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by barrkel 5421 days ago
This is the path to totalitarianism. The scary thing is that the people actually want it; it doesn't take much to push them into its arms. And that's why it's so important to fight against it, at all costs.
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I respectfully submit that your priorities are misplaced.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8692110/London-...

In one incident, a man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was attacked by rioters after he tried to extinguish a fire they had started in a bin.

Other residents told how they barricaded themselves into their block of flats as more than 200 masked rioters bent on burgling houses tried to smash down the doors.

Classical composer and musician Leni White told how she escaped her blazing flat in Ealing with nothing but her violin after it was torched by thugs.

Shopkeepers were also robbed and one was left with stitches after looters beat him up and demanded his money.

I'm sorry, but I don't think democracy is outweighed by thuggery.