Is This The MPLA, Or Is This The UDA, Or Is This The IRA? I Thought It Was The UK…
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:
The BBC asks: Are brooms the sign of resistance to looters?
No, that’s a sign of capitulation to looters. That’s resignation that looting is inevitable and unstoppable so all we can do is clean up afterwards.
I’ll allow a few points for the British tradition of taciturnity and stoicism that got them through The Blitz – while averring that a foreign (would-be) invader is beyond the citizen’s control; civic violence is something that springs from one’s neighbors.
Doakes:
Korean shopkeepers, during the 1992 LA riots. From the blog "Ask A Korean"
The picture above is hotlinked from (and links to) “Ask A Korean” – a Korean immigrant who, to be fair, is pro-gun-control, and finds the image “dispiriting”.
I strongly disagree, of course. The picture – Americans (of whatever ancestry) pushing back mob rule and anarchy using their God-given right to keep and bear arms is inspiring – indeed, a thing of profound, if pointed and loaded (as it were), beauty.
August 11th, 2011 at 6:28 am
British stoicism is one thing, but the image above is what the British need now, the essence that Churchill captured-
“We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
That should be the mantra of every shopkeeper and homeowner in the riot areas.
August 11th, 2011 at 7:44 am
I fear that we may see this type of behavior from the entitled class right here in Minnesota.
August 11th, 2011 at 10:50 am
“The Korean” at “Ask A Korean” (who seems like a reasonable guy except for the bitter clinging to gun-control) said:
“The idea that armed citizenry can defeat the advances of tanks, jets and paratroopers is silly.”
Which prompts me to say “are we talking ‘tyranny’ or ‘all-out-assault’?” and “where there is no will, there is no way”.
August 11th, 2011 at 11:07 am
His Google-fu is weak. Search “Tiananmen Square Tank Man.”
August 11th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
“The idea that armed citizenry can defeat the advances of tanks, jets and paratroopers is silly.”
It wasn’t in Stallingrad.
I have a friend who is an expat Brit, he tells me that the rioting BS wouldn’t go unanswered in the rural country.
August 11th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Reading more makes me think he’s not so reasonable:
“And it is racist because the disproportionate response is at least partially predicated upon the criminal’s race”
He has a case of the ESPs if the link is the source of this information.
September 2nd, 2011 at 7:45 pm
The brooms are the perfect symbol of Britain’s “Stop, or I’ll say ‘stop’ again” mentality in dealing with criminals.