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August 2011 Economic "Robin Hood" Riots Of The UK by Superego: 12:07pm On Aug 15, 2011
http://www.newsrescue.com/2011/08/august-2011-economic-riots-of-the-uk/

NewsRescue- The August riots in the United Kingdom which followed UK cops assassinating a black minority, Mark Duggan, who was shot dead in a cab in Tottenham, have been referred to by the UK Prime minister as the work of thugs and criminals. More than 2,200 people have been arrested countrywide. Many view the thousands of disgruntled youth breaking into stores and burning buildings as ‘looters’. This can not be further from the truth. The riots in England are simply ‘economic riots‘. The well defined target- Corporate Britain. It is no coincidence that one in 10 retail and leisure firms had been affected by the disturbances.

Related: Firms warn of lasting damage from riots to economic recovery

The Robin Hood Riots

There are different types of riots, they could be political, in which case the people see the government as the main enemy and attack and burn establishment. This was the common type of riots in the Middle East, where the people blamed the governments for the hardships and inflation. Riots could also be economical, where the economic industry is targeted for being, more importantly than the government, the root cause of hardship and inflation. These were the riots of the UK this August. Dubbed by some as the Robin Hood riots, after a British 13th century folklore (Rabunhood), of a villain who lived in Sherwood forest, that used to rob the rich to feed the poor.

BBC Leana Hosea speaks to Croydon looters in famous “Robin Hood audio“


Excerpts from above “Robin Hood audio”, video of BBC correspondent, Leana Hosea’s interview of some young proletariat’s in the heat of the riot.

    Rioting girls: , everyone was just gon onna riot, just goin mad, like…chuckin things, chuckin bottles
    breaking into stuff, breakin into shops…it’s madness… but it ’s good though, it’s alright, it’s good though

    Leana Hosea: Misses!
    So you are drinking bottle of…Rose wine, half-five in the morning

    Rioting girls: Yeah, free alcohol, ha ha

    Leana Hosea: And you been drinking all night

    Rioting girls: Yeah… Like it’s the governments fault, $^$#….we showing the police we can do what we want
    yeah, that’s what it’s all about- showing the police we can do what we want, and now we have!

    Leana Hosea: So you reckon it’ll go on tonight?

    Rioting girls: Yeah, hopefully, hopefully, definitely

    Leana Hosea: But why is this targeting local people, your people?

    Rioting girls: It’s the rich people, it’s the rich people, the people that have got businesses, and that’s why all of this is happening, because of the rich people, so we here to show the rich people we can do what we want.

A Growing Wealth Gap



The world is at a point where the gap between the rich and poor is at its highest in recent times. Corporate business runs and owns governments, Wall street owns the US government and Canary Wharf owns the UK ,




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