Stop The Violence: London Finally Has A Quiet Night, Prime Minister Says One-Time Will Do “Whatever Is Necessary” To Keep It That Way

After four straight days and nights of violence riots and looting, one-time in London was able to keep the peace in the streets last night.

But the anger and exasperation of the youth has already begun showing itself in other parts of the UK. And Prime Minister David Cameron is ready to shut the whole situation all the way down.

Britain will not let a “culture of fear” take over its streets, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Wednesday, saying police have drawn up contingency plans to use water cannon if necessary to remove rioters from the streets.

Thousands of extra police officers on the streets kept a nervous London quiet after three nights of rioting, but looting flared in Manchester and Birmingham, where a murder probe was opened after three men were killed in a hit-and-run reportedly as they took to the streets to deter potential rioters.

“We will do whatever is necessary to restore law and order onto our streets,” Cameron said in a somber televised statement. “Nothing is off the table” — including water cannon, commonly used in Northern Ireland but never deployed in mainland Britain.

The words “whatever is necessary” are a little scary in this contest…

Cameron has recalled Parliament from its summer recess for an emergency debate on the riots Thursday.

An eerie calm prevailed in the capital Wednesday, where hundreds of shops were shuttered early or boarded up Tuesday night as a precaution, but unrest spread across England on a fourth night of violence by brazen crowds of young people.

Scenes of ransacked stores, torched cars and blackened buildings have frightened and outraged Britons just a year before their country is to host next summer’s Olympic Games, bringing demands for a tougher response from law enforcement. Police across the country have made almost 1,200 arrests — including 800 in London — since the violence broke out in the capital on Saturday.

Armored vehicles and convoys of police vans backed up some 16,000 officers on duty — almost triple the number who were out Monday night. The show of force seems to have worked — there were no reports of major trouble in London on Tuesday night, although there were scores of arrests.

“What happened in London last night was, when community leaders and the police came together, there were significant arrests,” said police deputy assistant chief constable Stephen Kavanagh. “Some looters were taken away before they got into doing anything, but it was that joint action that made the difference.”

London courts worked through the night to process all those charged. Defendants appearing Wednesday included a 31-year-old primary school worker who admitted looting an electronics store, and a 15-year-old boy originally from Ukraine accused of throwing stones at police.

We know they could have gone about making their voices heard in a much better way… but this is what happens when the poor and disenfranchised finally decide they’ve taken enough abuse from their governments.

Of course, stealing from other normal, working folks like yourself doesn’t do isht to the government.

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