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With London succumbing to looters and muggers, it’s time to ask what happened to the once-manly English people. The August 9 issue of the Daily Mail, for example, includes a photo of a young man taking off his pants on the street as an impatient looter waits with the emasculated Briton’s sneakers and shirt already in his hands. Luckily the feeble Englishman chooses boxers over briefs, but I can’t help wondering if men such as T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, or Lord Acton could have stomached
Originally posted by DaddyBare
The second link I provide is a list of Britain's Greatest Hero's compiled by the BBC...
True John Lennon or Julie Andrews would be of little help in these turbulent days but what about such notables as Guy Fawkes, Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery,
What happened the English spirit the repelled the Germans and endured the battle of Britain??? what changed??? Clearly something did or these riots wouldn't be happening..
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Originally posted by DaddyBare
reply to post by bluemirage5
You and me both... and on both sides of the pond
but to be fair... this is not my ranting ,,, it is a real news story that I know is going to anger a lot of people>>>edit on 11-8-2011 by DaddyBare because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DaddyBare
What happened the English spirit the repelled the Germans and endured the battle of Britain???
Consider that this latest explosion of looting, robbing, and burning began in Tottenham, a dicey corner of north London, after police shot and killed a 29-year-old Tottenham resident named Mark Duggan. ... What we do know is that police pulled over a taxi in which Duggan was a passenger. Police say they heard a gun fired, which prompted them to shoot and kill Duggan.
This reaction says something horrific about the culture in these neighborhoods, just as much as the 1992 Los Angeles Riots displayed that all wasn’t right with the culture in the poorer neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
I submit that one of the chief causes of their now emasculated spirit is the loss of so much of their individual liberty — like a child used to a parent fighting his or her battles, a people dependent on their government for everything cannot take care of themselves and are prone to childish outbursts.