BBC Slanders Activist for Daring to Put Riots in Political Context

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
August 10, 2011

After Darcus Howe portrayed the riots in Britain – and around the world – as an “insurrection,” the BBC presenter interviewing him tried to dismiss him as a “rioter.”

Howe, originally from Trinidad and Tobago, is a former broadcaster and journalist. He was a member of the British Black Panther movement and was arrested and tried for rioting in 1970. He was acquitted of all charges. In 1981 he organized the 20,000 strong Black People’s March in response to the New Cross Fire that killed 13 young black people during a birthday party. Howe and the community were outraged by the indifferent response by the police.

The corporate media has concentrated on the criminal aspect of the British riots and all but ignored the social and political dimension of the unrest. Participants are mindlessly characterized as “yobs,” a term invented by the British upper class in the 18th century to describe poor youth (the word is “boy” backwards).

Fiona Armstrong immediately attempted to slander Howe after he made the connection between the riots in England and civil unrest elsewhere in the world.

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It is the job of Armstrong and the corporate media to put the elite’s spin on the violence and property damage. Like the Brixton riots of 1981, the unrest spreading across Britain is a direct result of social and economic problems of the country’s poor and working classes.

Howe pointed out the frustration over Britain’s “sus law” (stop and search) used by the police. The original law was based on the Vagrancy Act 1824. In 2007, another law was enacted with a provision allowing the police to act on the basis of suspicion alone and detain people without official arrest for up to six hours.

In 2009, an independent review found that British police are institutionally racist. “If it’s not addressed, this will explode in their faces,” said Dr. Richard Stone, an adviser to the review. “There’s a lot of resentment on the streets; there’s a lot of anger.”

“London’s press has reported that discontent has been simmering among Britain’s urban poor for years, in neighborhoods like Tottenham, where the riots started,” CNBC reported yesterday. “Cameron’s conservative government is under fire for spending cuts to social programs in order to help reduce the country’s debt. Among those hit the hardest are large numbers of minority youths who have been at the forefront of the unrest.”

In 2009, on the eve of the Bilderberg confab at the Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece, the global elite “discussed at a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty… or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency,” Daniel Estulin’s sources revealed.

Britain’s politically unsophisticated youth are reacting to the reality of increased poverty enforced by a teeming crop of police and the country’s well advanced police state apparatus. Rampaging “yobs” will naturally steal large screen televisions and throw petrol bombs at riot cops and the corporate media will naturally ignore the larger underlying economic and social issues in a mad rush to denounce the poor and ethnic minorities – including Darcus Howe – as criminals and hooligans.






 
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153 Responses to “BBC Slanders Activist for Daring to Put Riots in Political Context”

  1. WHEN this happen in Amerika, we need to take over the Corp. Media and broadcast the reason this is happening so the sleeping know what all the fuss is about. Usless pieces of shit untill they wake up.

  2. Its sad for the good Englishmen. Their government has sold them out. Their homes and businesses are being looted and burned. All by the “diversity” foreigners, and single mother raised louts that the government has created and promoted. Its time for real men to take back our nations and kick out the crap.

    Does anyone remember when England had a Prince with gonads enough to put the old bag into the Tower of London and take over? Will England be saved? Not with the pansies they have now.

    • your funny, when you say real men are you talking about the men that make kids then just abandon them, are are you talking about the very few that actually father their kids with love and teach them how to be good people? As if you are talking about the latter then you will have very few men to your fight. Women have been carrying mens loads for a long time. If you look to mens groups then you will find the root of the problem, ie the Masons, the Builderburgs, the Bohiemian Grove and the mens groups go on and on and they all do the same thing, destroy all of us. So maybe we need to work together. Men, Women and kids all come together and fight the nwo. just an idea Good luck with your mission

      • I’m beginning to believe women are inharently ignorant… that or vagina’s lower you IQ and affect common sense brain function. The problems in the world are obviosly SEX, or RACE related and have nothing to do with loss of freedoms, failed social plans, lies by the world gov. , ect.

        Tool.

  3. Uh, guys… She clearly said “WRITER and broadcaster”, not “RIOTER and broadcaster”… Seriously, re-listen, it’s plain to hear…

    • she was insulting him over and over,, It was very clear,, I was so glad that he put her in her place,, she is just another puppet for the system and needs to be taken down

  4. Besides Ron Paul, here is another voice you should listen to. This is an interview by Jeff Rənse, who is talking to David Dџkə.

    How many people think they know about Race and yet have never heard an intelligent discussion on the subject? How many people have strong opinions about Race, and yet never have read one single book on the subject?

    w.youtube.com/watch?v=V-EqeThKY2w

    • If I were going to build a Magic Kingdom ride to take me to the promised land, I would really use Word Press. Not.

    • I talked to David Dukes right hand man,, a few years ago, forgot his name now, but he was just spreading ignorance and hate,, I like to look all around for information but once I see hate, I walk away,, Alex stop the hate, before we walk away!!

      • You need to factor legitimate HATE into your worldview. The encouragement of irrational HATE is commonly done every day. This HATE flashes, and then is gone, since it had no real support. But when you get to the point where you see operatives who are deliberately damaging people, nations, children, and ultimately, YOU, you will hate, and it will be OOOOOOKKKKKKKK!!!!!

  5. Now the British people should realize how it feels when your city burns. how did people of Iraq feel when they were being bombed? demonstrators in Libya are rebels and in London they are thugs according to BBC. now the western journalists don’t see any grievances among people. they are just criminals. British government is one of the biggest looters of resources from other countries in history. it sounds hypocritical when they use the word looters.

  6. Darcus Howe is a respected activist who has been commenting on issues mainly about black people in the UK for decades. He knows what he’s talking about. He makes sense. He doesn’t offer uninformed drivel masquerading as cutting-edge opinion, as most media ‘pundits’ do. When AJ stated that these riots have nothing to do with revolution, he was right. But there is a context, and that context is what Darcus Howe understands. When kids go on this sort of rampage, there’s something wrong. A healthy society doesn’t produce this sort of violence. For decades we’ve been hearing analyses stating that the gap between rich and poor is widening and this is a glaring example of what such inequality produces. If the kids are just being opportunistic and looting for trainers or iPods or phones or whatever, it’s because they’ve been told that’s what they should want by an elite that wants the profits. If they’ve taken it by force, well you reap what you sow. Does it eat into profits? I really hope so.

    • So, the word is: It’s not the ‘kids’ fault, it’s society/the elite making them do it?!?!?!?!!?
      Fuck off!!!!

      • great, so I guess you really cant see what is in front of you,, this is the result of the nwo. I have worked with kids for years, teens, and they are great. I have noticed that most adults hate teens. And most adults were hated as teens. WOW what a vicious cycle. They need to be taught that this is not what good humans do and that the consequences are long term, but since they are teens I think the long term part is hard to grasp. So as you sit in the comfort of your home with a nice easy life, it is easy for you to just talk shit and be full of hate. It is time to face the facts, there really is a recipe for destruction and the nwo have it down perfect.
        I have read and heard so many people saying that these kids should be shot in the face or killed some other horrible way,,, they are so young,, they will change for the better,, it is going to be a long road for them,, you are the lucky one, never having to have lived a life like they are. Count your blessings and try to be a little more understanding and compassionate, as that is the solution to the nwo, but if you just keep hating well then you are supporting what you are fighting, which makes no sense. Peace,,,

        • Wow…you really DO talk nonsense.

  7. Kurt Nimmo…another apparent arm-chair expert/reporter, who, quite clearly, understands nothing about the UK/England.

    Lets get some things straight:

    1. Britain – the riots were confined to England. There is no ‘unrest spreading across Britain.

    2. Insurrection – these riots were NOTHING to do with what’s been happening in other parts of the world. This was no organized attempt at removing the government of the day. What started off as a peaceful demonstration was very quickly seized upon by those intent on commiting crime.

    3. The poor – if those ‘poor’ decide to steal from others/burn property, are they not then criminals? Should the media portray them us the ‘downtrodden’ or as criminals?

    4. Issues of race – this has nothing to do with race. This has everything to do with people wanting new footwear/televisions/designer clothing.

    5. Britains politically unsophisticated – those people choose to remain uneducated and dumb. There is upward mobility in the UK. Many of my former friends choose the easy path in life and blame ‘the man’/society for their ills. It’s always someone else’s fault. People do have the power to improve their lot in life – some choose to do so – others don’t. The people who don’t want to change are the ones we see stealing and buring their way across London and other ENGLISH towns.

    • I thought his article was great,, no reason to be so hateful, he might not understand everything but who does,, I hope your not claiming to be the expert,,,, What do you know about the race issue, are you suffering, do you get chased down by people that hate you just because of the color of your skin? Do the cops kill or beat up half of everyone you know? Do you get denied good jobs all the time and shitty jobs like janitor or mc d’s are available to you,, or maybe even field worker,,? I doubt it,, you sound like you got a free pass in life, you will claim that you worked hard for what you have, but is that really true, usually it is not,, cops let you off with warnings, you get jobs you aren’t even qualified for, and you have probably never been chased out of any area just because of your skin,, so you are the privileged one and it shows. I really dont even know how you can say race has nothing to do with this,, it is usually behind so many subjects. Please show compassion and understanding and maybe walk a day in someone elses shoes and then make all the judgment calls. Peace

      • Please, do not make silly statements about my life. You have no idea who I am, what color my skin is or where I’m from.

        Do NOT make this a race thing. Are you using the race issue to justify what’s been going on? If so, then that gives us all some justification to do something illegal based purely on skin color.

  8. These riots are not political. These riots are not about race. These riots are simply the mob mentality taking over. THIS IS WHY WE NEVER WANT A PURE DEMOCRACY IN THIS COUNTY! The majority (mob) is seldom correct on any issue. Do not get me wrong, I am not an elitist, nor do I think some Harard grad should be running things. I just believe that for each system we put in place that we have a working check and balance. For us that means a democratic republic and the system we have is not bad. We just need to put in term limits and not let politicians keep their campaign funds. We should not give retirements to politicians, and a few more that I will not discuss for the sake of brevity.

    • checks and balances is correct, and we need more of them, Freedom Force International promotes all that,,,

  9. He’s right. People have known about this. I’ve talked to retired Canadians in South America. They’ve known about it, and left for a reason.

  10. It is not black vs. white, it is inbred NWO scum vs the rest of us.

  11. Whites don’t know how to keep a decent civilisation without robbing everyone else in their attempt to do so. Blacks have nothing to apologise for, until white get a grip on their own destructive role in the world.

    • So, you have never heard of Africa. This a very large continent in the other hemisphere below Europe. It contains a largely black population that has been in some civil war or another since the planet cooled. Blacks complain about whites BUT it was black Africans that sold black people into slavery. Today, in the Ivory coast there is genocide, a black on black war. (no white people involved..again) Most other African countries are in some sort of revolution/civil war as well, and, wait for it, white people not there or causing the problem.

      • You have no understanding of Africa. The conflict is Ivory coast is about the French desire to keep control of the country. The sent the soldiers in that captured the leader who was against France controlling the country any longer. The France, condoned by America have now put their stooge in place. Africa has not been free of European and Arab invasion for 2700 years. In the time before these continuous Africans did very well along the whole nile valley for 3000 years. Creating the nation state of Ancient Egypt that seeded western civilisation. And look at the thanks we got for the help we gave whites, it even as white try to deny that Ancient Egypt was black. Centuries of oppression is what resulted from our efforts to civilize whites.

        Today through the use of finance Europe and America keep the population of African on the verge of starvation, so that it is easy to pit one group against another. This is how the west attains its wealth. and position in the world. It’s OK keep on denying. You own leaders selling you out too as we speak.

        • come on truth warrior -don”t talk crap.
          It”s the arab who says he created egypt and i don”t care who did.In fact i hope ancient egypt was founded by black people-one thing at least in 5000 years (the civilization started before egypt in India and Iran-both are not black and never were,but i think you don”t mind)
          Some of the 1st jews and christians were black and white history don”t deny it and it is also well known that ethiopiens was highly developed in the ancient egypt time and those informations aren”t surpressed.
          BTW -the southern parts of Africa were free most of the time (exept for the last 400 years)-and what?where were those huge achievements black people have made in this time-tell me?
          Do you really think there were no wars or slavery before the white or the arab came-lol,but you are absolutely right about how the west attains its wealth.

        • Thank you, but you know even truth seekers really dont like to hear the truth, if it is not the subject they seek. I think we should all be trying to get an education and face the facts,, Crap has happened, admit it and work hard to not let it happen again, it is really that easy. But when you have everybody hiding behind false crap, well then no changes are going to happen. Truth Seekers wake up!!!!!

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