As it's been 100 years ago, riots in world's countries looks normal and during the last couple of years TV reports from different parts of the world showing agressive mobs have become a trivial thing.


All such things look similar. In the result of some clash between civilians and the police the former suffer. This fact becomes the reason for accumulated grievances to explode. Immediately, there appear spontaneous manifestations, riots, looting and robbing. Often the rioters use all available communications like mobile phones, Internet in general, social networks in particular. Riots become global. Police gets reinforced and in some cases authorities even bring the army. Riots get suppressed, people get arrested, the communications are jammed or blocked, as authorities try to keep control over the situation.


As usual. With the only difference that the reaction to riots in Egypt, Libya, Syria differs from the reaction to riots in France or UK.


Remember the recent events in France. There were also riots, broken glasses, burning cars and other 'mandatory attributes'. And it all started the similar way. Originally the police were in pursuit after some suspects that ended up in the crash against some wall.
A 18 years old guy irritated his neighbors for driving at nights without a muffler and they called the police. By some unknown reason that guy chose to escape and crashed to death into a concrete fence. This incident was considered 'an atrocity of the regime' by the inhabitants of poor quarters and ended up in a big riot in August 2009. Two years before that two teenagers in Ville Le Bell had died the similar way while escaping from the police. Then hundreds even thousands of young people had been smashing and crushing everything in sight and over 100 police officers were injured, not to mention the civilians who happenned to live nearby.


In that same year a security officer in Paris Metro tried to detain a ticketless passenger who put up a fight and injured one man. Police officers who came to help had to handcuff them. At this very moment people 'outraged by this arbitrary police actions'. This whole thing quickly turned into a grand riot that covered several quarters of the city. The barricades were quicky erected (along with the old French tradition) and the police had to use tear gas to put it down.


Well, and the most infamous riots in France began after two teenagers hid from them in a power substation ignoring the warning labels and got accidently killed by electric current. Police was put to blame, as usual. The riots spread over a hundred towns and cities. The rioters shouted 'Intifada!' and 'Death to France!'


This summer's events


On Aug, 6th a police patrol stopped a taxi-cab with a 29 years old local inhabitant Mark Daggan. Something happenned and Daggan was shot. On Aug 6th a 300 men mob assembled near the police station demanding "justice". In the beginning this meeting was peaceful but then the crowd set fire to several police cars and a bus. Several nearby stores were looted and burned. Special police forces were dispatched there but the crowd started throwing bottles with Molotov's cocktail at them.


Mass riots spread over to other cities. Police tried hard to stop this. In Manchester the police forces numbered over 16 thousand.


By this moment over 400 people are already arrested in London. London prisons are already overcrowded and new prisoners are sent to nearby towns.


An important thing here is that police cannot gather a substantial number of men to put down all local incidents. The rioters resemble a more flexible and coordinated force than usual. They use Facebook and Twitter for coordination.


Doesn't it remind you of something? Facebook and Twitter were the 'engines' of the arab revoltion. All attempts to block access to these resources was treated by the Western media as a violation of human rights to free speech and freedom of information. Google even launched a free service which anyone with a cell phone could use to send a message to publish. Everything was done to help the 'rebels' to takl to each other and co-ordinate the next attack.


When, on the other hand, the riots begin within the Western countries, the situation is quite the opposite. A powerful British politician David Lammy urged Reserach in Motion (a manufacturer of Blackberry smartphones) to block the chat which rioters in London use. A respectable manufacturing company has already agreed to help the police in search of the riot instigators.


David Cameron characterized the riots as a 'disgusting crime' and promiced to punish all who participated.


Frightened London inhabitants urges the government to bring the army to suppress the riot. Well, if they agree then how this situation will be different from what's happenning in Syria?


As it was expected, no human rights activists are making any statements. They keep silence. Nobody demands to provide a free Internet access to the 'rebels' in London and Birmingham. Nobody accuses Cameron in violation of human rights.
What they call a struggle for freedom agains tyrans in Syria and Libya in UK they call a struggle against 'disgusting crimes' and 'the demonstration of the force of law'.


The comic element of the situation has already been noticed in Iran, by the way.
They troll UK like this:UK riots: Iran calls on UN to intervene over 'violent suppression' | UK news | The Guardian