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Published: 2011-08-12 13:48:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1940; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 26
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Description The rioting in England seems to have finally ended. On Wednesday the 10th August i visited Manchester City Centre in the morning for a meeting. This was the morning after the last night of violence. I was disgusted at what i saw. Miss Selfridge's burnt out, shop windows smashed...but this sticker really wound me up. I found this on the Vodaphone shop just outside the Arndale (which took quite alot of damage). Why on earth would anonymous be placed here?? This had nothing to do with anonymous; there was no political of moral reasoning behind these attacks.

If anonymous becomes a scapegoat for these riots i will be truely pissed. Whoever put this up is a fool.

Putting my rant aside, seeing the whole community come out with brooms in hand to try take back what is theirs was quite a site. If i hadn't been there for a meeting i would have loved to helped out. A true testiment to the spirit of Manchester.
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ThomasM369 [2011-08-23 12:32:33 +0000 UTC]

I saw that sticker in Manchester somewhere else about a week or so before the riots. So I don't think the stickers have anything to do with the riots.

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Noolin [2011-08-14 01:17:47 +0000 UTC]

Ugh such stupidity! These riots are just destructive for the sake of being destructive.

Although, excuse the ignorance, but who or what is anonymous?
(that seems like some sort of zen riddle)

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aut0nomist [2011-08-13 20:39:43 +0000 UTC]

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Xaldin911 In reply to aut0nomist [2011-08-14 09:18:26 +0000 UTC]

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aut0nomist In reply to Xaldin911 [2011-08-15 05:26:33 +0000 UTC]

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Xaldin911 In reply to aut0nomist [2011-08-15 11:23:37 +0000 UTC]

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aut0nomist In reply to Xaldin911 [2011-08-15 19:41:16 +0000 UTC]

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Xaldin911 In reply to aut0nomist [2011-08-15 20:34:30 +0000 UTC]

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aut0nomist In reply to Xaldin911 [2011-08-16 17:42:23 +0000 UTC]

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Xaldin911 In reply to aut0nomist [2011-08-16 17:55:10 +0000 UTC]

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aut0nomist In reply to Xaldin911 [2011-08-16 17:59:57 +0000 UTC]

It's not a matter of debate; you simply don't understand what anonymous is. It is an organization composed strictly of those who choose to call themselves anonymous. Its actions are strictly those claimed by anyone who chooses to claim them for anonymous. You were expressing what you believe, and I'm pointing out that it is incorrect, based on a false belief that anonymous is an organization with some kind of limited membership or 'official' existence. I have also been part of anonymous. So have thousands, if not millions, of others.

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Xaldin911 In reply to aut0nomist [2011-08-16 18:02:08 +0000 UTC]

k i've tried to end this nicely but you're clearly out to enlarge you epenis so i'm cutting you short now

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ToxicAlice92 [2011-08-13 15:15:05 +0000 UTC]

Wow.... These are really horrible. I can't imagine why these people went psychotic in the the first place, much less imagine the pain that those who suffered have to endure and work through right now. I read a post on tumblr. that was a screen cap of some girl reblogging someone saying they had, "Stabbed a fucking cop! ....What a rush! ......He said, 'Please don't, I have a daughter!' Stupid faggot cop."

I'm going to be extremely upset is this ends up being focused on anonymous as well. I'm praying so much for everyone there. I may not be able to do much from the US without having anything, but if parying and at the very least caring will make any kind of difference, I'll do it to my damndest.

I'm truly sorry you and everyone else had to go through all of this insanity. I really, really hope everything comes back together soon. =/ And that you and most everyone you know are alright, as well as all others over there.

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Xaldin911 In reply to ToxicAlice92 [2011-08-13 15:30:36 +0000 UTC]

wow, i hadn't heard about that one. This whole thing has been surreal, luckily my friends and family were all safe from harm, and thank you for your concern

i think this whole thing has been the result of long standing social degeneration. I once said to a friend last year (when the cuts were announced) that i was surprised there hadn't been a revolution or something....but this was not what i imagined at all. This was mindless violence, and thankfully it's over now.

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ToxicAlice92 In reply to Xaldin911 [2011-08-13 15:33:23 +0000 UTC]

I can send you the link if you wanna see the screencap of the Twitter post. And you're welcome, of course I am, cause that's exactly what this is, is mindless violence. I don't think anyone would have imagined anything like this, and it's just purely out there. Again, I am really sorry you all had to endure this. =/

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Xaldin911 In reply to ToxicAlice92 [2011-08-13 15:36:12 +0000 UTC]

please do, these people need exposing for the scum they are

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ToxicAlice92 In reply to Xaldin911 [2011-08-13 15:39:03 +0000 UTC]

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Looks like the original is alexaunderbase, and Hey_SoulSister reblogged her.

It's just terrible. I reblogged it on tumblr to pass it around. Was thinking of putting it up on here to pass, too, but with the quality, I didn't know how many people would actually look at it. After reading yours, though, I'm going to post this so more people can see how mindless and pointless this all really was.

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Sarkytob [2011-08-12 20:04:25 +0000 UTC]

I don't believe, that this very sad events has anything to do with the real anonymous. Due to the stucture of them, every Fuckhead can pretend to be a member of anonymous and to to act on their behalf.
The people in all the affected citys cleaning up and trying to come back to normal live has my deepest respect.

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Xaldin911 In reply to Sarkytob [2011-08-12 20:11:22 +0000 UTC]

i don't even think that the looters were claiming to be part of anonymous...but by putting this here with film crews and photographers everywhere, it's bound to send out the wrong message.

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Sarkytob In reply to Xaldin911 [2011-08-12 20:37:22 +0000 UTC]

Oh ok, thats a good point.
Especially as today some of the newspapers, magazines, TV-Stations and so on aren't interested in serious jounalism anymore but only in how to make the most money out of a story even if this means to tell only part of whats actually happend.

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Xaldin911 In reply to Sarkytob [2011-08-12 20:45:25 +0000 UTC]

sensationalism sells =/

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Sarkytob In reply to Xaldin911 [2011-08-12 20:58:18 +0000 UTC]

Yes unfortunatly.

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irwingcommand [2011-08-12 19:59:59 +0000 UTC]

[link] same window

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Xaldin911 In reply to irwingcommand [2011-08-12 20:04:16 +0000 UTC]

wow looking at the time you took that we might have walked right past each other haha. i got shots from the rest of the street too (like poor miss selfridges...) but don't think i'll upload them here. Did you walk up and see Dawsons?

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irwingcommand In reply to Xaldin911 [2011-08-12 23:08:22 +0000 UTC]

I covered both Manchester and Salford, I wasn't happy with any of my Dawson's shots.

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imushrooms [2011-08-12 16:35:37 +0000 UTC]

I saw these guys in Rotterdam, or it was just a joke. Pour England.

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