Post by Progenitor A on Mar 28, 2011 13:14:57 GMT 1
Reading the blessed Charles Moore today on last week's R4 broadcast on the Brixton riots, I was delighted to see that his analysis aligned with my own, viz, a lot of [snip] (although the saintly Charles would not use such language)
It had a 'panel' that was uniformly for the rioters and against the police. The rioters were painted as ordinary people struggling to work and keep their families together in the face of an oppressive regime that hated them and all they stood for and made their lives hell
Of course it has not escaped the notice of the BBC that the reason Brixton was so heavily policed before the riots had nothing to do with colour or race; one only has to look at places such as Winslow or Sparkbrook to see that the police did not come down so heavily in those predominantly ethnic-minority places; not escaped the BBC's notice, but conveniently ignored
Could [snip] have been other reasons such as the high levels of street crime and drug dealing in the Brixton area?
Nor did the BBC place any emphasis on the pretext for the riots which was a misinterpretation of the police stopping to assist a black man who had been stabbed - the word went around that the police had attacked him
And so began an absolutely disgraceful riot where black shops and homes were burned to the ground, Molotov cocktails were used for the first time ever in mainland Britain and hundreds of people were injured
Interestingly some 300 of those injured were policemen whilst only some 65 were 'civilians' - a sure indication of the direction of the violence that was used
Once gain the BBC assemb;led a collection of apologists for black misbehaviour and crime - an enormous slur upon the good name of law-abiding block people who surely hated what they saw happening in their home area
Bloody BBC
Dismantle it!
It had a 'panel' that was uniformly for the rioters and against the police. The rioters were painted as ordinary people struggling to work and keep their families together in the face of an oppressive regime that hated them and all they stood for and made their lives hell
Of course it has not escaped the notice of the BBC that the reason Brixton was so heavily policed before the riots had nothing to do with colour or race; one only has to look at places such as Winslow or Sparkbrook to see that the police did not come down so heavily in those predominantly ethnic-minority places; not escaped the BBC's notice, but conveniently ignored
Could [snip] have been other reasons such as the high levels of street crime and drug dealing in the Brixton area?
Nor did the BBC place any emphasis on the pretext for the riots which was a misinterpretation of the police stopping to assist a black man who had been stabbed - the word went around that the police had attacked him
And so began an absolutely disgraceful riot where black shops and homes were burned to the ground, Molotov cocktails were used for the first time ever in mainland Britain and hundreds of people were injured
Interestingly some 300 of those injured were policemen whilst only some 65 were 'civilians' - a sure indication of the direction of the violence that was used
Once gain the BBC assemb;led a collection of apologists for black misbehaviour and crime - an enormous slur upon the good name of law-abiding block people who surely hated what they saw happening in their home area
Bloody BBC
Dismantle it!