Dita's Slot Meter wrote:Why??.... Personally, I think it would be a good start if we had organised armed squads actually offing scum like Duggan (like the Northern Ireland hit squads that were recently outed).

Nothing riles me more than when you hear about characters being referred to as known gangsters/ drug dealers/general scum, yet they are allowed to strut about with no threat of comeuppance - More no nonsense policing like the Duggan case would be appreciated by the majority of the British public.

Richie wrote:You won the lottery of life when you were born.

Him wrote:You do know you're talking to a man who hit himself with a brick don't you?

Richie wrote:Yes. The self-imposed handicaps were why I said top 10% rather than top 5%

Wire Yed wrote:You then turn us into Mexico

I don't feel sorry for him but actually targetting and killing criminals makes us a little bit Mega City One.

Richie wrote:Tough choosing between Nike and Adidas isn't it. Would you have been happier being born in North Korea?
You won the lottery of life when you were born. Don't waste it.

George Carlin wrote:When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

Damo-Leeds wrote:I've read some wonderful stories about people overcoming adversity in North Korea. You should give Barbara Demicks 'Nothing to Envy' a read sometime.

Damo-Leeds wrote:When it comes to analogies to where people are born, I rather like what George Carlin once said:

Richie wrote:Can you summarise it for me?

Where would you have preferred to have been born?

Damo-Leeds wrote:It's a book about people's lives in North Korea. Barbara Demick interviewed a number of Asylum Seeker from the north who are now living in the south. It covers both good and bad things that happened in these peoples lives.

Damo-Leeds wrote:Being born in 1990 would have been a lot better as been involved with four decades makes me feel old. What this has got to do with Mark Duggan I don't really know. Maybe time to get back on topic?