COLONEL SIXX: THIS IS A NARRATIVE ATTACHED TO AN EO COMPLANINT REPORT FOR A SOLDIER IN THE OHIO ARMY NATIONAL GUARD. SEVERAL COMPLAINTS WERE MADE AND NONE WERE ADDRESSED AND STILL HAVE NOT BEEN ADDRESSED 8 MONTHS LATER.
No personal information is given here but the documentation is in my hands.
SOLDIERS STATMENT
About several EO issues, in particular, the previous day’s incident (March 4th 2010) when 1SG Coleman and SGM Hutt came to my home and stood in my bedroom and demanded to see me while I was getting sick in the bathroom.
I have never felt so demeaned in my life. I can’t believe that I was escorted out of Beightler Armory and was denied my right as a soldier to put in a complaint.
I can’t believe that my own Commander did this to me. I feel that I have no one to go to now. I thought Commanders were supposed to enforce EO policies and now my basic rights as a soldier have been denied.
I am experiencing an extreme amount of stress and trauma and feel that I could lose my baby since I had a miscarriage end of summer 2009.
COLONEL SIXX:
THIS SOLDIER WAS MADE TO LEAVE THE EO, WHERE COMPLAINTS ABOUT EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ISSUED ARE FILED OFFICE BY THE COMMANDER OF THE OFFICE, COLONEL SHANK.
THE SOLDIER HAD A COMPLAINT ABOUT SHANK AND 1SG COLEMAN SHOWING UP AT HER HOUSE TO FUCK HER FRIEND WHILE HE WAS STILL MARRIED TO HEATHER.
SGM HUTT, 1SG COLEMAN, AND EVERYONE THAT HAD SOMETHING TO THIS SHOULD GO TO PRISON. THESE TWO SON OF BITCHES GO TO THIS HOUSE AND HARRASS HER TO THE POINT THAT IT LATER CAUSES HER TO HAVE A PREMATURE BABY.
THAT IS CRIMINAL. THERE IS NOTHING, AND MEAN NOT A FUCKING THING ON EARTH THAT THOSE TWO SON OF BITCHS NEEDED TO BE AT THAT WOMAN HOUSE FOR.
FORT BENNING, Ga. – Two Army special operations pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed during a training exercise in western Georgia, a military spokeswoman said Tuesday.
No one else was injured in the crash Monday afternoon at Fort Benning, said Carol Darby, a spokeswoman for the Army aviators’ unit.
“We’re not saying a lot about what happened,” Darby said, noting the cause of the crash is still being investigated. “The helicopter was conducting routine military training involving our Rangers and other spec operations personnel.”
Both soldiers belonged to a battalion of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment based at Fort Campbell, Ky., Darby said. The unit’s aviators are among the Army’s elite fliers, trained to pilot helicopters in darkness using night-vision goggles and in treacherous terrain such as the mountains of Afghanistan.
The helicopter that crashed was an AH-6M Little Bird, a light attack helicopter used in air raids, armed escort missions and to provide air support to ground troops.
Darby said the crash happened on a live-fire range at Fort Benning in Columbus, where Army Rangers and other special operations troops are training this week.
The Army did not immediately release the names of the two soldiers who died, pending notification of their families.
By SCOTT GOLDSTEINA Dallas woman is accused of forcing her 6-year-old daughter to record her having group sex repeatedly in recent months, according to police documents.
The 24-year-old woman was in the Dallas County Jail on Monday on a third-degree felony charge of indecency with a child, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Her bail was set at $50,000.
The names of the woman and her daughter are being withheld because The Dallas Morning News typically does not identify victims of sexual crimes. Identifying the mother might inadvertently lead to identification of the daughter.
A tip lead police on Saturday to a northwest Dallas apartment, where the mother lives. Officers arrived at the complex near Harry Hines Boulevard and Walnut Hill Lane about 5:15 p.m. and were told that the woman had forced her daughter to film her having sex with several men at the same time.
In an interview at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, the girl “detailed filming and taking photographs” of her mother engaged in sexual acts with men, the documents said.
In an interview at Jack Evans Police Headquarters, the mother admitted to having her daughter record her having sex with men.
The woman “explained that there were three separate incidents involving six men” that her daughter recorded, the documents said. The encounters dated from March to this month, according to police.
The mother added that “it was her idea to have [her daughter] make the recordings with a cellphone video recorder,” the documents said.
A public defender listed as the attorney of record for the mother did not return a call seeking comment.
It is unclear if the identities of the men involved are known. Dallas police officials declined to comment Monday because the investigation is ongoing.
Child Protective Services placed the child in foster care and is conducting its own investigation. The girl is physically OK, CPS spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales said.
This is at least the second time the agency has had contact with the mother. She was also investigated around the time her daughter was born because of concerns that the woman may have been using drugs, Gonzales said.
Neither the mother nor the baby tested positive for any drugs and that case was closed in 2004, Gonzales said.
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Lives lost: Lt Cmdr Jonas Kelsall (above) and Chief Petty Officer Robert James Reeves (below), both Shreveport, Louisiana natives who were killed when a U.S. Chinook helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on Saturday
Military officials believe it was most likely a ‘lucky shot’ rather than a new insurgent ability to shoot down aircrafts
Taliban ambushed chopper with rocket-propelled grenades, official says
Common technique rarely brings down aircraft
Fatal attack does not point to increased sophistication of the Taliban
Endurance: Navy Seal Jonas Kelsall, centre, during SEAL Qualification Training at Camp Pendleton in 2001
U.S. Navy’s SEa, Air and Land Teams, (SEALS) are the U.S. Navy’s principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC) as well as the maritime component of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).
The name is derived from their capacity to operate at sea, in air or on land, but in the war on terror they have been almost exclusively for land-based operations, such as the storming of Osama bin Laden’s compound.
The Seals were born in the Second World War when the Navy recognised the need for soldiers to take control of landing beaches, note obstacles and defences, and ultimately guide the landing forces in.
The unit officially became known as the Naval Combat Demolition Unit.
They became Seals in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy, aware of the situations in Southeast Asia, recognized the need for unconventional warfare and special operations as a measure against guerilla warfare.
Units were established to operate from sear, air or land.
The first joint Seals and CIA operations, which are currently being carried in the war on terror, were executed in the Vietnam War.
Since then the SEALS teams have operated in Grenada, the Persian Gulf and Panama.
They were inseparable high school best friends, who stuck together through remarkable triumph – and the bitterest of tragedies.
As the U.S. comes to grips with the deadliest loss of American lives since the war in Afghanistan began, it has emerged that among the 38 brave men who perished were two home town best friends.
Chief Petty Officer Robert James Reeves and Lieutenant Commander Jonas Kelsall, from Shreveport, Louisiana, both mastered extreme trials to gain their places on Seal Team 6, the elite unit which killed Osama Bin Laden just three months ago.
They had excelled at high school together before enlisting and being sent to Afghanistan, where the pair were assigned the same mission, placed in the same helicopter – and died together when the Chinook was shot down in an attack on Saturday morning.
Military officials in Afghanistan believe that it was most likely a ‘lucky shot’ rather than marking a new insurgent ability to shoot down aircrafts.
Mr Reeves, 32, joined the elite Seal team in 1999. He had been best friends with Mr Kelsall, who enlisted soon after, since his freshman year of high school.
‘He was always very gregarious, a star soccer and lacrosse player in high school,’ Mr Reeves’s father, James Reeves, told the New York Times.
It had never been obvious to me that he was going to choose a military career. It is very difficult to make it on these Seal teams. But that was where he knew he needed to be.’
In more than a decade of service, Chief Reeves fought in war zones more than a dozen times. He earned four Bronze Stars for bravery, each with a ‘V Device’, signifying valour.
His family last saw him at home for Christmas but even then he refused to speak about the highly secretive specifics of his work, his father said.
The Chinook chopper which crashed early on Saturday morning was on a mission to back up U.S. Army Rangers, who had come under fire by Afghan insurgents in the area.
The team had completed their mission to subdue the attackers, and were departing in the helicopter when it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
However, a U.S. official has said news of the deaths does not signify increased sophistication of the Taliban, calling the fatal attack a ‘lucky shot’.
‘We are not seeing it as a game changer,’ an unnamed official told the Telegraph. ‘This was not a new tactic and it wasn’t a new weapon.
A spokesman for the Taliban movement said the craft had been shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) from as close as 150yds in an ambush attack soon after it took off following the raid.
Ambushing aircrafts is a common tactic of insurgents in parts of southern and eastern Afghanistan, making the aircraft vulnerable during take-off.
An Afghan official said on Monday that the Taliban lured US forces into an elaborate trap to shoot down their helicopter.
He said that Taliban commander Qari Tahir lured U.S. forces to the scene by tipping them off that a Taliban meeting was taking place.
He also said four Pakistanis helped Tahir carry out the strike.
‘Now it’s confirmed that the helicopter was shot down and it was a trap that was set by a Taliban commander,’ said the official, citing intelligence gathered from the area.
‘The Taliban knew which route the helicopter would take,’ he continued.
‘That’s the only route, so they took position on the either side of the valley on mountains and as the helicopter approached, they attacked it with rockets and other modern weapons. It was brought down by multiple shots.’
Another official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the event while the investigation remains ongoing, said that the Rangers, special operations forces who work regularly with the SEALs, secured the crash site afterwards.
38 people – including 30 American Special Forces troops and eight Afghan soldiers – were killed when the blast brought down the helicopter early Saturday.
Of the 30, 22 Navy SEALs from the elite ‘Team Six’ unit that killed Osama bin Laden lost their lives.
On Sunday, the names of the Americans aboard the chopper began to be released.
Aaron Carson Vaughn, from Tennessee, was a 30-year-old Navy SEAL and the first special ops soldier to be identified in the devastating crash that killed 38 on Friday.
He left behind two children, the couple’s two-year-old son, Reagan, and two-month-old daughter, Chamberlyn.
Widow Kimberly Vaughn saw television reports of the helicopter downed in Afghanistan on Saturday morning, before her doorbell rang and Navy officers told her that her husband was killed in action.
In spite of her pain-staking grief, she said her husband ‘wouldn’t want to leave this Earth any other way than how he did’ – making the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
‘He loved his job,’ she told CNN. ‘There was no way – even if you could tell him that this would have happened he would have done it anyway. All those men are like that. They’re selfless.’
It was just hours before the fatal mission Vaughn had called his wife, and spoke to his son for the last time.
‘It was actually a great conversation – probably just about time before he went out to work that night,’ she remembered. ‘We got to tell each other we loved each other, so it was a great conversation to have.’
Soon after, the tragedy came to her doorstep.
‘I thought, “Oh, hopefully it’s just a neighbour,” and as I rounded the stairs I saw the men in uniform and I just fell to my knees. There’s no preparing for it. It’s something you see in the movies. It’s not something you’re supposed to live through.
‘I fell to my knees and cried and didn’t want to hear it, but it’s the truth,’ she remembered. ‘You want it to be a mistake. You want them to say it’s the wrong person, but I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.’
A family from the Philadelphia area was devastated to learn their son, Navy SEAL Michael Strange, was also killed.
His father, Charles Strange told CBS Philly: ‘He was intense, he was funny, he had that dry humour, like Seinfeld.’
Sgt Patrick Hamburger, a Navy SEAL from Lincoln, Nebraska, spoke to his family back home before the mission.
He told his brother that he wouldn’t be in touch because his team ‘had stuff to do.’
Kevin Houston of Chesapeake, Virginia, died while living his dream.
The 36-year-old had wanted to be a SEAL since he was a toddler, friends told The Boston Globe.
Grieving parents in Jacksonville, Florida, confirmed to the Jacksonville Daily News that their son, Navy SEAL Chris Campbell, was on the chopper when it was shot down.
Another SEAL, Jon Tumilson, of Rockford, Iowa, perished in the crash, his father said.
Spencer C Duncan, 21, of Olathe, Kansas, was serving as a door gunner on the doomed chopper when it was brought down.
Air Force Tech Sgt John W. Brown of Arkansas, a paramedic whose unit was attached to the Navy SEALs, made the ultimate sacrifice.
Kraig Vickers, a Navy bomb disposal team member, of Haiku, Maui, also died in the attack.
Childhood friend Mike Labuanan of Wailuku told Hawaii News Now Vickers was planning to return to the islands next year.
‘We e-mailed a few times several weeks ago, and he let me know that he was having another child and moving back to Oahu.
‘Kraig is real strong, real smart,’ he said. ‘And he always wanted to do something challenging, so when he said he was going into the Navy, it was only right. It kinda fit his personality.’
Meanwhile, as Nato begins an operation to recover the remains of the large helicopter, an Afghan official says heavy fighting has erupted in the area of the crash.
Wardak provincial spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said Sunday that a joint operation was taking place in the Tangi Joy Zarin area of Sayd Abad district.
He said there were reports of Taliban casualties overnight, but had no additional information.
It was reported last night that the Seals who died in the helicopter crash were not among the 23 who killed Bin Laden.
According to intelligence officials, the 23 SEALs who killed Bin Laden at his compound in Pakistan in May had recently returned to Afghanistan from their base in North Carolina.
However, they were members of the same 120-strong SEAL Team Six and would have trained alongside and been close friends with those who carried out the Bin Laden raid.
It was not clear if the Taliban had deliberately targeted the helicopter as an act of revenge.
But its shooting down is bound to be greeted in many parts of the Arab world as terrible vengeance for the death of the Al Qaeda leader.
Reports suggested that seven members of the Afghan National Army, one dog handler, an interpreter and an unknown number of crew were also on board the downed helicopter. Friday night’s attack is the deadliest single incident since the Afghan war began in 2001.
It was also the highest one-day death toll for US Navy Special Warfare personnel since the Second World War. In 2005, 16 Navy Seals and US Army special forces troops died when their helicopter was shot down as they tried to rescue four comrades under attack from the Taliban.
‘A Nato helicopter crashed last night in Wardak province,’ Karzai said in the statement, adding that 31 American special operations troops were killed.
‘President Karzai expressed his deep condolences because of this incident and expressed his sympathy to Barack Obama.’
The Chinook involved in Friday’s attack – a US twin-engined helicopter mainly used to transport troops – was hit by a shoulder-held grenade as it returned from a night raid on a militant gathering in the Tangi Valley in Wardak province, west of Kabul.
The Tangi Valley, dubbed ‘Death Valley’, is known for being one of the most hostile corridors in Afghanistan. The volatile Wardak province is an infamous insurgent stronghold.
The Special Forces unit in the Bin Laden operation, Seal Team Six – known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group – has around 300 members, of whom 120 are commandos. The rest are communications and specialist support troops.
US sources said the troops were being flown by a crew of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The Taliban claimed they downed the helicopter with rocket fire and that wreckage was strewn at the scene.
The tragedy comes as America draws down its presence in Afghanistan and attempts to hand over responsibility for security to Afghan forces. Seven Afghan soldiers were also killed in the crash.
‘Their deaths are a reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices made by the men and women of our military and their families, including all who have served in Afghanistan,’ he said in a statement, adding that his thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those who perished.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said: ‘Their courage was exemplary, as was their determination to make this a safer world for their countries and for their fellow citizens. We will stay the course to complete that mission, for which they and all who have served and lost their lives in Afghanistan have made the ultimate sacrifice. They and their families are in my thoughts, in my prayers and in my heart.’
Aircraft crashes are relatively frequent in Afghanistan, where insecurity and difficult terrain make air travel essential for coalition forces transporting troops and equipment.
There have been at least 17 coalition and Afghan aircraft crashes in Afghanistan this year.
In June 2005, 16 American troops were killed when a U.S. helicopter crashed in eastern Kunar province after apparently being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
Most of the crashes are attributed to pilot errors, weather conditions or mechanical failures. However, the coalition has confirmed that at least one CH-47F Chinook helicopter was hit by a rocket propelled grenade on July 25, injuring two crewmembers.
Meanwhile, Nato troops attacked a house and inadvertently killed eight members of a family, including women and children, in the southern Helmand province, an Afghan government official said Saturday.
Nato said Taliban fighters fired rocket propelled grenades and small arms at coalition troops during a patrol Friday in the Nad Ali district.
The troops fired back, and as the fight escalated an aistrike was called in against the Taliban position, said Brockhoff, the NATO spokesman.
He said Nato sent a delegation to meet with local leaders and investigate the incident.
Nad Ali district police chief Shadi Khan said civilians died in the bombardment but that it was unknown how many insurgents were killed.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said: ‘The fresh reports from the site tells us that there are still Americans doing search operations for the bodies and pieces of the helicopter are on the ground.’
Gen. Abdul Qayum Baqizoy, police chief of Wardak, said the operation began around 1 a.m. Saturday as Nato and Afghan forces attacked a Taliban compound in Jaw-e-mekh Zareen village in the Tangi Valley.
THE FIVE DEADLIEST MILITARY
CRASHES IN AFGHANISTAN
Excluding the latest, and worst, crash, they are:
June 28, 2005: U.S. helicopter is shot down in eastern Kunar province during a rescue operation, killing 16 special operations troops.
April 6, 2005: U.S. Chinook helicopter crashes in a sandstorm near eastern Ghazni, killing 15 American troops and three civilian contractors.
May 5, 2006: U.S. Chinook helicopter crashes while attempting a night landing on a small mountaintop in eastern Kunar province, killing 10 U.S. soldiers.
September 21, 2010: U.S. Army Blackhawk crashes in southern Zabul province, killing nine troops on board, including four Navy Seals.
February 18, 2007: U.S. Chinook carrying 22 U.S. soldiers crashes in southern Zabul province, killing eight and injuring 14.
The firefight lasted at least two hours, the general said.
‘It was at the end of the operation that one of the Nato helicopters crashed,’ he said.
‘We don’t know yet the cause of the crash, and we don’t know how many Nato soldiers were on board.’Helmand, a Taliban stronghold, is the deadliest province in Afghanistan for international troops.’
Nato has come under harsh criticism in the past for accidentally killing civilians during operations against suspected insurgents.
However, civilian death tallies by the United Nations show the insurgency is responsible for most war casualties involving non-combatants.
Also in the south, Nato said two coalition service member were killed, one on Friday and another on Saturday. The international alliance did not release further details.
The deaths bring to 334 the number of coalition troops killed this year in Afghanistan, and 11 this month.
COLONEL SIXX: WE HAVE LEARNED THAT PART OF THE INVESTIGATION IS GOING TO BE WHAT SHOT THE HELICOPTER DOWN.
IT IS WIDELY HELD THAT THE HELICOPTER WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT OF THE RANGE OF AN RPG. THIS WAS CONFIRMED BY SEVERAL HELICOPTER PILOTS AND ARMS EXPERTS FAMILIAR WITH THE MODEL OF HELICOPTER USED ON THIS MISSION.
EVEN WITH A CONVENTIONAL SHOULDER LAUNCHED WEAPON, THE SHOT WOULD BE ” ALMOST ONE IN A MILLION, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT”. “AND THAT’S JUST BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME FOR A PERCENTAGE”. “I CAN’T SEE IT HAPPENING”.
Before It’s News: “Where The Pros Report The Real Story Behind The Story”
The Pentagon appointed U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Colt, the deputy commanding general of the Army’s storied 101st Airborne Division, to lead the internal military probe into Saturday’s deadly crash of a U.S. helicopter in eastern Afghanistan.
Colt will investigate all aspects of the failed rescue mission, which resulted in the deaths of 30 American troops—including 22 Navy SEALs—and seven Afghan commandos. The crash caused the biggest single-day loss of life for American forces in Afghanistan and was the worst loss in the history of the U.S. Special Operations Command, which oversees the SEALs and other elite units.
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First, let me say that I am in complete empathy with the loved one’s of the woman that was shot in Arizona and the others that were shot and killed in the same incident. As a manager of violence, I certainly appreciate the situation from another point of view.
It is a shame that in Vicksburg, MS and El Paso, TX at virtually the same time yesterday, two women, with the same hair color, weight, number of children, and other things that made them the same as Gabrielle Gifford, were killed or injured just as bad. Since they were not members of congress, their stories have not been told.
However, and not because I want it to be so, this is only the first time that this is going to happen.
We all know that we have just come through one of the most acrimonious elections that has been held in our nation. Lines were drawn and things were done.
Many of you know that the N.A.A.C.P. made accusations against the Tea Party that were not based in any fact and in fact were made to create the atmosphere of hate that we see across the nation, from sea to not so shining sea. Prior to you saying that I am picking on the N.A.A.C.P, I am now and have been a black male in America for over 50 years. I am also a former member of the organization. So put your “race card” away.
The climate for such actions has been set. The poster of President Kennedy appeared in the Dallas Morning News on the morning of his assassination.
Just for the sake of clarification, I am going to make a few salient points.
Congresswoman Gifford is a democrat. The democrats were thrown out of the leadership of the House. On the ground, it makes no difference. Obviously, the individuals that voted for her and returned her to office to represent them knew this when they voted for her. Therefore, that is, again, not my point.
However, this is my point. There are individuals that are culpable in this crime other than the person that is alleged to have pulled the trigger.
People that made scurrilous statements and used those statements to further their political cause are culpable in the attempted murders of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford and the others that were shot at the gathering. They are also culpable in the actual murder of at least two other people, one of which I understand was a 9-year-old girl.
The child’s murder is egregious to me because it took all the dreams and hopes of the child, and those that loved her, and flung them out the window. It is made even more sad by her date of birth: 11 September 2001.
The general feeling that I sense is that people made their deep dissatisfaction with the status quo very plain in the election on 2 November 2010. Certain politicians told the disenfranchised that they “felt their pain” and would work to make things better. The bottom feeding “ratings” for congress remain the same. Why?
A full two weeks did not pass without the same old stuff going down again. People were and remain furious at what has happened in the “lame duck” congressional sessions.
We all know that deals were made with the lives and futures of the people of this nation and those deals had been vociferously and strongly made. I make no distinction between democrat or republican. Their collective actions are the proximate cause of what happened on Saturday, 8 January 2011. These are the facts and they are not in dispute.
The video above relates to a now famous saying by Gerald Celente:
“When People Lose Everything They Lose It” .
This morning, I have already heard that the alleged gunman was turned away from enlisting in the Army in 2008. There are some questions about his mental health. Some have questioned his employment situation and relationship with others.
Let me make this clear: there is no doubt in my Marine mind that some, all, or other things going on in this individuals life contributed to his actions.
I want to make equally as clear that none of them in any way justify the shooting and killing of anyone.
However, I do see where these same set of circumstances would justify the murder of certain individuals and I will tell you why.
I do not know how closely, if at all, you have been following the recriminations that have come as the result of the actions of members of the Ohio Army National Guard, specifically the Recruiting Command. Should you wish to avail yourself of any of that information, it is written and not hard to find.
You will find an example of members of that “organization” forcing young women to perform sodomy by men that were supposed to have been leaders.
You will find an incident when so-called “leaders” of this “organization” have caused a woman to have a child prematurely and cause harm to her, her child, and the father of the child.
There have been nearly on hundred incidents refered to the Inspector General of the United States Army about even more egregious actions taken against women by these people.
In each and every incident I could understand why some of these individuals that have been harmed by Ohio would kill the people responsible.
Again, do not get it twisted. I am pointing out how things do not happen in a vaccum, not advocating violence . However, I dare say that had some of these things happened to a female that I loved, I would have treated the actors with “extreme predjudice”.
The men in the OANG have been in one place for the last quarter century. The National Guard is not listed as, nor should it be thought of as a branch of the United States military. Unlike in the military branches, these people have done these things to other people without reprisal or rebuke for 25 years. They have not had to change duty stations and thus they have perfected their criminal actions and the cover ups needed to hide them from the public. Other people in this “citizen soldier”, GI Jane farce have been aware of the actions of these people and not said a word.
As the people who these things have happened to suffer further humiliation by the state through the guard come boiling to the surface, the chances of someone killing the individuals responsible becomes greater. I am not wishing it to happen. However, I am surprised that it has not happened already and should it happen, I will not even blink.
People are mad, broke, and hopeless. Anything can and will happen. I am beyond being able to be surprised. Individuals in all kinds of organizations that have heretofore taken advantage of people with impunity need to take notice. What happened in Arizona is not going to stay in Arizona.
The flash mobs in America or the Blackberry mobs in London have one thing in common. It isn’t race, though they tend to predominantly be minorities. It’s identity.
The counterculture has not changed dramatically since the 70s, but it has tossed aside any appearance of idealism. The new counterculture draws in two groups, disaffected upper middle class white youth and lower class black youth. Their goals are purely materialistic, looted iPods and government subsidies for housing, education and anything else they can think of.
These are the children of the welfare state with little in common except a rejection of the commercial way of life. Neither the entitled white university brat or the posturing ghetto teenager has any interest in working. The businesses they smash are an alien thing to them. Small businessmen do not go about smashing stores. The people who do think of commodities as something they trick or intimidate others into giving to them. And that covers everyone from municipal unions to thugs driving around BMW’s.
Rand’s looters take on a more literal meaning in Tottenham. Smashing store windows and grabbing what’s inside is only the protest for more government handouts taken directly to the businesses who fund it without the bother of a government middle man.
This lawless materialism is the essence of the welfare state
This lawless materialism is the essence of the welfare state. “Loot as much as you can, or someone else will.” If you don’t grab government benefits or sneakers in store windows, someone else will. The rich are grabbing, the pols are grabbing—time to queue up and loot your share. Communism made this way of thinking so commonplace that all of Russia became one black market. And we are not far behind.
What kind of people behave this way? Those who have come to think of wealth as an infinite pile from which everyone grabs as much as they can. This is where the ethos of the socialist left and hip-hop comes together. Obama gleefully spending millions on himself and trillions on national giveaways for his donors and supporters is the most obnoxious fusion of this phenomenon.
Technological savvy melded with barbaric behavior, the 21st century mobile devotee turned raider is a wake up call in more ways than one. These are not mere race riots, they are the self-organization of the end of our civilization.
The classic raid has come to the cities of West, its hallmarks are not frustration but careful planning, followed by a violent rush. The raids may have a profit motive, but often they are there only to terrify. Mostly there is no larger political agenda, only the emergence of an old way of life that most people think died with the Vikings.
The law banished the raider back into the dim pages of history, but law depended on a civilization which is now collapsing. Police officers alone won’t be enough to stem the ride. Law enforcement depends on the fear of the average person to step out of line and break the law. The lone criminal pits himself against the well-oiled machine of the police and the federal authorities. But when gangs defy the authorities, then it’s the beginning of a civil war.
An understated civil war is already raging in Europe, between Muslim and African immigrants and the society they have penetrated
An understated civil war is already raging in Europe, between Muslim and African immigrants and the society they have penetrated. The conflict has made a mockery of the social controls of Europe. Put surveillance cameras on every street, and we’ll don masks and turn out in numbers. Run your DNA banks and see how much luck you have when entire streets are burning. Outlaw knives and we’ll bring our Molotov cocktails.
The United States managed to offer enough economic growth in the last two decades that riots were mostly limited to angry white college students protesting for some radical cause. But the economic engine is off and the flash mob is here. Black unemployment is at an all time high and teenagers with thousands of dollars, but without the steadying effect of full time employment are getting their kicks.
The situation is worse in the UK, where middle class brats and African youth are equally furious at Cameron’s cuts, and eager for the looting to resume. The shooting of a criminal is a common signal to riot, but not out of outrage, but opportunity. Political outrage always transmutes into loot. The looters are not bothering to wait until some commission suggests directing more money to social programs. Their looting is more direct and more immediate. For a gratification as instant as the tech that they use to organize their banditry.
Divestment is the common denominator. Neither the middle-class white or lower-class black rioter is invested in his society
Divestment is the common denominator. Neither the middle-class white or lower-class black rioter is invested in his society. The white rioter is a globalist, the black rioter is an outsider. Neither are invested in the city and country they are busy trashing.
The traditional raider saw himself as part of an outside group. The modern raider has global identities that are at odds with the country he lives in. He may see himself as a citizen of the world, a member of the Muslim Ummah, as black or a Marxist or any number of other wider identities. And these identities are more primal than being an Englishman or an American. When he joins a raiding party, it is as a member of one of those groups looting a society whose welfare is of no interest to him.
Civilization depends on a consensus. The fundamental base of that consensus is that the civilization is a worthwhile thing which must endure. We follow the law not only because the law is right, but even when it is wrong, because law is the safeguard of civilization. But why should people who do not value the civilization follow the law?
The left’s motives for rebelling are different than those of minority looters. But the end result is similar enough. A disregard for the civilization becomes a disregard for its laws. And that leaves self-interest as the only hedge against anarchy. But what interest do people who do not work for a living have in preserving the businesses of others? None at all. As far as they are concerned, smash a store, it will collect the insurance, and reopen, or another will open up in its place. And even if it doesn’t, then so what? It’s not “our businesses” anyway.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and freelance commentator. “Daniel comments on political affairs with a special focus on the War on Terror and the rising threat to Western Civilization. He maintains a blog at Sultanknish.blogspot.com.
You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
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