Tuesday - April 12, 2011

riots of 30 yrs ago caused millions, renamed an uprising by the left

Thirty years ago today there occurred what has been described as the worst rioting seen here in a hundred years.  I was of course aware of it then, being married to a Brit.
Over time I guess I failed to remember it and anyway, there were problems of like nature in my own country.  After moving here 7 years ago come April 28, I was reminded of it more then once.  The subject comes up often.

The rioting started in a place called Brixton, south London.  Not exactly an up market location, and home to mostly Negroes.  The violence they conceived and carried out along with their usual appetite for looting and vandalism was unprovoked.  Sure, there have been lots of times a white cop has exceeded his authority.  But when so much crime is committed in one area by one particular group, it must be difficult at best for a policeman to ignore ppl he suspects might be up to something.  Yeah, it is true that various ethnic groups, not just blacks, have been treated badly.  The only thing I can say in defense of the cops, is that their stop and search tactics were meant to combat a growing menace of drugs.  Depending on your own POV, that still might not be a good idea for overstepping your remit.  But it’s a damn fair explanation.  And yes, I’d be pretty well PO’d if I were an innocent victim of the tactics of that day.  But I really don’t think I’d see it as an excuse for looting and throwing fire bombs.

Some estimates put the injuries to police at 300. And please do not make any mistake about this. It was left wing agitators that egged the rioters on. More then 100 shops were looted, 30 buildings were set on fire, 120 vehicles were torched as well.
Authorities called it wanton rampage and criminality.

Just how’d it start?  Well, police went to the aid of a black who’d been stabbed.
They were then surrounded by a crowd and accused of not doing enough to help.
Yeah, that little incident triggered a full blown riot involving 5,000 ppl and damage in the millions. Think Watts riots or Rodney King.  Some ‘ethnic’ groups don’t need any real excuse to burn a city and create havoc and mayhem. But when they find something that looks good and they can adopt it as an issue, well hey. They go for it.
And so they did 30 yrs ago egged on by socialist and left wing apologists who claimed they would bring down the police.  And looking at things these days 30 yrs on, I guess they did just that.  In fact, a councillor of the day did say he wanted to “break the metropolitan police.”

Naturally enough there was an inquiry as there always is. It was led by a very liberal judge, and so began political correctness. 
Eventually, some time later as old readers may recall, I did a post about a police chief who bragged that he was” proud to be politically correct.”

Well now, the story doesn’t end here. Oh no. History is not only in the making, it has been re-written by a cash strapped city council, who has renamed the riots as, an uprising.  Needless to say the council is quite left. And here’s the whole sad, stupid story.

Cash-strapped council rebrands Brixton riots as an ‘uprising’ (and funds the 30th anniversary ‘celebrations’)
By RYAN KISIEL

For those who were caught up in the violence and destruction, the Brixton riots are best forgotten.
Yet Labour councillors are spending thousands of pounds remembering tomorrow’s 30th anniversary of the carnage in South London which put 279 police officers in hospital.
The incident has been renamed the ‘Brixton Uprising’ and will feature ‘first-hand witness accounts’ along with ‘special guests’ to provide the entertainment
Lambeth Council is staging the celebration in its Windrush Square and Tate Library. It will be recorded for the council’s Black Cultural Archive.

The Jamaican ‘dub poet’ Linton Kwesi Johnson, whose work contains graphic descriptions of alleged police brutality during the 1980s, including one entitled ‘Ingland is a Bich’, is due to perform.

(just WTF is a ‘dub poet?’ No, don’t tell me. I don’t wanna know. They call his tripe, his work? Oh how literate and articulate this negroe is. And if England is so bad, what’s he doing here? Collecting benefits no doubt.)

The Labour-run authority is funding the event despite constant complaints by its leader, Steve Reed, that government-imposed cash cuts would lead to a rise in crime and another ‘Baby P tragedy’.

Lambeth has recently declared mass redundancies among street cleaners, park rangers and lollipop ladies, and closed all but one of its public lavatories.
A spokesman said tomorrow’s event was ‘community-led’ and part of its work engaging with the public.

But Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Commons sub-committee on counter-terrorism, said: ‘I would question the act of celebrating an insurgency.
‘It was difficult and dangerous at the time and I don’t want to remember it.
‘The law is the law and, just because it was chaotic 30 years ago, there is no need for celebrations.’

Peter Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said: ‘This is crazy and a complete waste of public money.
‘Calling it an uprising justifies and celebrates that people were injured and property was damaged.
‘Anybody who celebrates violence is despicable. The public purse is being pulled tight and it is not right to celebrate violence, especially in the current climate when there has been a recent return to violent protest.’
More than 5,000 rioters rampaged through Brixton in 1981 after police increased stop-and-searches in the area.
A total of 28 shops were burned, 118 were looted and 120 cars were set on fire as police fought running battles with the rioters in the streets. Socialist and left-wing groups first referred to it as an ‘uprising’ to give it an air of legitimacy, arguing that it was a poor social underclass who revolted against their capitalist masters.
But the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said: ‘Nothing, but nothing, justifies what happened.’

source

Posted by peiper     on 04/12/2011 at 01:06 PM   
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