Michael Sylvester writes: >There was no bystander apathy when a group of rioters came >to assist a person who had been injured,but to add insult to >injury,they stole items from the injured indivudual's backpack. >It appears that British morality has reached a new low.
Here is the video showing the incident: http://video.uk.msn.com/watch/video/uk-riots-robbery-and-looting-caught-on-video/2gc54wwz The notion that this in any way typifies British morality, or bears any relation to the issue of "bystander apathy", is risible. Michael: You have already forwarded to TIPS the video of Darcus Howe spouting incendiary nonsense about the police blowing the head off a man (presented as simply being near his home, rather than carrying a firearm in a minicab that was stopped as part of an operation by a special unit dealing with violent crime and gang warfare.). But this takes the biscuit: >Btw, the violent reaction of British police and Scotland >Yard make the Guatemalan police look like boy scouts. May I suggest you cease to post items on which you are manifestly uninformed. There has been an extraordinary lack of violence in the police response. In fact I have yet to see, read or hear of any rioter/looter having been taken to hospital (or, indeed, even injured, except in the case of one youth who was badly cut when he broke through a shop window). Anecdotal: A couple of days ago the Indian-born man who runs the hardware store just round the corner from my place said to me something on the lines of: The police are being too soft. In my country they would have issued a warning for youths to keep off the streets, then they would have gone in with big sticks to drive them off. Likewise, on BBC radio yesterday evening a shop owner in Southall, London, said on the police response: "They should put Indian police in England with big sticks. All the policeman run after the gangsters, hit them whenever they can. When the crowds behave like this they charge them so bad they all run away." Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org ------------------------------------------- From: michael sylvester <msylves...@copper.net> Subject: British riot version of Kitty Genovese Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:23:19 -0100 This has even drawn the attention of Prime Minister David Cameron. There was no bystander apathy when a group of rioters came to assist a person who had been injured,but to add insult to injury,they stole items from the injured indivudual's backpack.It appears that British morality has reached a new low. Btw,the violent reaction of British police and Scotland Yard make the Guatemalan police look like boy scouts. Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11863 or send a blank email to leave-11863-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
