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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:10 PM
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Report on the growing issue of Gangs in the US military. cbs evening




news gave a report just now---discussed the rise in 'moral waviers"
and allowing gang members to enter the Military. Talked of the
arrest rate for criminal activity within the military.
They will doing a report tomorrow on -gangs in the general community
that originated in the Military.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:11 PM
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1. And what happens when rival gang members end up in the same platoon?
The military is being destroyed from the inside out.
BHN
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:11 PM
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2. Well folks were wondering why gang membership was down in US cities
Edited on Sat Jul-28-07 06:12 PM by seemslikeadream
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:15 PM
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3. Gang members in the military is a recipe for disaster...
I know, I work with them.
"Tribalism" at its very worst.
BHN
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:18 PM
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4. da homies learn some great new criminal/killing/weapons tricks
they can take back to the community and use on each other and innocent bystanders. They are the new troops.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm
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Exultant Democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 07:00 PM
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10. That is what scares me. We are giving them the training it takes to
hold a population hostage. These guys are part of the most deadly fighting force the world has ever seen and we are going to release them upon ourselves.

Like I always say, "We are training them there so that they can fight us here." Now those words take on a whole new meaning because it isn't just, The Qaeda, that we are teaching new trick it is the Bloods and the Crips. Facts are facts and the Bloods and the Crips have hurt far more Americans (already) the The Qaeda probably ever will.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 07:40 PM
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12. Eh, don't worry.
We'll have Blackwater to protect us.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:18 PM
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5. The citizens of America putting their best foot forward.
Gotta love that "all volunteer" military. :puke:

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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:24 PM
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7. I doubt they are volunteering, more likely the judge is giving them an "option."
The gang members I work with are in and out of juvie on a regular basis-
a revolving door, if you will. More and more judges are
offering enlistment as an option to prison/jail time.

If you are a 17 year old kid without prospects, the military
looks like a pretty good entry level position, as far
as work goes.

BHN
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Help me help Earth Donating Member (217 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-29-07 11:17 PM
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13. I'm pretty sure judges and the military don't do that anymore. nt
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Phrogman Donating Member (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:22 PM
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6. There will be IEDs detonating in LA before the decade is out
mark my words
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Radicalman Donating Member (170 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:29 PM
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8. Gang Members Should Be Welcome In The U.S. Military
Edited on Sat Jul-28-07 06:32 PM by Radicalman
A little criminal gang activity in the U.S. military shoudn't even raise an eyebrow. The way the U.S. miitary is used by our Clusterfuck Country's politicians makes it into one gigantic criminal enterprise. The U.S. led embargo, Gulf War I, and the more recent invasion and occupation of Iraq, has led to the death of some 2 million Iraqis. So a few Crips and Bloods are added to the military. So what? What are they going to do, kill a couple of dozen Iraqis?

I like Dr. Dahlia Wasfi’s observation that “The only weapons of mass destruction in Iraq are the white phosphorus, napalm and depleted uranium used by the Americans.”

The current issue of The Nation Magazine deals with the evidence that there have been many civilian casualities at the hands of U.S. troops in Iraq. But we need to remember that, as of March 2003 (just prior to the war), between 1.7 and 2 million Iraqi civilians died due to malnutrition and disease, about 700,000 of them were children. Health Ministry documents under-5 and over-50 deaths due to disease and/or malnutrition at 1.7 million. If over-5 and under-50 age sectors are added, which is well over 500,000 deaths, that makes the total number of deaths over 2 million. Estimates of deaths due to the 2003 war range from 10,000 to 100,000. The deaths were the results of the U.S. led embargo on Iraq.
We need to also remember that after the imposition of the embargo, a devastating bombing campaign against Iraq in 1991 destroyed the country's civilian infrastructure (water, sewage, and electrical power infrastructure, among other sectors). Much of the diseases in Iraq are due to the destruction of the civilian infrastructure and lack of spare parts in the 1991 war. Some of which was modestly repaired between 1991 and 2003, was destroyed again in the 2003 war. Contaminated drinking water and lack of electricity for hospitals are a major cause of the suffering for Iraq’s twenty five million people today.
I suppose the “values voters” in the U.S. approve of all of this as does their God.



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Exultant Democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 07:07 PM
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11. Yeah we are a little to busy with the busness of genocide to worry about something
as silly as a bunch of gang members who mostly just kill black people that we don't care about in the first place.



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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 06:51 PM
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9. The only difference between a gang and an army is that an army has discipline.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-29-07 11:18 PM
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14. Fuck em. They're the ones who recruited criminals so they could lie about levels...
... Let them lie in the bed they made.
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