Posted on 08/21/2011 10:57:22 PM PDT by danielmryan
Flash mobs used to be so much fun. A group of people would arrange to meet in a public place at a particular time and would perform a song or a dance number or some other form of entertainment very suddenly and without warning. Well, the term "flash mob" is rapidly coming to mean something else now. All over the country, young people are using social media and other forms of communication to coordinate shocking large scale crimes. At first there were just a few isolated "mob robberies" around the country, but now we have a full-fledged flash mob epidemic on our hands. Sometimes these flash mobs are involved in "mass shoplifting" events, and in other cases flash mobs are just committing random acts of violence. But it is a very disturbing sign for our nation that all over the country we have large groups of young people that are banding together to commit very serious crimes. This is something that is really unprecedented in modern U.S. history, and it is yet another indication that our society is starting to fall apart.
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Authorities keep telling us that they have everything under control, but these kinds of incidents continue to become more frequent.
Other examples of this flash mob phenomenon have been captured on video in Stockton, California, in Washington D.C. and in Las Vegas.
But flash mobs are not just engaged in shoplifting. Recently, we have seen quite a few incidents where flash mobs have been involved in mass violence.
Back on July 4th, approximately 1,000 young people violently disrupted an Independence Day celebration in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights. Reportedly, the young people used social media websites to mobilize for the event.
Even more disturbing is what happened recently at the Wisconsin state fair. The following is how one local ABC News affiliate described the "flash mob" attacks that took place....
Milwaukee police said that around 11:10 p.m., squads were sent to the area for reports of battery, fighting and property damage being caused by an unruly crowd of "hundreds" of people. One officer described it as a "mob beating."
Police said the group of young people attacked fair goers who were leaving the fair grounds. Police said that some victims were attacked while walking. They said others were pulled out of cars and off of motorcycles before being beaten.
Could you imagine taking your family to the state fair only to be pulled out of your car and beaten up by a horde of violent youths?
Yes, this is now happening in the heartland of America.
But the biggest problems with flash mobs have been in highly concentrated urban areas. In America today there are millions of young men and women that don't have jobs and that don't have any hope and they are starting to take out their frustrations on innocent people.
So far this year, the worst flash mob violence has been in Chicago. In a recent article, Janet Tavakoli attempted to describe the horrifying violence that has been unleashed in the city by these flash mobs....
This year, all hell has broken loose in downtown Chicago. Years of under-hiring have resulted in a police force that is unprepared for wildings and gang violence. Moreover, concealed carry in Chicago is illegal, unless one follows the Constitution.
Tourists and residents have been attacked by mobs of youths on buses, on beaches, on bicycle paths, near the shops of the Magnificent Mile, and outside their homes. Mobs of shoplifters plagued "Mug Mile" stores.
Even in some of the "best areas" of Chicago, people are being pulled off of bikes and pulled out of cars. Innocent people that are just minding their own business are being brutally attacked.
The following is one eyewitness account of a flash mob attack in Chicago that Tavakoli included in her recent article....
At about 11pm last Friday night, June 3rd, I heard shouting, screaming, horns blaring and tires screeching from my apartment...When I looked out my window to the street below I saw a crowd of about 20 young people...directly across the street from the entrance to my building. They were leaning on parked cars and clogging the street. They were screaming at people walking and driving by. I watched them stop vehicles, including taxi cabs, and pull people from the vehicles...It was a frightening scene and I was sure someone was going to be hurt.
The violence in Chicago has become so extreme that even The Wall Street Journal is reporting on it. The following is how a recent article in the Journal described one eyewitness account....
In another incident last Saturday evening, Krzysztof Wilkowski, after shopping on Michigan Avenue, was sitting on his scooter a couple of blocks away checking his phone for a restaurant when he got whacked in the face with a baseball.
At first, he said, he thought it was a prank, but then he looked up and saw 15 to 20 young men approaching. "My first reaction was, 'I'm about to get robbed, what do I do?' " Mr. Wilkowski recalled in an interview.
The 34-year-old insurance company employee from a Chicago suburb grabbed the keys from his ignition and held tight to his phone. A few of the attackers dragged him off his scooter and pulled him onto Chicago Avenue where they punched him, hit him with his helmet and tried to grab his phone.
What would you do if you had 15 or 20 young men approaching you?
Don't think that it can't happen to you.
The truth is that we can no longer trust that our fellow citizens are going to behave with common decency.
Our society is crumbling, and fewer people than ever seem to have any sense of morality.
All over the nation we are seeing some really bizarre crimes right now. This isn't just happening in the big cities. Just check out some of the recent crimes that have been committed all around the nation....
*In Louisiana recently, a 30-year-old man decapitated his 7-year-old son with a meat cleaver and left his head on the side of the road. What made this crime even more shocking is the fact that the son was suffering from cerebral palsy and was confined to a wheelchair. Reportedly the man had gotten "tired of taking care" of the young child. The following is an excerpt from a Daily Mail report about this horrible crime....
A father has admitted to chopping his son's head off with a meat cleaver and leaving it in the roadside outside his home so that the child's mother would see it.
*In Georgia on Monday, a 14-year-old teen stabbed his grandmother and his great-grandmother with a sword. The 77-year-old great grandmother is dead, but it looks like the grandmother is going to be okay.
*A 21-year-old man in the Chicago area is accused of killing his father with a weed trimmer while his father was sleeping in bed.
*A 19-year-old man from Galveston, Texas who claims to be a vampire recently stormed into a young woman's apartment and started biting her on the neck. Reportedly he was "growling and hissing" while attacking her.
*Recently a 17-year-old Florida teen killed his parents with a hammer, hid their bodies in the master bedroom, and then invited dozens of people over for a massive house party.
The hearts of Americans are growing cold. We have become so desensitized to violence that reports like these barely even affect us anymore.
The United States is becoming a very cruel place. As the economy continues to crumble and as people become even more desperate, the flash mob attacks are going to become more frequent and the bizarre crimes are going to become even more horrible.
We are now starting to reap what we have been sowing for the last several decades. We have thrown away the principles that made this country great, and we have taught our young people that morality really doesn't matter. Now we will pay the price.
I have a question to ask you, since you have been a LEO in the past. Do you see the flash mobbing or shoting go down in during the cold weather months?
I choose to enjoy the fun flash mobs, and arm myself in case of organized wilding. : )
Interesting graph. It looks like gun violence is caused by heat. The hotter the country, the higher the homicide rate.
Global warming will only make it worse.
Flash mobs are the new slave rebellions, agaisnt slavery imposed by a century of liberal ideology and “do-goodism”. Liberalism has trapped blacks on urban plantations, destroyed their families, and robbed them of dignity and hope. It has turned black teens into “babymamas” and absentee hip-hop fathers with their pants on the ground. Liberalism has killed the American dream for millions of black youth, stripped them of initiative and industriousness, and doomed them to self-hatred and failure.
FLASH MOBS ARE THE CROWNING GLORY OF THE NEW DEAL AND THE GREAT SOCIETY.
Excellent commentary and advice.
Let me add that finding yourself in the midst of a crowd that has the mindset you accurately described, the transforming flashpoint will always be a sudden and unpleasant surprise. If one is in the middle, elbow to elbow, it’s a short quick and ugly trip to the ground armed or not.
And locking the front door is not always a deterrent in a small store. NYC has a sad record of thugs squirting lighter fluid and gasoline under the door and lighting up.
Situational awareness is critical. Move away and out is always the first and best choice.
The outdoor shooting tend to drop off during the winter months, but the tempers don’t. I have a non-scientific theory that heating your house with the oven makes people crazy.
Anywhere the youths gather indoors, there is going to be a fight, stabbing or shooting and it takes awhile for the tempers to cool; always someone out for revenge and it’s usually over something stupid,like “what you said to my lil cousin?”
The hot months does have more violence though and any venue that promotes a family setting is going to bring the troublemakers.
I and alot of others won’t go to Six Flags anymore because of the ignorant and rude SOBs there. They also don’t allow any to carry in there, including LEOs.
Agreed, and once on the ground, the mob is going to do Riverdance on your back and head. I know it sounds odd, but I suggest to others that they practice dry firing while prone on their back, or a semi-fetal position. Once the initial engagement is over, Hotel Alpha as fast as you can, cause retribution is coming from the mob.
This is only if they cannot avoid the assault in the first place.
To some maybe, but haven't Ayub and other real life gunfighters been advocating this for years?
FR Squantos has mentioned it more than once, as well as sacricing an old windbreaker or jacket to practice shooting from the pocket in close quarters with a sudden threat.
Gun or not, in such situations it nearly always ends up on the ground. And with multiple assailants, it's Reginald Denny or worse all over again.
I took my family to the Omaha zoo recently, and I was making plans in my head for weeks ahead of time about the “what ifs”. I was very aware of my surroundings, looking for groups of people, especially those with a “uniform” (it has been observed that the flash mob “uniform” is white shirts and dark pants/jeans).
Not a hint of a problem at all there. Lots of big families (with fathers present), lots of pregnant women (also with fathers present). No hints of violence or threats or domineering counterculture or rudeness anywhere.
Amish?
“All over the country, young people are using social media and other forms of communication to coordinate shocking large scale crimes.”
A hyperbolic article like this gives a false picture. Obuma’s “peeples” are acting out their violence in mostly liberal cities in the north.
A gang of black thugs tried flash mobbing in Columbia, South Carolina, back in May. The state arrested all of them, and charged each thug under the state’s anti-lynching law. Each is facing 20 years in prison. If the white boy they beat up had died, they’d be on death row awaiting execution.
In addition, the South Carolina Supreme Court has greatly expanded the target list of criminals that armed citizens can cull from the thug herd. Lots of people are armed and ready.
The flash mobbing is a problem for liberal cities run by liberals. Other areas of the country have given the country a blueprint to solve the problem. So if the situation gets out of control in Philadelphia or Chicago, come on down south and we’ll give you a few lessons to take back home.
The zoo is for those who have an appreciation for animals other than pitbulls. It’s educational as well, and well we have seen the urban public schools resounding successess...
Every time I have gone to the St. Louis zoo, there is always a group of youths chunking rocks at the animals or deliberately provoking them.
I bet the animals are bemused at the zoo outside their enclosures...
Obviously.
Though, funny you should mention it - I was able to pick out the homeschooling families from great distances.
What's also needed is explicit legal recognition that a group of violent people, even if not armed with weapons, constitute a deadly threat which may be met by deadly force.
Hmmm... wow... I bet none of the “liberal intelligentsia” understand this simple concept -
you get more of what you allow,
and get less of what you don’t tolerate.
Also, I’m really surprised that Holder hasn’t stepped in to protest the use of anti-lynching laws against “his people”.
I’m also heartened to see a state applying laws equally to all people.
I want to know why the cops haven’t grabbed a few flash mobbers, taken their phones and/or computers, got a warrant for their phone records and traced the message up and down the chain and arrested everybody in it.
False information. Pennsylvania has been "shall issue" CCW for 20 years, yet we still have flash mob activities in Philadelphia.
The mothers (no father, naturally) are NOT living in denial. They purposefully raise their sons to be violent thugs, they themselves sleep with violent thugs, and encourage their daughters to sleep with violent thugs, for one simple reason: having a violent thug around will protect them from the OTHER violent thugs of the neighborhood.
In those neighborhoods, a woman who does not have the ability to call down violence upon any who "disrespect" her is prey. A woman who can have disrespect answered with death is respected. It's the WOMEN of the "inner city" who are the cause of this.
If the women all in unison refused to sleep with any man who did not have a respectable job and was willing to marry them, the problems of the inner city would evaporate tomorrow.
Well the winter is when the anger builds up and explodes in the summertime.
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