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13. GANGS & THE MAFIA

"A mob’s a monster." - Benjamin Franklin; Poor Richard’s Almanac - 1747

Gangs have become the nightmare of cities, and even towns. Innocents are abused, graffiti is everywhere, and no one is safe in areas where gangs have proliferated. Innocent citizens who have worked hard and continue to do so, watch their homes and neighborhoods wrecked by a lawless bunch of violent thugs, who wouldn't know how to do an honest day's work, and haven't a smidgen of responsibility, kindness, intelligence, education, or ability to do anything constructive. We innocents suffer, watch our properties devalue, and risk our lives, while conducting normal activities. Society coddles these creeps, thinking they can "work with them and teach them to be responsible," which is a lot of hogwash.

Newspapers are rife with horror stories of innocents accidentally coming onto a gang fight or turf war, and being injured, threatened, or even killed. Gangs have no sense of right or wrong, no sense of property values, or for that matter the value of a human life. The Crips and Bloods are expanding, as are a host of other debauched humanoids, whose goal in life seems to be to see how much misery and damage they can cause to whomever they may decide to victimize. In California, there are an estimated 254,000 gang members.

Gangs are the consequence of "SFN," (don’t forget, something for nothing) that has been the American modus operandi for over thirty years. Before the welfare state got into high gear under LBJ, there were no gangs…literally! Gangs got started when lazy youth did not have to work to survive. Gangs got started when housing, food, and medical care were provided by a government which required no work, and no time limitations being set on the receipt of such beneficence. Gangs got started when crime began to pay, and courts and judges started turning them loose to have another go at it. Youths, who do not have to work and produce to live, have lots of idle time to wile away. It is easy to get into, and cause trouble with too much free time, and that is exactly what they do. Welfare is the direct cause of gangs. Gangs are the consequence of welfare or "SFN," that began in the 1960's, a frightening cult of violence.

Gang members are devout cowards; never being found alone when doing their "thing." They swagger, act tough and strong, but the opposite is true. The American hero and true strong man is fearless, goes into battle or fights alone, and without an array of sidekicks to bolster his ego. The John Waynes of movie fame, brave generals and decorated war heroes, are about as much like the typical gang member, as is a Ford Pinto to a Mercedes Benz. Get one by himself, disarm him, and see an absolute zero. Even so, they are a scourge on America, and are furthering its destruction.

The Mafia got started in America during prohibition, providing what Americans wanted to drink, but which had been outlawed. The Mafia, underworld, or underground economy, has always provided what people want to purchase, but which politicians have decided to make illegal. Be it gambling, prostitution, drugs, or alcohol during prohibition, the underworld has always been more than willing to provide it...at high cost...because of the risk of supplying it. The high profits reaped by the Mafia, have generally been put into legitimate businesses, and as long as there are things people wish to buy that have been declared illegal, there will be high profits, violence, and laundering the illegitimate money into legal businesses. There is no possible way to tell which businesses, perhaps even in your own neighborhood, may have been acquired by means of profits gouged from sales of illegal items.

The way to starve the Mafia, if it isn't already too late, is to drive them out of business by allowing the taxpaying, legitimate businessman to sell the things the citizenry wants to buy, and it’s just as simple as that. The consequence of making alcohol illegal, and prostitution and other things still illegal, is that it provides an opening for the Mafia, or illegal underground suppliers of that item. The various states have stopped a lot of underworld profits with their lotteries, off track betting parlours, and casinos, but there is still a lot of territory from which to make big dollars, by supplying illegal merchandise of various types. The utter foolishness of politicians allowing the pouring of money into the underground economy, results not only in the violence and murders it fosters, but there are no taxes collected on the activity.

SOLUTIONS

Without the welfare state we are now in, there would be no such thing as a gang. They would be too busy working to eat...or serving time. Welfare allows the dregs of society to live without doing a stitch of work. Public housing, food stamps, and handouts keep the gangs fed and housed till they begin getting the big bucks from their life of crime and intimidation. Gangs suck the lifeblood out of civilization. They are violent, worthless brutes, who have no compunction about violating anyone's property or person. Like other vermin on earth, there is no punishment severe enough for the Crips, Bloods, and others of their ilk. There are thousands of people in America right now, mostly males between the ages of 12 and 35, many of them black or Hispanic, who should simply be executed on the spot. Police should be given orders to shoot to kill any gang member caught 'doing his thing,' which is generally brutalizing innocent citizens, robbing, torching, or committing various forms of mayhem. To hell with the ACLU and other assorted civil rights numskulls who can’t distinguish between a criminal's rights, and an innocent citizen's rights. The latter should have total precedence over the former. Criminals should have few, if any rights, other than a choice of their means of execution.

As for the Mafia, the best way to get rid of them is to simply take their means of profit away from them by legalizing the things they make a profit on, which are now illegal. Chapter 18 goes into this in detail.

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