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When The
Music Stops – How America ’s
Cities May Explode In Violence
From Matt Bracken:
In
response to recent articles in mainstream military journals discussing the
use of the U.S. Army to quell insurrections on American soil, I offer an
alternate vision of the future. Instead of a small town in the South as the
flash point, picture instead a score of U.S. cities in the thrall of riots
greater than those experienced in Los Angeles in 1965 (Watts), multiple cities in
1968 (MLK
assassination), and Los Angeles again in 1992 (Rodney King).
New Yorkers can imagine the 1977
blackout looting or the 1991 Crown Heights
disturbance. In fact, the proximate spark of the next round of major riots
in America
could be any from a long list cribbed from our history.
We have
seen them all before, and we shall see them all again as history rhymes along
regardless of the century or the generation of humankind nominally in control
of events. But the next time we are visited by widespread, large-scale urban
riots, a dangerous new escalation may be triggered by a fresh vulnerability:
It’s estimated that the average American home has less than two weeks of food
on hand. In poor minority areas, it
may be much less. What if a cascading economic crisis, even a temporary
one, leads to millions of EBT (electronic
benefit transfer) cards flashing nothing but ERROR? This could also be the
result of deliberate sabotage by hackers, or other technical system failures.
Alternatively, the government might pump endless digits into the cards in a
hopeless attempt to outpace future hyperinflation. The government can order the
supermarkets to honor the cards, and it can even set price controls, but
history’s verdict is clear: If suppliers are paid only with worthless scrip or
blinking digits, the food will stop.
STEP ONE: FLASH MOB LOOTING
In my
scenario, the initial riots begin spontaneously across affected urban areas, as
SNAP (supplemental
nutrition assistance program) and other government welfare recipients learn
that their EBT cards no longer function. This sudden revelation will cause
widespread anger, which will quickly lead to the flash-mob looting of local
supermarkets and other businesses. The media will initially portray these “food
riots” as at least partly justifiable. Sadly, millions of Americans have been
made largely, or even entirely, dependent on government wealth transfer
payments to put food on their tables.
A new
social contract has been created, where bread and circuses buy a measure of peace
in our minority-populated urban zones. In the era of ubiquitous big-screen
cable television, the internet and smart phones, the circus part of the
equation is never in doubt as long as the electricity flows. But the bread is
highly problematic. Food must be delivered the old-fashioned way: physically.
Any disruption in the normal functioning of the EBT system will lead to food
riots with a speed that is astonishing. This will inevitably happen when our
unsustainable, debt-fueled binge party finally stops, and the music is over.
Now that the delivery of free or heavily subsidized food is perceived by tens
of millions of Americans to be a basic human right, the cutoff of “their” food
money will cause an immediate explosion of rage. When the hunger begins to
bite, supermarkets, shops and restaurants will be looted, and initially the
media will not condemn the looting. Unfortunately, this initial violence will
only be the start of a dangerous escalation.
The
ransacked supermarkets, convenience stores, ATMs and gas stations will not be
restocked during this period due to the precarious security situation. A single
truck loaded with food or gasoline would be perceived to be a Fort Knox
on wheels and subject to immediate attack unless heavily protected by powerfully
armed security forces, but such forces will not be available during this
chaotic period. Under those conditions, resupply to the urban areas cannot and
will not take place. The downward spiral of social and economic dysfunction
will therefore both accelerate and spread from city to city. These delays, in
turn, will lead to more riots with the constant underlying demand that hungry
people be fed, one way or another.
Catch-22,
anyone? When these demands do not bring the desired outcome, the participants
will ratchet up the violence, hoping to force action by the feckless state and
national governments.
The “food
riots” will be a grass-roots movement of the moment born out of hunger and
desperation. It will not be dependent upon leaders or an underlying organization,
although they could certainly add to the sauce. Existing cell phone technology
provides all the organization a flash mob needs. Most of the mobs will consist
of minority urban youths, termed MUYs in the rest of this essay. Which minority
doesn’t matter; each urban locale will come with its own unique multi-ethnic
dynamic.
Some
locales will divide upon religious or political lines, but they will not be the
dominant factors contributing to conflict. In the American context, the
divisions will primarily have an ethnic or racial context, largely because that
makes it easy to sort out the sides at a safe distance. No need to check
religious or political affiliation at a hundred yards when The Other is of a
different color.
We
Americans are all about doing things the easy way, so, sadly, visible racial
and ethnic features will form the predominant lines of division.
Would
that it were not so, but reality is reality, even when it’s is a bitch.
Especially
then.
NEXT STEP: FLASH MOB RIOTS
In order
to highlight their grievances and escalate their demands for an immediate
resumption of government benefits, the MUY flash mobs will next move their
activities to the borders of their ethnic enclaves. They will concentrate on
major intersections and highway interchanges where non-MUY suburban commuters
must make daily passage to and from what forms of employment still exist.
People making a living will still be using those roads to get to where they
earn their daily bread.
The
results of these clashes will frequently resemble the intersection of Florence and Normandie
during the Rodney King riots in 1992, where Reginald Denny was pulled out of
his truck’s cab and beaten nearly to death with a cinder block. If you don’t
remember it, watch it
on Youtube. Then imagine that scene with the mob-making accelerant of
texting and other social media technology added to stoke the fires. Instead of
a few dozen thugs terrorizing the ambushed intersections, in minutes there will
be hundreds.
Rioters
will throw debris such as shopping carts and trash cans into the intersection,
causing the more timid drivers to pause. The mobs will swarm the lines of
trapped cars once they have stopped. Traffic will be forced into gridlock for
blocks in all directions. Drivers and passengers of the wrong ethnic
persuasions will be pulled from their vehicles to be beaten, robbed, and in
some cases raped and/or killed. It will be hyper-violent and overtly racial mob
behavior, on a massive and undeniable basis.
Some of
those trapped in their cars will try to drive out of the area, inevitably
knocking down MUY pedestrians and being trapped by even more outraged MUYs. The
commuters will be dragged out of their cars and kicked or beaten to death.
Other suburban commuters will try to shoot their way out of the lines of
stopped cars, and they will meet the same grim fate once they run out of
bullets and room to escape.
The mob
will be armed with everything from knives, clubs and pistols to AK-47s. A
bloodbath will result. These unlucky drivers and their passengers will suffer
horribly, and some of their deaths will be captured on traffic web cameras.
Later, these terrible scenes will be released or leaked by sympathetic government
insiders and shown by the alternative media, which continue to expand as the
traditional media become increasingly irrelevant.
Implausible,
you insist?
This grim
tableau is my analysis of age-old human behavior patterns, adding flash mobs
and 2012 levels of racial anger to the old recipe. Early-teenage MUYs today are
frequently playing “The
Knockout Game” on full bellies, just for kicks, and proudly uploading the
videos. They and their older peers can be expected to do far worse when hunger
and the fear of starvation enter their physical, mental, and emotional
equations. The blame for their hunger will be turned outward against the
greater society, and will be vented at first hand against any non-MUY who falls
into their grasp while they are in the thrall of mob hysteria. These episodes
of mass psychology we will refer to as “flash mob riots”, “wilding”,
or some other new name.
THE OFFICIAL POLICE RESPONSE TO
FLASH MOB RIOTS
To gear
up for even a single “Florence
and Normandie on steroids” flash mob street riot, city police departments will
require an hour or longer to stage their SWAT teams and riot squads in position
to react. Ordinary patrol cars in small numbers will not venture anywhere near
such roiling masses of hysterical rioters, not even to perform rescues. Those
citizens trapped in their cars cannot expect timely assistance from local or
state authorities.
Even in
the first days of widespread riots, when the police forces are well rested, it
might take several hours to mount a response sufficient to quell the
disturbance and restore order to even one major street intersection riot. In
the meantime, scores of innocent commuters will have been attacked, with many
of them injured or killed and left at the scene. It will be a law enforcement
nightmare to quell the disturbance, mop up lingering rioters, restore security,
and bring medical attention to the living and get medical examiners to the
dead. And each jurisdiction will face potentially dozens of such scenes, thanks
to the ability for MUYs to cross-communicate at will using their wireless
devices.
The far
more difficult challenge for the police is that by the time they are suited in
riot gear, armed and geared up to sweep the intersection, it will probably be
empty of rioters. The police, with their major riot squad reaction times
measured in hours, will be fighting flash mobs that materialize, cause mayhem,
and evaporate in only fractions of hours. This rapid cycle time is a clear
lesson taken from massive riots by immigrant
French Muslim MUYs in their own religious enclaves and bordering areas.
The
American flash mob riot will exist almost entirely inside the law enforcement
OODA (observe, orient, decide,
act) loop. In other words, the rioters will have a much quicker reaction
time than the police. Until fairly recently, superior police communications
meant that they could use their radio networks as a force multiplier.
With their networking advantage and cohesive reactions both within a department
and among cooperating local agencies, police could act as shepherds guiding or
dispersing a wayward stampeding flock.
Today,
the mob has the greater advantage, immediately spreading word of every police
preparation by text and Tweet, even in advance of the police movement. Attempts
by the authorities to stop the flash mobs by blocking and jamming wireless
transmissions will have limited success.
It is at
this point that the situation spirals out of control.
The
enraged mobs in urban America
will soon recognize that their spontaneous street riots cannot be stopped by
the police, and then they will grow truly fearsome. For the police, it will be
a losing game of Whack-a-Mole, with riots breaking out and dispersing at a
speed they cannot hope to match. The violence will spread to previously
unaffected cities as an awareness of law enforcement impotence is spread by
television and social media. After a few days, the police forces will be
exhausted and demoralized. As the violence intensifies and spreads, and in the
absence of any viable security arrangements, supermarkets and other stores will
not be restocked, leaving the MUYs even more desperate and angry than before.
The increasing desperation born of worsening hunger will refuel the escalating
spiral of violence.
Nor will
violent conflict be only between the inhabitants of the urban areas and the
suburbs. The international record of conflict in tri-ethnic cities is grim,
making the old bi-racial dichotomy formerly seen in America seem stable by comparison.
In tri-ethnic cities the perceived balance of power is constantly shifting,
with each side in turn feeling outnumbered and outmuscled. Temporary truces,
betrayals and new alliances follow in rapid succession, removing any lingering
sense of social cohesion.
The
former Yugoslavia ,
with its Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim divisions, comes starkly to mind. The Lebanese
Civil War between the Christians, Sunnis, Shiites and Druze raged across Beirut (at one time known as “The Paris of the Middle East ”) for fifteen brutal years. Once a city
turns on itself and becomes a runaway engine of self-destruction, it can be
difficult to impossible to switch off the process and return to normal
pre-conflict life. It’s not inconceivable that the United States could produce a dozen
Sarajevos or Beiruts, primarily across racial instead of religious divides.
Vehicle
traffic by non-minority suburban commuters through adjoining minority areas
will virtually halt, wrecking what is left of the local economy. Businesses
will not open because employees will not be able to travel to work safely.
Businesses in minority areas, needless to say, will be looted. “Gentrified”
enclaves of affluent suburbanites within or near the urban zones will suffer
repeated attacks, until their inhabitants flee.
Radically
disaffected minorities will hold critical infrastructure corridors through
their areas hostage against the greater society. Highways, railroad tracks,
pipe and power lines will all be under constant threat, or may be cut in
planned or unplanned acts of raging against “the system.” As long as security
in the urban areas cannot be restored, these corridors will be under threat.
Even airports will not be immune. Many of them have been absorbed into urban
areas, and aircraft will come under sporadic fire while taking off and landing.
In the
absence of fresh targets of value blundering into their areas, and still out of
food, MUYs will begin to forage beyond their desolated home neighborhoods and
into suburban borderlands. “Safe” supermarkets and other stores will be robbed
in brazen commando-like gang attacks. Carjackings and home invasions will
proliferate madly. As I have discussed in my essay “The
Civil War Two Cube,” so-called “transitional” and mixed-ethnic areas will
suffer the worst violence. These neighborhoods will become utterly chaotic
killing zones, with little or no help coming from the overstretched police, who
will be trying to rest up for their next shift on riot squad duty, if they have
not already deserted their posts to take care of their own families.
THE SUBURBAN ARMED VIGILANTE
RESPONSE
In the
absence of an effective official police response to the exploding levels of
violence, suburbanites will first hastily form self-defense forces to guard
their neighborhoods—especially ones located near ethnic borders. These
ubiquitous neighborhood armed defense teams will often have a deep and talented
bench from which to select members, and they will not lack for volunteers.
Since
9-11, hundreds of thousands of young men (and more than a few women) have
acquired graduate-level educations in various aspects of urban warfare. In the Middle East these troops were frequently tasked with
restoring order to urban areas exploding in internecine strife. Today these
former military men and women understand better than anyone the life-or-death
difference between being armed and organized versus unarmed and disorganized.
Hundreds
of thousands if not millions of veterans currently own rifles strikingly
similar to those they carried in the armed forces, lacking only the
full-automatic selector switch. Their brothers, sisters, parents, friends, and
neighbors who did not serve in the military are often just as familiar with the
weapons, if not the tactics. Today the AR-pattern rifle (the semi-automatic
civilian version of the familiar full-auto-capable M-16 or M-4) is the most
popular model of rifle in America ,
with millions sold in the past decade. Virtually all of them produced in the
past decade have abandoned the old M-16′s signature “carrying handle” rear iron
sight for a standardized sight mounting rail, meaning that virtually every AR
sold today can be easily equipped with an efficient optical sight. Firing the
high-velocity 5.56×45 mm cartridge and mounted with a four-power tactical
sight, a typical AR rifle can shoot two-inch groups at one hundred yards when
fired from a steady bench rest. That translates to shooting eight- to ten-inch
groups at four hundred yards.
Four
hundred yards is a long walk. Pace it off on a straight road, and observe how
tiny somebody appears at that distance. Yet a typical AR rifle, like those
currently owned by millions of American citizens, can hit a man-sized target at
that range very easily, given a stable firing platform and a moderate level of
shooting ability.
And there
are a far greater number of scoped bolt-action hunting rifles in private hands
in the United States .
Keep this number in mind: based on deer stamps sold, approximately twenty
million Americans venture into the woods every fall armed with such rifles,
fully intending to shoot and kill a two-hundred-pound mammal. Millions of these
scoped bolt-action deer rifles are quite capable of hitting a man-sized target
at ranges out to and even beyond a thousand yards, or nearly three-fifths of a
mile. In that context, the 500-yard effective range of the average semi-auto
AR-pattern rifle is not at all remarkable.
So, we
have millions of men and women with military training, owning rifles similar to
the ones they used in combat operations overseas from Vietnam to Afghanistan . Many of these Soldiers
and Marines have special operations training. They are former warriors with
experience at conducting irregular warfare and counter-terrorism operations in
dangerous urban environments. They are the opposite of unthinking robots: their
greatest military talent is looking outside the box for new solutions. They
always seek to “over-match” their enemies, using their own advantages as force
multipliers while diminishing or concealing their weaknesses. These military
veterans are also ready, willing and able to pass on their experience and
training to interested students in their civilian circles.
Let’s
return to our hypothetical Florence
and Normandie intersection, but this time with hundreds of rioters per city
block, instead of mere dozens. Among the mobs are thugs armed with pistols and
perhaps even AK-47s equipped with standard iron sights, and except in rare
cases, these rifles have never been “zeroed in” on a target range. In other
words, past a medium distance of fifty to a hundred yards, these MUY shooters
will have little idea where their fired bullets will strike—nor will they care.
Typically, most of the rioters armed with a pistol, shotgun or an iron-sighted
rifle could not hit a mailbox at a hundred yards unless by luck. Inside that
distance, any non-MUY could be at immediate risk of brutal death at the hands
of an enraged mob, but beyond that range, the mob will pose much less danger.
Taking
this imbalance in effective ranges of the firearms most likely to be available
to both sides, certain tactical responses are sure to arise, and ranking near
the top will be the one described next.
THE SNIPER AMBUSH: THE NEW TACTIC
OF CHOICE
The
sniper ambush will predictably be used as a counter to rampaging mobs armed
only with short- to medium-range weapons. This extremely deadly trick was
developed by our war fighters in Iraq
and Afghanistan ,
taking advantage of the significant effective range and firepower of our scoped
5.56mm rifles. Tactics such as the sniper ambush may not be seen early in the
civil disorder, but they will surely arise after a steady progression of
atrocities attributed to rampaging MUYs.
Street intersection
flash mob riots will not be the only type of violence exploding during periods
of civil disorder. As mentioned earlier, the number and ferocity of home
invasions will skyrocket, and they will be very hard to defend against.
Neighborhood self-defense forces will be able to protect a group of homes if
they are located on cul-de-sacs or in defensible subdivisions with limited
entrances, turning them overnight into fortified gated communities. Individual
homes and apartment buildings located in open grid-pattern neighborhoods with
outside access from many directions will be much more difficult to defend, and
the home invasions will continue.
Carjacking
and other forms of armed robbery will proliferate to previously unimagined
levels, leading to a total loss of confidence in the government’s ability to
provide security across all social lines. Stray bullets striking pedestrians or
penetrating houses will take a frightening toll, even in areas previously
considered to be safe. The police will be exhausted by constant riot-squad
duty, and will not even respond to reports of mere individual acts of violent
criminality. They will simply be overwhelmed, and will be forced to triage
their responses. The wealthy, powerful and politically well-connected will demand
the lion’s share of remaining police resources, further diminishing the safety
of average Americans.
In that
context, neighborhood self-defense forces will form the nucleus of the armed
vigilante direct action groups which will spring up next in the progression.
Suburban anger will continue to build against the MUYs, who are perceived to be
the originators of the home invasions and gang-level armed looting raids.
Survivors of street ambushes, carjackings and home invasions will tell
blood-curdling tales and show horrific scars.
The
neighborhood defense teams will evolve into proactive suburban armed vigilante
groups (SAVs) out of a desire to preemptively take the violence to their
perceived enemies, instead of passively waiting for the next home invasion or
carjacking. The SAV teams will consist of the more aggressive and gung-ho
members of the self-defense forces, who met and compared notes. Often they will
be young men with recent combat experience in the armed forces, who will apply
their military training to the new situation. Major intersections and highway
interchanges where ambush riots have previously occurred will be among the SAV
targets. The SAV reaction times will be measured in minutes, compared to the
hours required by major police department SWAT teams and riot squads.
A SAMPLE SNIPER AMBUSH SCENARIO
When word
is received that a flash mob is forming at one of their pre-reconnoitered
intersections or highway interchanges, the SAV team will assemble. Sometimes
cooperating police will pass tactical intel to their civilian friends on the
outside. Some clever individuals will have exploited their technical know-how
and military experience to build real-time intel collection tools, such asprivate UAVs. Police will have access to urban
security camera footage showing MUYs moving barricade materials into position—a
normal prerequisite to a flash mob riot intended to stop traffic. Tip-offs to
the vigilantes will be common, and where the networks are still functioning,
citizens may still be able to access some video feeds. Sometimes, police will
even join the SAV teams, incognito and off-duty, blurring the teams into
so-called “death squads.”
The
operation I will describe (and it’s only one of dozens that will be tried) uses
two ordinary pickup trucks and eight fighters. Two riflemen are lying prone in
the back of each truck, facing rearward, with removable canvas covers
concealing their presence. Their semi-automatic, scoped rifles are supported at
their front ends on bipods for very accurate shooting. A row of protective
sandbags a foot high is between them and the raised tailgate.
In the
cab are a driver and a spotter in the passenger seat who also serves as the
vehicle’s 360-degree security. The two trucks don’t ever appear on the same
stretch of road, but coordinate their movements using one-word brevity codes
over small FRS
walkie-talkie radios. Each truck has a series of predetermined elevated
locations where the intersection in question will lie between 200 and 500 yards
away. Each truck is totally nondescript and forgettable, the only detail
perhaps being the non-MUY ethnicity of the suburbanite driver and spotter
driving relatively near to a riot in progress.
By the
time the two SAV pickup trucks arrive at their firing positions on different
streets and oriented ninety degrees to one another, the flash mob riot is in
full swing. A hundred or more of the rampaging youths are posturing and throwing
debris into traffic in order to intimidate some cars into stopping. The
riflemen in the backs of the pickups are waiting for this moment and know what
to expect, trusting their spotters and drivers to give them a good firing lane.
The spotters in each truck issue a code word on their radios when they are in
final position. The tailgates are swung down, and the leader among the riflemen
initiates the firing. All-around security is provided by the driver and
spotter.
Lying
prone and using their bipods for support, the shooters have five to ten degrees
of pan or traverse across the entire intersection. Individual rioters are
clearly visible in the shooters’ magnified optical scopes. Each of the four
snipers has a plan to shoot from the outside of the mob toward the middle,
driving participants into a panicked mass. The left-side shooters start on the
left side and work to the middle, engaging targets with rapid fire, about one
aimed shot per two seconds. Since the two trucks are set at ninety degrees to one
another, very complete coverage will be obtained, even among and between the
stopped vehicles.
The
result is a turkey shoot. One magazine of thirty aimed shots per rifle is
expended in under a minute, a coded cease-fire is called on the walkie-talkies,
and the trucks drive away at the speed limit. The canvas covering the truck
beds contains the shooters’ spent brass. If the trucks are attacked from medium
or close range, the canvas can be thrown back and the two snipers with their
semi-automatic rifles or carbines will add their firepower to that of the
driver and spotter.
Back at
the intersection, complete panic breaks out among the rioters as a great number
of bullets have landed in human flesh. Over a score have been killed outright,
and many more scream in pain for medical attention they will not receive in
time. The sniper ambush stops the flash mob cold in its tracks as the uninjured
flee in terror, leaving their erstwhile comrades back on the ground bleeding.
The commuters trapped in their vehicles may have an opportunity to escape.
This type
of sniper ambush and a hundred variations on the theme will finally accomplish
what the police could not: put an end to mobs of violent rioters making the
cities through-streets and highways impassible killing zones. Would-be rioters
will soon understand it to be suicidal to cluster in easily visible groups and
engage in mob violence, as the immediate response could come at any time in the
form of aimed fire from hundreds of yards away. Even one rifleman with a scoped
semi-auto can break up a medium-sized riot.
Many
citizens will take to carrying rifles and carbines in their vehicles, along
with their pistols, so that if their cars are trapped in an ambush they will
have a chance to fight their way out. If their vehicle is stopped outside the
immediate area of the flash mob, they will be able to direct accurate fire at
the rioters from a few hundred yards away. Inside the fatal hundred-yard
radius, unlucky suburbanite drivers and passengers pulled from their cars will
still be brutally violated, but the occurrences of large mob-driven street
ambushes will be much less frequent once long-range retaliation becomes a
frequent expectation.
THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO
VIGILANTISM
Where
they will be unable to respond swiftly or effectively to the outbreaks of
street riots by MUY flash mobs, the police and federal agents will respond
vigorously to the deadly but smaller vigilante attacks. These sniper ambushes
and other SAV attacks will be called acts of domestic terrorism and mass murder
by government officials and the mainstream media. A nearly seamless web of
urban and suburban street cameras will reveal some of the SAV teams by their
vehicles, facial recognition programs, and other technical means. Some early
arrests will be made, but the vigilantes will adapt to increasing law
enforcement pressure against them by becoming cleverer about their camouflage,
most often using stolen cars and false uniforms and masks during their
direct-action missions. Observe Mexico
today for ideas on how this type of dirty war is fought.
Eventually,
the U.S. Army itself might be called upon to put out all the social firestorms
in our cities, restore order and security, pacify the angry masses, feed the
starving millions, get vital infrastructure operating again, and do it all at
once in a dozen American Beiruts, Sarajevos and Mogadishus.
Good luck
to them, I say.
A few
hundred “Active IRA” tied down thousands of British troops in one corner of a
small island for decades. The same ratios have served the Taliban well over the
past decade while fighting against the combined might of NATO. Set aside for a
moment the angry starving millions trapped in the urban areas, and the dire
security issues arising thereof. Just to consider the official reaction to
vigilantism separately, it’s unlikely that any conceivable combinations of
local and state police, federal law enforcement, National Guard or active-duty
Army actions could neutralize or eliminate tens of thousands of former special
operations troops intent on providing their own form of security. Millions of
Americans are already far better armed and trained than a few hundred IRA or
Taliban ever were. And the police and Army would not be operating from secure
fire bases, their families living in total safety thousands of miles away in a
secure rear area. In this scenario, there is no rear area, and every family
member, anywhere, would be at perpetual risk of reprisal actions by any of the
warring sides.
In this
hyper-dangerous environment, new laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in
vehicles would be ignored as the illegitimate diktat of dictatorship, just when
the Second Amendment is needed more than ever. Police or military conducting
searches for firearms at checkpoints would themselves become targets of
vigilante snipers. Serving on anti-firearms duty would be seen as nothing but
pure treason by millions of Americans who took the oath to defend the
Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Politicians who did not act in the
security interest of their local constituents as a result of political
correctness or other reasons would also be targeted.
A
festering race war with police and the military in the middle taking fire from
both sides could last for many years, turning many American cities into a
living hell. Remember history: when the British Army landed in Northern Ireland
in 1969, they
were greeted with flowers and applause from the Catholics. The Tommys were
welcomed as peacekeepers who would protect them from Protestant violence. That
soon changed. Likewise with our tragic misadventure
in Lebanon back in 1982 and 1983. Well-intended referees often find
themselves taking fire from all sides. It’s as predictable as tomorrow’s
sunrise. Why would it be any different when the U.S. Army is sent to Los Angeles , Chicago or Philadelphia to break
apart warring ethnic factions?
For a
long time after these events, it will be impossible for the warring ethnic
groups to live together or even to mingle peacefully. Too much rage and hatred
will have been built up on all sides of our many American multi-ethnic fault
lines. The new wounds will be raw and painful for many years to come, as they
were in the South for long after the Civil War. The fracturing of the urban
areas, divided by no-man’s-lands, will also hinder economic redevelopment for
many years because the critical infrastructure corridors will remain insecure.
Eventually,
high concrete “Peace Walls” like those in Belfast ,
Northern Ireland ,
will be installed where the different ethnic groups live in close proximity.
That is, if recovery to sane and civilized norms of behavior are ever regained
in our lifetimes and we don’t slide into a new Dark Age, a stern and permanent
tyranny, warlordism, anarchy, or any other dire outcome.
Dark Ages
can last for centuries, after sinking civilizations in a vicious, downward
vortex. “When the music’s over, turn out the lights,” to quote Jim Morrison of
The Doors. Sometimes the lights stay out for a long time. Sometimes
civilization itself is lost. Millions of EBT cards flashing zeroes might be the
signal event of a terrible transformation.
It is a
frightening thing to crystallize the possible outbreak of mass starvation and
racial warfare into words, so that the mind is forced to confront agonizingly
painful scenarios. It is much easier to avert one’s eyes and mind from the
ugliness with politically correct Kumbaya bromides. In this grim essay, I am
describing a brutal situation of ethnic civil war not differing much from the
worst scenes from recent history in Rwanda ,
South Africa , Mexico , Bosnia ,
Iraq ,
and many other places that have experienced varying types and degrees of
societal collapse. We all deplore the conditions that might drive us toward
such a hellish outcome, and we should work unceasingly to return America to the
path of true brotherhood, peace and prosperity. Race hustlers of every stripe
should be condemned.
Most of
us wish we could turn back the calendar to Norman Rockwell’s America . But we
cannot, for that America
is water long over the dam and gone from our sight, if not from our memories.
John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” If that is
true, judging by current and even accelerating cultural shifts, we might
already have passed the point of no return.
When The Music Stops – How America ’s
Cities May Explode In Violence.
By MattBracken: http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/bracken-when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/#comments
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