Posted on 08/24/2024 6:50:49 AM PDT by dynachrome
(I wrote this back in 2012. It was originally published at the old Western Rifle Shooters Association website, and since then it’s been reposted dozens of times on other websites. It’s also included in “The Bracken Collection: Essays and Short Fiction 2010 to 2019" which is available at Amazon, or you can get it directly from me. Details on my own website at EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com.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.
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If not for all the welfare programs, it would be happening now'
Bracken’s scenario assume some random exogenous shock which will trigger the riots (EBT cards not working, blackouts, etc..)
Haven’t we already seen that leftist politicians, even in the affected cities, will stir-up and encourage such riots themselves? Its a model that’s increasingly common
As inflation bites and money dies, it will be the last habitual gasp of these corrupt machine politicians to shock and shame America into giving it even more money and attention.
It won’t work.
That essay is in the decision calculus for why I moved exurban. I might not be far enough from the urban hive, but as far as made sense? It’s complicated, like most things. And you still must pass livestock to get where I live, which is nice.
A great read. This is one of the stories in “The Bracken Collection”. Another great story, and foreshadowing other current events is “Professor Raoul X”.
Look at what is happening in UK today.
If you haven’t yet read Bracken’s Enemies Foreign & Domestic Trilogy you need to get on the stick and read them.
America’s cities are heavily populated by a permanent underclass caused mainly by Gentleman Bird Johnson and his Great Society.
The underclass now is choking the nation, and they are a hell of a lot more trouble than they will ever be worth. They flock to the Democrat Part like flies to honey as they recognize it as the dispenser of welfare slops. Like hogs they know that the holder of the slop bucket is the main man.
The millions that have invaded America will join our underclass making it even more unmanageable and strong as the central ruling government will make certain they can vote.
It’s exceedingly difficult to conjure up a solution to this burgeoning problem; certainly, more welfare is not an answer. The problem is exacerbated by the father being replaced by welfare checks and the drug trade.
Perhaps it’s time to face up to the drug menace that is making idiots out of our children. That includes marijuana which is continually being voted for y an increasingly stupid electorate.
Deal with this problem by re-introducing capital punishment. Apply it not only to other serious crimes (and make it speedy) but to the drug dilemma.
For drug dealers the penalty should be death....no deals by inept prosecutors. For users they should be given two chances to clean up and if they don’t then they join their dealers.
Withdraw welfare for mothers without husbands and take the children to be raised not by ‘foster’ crooks but in a state or county operated orphanage.
Dire times call for dire measures!
Back in 1967 police would fly low over the ghettos and notice how many rocks and bricks were being piled on the roofs. From this they knew a riot was brewing.
Wonder what they use as a gauge for coming riots today?
The controlled mayhem of 2021 was a joke. If there’s a real breakdown, it will take less than a week for the riff-raff to be neutralized.
Mexicans won’t allow blacks to burn Mexican neighborhoods and businesses. That was clearly illustrated during the “mostly peaceful” riots in 2020. Black rioters were shot and beaten and chased back to their ghettos.
social media chatter.
Ping.
Firearms sales have increased to 1 million a month, for several years now. I believe the militia effect in America will kick in sooner than later. Certain areas of our nation will be avoided by the troubled youths, on penalty of death.
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Ultimately the decision will be made to nuke the major urban enclaves to stop the spread of violence.
My take is that the farmers and city folk will organize to prevent people from the cities from leaving, and goods and services from entering cities. Cutting the food, the highway exchanges/exits and railways will stop most of the transit. Cutting the electric and pollution of the water supply would finish off cities as they canabaliezed themselves. Separating the Marxist from the Conservative and zero tolerance of the mentally ill trying to force their sicko values on others.
Add this to the storyline:
People fleeing cities would be killed on sight. None allowed to pass. In those days, the city dwellers were considered the plague the destroyed civilization; they enriched themselves in the good times and gave nothing to those they taxed nearly to death outside their city enclaves, and in the early days of the collaspe the cities themselves maintained the blockade of people from entering keeping out those they took food and money for their wonderful lifestyles. But in the end, the tables turned and the cities were cut off from the countryside’s on the pain of death.
It was thirty years before the dust settled, and only people with FREE REPUBLIC ID CARDS were allowed to travel the countryside; anyone else was an Illegal Alien, even the city dwellers who were all put back into the city limits. The people in the cities became what we called land-pharana’s or pit vipers; they were hunted for sport like coyotes wolves. The Democrat party died in those years of Peak Socialism and government controls. It was now a world where each person hoped to stay healthy, to work to eat and survive. Those who did nothing or were beyond the help of a family or group who had sufficient resources perished - the cities had devoured themselves and eventually the people of the cities ate one another literally. But in the Free Republic those who survived outside the cities imposed laws based on Christian values. Criminals were put to death or banished into the cities and ID revoked like Cain. The rule of the jungle in the cities but the rule of Ten Commandants in the out-areas - the good old days when we hunted Racebaiters for sport, when we hunted those who performed the abortions, when we hunted even the teachers of the DNC ideologies who promoted the pedifile, the gender-benders, the tranny, and those who advocated for men in women’s bathrooms and sports, and the drug dealers, the thives and the liars; we even hunted the Rinos down. In the first year we found the voting records and we cleansed ourselves in the Free Republic of the Rinos, the democrats, and we forced the Illegal Aliens to move back to where they had come or be banished back into the cities and former DNC strongholds. The first year was a time when the democrats killed more of themselves than Mao or Stalin; these Marxists were inhuman and by their actions those who survived were reduced to animal like creatures more dangerous than hungry tigers.
Ah, the days we did God’s work. It was a different kind of “Left Behind” scenario where we came in His name and removed those from our presence who had destroyed our countries and lives since the 1960s. Never again would there be democrats who taxed everyone, democrats who swamped us with illegal aliens, democrats who let the insaine roam society. Getting rid of the drug dealers, drug users alone reduced criminal activity to NET ZERO as the democrats used to say;)
If not for all the welfare programs, the feral population would be small enough to be marginal and the entitlement mentality would not exist. We have created the feral population since LBJ’s Great Society. The question is how to undo the damage, and that would take generations to accomplish.
There is, of course, absolutely no willingness on the left to even consider such reforms, as the left views a huge dependent population as a secure voting base and the core constituency for socialism.
But it could be done. I’ll just note that the feral population consists overwhelmingly of single mothers and those of their children who moved to the streets. (This is now supplemented by state-supported and protected drug addiction.) But most of the gangbangers, baby mommas, hopeless addicts, etc. have siblings, uncles, aunts, and grandparents who are living competent lives. It’s not impossible. The incentive structures need to be changed to reduce the casualty rate. Most smaller cities and towns don’t tolerate the level of disorder that we now see in democrat cesspools run by a degenerate, corrupt, one-party clique. Even the worst urban neighborhoods are full of people who are sick of it; they just need to stop voting for the crooks who sell them out.
We have already seen examples of this.
Their enablers and sympathizers will give excuses and quietly applaud their evil.
Sane Americans are not so. For one example of many, there were no riots or violence when Trump was almost assassinated--or when he was subjected to previously unimaginable persecution, e.g. lawfare, attacks on his wealth, family, and home, etc.--and, as Trump observed, no one in the crowd at his attempted assassination rioted or fled.
Sane Americans walked directly into machine-gun fire on the beaches of Normandy to free the world from nazi tyranny--freed the slaves--established the greatest, most just nation in history from an untamed wilderness--and support the Presidency of Donald Trump.
Imagine what would have happened if today's leftists had been called upon to do any of this.
Imagine what America and the rest of the world will be like if leftists should succeed in seizing power in America!
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