumble out and they shake their heads, still in disbelief that people of similar ages, similar backgrounds and ethnicities, people who lived and worked nearby, could set fire to their buildings, knowing they were inside and not caring what happened to them. The anguish is palpable.

They have told their stories many times now, to family and friends, to the media and to passing politicians – Labour leader Ed Miliband – and still the incomprehension continues.

“What is my opinion of the people who did this to us?” says Stuart Radose, a 36-year-old Waitrose retail manager, who lived in a flat above the Carpetright showroom on Tottenham High Road with his wife, Lynn, until it was burned to the ground. “I am not sure Lynn agrees with me but I think they are complete scum.”

“No, I agree,” says Lynn, a chartered accountant. “Scum. We have been taxpayers all our lives. We paid towards the police and they left us to die in that building.”

Interesting COMMENTS after the above –  F.C. 

UK riots: suspects, statistics and cases mapped and listed

 Hatred of the cops and the possibility of free stuff on a long summer’s evening proved to be an intoxicating mixture. As an aside – both the footage and the roll-call of those in court right now show – this was a long way from race riot – black and white can unite – if only to loot Foot Locker. 

. . . . Now they’re reaping the whirlwind of structuring society entirely around people bought into a system where acquisition of material wealth was the only legitimate aspiration. Massive disparities in income and status developed and in a city like London the different social strata exist cheek-by-jowl. Ghettoes are colonised by wealthy enclaves. A short wander around the streets of Stoke Newington or Hackney shows how the process of gentrification rubs the noses of the poor in a wealth and security they will never have. The current recession has made it clear to those not already safely a rung or two up the property ladder that they will never make it. . . 

WEREWOLF: Literature of Resistance, as Literal Resistance

In 1997, seven people on a East London council estate decided to write a novel together that would be composed of stories based on their own lives and would appropriate the form of the novel to promote their circumstances and outlook. They produced the novel Seaton Point (1998), composed of intersecting stories of eccentric characters, vampirism, debt-collectors and demons, working-class culture and urban Gothic parody, set in and around a block of flats in Hackney. . . .

http://werewolf.co.nz/2011/08/literature-of-resistance-as-literal-resistance/