I predict a riot

[One Day]

Maybe it's time for these guys?

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Euro military police force set up

 

[user123]

There was an army presence when there was an assumed terrorist thread at one of the airports, wasn't there? Remember the pictures of tanks there - Heathrow I think? I don't think it needs martial law if just small areas are involved.. but it needs to be done. The army's job is to protect civilians, ...

 

[DHTiling]

They are too many and the police are too few.
As someone else said, the rioters can hurl petrol bombs, the police have night sticks.

Do we have enough army left in the UK? (serious question) and won't there need to be some special "act of parliament" invoked, or martial law, before they can be deployed?

Prime minister has been called back from his Hols.. so time will tell.. but if this carries on then something deffo needs sorting.. businesses are loosing megga amounts of money..

 

[SandyFloor]

Am I right in saying social network websites make it easy to organise these things?

 

[White Room]

That was just for show, a strength of force..

 

[One Day]

There was an army presence when there was an assumed terrorist thread at one of the airports, wasn't there? Remember the pictures of tanks there - Heathrow I think? I don't think it needs martial law if just small areas are involved.. but it needs to be done. The army's job is to protect civilians, ...

You have no idea how much tongue holding I am doing here tonight.
I'm off to bed, grateful for the peace here at least.
Let's hope it can be ended - and soon.

 

[CJ]

I bet most of these mindless morons don't even know wot they are rioting for................to them, its just an excuse to loot and cause havoc. The army will only work if they are armed with rubber bullets and water canons, and with the human right nutters, wot are the chances of that.

The police are vastly outnumbered, so its not gonna be easy to. As much as we all wish these scum would just disappear, they at the moment have the upper hand.

 

[doug boardley]

Am I right in saying social network websites make it easy to organise these things?

I think they certainly fan the flames sandy

 

[White Room]

Just a quick mention on rubber bullets, there not used anymore, there a hard pvc called plastic bullets..

 

[Dan]

Am I right in saying social network websites make it easy to organise these things?

And to stay away from them. You find out where the area is and avoid it.

The social networks are certainly not to blame.

They're just real reporting by real people. The news struggles to make the story opaque when we can access the info just as quick as they can. Social networks are good for this.

It's the black community upset with the lad originally. But then the rioters are just chancing it knowing the police are outnumbered, if present at all.

 

[doug boardley]

I've not seen any posts on fb condoning this moronic action

 

[user123]

Nor on twitter.... Dan is absolutely right, social media is just that, social media. Any SMS in the world wouldn't bring any kid to start thieving, looting you name it, it's the kid willing to do it in the first place.

 

[Dan]

There's no doubt about it, some of the looters will be checking twitter to see where the police are not. Though they'd use texting or phones anyway if twitter didn't exist. But they can't keep up with everything on twitter else they'd have to stand there reading it all and not looting. There's that much going on on there. It's got 2 of the top 3 most trending topics.

I've just been watching the news too, and the guy said "oh and by the way these pictures are from Tottenham earlier today not clapham". They were talking about clapham at the time.

The news could be just as to blame as twitter, if not being worse. They're making things up for the sake of shock. Twitter it's all truth.

 

[Dan]

Research In Motion (Blackberry maker) has said they'll help trace those organising this on their devices using the Messenger system (free messaging over wifi - a heavily used blackberry feature by kids as it's like free texting).

So BBM's are being used to organise some of this. They wouldn't use twitter to organise a meet due to it being public.

 

[b30 villain]

They are in brum town centre causing havoc my pal works for a big window company and the money grabbing gets have sent him up there to board windows:mad2:. Luckily for him the police aint letting no one else in