On 08/08/2011 22:53, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:41:48 +0100, wrote:

On 2011-08-08 20:04:21 +0100, "Dave Liquorice"
said:

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:56:46 +0100, Sacha wrote:

Quite, where is the water cannon, tear gas and batton charges. That's
how they dealt with riots in the 60's. I was very old,10, but sort
of remember them. Any one in the rioting crowd is a rioter, If they
aren't a rioter why haven't they got the F out of there, any sensible
person would.

I'm assuming the answer to all this is to prevent escalation of things
that are already bad.

CS gas would probably stop people from systematically looting the larger
shops though. They will have to do something forceful to regain control
of the streets from the mob and it isn't going to be pretty.

I saw the German police suppressing a student demonstration in
Frankfurt in the late 1960s. I think the same sort of show of
overwhelming force would soon stop what is going on in London at the
moment.

Since the police are so short handed in London they could always ask the
Paris riot police to come over and help out. They are always tooled up
in their black armoured coaches and ready for a good riot.

Regards,
Martin Brown