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The US Middle
Class Meets The Bloods And The Crips
By Paolo Caruso
12/18/07 "ICH"
-- - -Given the U.S. media induced obsession with convicts,
criminals, and fugitives; one can clearly see how this coincides
with the loss of civil rights, omnipresent video survellience,
electronic data intrusions, privatized penal institutions, and
the build-up of war-hardened national guard assets - all
taxpayer funded to guard the wealth of the elites. The once
demure security guard with the blue sports jacket at the local
shopping mall, has been replaced with the gun totting, equipment
laden sentinel in the black commando uniform, bloused fatigues
and combat boots. Suspicious glances have replaced courteous
smiles. Basically, we are creating our own prison planet, but
there is even more to cause great concern to the middle class.
As much of Middle America shrinks into desperate subsistence,
this backbone of the U.S. economy will find itself facing, not
only a lower standard of living and an intrusive security
apparatus, but an even stronger motivation to maintain
obedience. Coming to a neighborhood near you is the perpetuation
of gang culture and a countrywide spread of an irreverent and
violent underclass.
The middle class is being hemmed in on two sides. On the top of
the hill, they will face the electronic clad security walls of
the wealthy gated communities; guarded by private, well equipped
security firms. These little fiefdoms along the waterfronts and
hilltops will be the lairs of the employers, politicians,
lawyers and financiers. But at the bottom of the hill is the
other menacing border that encloses their precarious level of
society - the increasing boiling cauldron of the underclass.
The growing disparity in income levels squeezing the middle
class is more than just quality of life issue. It is indeed a
life or death situation. The growing underclass is more than
just poor.it is forming a threatening periphery of middleclass
neighborhoods. An angry sprawl of the neglected; ruled by rival
gangs whose level of decency and compassion is non-existent. The
poorer urban areas, now taking over the suburbs, will soon be
presenting itself as the precipice over which one could easily
find themselves falling, if they should have a disruption in
income. In light of the coming economic hardships, workers will
face drops in real pay, and other exploitative terms of their
employers, to which they will be more compelled to agree.
Conveniently so, the obedience of the middle class is assured,
as the underclasses become more violent and pervasive.
Is it possible that the masterminds that contrived 9-11 and
Weapons of Mass Destruction, could engineer such a society,
whose strata provides the incentive for unwaivering obedience of
those just above them on the social scale.
Already in the suburbs we see the spray-painted gang graffiti,
once rebellious icons of the inner city, or locales such as the
crime-ridden 1,000 unit Nickerson Gardens housing project in Los
Angeles. Nickerson Gardens, a hell-hole of humanity is the
hornets nest of violent urban society, which spreads it eggs out
to the rest of the country. Nickerson is in fact an incubator
for gang activity that appears to be deliberately franchising
its produce to the suburbs of middle America.
Strangely this housing project, which incurs hundred of killings
a year, is owned and run by the federal government. Evidently,
the Feds, in the guise of solving the violence, is spreading
graduates of this housing project to every corner of the
country, while the media moguls in New York and Hollywood assist
the malignant scourge by perpetuating this gangland culture in
film and music.
The squeeze of the frightened and disheartened middle America
may transcend terms and pay, to extend to ideology and
submission. Conformity may be breached not only by disobedience,
pro-labor activities, or perhaps by not showing up for a
patriotic rally, or failing to have your son or daughter sign up
for selective service. Such show of rebelliousness could cause
your lender to call in your loan, or cut your work hours, or may
even result in a layoff. The consequence of the slightest
recalcitrance may be enough of a disruption in pay, to send you
over that cliff to the "more affordable" neighborhood, where the
school system is a brutal hell for your children, and your house
is an open target for burglars, rapists and street gangs - where
its so bad that going grocery shopping seems as treacherous as
Snake Plisken's escape to New York.
The dynamics here are clear: the middle class is squeezed into
more productivity and less pay..or else...you may have to move a
few streets over into an anarchic violent lifestyle, where your
chances of getting shot are 1 in 250, as is the ratio in many
gang ridden neighborhoods. This type of society is spreading
rapidly. As judges regularly order gang-bangers out of their
housing projects into suburban settings in other states, where,
rather than joining the 4-H and the junior achievers, they
immediately set up recruitment for their own violent gangs. And
with the cultural disenfranchisement of American middle class
culture, there are plenty of wannabes to join and plenty of
customers to buy crack.
It is clear that corporations have far more leverage when the
housing track, within walking distance of your home, has already
turned into a ghetto, ruled by ruthless irreverent gang-bangers.
It is particularly threatening, when you cannot make the private
school payments, and you have to send you kids to public
schools, where they are like lambs to the slaughter. Losing ones
job is a life and death matter.
America, which all the world knows is ruthless and violent
externally, is turning on itself as a ruthless violent society.
And the African-American community, along with Hispanics, will
be unwillingly utilized as the proverbial alligator pit to
maintain middle class order.
Is this social engineering? The gang society in Los Angeles is
already being deliberately transported to other cities and small
towns throughout the U.S. and is finding fertile growth to
reproduce itself. Hollywood is more than active in glamorizing
and perpetuating this growth. The social scientists and their
Straussian elites - those that contrived the current wars in the
Middle East, are certainly not beyond such strategic
machinations to check the growing dissatisfaction in today's
middle class.
It is brilliant on their part, since the "divide and conquer"
strategy works so perfectly. A united front against the elites
will never amass, since the Blacks are unlikely to ally with the
Hispanics. The Southeast Asians will have nothing to do with the
others. And they will all be killing each other over drug turf
and protection rackets. Even the rural whites will close their
communities to outsiders, as they fall under siege by the
federal authorities in their attempt to "urbanize" all areas of
the U.S.
In reaching the perfect equilibrium, the Feds will empty their
jails of the worst of the gang members back into society,
creating a ruthless and criminally controlled subclass. In the
article on the 5000 resident Nickerson housing projects, the
L.A. times reporter states that even though the project is
federally owned. all new applicants for housing must be deferred
for approval by the Crip's gang leaders, many who are still
wielding authority from prison.
Under such a scenario, the middleclass will be almost as
expendable as the underclass. Either submit or be thrown to the
dogs. Military service will seem a much safer alternative than
staying in such an environment. The all important "productivity"
factor, touted as the greatest progress of today's economy, will
be even more productive. And the property of the elites will
skyrocket as many once peaceful suburbs turn into baron
war-zones, where families hide in darkened rooms behind cast
iron bars on the windows. In today's growing society of "haves"
and "have-nots" you may find yourself submitting to any of your
boss's unreasonable demands, just to keep your family alive and
out of the inferno.
Notes
www.laweekly.com/news/news/la-gangs-nine-miles-and-spreading/17861/
www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/business/15rich.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1197696366-ls6PT1FH6bNDNmF9mThcWg&oref=slogin
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