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Gangs Sharpen Intimidation / Machetes Used Increasingly in Attacks
The Washington Post ^ | 1/16/2004 | Ian Shapira

Posted on 01/16/2005 12:53:51 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak

The former gang member recalls watching them spread the newly purchased machetes from Springfield Mall on the bed and marvel at their sexiness. With reggae music booming in the background, the South Side Locos gang members began touching the steel blades and gripping the black handles.

They wanted revenge. One of their own, a 16-year-old boy, had just been brutally attacked in the Alexandria area by machete-wielding rivals in Mara Salvatrucha, the dominant gang in Northern Virginia. He had lost four fingers trying to shield his head from the blows, an incident so gruesome, audacious - and seemingly new - that it galvanized the Washington region to the surging gang populations.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aliens; gangs; machete; marasalvatrucha; ms13; ssl
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1 posted on 01/16/2005 12:53:51 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

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2 posted on 01/16/2005 12:56:58 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak (Stop the open borders death cult)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
The vermin need to be shot onsite.
3 posted on 01/16/2005 12:57:00 PM PST by TSgt (Generic Tagline 0101010101010101010101010)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Learned lots from Aristide.

Is necklacing next?

4 posted on 01/16/2005 12:57:57 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Machetes are good.

They allow punks to do the maximum damage to each other with the least possible damage to bystanders.

The innocent are unlikely to get hurt in driveby hackings.

So9

5 posted on 01/16/2005 12:58:21 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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What blue-zone gangbanger-protecting no-carry-law hell hole is this one from?


7 posted on 01/16/2005 1:04:59 PM PST by Jack Black
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Of course guns kill, people don't.


9 posted on 01/16/2005 1:16:47 PM PST by BIGZ
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What blue-zone gangbanger-protecting no-carry-law hell hole is this one from?

Virginia, actually. Northern Virginia, in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. I used to live in Alexandria. The neighborhood where I lived is rapidly becoming a barrio. 'Latin Kings' gang tags everywhere, a couple of stabbings in the complex where I lived.

Broke the lease on my apartment to get out. Between the incessant, 24 hour a day noise and having my car vandalized a couple of times and having drunken 'latino immigrants' pounding on my door, none of whom spoke a word of English, that was it.

10 posted on 01/16/2005 1:19:34 PM PST by Riley
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Ain't multiculturalism grand? Machete murders coming to a neighborhood near you. And to think that not long ago this was a civilized country until Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy decided we were letting in too many white northern European Christians and got legislation passed to let mostly cultural strangers into our country. Thanks a lot, Fatso. You live in the gated fortress of Martha's Vineyard. The rest of us aren't so fortunate.


11 posted on 01/16/2005 1:24:25 PM PST by kittymyrib
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They only come here to do the hacking and mayhem the we don't want to.
12 posted on 01/16/2005 1:29:08 PM PST by steveo (Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
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"THAT"


13 posted on 01/16/2005 1:30:15 PM PST by steveo (Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
The former gang member recalls watching them spread the newly purchased machetes from Springfield Mall...

I used to get my hair cut at the Springfield Mall. There always was a bunch of young thugs swaggering about.
14 posted on 01/16/2005 1:40:55 PM PST by Welsh Rabbit
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Gangs are a crime problem, not an immigration problem.

Example: Houston has the 2nd largest num,ber of immigrants in the nation. Houston got its gang problem under control in the 80s through increased traditional law enforcement techniques including more patrols, under cover agents and specialized task forces.

Los Angles has an out of control gang problem.

Los Angeles, which is many times larger than Houston, has one-third the police officers and treats gang crime as an immigration problem which can only be solved by the federal government.

As long as local police departments pass the buck on gang crime instead of tackling it head on, the gangs will continue to proliferate.

15 posted on 01/16/2005 1:44:37 PM PST by bayourod (The states and cities with large immigrant labor pools are the prosperous ones.)
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Gangs are a crime problem, not an immigration problem.

Bull. They are both.

16 posted on 01/16/2005 1:53:48 PM PST by Gritty ("For Leftists, we have no enemies,... just friends with unaccommodated grievances-Mark Steyn)
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Tell me some more about how Hispanic illegal immigration will lead to a more moral America.


18 posted on 01/16/2005 2:00:01 PM PST by Sam the Sham
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Just read an article today describing how these same gangs have become sophisticated practitioners of witness intimidation. Prosecutors are unable to put these thugs in jail because witnesses conveniently forget facts they knew before, lie on the stand or just disappear.

CD's and DVD's are now being made in inner city Baltimore, identifying by name people street gangs suspect as being witnesses against them and warning anyone who cooperates with the police that they will be killed. To drive the point home one DVD showed three dead people on the back cover with the words "snitch prevention" written over the top.

These animals are nothing more than domestic terrorists and it's about time the FBI treated them that way.
19 posted on 01/16/2005 2:36:09 PM PST by Mase
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Machetes are for p#ssies.


20 posted on 01/16/2005 3:12:34 PM PST by TigersEye (Free speech! It's not just for Democrats anymore!)
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