Indian student murdered in Salford street attack (in UK, unprovoked attack)

[iverglas]

77. I drop by here to alert on a post and I find this

You are quoting MARK STEYN at DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND?

I mean, I know he's Canadian and therefore inconsequential (but then why are you quoting him ...), but get a google, will you?

He lives mostly in the US these days, where I'm sure he blends into the crowd a little better than he does up here. Up here, he's about as ugly a right-wing fanatic as they come, and rightly reviled as such.

Apart from that, you anecdotal and cherry-picked non-comparable comparisons are what they always are when somebody in this particular forum decides to try to pretend that the UK is engulfed in a tsunami of violent crime. Garbage.


Perhaps the U.K. is not quite the crime and violence free utopia that you believe it is.

Perhaps nobody said they believed any such fucking thing.

On the rise: Statistics show an increase in knifepoint robberies, bicycle thefts and pickpocketing

That's almost laughable. Bicycle thefts. Who's clutching their pearls now?

You may want to look into the rate of homicide in the course of robbery in the UK. And then in the US. And note that it is a lot higher in the US ... which I'm sure Mark Steyn would tell you is because robbers in the US use firearms -- and this time he would be right. Somebody can then explain to you how this skews US robbery figures, since the presence of a body makes the crime in question a homicide rather than a robbery, while the robbery victims in the UK, who are still breathing, are counted there ...