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[Ryan Ruck]

Has anyone caught any more news on what's going on in Anaheim? Has it fizzled out or is it just getting swept under the rug?

I've been way too busy to keep up.

[American Patriot]

I haven't seen a peep.

[American Patriot]

Found this Ryan....

Not sure if the video came through:

Anonymous' Operation Anaheim Asks You to 'Rise Up' Against That City's Cops (VIDEO)

By Dennis Romero Wed., Jul. 25 2012 at 2:02 AM

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Cops vs. protesters in Anaheim.

If we were the Anaheim Police Department, we'd also put our IT geeks on high alert. While cops in the Orange County city stood off with protesters overnight after two officer involved shootings in the largely Latino town put residents on-edge, the notorious hacker group Anonymous appears to have officially sided with the people in the streets.
A video unleashed on YouTube this morning says:

In Anaheim police shot protesters and bystanders, including kids who did nothing wrong. Anonymous are calling yet again to the citizens of the United States to rise up in unison and defeat this government which values no lives nor freedom. ... Operation Anaheim engage ... Expect us.

Not the thing you want to year if you're a cop trying to complete paperwork on your laptop after another night of busting Mexicans' heads near Disneyland.
Anonymous has been known to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on websites, which essentially overload them with requests and shut them down.
But there are other, more sinister tools in its arsenal, including cracking internal systems, obtaining personal data, and publishing employees' home addresses, cellphone numbers, and other info. Like the time they did just that to L.A. cops.
Yep. If you think rocks and bottles hurt, Anaheim PD, brace yourselves.
Get all your Anaheim riot coverage at our sister paper OC Weekly.
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[American Patriot]

Anaheim police shoot at burglary suspect amid tensions

Published July 27, 2012

Associated Press

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  July 24, 2012: Demonstrators gather on the steps of Anaheim City Hall to protest the death of Manuel Diaz, 25, who died as a result of gunshot wounds sustained during a police pursuit by the Anaheim Police Department last Saturday. (The Associated Press2012)
  

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July 24, 2012: Demonstrators gather on the steps of Anaheim City Hall to protest the death of Manuel Diaz, 25, who died as a result of gunshot wounds sustained during a police pursuit by the Anaheim Police Department last Saturday. (The Associated Press2012)

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Anaheim police have opened fire on a burglary suspect, days after officer-involved shootings killed two people and sparked violent protests.

Sgt. Bob Dunn says it's unclear whether anyone was hit in Friday morning's confrontation, but no one has showed up at a hospital.

Dunn says officers responding to a burglar alarm at about 3:15 a.m. at a community clubhouse saw appliances in the street and a man leaving the building. An officer chased him, and another checked out a nearby car that suddenly took off, heading toward the first officer.

Dunn says the second officer opened fire but the driver escaped.

Dunn says the man being chased on foot was later found hiding near some train tracks. Dunn says the man is a paroled burglar and was treated for a police dog bite.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/27...#ixzz21pcgzQgN

[American Patriot]

ANAHEIM ON EDGE AFTER SHOOTINGS, RIOTS

Reactions to police shootings of Latino men echo 2005 incidents in North County

Anaheim — As protesters last week smashed rocks through store windows and police in riot gear clashed with 1,000 angry marchers in the streets of downtown Anaheim, the city that is home to Disneyland was thrust into the national spotlight as a community divided and on edge.

The unrest was sparked by two unrelated shootings of young Latino men by Anaheim police last weekend, and the animosity deepened early Friday when an officer shot at — but apparently missed — a burglary suspect.
Long known for its theme park, baseball stadium and conventions, the city of 336,000 is now ground zero for the debate over tensions between Latinos and police, and the larger issue of a community that feels underrepresented and overlooked by its civic leaders.
The situation is being closely watched by some in San Diego County who found themselves on similar ground in the summer of 2005, with the shootings of three Latino men by Vista sheriff’s deputies in a five-day span.
Tensions boiled over months later when a May Day immigration rally escalated into a riot in Vista’s heavily Latino Townsite neighborhood.
“When it happened in Vista, it was almost like in a vacuum. No one knew about it,” said Vista resident Tina Jillings, co-founder of the Coalition for Peace, Justice and Dignity. “When we were going through this, there was a lot of frustration. There was no transparency. We had no answers.”
In Anaheim, Mayor Tom Tait quickly assured the public that the two police shootings would be independently investigated by the FBI and the state Attorney General’s Office, in addition to the usual review by the county district attorney.
He also expressed confidence in Anaheim’s police chief, John Welter, who spent a large part of his career at the San Diego Police Department and rose to second-in-command before leaving for the chief post in Orange County in 2004.
“The investigation will seek truth, and whatever the truth is, we will own it,” the mayor said during a news conference last Sunday.
That promise has only slightly helped to assuage the concerns of many in the Anaheim neighborhood grieving the loss of 25-year-old Manuel Diaz, who was unarmed when he ran from an officer and was fatally shot on July 21. According to the police union, Diaz was seen running away holding a concealed object in his front waist area with both hands, but no weapon was found.
“Right now, the situation is pretty tense. It’s critical,” said longtime resident Jose Avila, 59, who heard the gunfire. “The only way it would be improved is if they give us a little time to go to City Hall and talk to the right person.”
On Anna Drive — a street of older but mostly neatly kept apartment buildings — a growing vigil of signs, candles and flowers lines the sidewalk near where Diaz fell.
Anti-police sentiments were on display, with signs reading: “Anna Dr. needs no cops” and “Who’s next?”
“The community wants answers,” said 21-year-old Ricardo Hurtado, as he surveyed the memorial.

“(Police) are using that as excuses to try to cover up for what they did,” Hurtado said. “We want justice.”
Diaz’s mother has filed a $50 million civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit against the city in superior court.
A day after Diaz’s death, gang member Joel Acevedo was shot and killed by a gang detective as he ran from a stolen vehicle. Police said Acevedo shot at police, and a gun was found next to his body.
“It was the actions of these gang members, not the police officers, which set these unfortunate events in motion,” police union President Kerry Condon said in a statement that expressed solidarity with the officers involved.
The shootings sparked faceoffs between demonstrators and officers at Police Headquarters and on street corners, culminating with the riot near City Hall on Tuesday when hundreds of protesters weren’t let into a packed City Council chambers.
Police arrested 24 people during the riot, and several injuries were reported. Another protest was set for today, with a caravan of supporters from San Diego planning to attend.
While the violence that overtook downtown was widely condemned, opinions on the police shootings remained divided.
Some see the public clashes with police as the inevitable result of years of focusing attention and funding on the resort areas rather than poorer Latino neighborhoods.
As in many Southern California cities, Latinos in Anaheim have risen from minorities in the past two decades to making up over half of the population — about 53 percent. Yet only three City Council members in the city’s history have been Latino, one lawsuit alleges. No Latinos currently sit on the council.
“It’s layers and layers,” said Joanne Sosa of Take Back Anaheim. “This isn’t the happiest place on earth, folks.”
Other Anaheim residents supported the police, questioning Diaz’s actions before being shot.
“I was always told, ‘Don’t run from police,’ ” production artist Christopher Cervantes, 31, said while taking a break at a farmers market downtown. “I think gangs here are the bigger issue.”
San Diego County Undersheriff Ed Prendergast said strengthening the relationship between Latinos and law enforcement is critical.
Prendergast was tasked with rebuilding that relationship in Vista following the shootings in 2005, and launched several programs, including a Latino advisory committee, neighborhood outreach and a youth program.
“We had to work internally to make sure our culture was such that we were receptive to listening to the community and understanding what their concerns were,” he said. “We may not be able to fix all their concerns, but we can at least understand them.”

[Ryan Ruck]

Anaheim Protest: Crowd Chants 'Am I Next?' Outside Police Station

July 29, 2012



Tempers continued to flare in Anaheim on Sunday afternoon as a group of about 250 protesters stood directly in front of the Police Department, the latest demonstration the city has seen after two fatal police shootings last weekend.

About 45 minutes after the protest began, demonstrators congregated in front of police headquarters as officers on foot and horseback told them to stay off the private sidewalk directly in front of the building. Some protesters moved to the edge of the adjacent public sidewalk and held out their arms in an effort to keep their fellow demonstrators back.

"These are our weapons," Renee Balenti, 39, shouted at police, pointing to her mouth and head before joining the chain of demonstrators.

PHOTOS: Protests against Anaheim police shootings

The crowd — whose chants included "The whole system is guilty" and "Am I next?" — included members of Occupy Orange County and Kelly's Army, a protest group formed after the fatal police beating of Kelly Thomas in Fullerton last year.

Anaheim, Orange County's largest city, has seen a series of protests after Manuel Diaz, 25, was shot and killed by police July 21. Authorities said the unarmed man was avoiding arrest.

The fatal officer-involved shooting was the first of two that occurred that weekend; a day after Diaz was killed, Anaheim police shot and killed Joel Acevedo, 21, who authorities say fired on officers during a foot chase. A third such shooting occurred Friday, when officers opened fire on a robbery suspect, but the suspect was not hurt.
Friday's incident marked the city's seventh officer-involved shooting this year, five of which have been fatal. The city had four officer-involved shootings in 2011.

Mayor Tom Tait, who has pledged a thorough investigation of the incidents, met Friday with the FBI and U.S. attorney's office staff and asked them to look into the shootings. The Orange County district attorney's office is already investigating.

Allan Eaton, 33, of Inland Empire said Anaheim police had been "a little trigger-happy" in the last week. He doesn't have a particular connection to Anaheim, he said, but came to Sunday's protest to help support the movement.

"There were rubber bullets shot at woman and children," he said. "I can't stand for that. I don't want to wait until this happens in my own backyard."

Rebecca Marcotte, 22, said she left her San Diego home at 9 a.m. to participate in Sunday's protest. She held a sign that read "Stop the racist police."

"It seems like situations like this happen over and over again where unarmed young people are shot," she said. "I see this as routine."

George Olivio, a member of Occupy Orange County, said it was unclear what protesters planned to do later — whether they would march to City Hall, for instance, or even Disneyland — but said the goal of Sunday's demonstration was to remain peaceful. After a violent clash between protesters and police Tuesday, he said there's a "bad situation" at hand.

That night, police used less-than-lethal rounds to disperse a crowd of about 1,000 who marched through the streets after gathering outside a packed City Council meeting. By the night's end, authorities said 24 protesters had been arrested, 20 buildings damaged and seven people injured.

"We don't want to see another Tuesday night," Olivio said.

[Ryan Ruck]

Mob Of Teens Steals $3K Of Jeans From Wicker Park, Chicago Store

July 29, 2012

After posting surveillance video of a flash mob robbery online and sharing the video with CBS 2 News, a Wicker Park store owner said he and police have received several tips about the group of about 20 teens responsible for stealing more than $3,000 worth of jeans over the weekend.

CBS 2′s Derrick Blakley reports Mildblend Supply Co. owner Luke Cho posted the surveillance video on YouTube, hoping the images help police find the robbers, or maybe even shame the parents of the teens enough that they’ll turn the kids in.

A spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department said the case is being actively investigated.

CBS 2′s Courtney Gousman reports, in the meantime, Cho said tips have been rolling into his store ever since posting surveillance video of the robbery on YouTube and sharing the video with CBS 2, which first aired the video on Sunday.

From the moment the teens started flooding in the door his store on Milwaukee Avenue around 6:40 p.m. Saturday, Cho knew something wasn’t right.



“You see a group a group of teenagers walking in – or marching in – one-by-one. As you can see, it looks like it’s some kind of procession,” Cho said while reviewing the surveillance video on Sunday.

To Cho, it looked like a flash mob was about to rob the store, so he immediately locked the door.

“At least I think I kind of maybe stopped the flow a little bit, but I quickly realized something bad’s about to happen, and I alerted my staff to call 911,” Cho said.



Most of the group flocked to an corner of the store right beneath a security camera, and appeared to know exactly what they were looking for: an exclusive, expensive brand of jeans called Nudie Jeans, which average about $200 a pair.

“We happen to be one of the few that sell Nudie Jeans in the city,” Cho said.

Cho said he doesn’t think the jeans are all that special, but they’ve become popular because a famous rapper was filmed wearing them.

After grabbing the jeans, the teens tried to get out of store, but not before doing more shopping, stuffing their backpacks with merchandise, while other teens outside tried to get in.

“At the time when I locked the door, they’re banging on the door,” Cho said.

Eventually, the teens figured out how to unlock the door themselves, and rushed into the streets, which were packed with crowds from the Wicker Park Fest, making it easier to blend in.

Cho called the incident organized looting, pure and simple.

Cho said he’s received all kinds of tips about the guys who executed this robbery.

“We have … customers coming in to identify some of the kids in the video,” he said.

Cho said, out of the 22 people he believes were part of the flash mob, he actually has names for about six of them. He also said police have received tips on the robbery.

Cho said he even knew one of the teens he believes was involved.

“I recognized him, because I caught him shoplifting here, and I didn’t call the police. I called the parents,” he said.

Monday morning, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he’s taken the issue up with Police Supt. Garry McCarthy.

“I’ve talked to … Garry McCarthy and the Police Department. They’re looking into that and we’ll get back on that,” Emanuel said.

Other business owners in Wicker Park said they fear it could happen again.

Belmont Army owner Tony Lee said, “There’s only so much you can do to prevent that. If someone really wants to do it, what are you going to do?”

Ironically, Cho said his store will be promoting Nudie Jeans during a special event on Aug. 9. He said, since the flash mob robbery, he’s hired police officers to secure that event.

Another Wicker Park store manager said he’s familiar with these flash mobs, from working at a downtown business. He said much of the stolen merchandise is often sold on the city’s public transportation routes.

[Ryan Ruck]

Author of the Enemies Foreign And Domestic series and Castigo Cay, Matthew Bracken lays out a possible scenario in a recent piece.

Bracken: When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence

September 3, 2012


Illustration: Bracken’s CW2 Cube; click to enlarge

From Matt Bracken:

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.

We have seen them all before, and we shall see them all again as history rhymes along regardless of the century or the generation of humankind nominally in control of events. But the next time we are visited by widespread, large-scale urban riots, a dangerous new escalation may be triggered by a new vulnerability: It’s estimated that the average American home has less than two weeks of food on hand. In poor minority areas, it may be much less. What if a cascading economic crisis, even a temporary one, leads to millions of EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards flashing nothing but zeroes? Or if the government’s refusal to reimburse them causes supermarket chains to stop accepting them for payment? The government can order the supermarkets to honor the cards, but history’s verdict is clear: If suppliers are paid only with worthless scrip or blinking digits, the food will stop.

STEP ONE: FLASH MOB LOOTING

In my scenario, the initial riots begin spontaneously across affected urban areas, as SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) and other government welfare recipients learn that their EBT cards no longer function. This sudden revelation will cause widespread anger, which will quickly lead to the flash-mob looting of local supermarkets and other businesses. The media will initially portray these “food riots” as at least partly justifiable. Sadly, millions of Americans have been made largely, or even entirely, dependent on government wealth transfer payments to put food on their tables.

A new social contract has been created, where bread and circuses buy a measure of peace in our minority-populated urban zones. In the era of ubiquitous big-screen cable television, the internet and smart phones, the circus part of the equation is never in doubt as long as the electricity flows. But the bread is highly problematic. Food must be delivered the old-fashioned way: physically. Any disruption in the normal functioning of the EBT system will lead to food riots with a speed that is astonishing. This will inevitably happen when our unsustainable, debt-fueled binge party finally stops, and the music is over. Now that the delivery of free or heavily subsidized food is perceived by tens of millions of Americans to be a basic human right, the cutoff of “their” food money will cause an immediate explosion of rage. When the hunger begins to bite, supermarkets, shops and restaurants will be looted, and initially the media will not condemn the looting. Unfortunately, this initial violence will only be the start of a dangerous escalation.

The ransacked supermarkets, convenience stores, ATMs and gas stations will not be restocked during this period due to the precarious security situation. A single truck loaded with food or gasoline would be perceived to be a Fort Knox on wheels and subject to immediate attack unless heavily protected by powerfully armed security forces, but such forces will not be available during this chaotic period. Under those conditions, resupply to the urban areas cannot and will not take place. The downward spiral of social and economic dysfunction will therefore both accelerate and spread from city to city. These delays, in turn, will lead to more riots with the constant underlying demand that hungry people be fed, one way or another.

Catch-22, anyone? When these demands do not bring the desired outcome, the participants will ratchet up the violence, hoping to force action by the feckless state and national governments.

The “food riots” will be a grass-roots movement of the moment born out of hunger and desperation. It will not be dependent upon leaders or an underlying organization, although they could certainly add to the sauce. Existing cell phone technology provides all the organization a flash mob needs. Most of the mobs will consist of minority urban youths, termed MUYs in the rest of this essay. Which minority doesn’t matter; each urban locale will come with its own unique multi-ethnic dynamic.

Some locales will divide upon religious or political lines, but they will not be the dominant factors contributing to conflict. In the American context, the divisions will primarily have an ethnic or racial context, largely because that makes it easy to sort out the sides at a safe distance. No need to check religious or political affiliation at a hundred yards when The Other is of a different color.

We Americans are all about doing things the easy way, so, sadly, visible racial and ethnic features will form the predominant lines of division.

Would that it were not so, but reality is reality, even when it’s is a bitch.

Especially then.

NEXT STEP: FLASH MOB RIOTS

In order to highlight their grievances and escalate their demands for an immediate resumption of government benefits, the MUY flash mobs will next move their activities to the borders of their ethnic enclaves. They will concentrate on major intersections and highway interchanges where non-MUY suburban commuters must make daily passage to and from what forms of employment still exist. People making a living will still be using those roads to get to where they earn their daily bread.

The results of these clashes will frequently resemble the intersection of Florence and Normandie during the Rodney King riots in 1992, where Reginald Denny was pulled out of his truck’s cab and beaten nearly to death with a cinder block. If you don’t remember it, watch it on Youtube. Then imagine that scene with the mob-making accelerant of texting and other social media technology added to stoke the fires. Instead of a few dozen thugs terrorizing the ambushed intersections, in minutes there will be hundreds.

Rioters will throw debris such as shopping carts and trash cans into the intersection, causing the more timid drivers to pause. The mobs will swarm the lines of trapped cars once they have stopped. Traffic will be forced into gridlock for blocks in all directions. Drivers and passengers of the wrong ethnic persuasions will be pulled from their vehicles to be beaten, robbed, and in some cases raped and/or killed. It will be hyper-violent and overtly racial mob behavior, on a massive and undeniable basis.

Some of those trapped in their cars will try to drive out of the area, inevitably knocking down MUY pedestrians and being trapped by even more outraged MUYs. The commuters will be dragged out of their cars and kicked or beaten to death. Other suburban commuters will try to shoot their way out of the lines of stopped cars, and they will meet the same grim fate once they run out of bullets and room to escape.

The mob will be armed with everything from knives, clubs and pistols to AK-47s. A bloodbath will result. These unlucky drivers and their passengers will suffer horribly, and some of their deaths will be captured on traffic web cameras. Later, these terrible scenes will be released or leaked by sympathetic government insiders and shown by the alternative media, which continue to expand as the traditional media become increasingly irrelevant.

Implausible, you insist?

This grim tableau is my analysis of age-old human behavior patterns, adding flash mobs and 2012 levels of racial anger to the old recipe. Early-teenage MUYs today are frequently playing “The Knockout Game” on full bellies, just for kicks, and proudly uploading the videos. They and their older peers can be expected to do far worse when hunger and the fear of starvation enter their physical, mental, and emotional equations. The blame for their hunger will be turned outward against the greater society, and will be vented at first hand against any non-MUY who falls into their grasp while they are in the thrall of mob hysteria. These episodes of mass psychology we will refer to as “flash mob riots”, “wilding”, or some other new name.

THE OFFICIAL POLICE RESPONSE TO FLASH MOB RIOTS

To gear up for even a single “Florence and Normandie on steroids” flash mob street riot, city police departments will require an hour or longer to stage their SWAT teams and riot squads in position to react. Ordinary patrol cars in small numbers will not venture anywhere near such roiling masses of hysterical rioters, not even to perform rescues. Those citizens trapped in their cars cannot expect timely assistance from local or state authorities.

Even in the first days of widespread riots, when the police forces are well rested, it might take several hours to mount a response sufficient to quell the disturbance and restore order to even one major street intersection riot. In the meantime, scores of innocent commuters will have been attacked, with many of them injured or killed and left at the scene. It will be a law enforcement nightmare to quell the disturbance, mop up lingering rioters, restore security, and bring medical attention to the living and get medical examiners to the dead. And each jurisdiction will face potentially dozens of such scenes, thanks to the ability for MUYs to cross-communicate at will using their wireless devices.

The far more difficult challenge for the police is that by the time they are suited in riot gear, armed and geared up to sweep the intersection, it will probably be empty of rioters. The police, with their major riot squad reaction times measured in hours, will be fighting flash mobs that materialize, cause mayhem, and evaporate in only fractions of hours. This rapid cycle time is a clear lesson taken from massive riots by immigrant French Muslim MUYs in their own religious enclaves and bordering areas.

The American flash mob riot will exist almost entirely inside the law enforcement OODA (observe, orient, decide, act) loop. In other words, the rioters will have a much quicker reaction time than the police. Until fairly recently, superior police communications meant that they could use their radio networks as a force multiplier. With their networking advantage and cohesive reactions both within a department and among cooperating local agencies, police could act as shepherds guiding or dispersing a wayward stampeding flock.

Today, the mob has the greater advantage, immediately spreading word of every police preparation by text and Tweet, even in advance of the police movement. Attempts by the authorities to stop the flash mobs by blocking and jamming wireless transmissions will have limited success.

It is at this point that the situation spirals out of control.

The enraged mobs in urban America will soon recognize that their spontaneous street riots cannot be stopped by the police, and then they will grow truly fearsome. For the police, it will be a losing game of Whack-a-Mole, with riots breaking out and dispersing at a speed they cannot hope to match. The violence will spread to previously unaffected cities as an awareness of law enforcement impotence is spread by television and social media. After a few days, the police forces will be exhausted and demoralized. As the violence intensifies and spreads, and in the absence of any viable security arrangements, supermarkets and other stores will not be restocked, leaving the MUYs even more desperate and angry than before. The increasing desperation born of worsening hunger will refuel the escalating spiral of violence.

Nor will violent conflict be only between the inhabitants of the urban areas and the suburbs. The international record of conflict in tri-ethnic cities is grim, making the old bi-racial dichotomy formerly seen in America seem stable by comparison. In tri-ethnic cities the perceived balance of power is constantly shifting, with each side in turn feeling outnumbered and outmuscled. Temporary truces, betrayals and new alliances follow in rapid succession, removing any lingering sense of social cohesion.

The former Yugoslavia, with its Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim divisions, comes starkly to mind. The Lebanese Civil War between the Christians, Sunnis, Shiites and Druze raged across Beirut (at one time known as “The Paris of the Middle East”) for fifteen brutal years. Once a city turns on itself and becomes a runaway engine of self-destruction, it can be difficult to impossible to switch off the process and return to normal pre-conflict life. It’s not inconceivable that the United States could produce a dozen Sarajevos or Beiruts, primarily across racial instead of religious divides.

Vehicle traffic by non-minority suburban commuters through adjoining minority areas will virtually halt, wrecking what is left of the local economy. Businesses will not open because employees will not be able to travel to work safely. Businesses in minority areas, needless to say, will be looted. “Gentrified” enclaves of affluent suburbanites within or near the urban zones will suffer repeated attacks, until their inhabitants flee.

Radically disaffected minorities will hold critical infrastructure corridors through their areas hostage against the greater society. Highways, railroad tracks, pipe and power lines will all be under constant threat, or may be cut in planned or unplanned acts of raging against “the system.” As long as security in the urban areas cannot be restored, these corridors will be under threat. Even airports will not be immune. Many of them have been absorbed into urban areas, and aircraft will come under sporadic fire while taking off and landing.

In the absence of fresh targets of value blundering into their areas, and still out of food, MUYs will begin to forage beyond their desolated home neighborhoods and into suburban borderlands. “Safe” supermarkets and other stores will be robbed in brazen commando-like gang attacks. Carjackings and home invasions will proliferate madly. As I have discussed in my essay “The Civil War Two Cube,” so-called “transitional” and mixed-ethnic areas will suffer the worst violence.

These neighborhoods will become utterly chaotic killing zones, with little or no help coming from the overstretched police, who will be trying to rest up for their next shift on riot squad duty, if they have not already deserted their posts to take care of their own families.

THE SUBURBAN ARMED VIGILANTE RESPONSE

In the absence of an effective official police response to the exploding levels of violence, suburbanites will first hastily form self-defense forces to guard their neighborhoods—especially ones located near ethnic borders. These ubiquitous neighborhood armed defense teams will often have a deep and talented bench from which to select members, and they will not lack for volunteers.

Since 9-11, hundreds of thousands of young men (and more than a few women) have acquired graduate-level educations in various aspects of urban warfare. In the Middle East these troops were frequently tasked with restoring order to urban areas exploding in internecine strife. Today these former military men and women understand better than anyone the life-or-death difference between being armed and organized versus unarmed and disorganized.

Hundreds of thousands if not millions of veterans currently own rifles strikingly similar to those they carried in the armed forces, lacking only the full-automatic selector switch. Their brothers, sisters, parents, friends, and neighbors who did not serve in the military are often just as familiar with the weapons, if not the tactics. Today the AR-pattern rifle (the semi-automatic civilian version of the familiar full-auto-capable M-16 or M-4) is the most popular model of rifle in America, with millions sold in the past decade. Virtually all of them produced in the past decade have abandoned the old M-16′s signature “carrying handle” rear iron sight for a standardized sight mounting rail, meaning that virtually every AR sold today can be easily equipped with an efficient optical sight. Firing the high-velocity 5.56×45 mm cartridge and mounted with a four-power tactical sight, a typical AR rifle can shoot two-inch groups at one hundred yards when fired from a steady bench rest. That translates to shooting eight- to ten-inch groups at four hundred yards.

Four hundred yards is a long walk. Pace it off on a straight road, and observe how tiny somebody appears at that distance. Yet a typical AR rifle, like those currently owned by millions of American citizens, can hit a man-sized target at that range very easily, given a stable firing platform and a moderate level of shooting ability.

And there are a far greater number of scoped bolt-action hunting rifles in private hands in the United States. Keep this number in mind: based on deer stamps sold, approximately twenty million Americans venture into the woods every fall armed with such rifles, fully intending to shoot and kill a two-hundred-pound mammal. Millions of these scoped bolt-action deer rifles are quite capable of hitting a man-sized target at ranges out to and even beyond a thousand yards, or nearly three-fifths of a mile. In that context, the 500-yard effective range of the average semi-auto AR-pattern rifle is not at all remarkable.

So, we have millions of men and women with military training, owning rifles similar to the ones they used in combat operations overseas from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Many of these Soldiers and Marines have special operations training. They are former warriors with experience at conducting irregular warfare and counter-terrorism operations in dangerous urban environments. They are the opposite of unthinking robots: their greatest military talent is looking outside the box for new solutions. They always seek to “over-match” their enemies, using their own advantages as force multipliers while diminishing or concealing their weaknesses. These military veterans are also ready, willing and able to pass on their experience and training to interested students in their civilian circles.

Let’s return to our hypothetical Florence and Normandie intersection, but this time with hundreds of rioters per city block, instead of mere dozens. Among the mobs are thugs armed with pistols and perhaps even AK-47s equipped with standard iron sights, and except in rare cases, these rifles have never been “zeroed in” on a target range. In other words, past a medium distance of fifty to a hundred yards, these MUY shooters will have little idea where their fired bullets will strike—nor will they care. Typically, most of the rioters armed with a pistol, shotgun or an iron-sighted rifle could not hit a mailbox at a hundred yards unless by luck. Inside that distance, any non-MUY could be at immediate risk of brutal death at the hands of an enraged mob, but beyond that range, the mob will pose much less danger.

Taking this imbalance in effective ranges of the firearms most likely to be available to both sides, certain tactical responses are sure to arise, and ranking near the top will be the one described next.

THE SNIPER AMBUSH: THE NEW TACTIC OF CHOICE

The sniper ambush will predictably be used as a counter to rampaging mobs armed only with short- to medium-range weapons. This extremely deadly trick was developed by our war fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan, taking advantage of the significant effective range and firepower of our scoped 5.56mm rifles. Tactics such as the sniper ambush may not be seen early in the civil disorder, but they will surely arise after a steady progression of atrocities attributed to rampaging MUYs.

Street intersection flash mob riots will not be the only type of violence exploding during periods of civil disorder. As mentioned earlier, the number and ferocity of home invasions will skyrocket, and they will be very hard to defend against. Neighborhood self-defense forces will be able to protect a group of homes if they are located on cul-de-sacs or in defensible subdivisions with limited entrances, turning them overnight into fortified gated communities. Individual homes and apartment buildings located in open grid-pattern neighborhoods with outside access from many directions will be much more difficult to defend, and the home invasions will continue.

Carjacking and other forms of armed robbery will proliferate to previously unimagined levels, leading to a total loss of confidence in the government’s ability to provide security across all social lines. Stray bullets striking pedestrians or penetrating houses will take a frightening toll, even in areas previously considered to be safe. The police will be exhausted by constant riot-squad duty, and will not even respond to reports of mere individual acts of violent criminality. They will simply be overwhelmed, and will be forced to triage their responses. The wealthy, powerful and politically well-connected will demand the lion’s share of remaining police resources, further diminishing the safety of average Americans.

In that context, neighborhood self-defense forces will form the nucleus of the armed vigilante direct action groups which will spring up next in the progression. Suburban anger will continue to build against the MUYs, who are perceived to be the originators of the home invasions and gang-level armed looting raids. Survivors of street ambushes, carjackings and home invasions will tell blood-curdling tales and show horrific scars.

The neighborhood defense teams will evolve into proactive suburban armed vigilante groups (SAVs) out of a desire to preemptively take the violence to their perceived enemies, instead of passively waiting for the next home invasion or carjacking. The SAV teams will consist of the more aggressive and gung-ho members of the self-defense forces, who met and compared notes. Often they will be young men with recent combat experience in the armed forces, who will apply their military training to the new situation. Major intersections and highway interchanges where ambush riots have previously occurred will be among the SAV targets. The SAV reaction times will be measured in minutes, compared to the hours required by major police department SWAT teams and riot squads.

A SAMPLE SNIPER AMBUSH SCENARIO

When word is received that a flash mob is forming at one of their pre-reconnoitered intersections or highway interchanges, the SAV team will assemble. Sometimes cooperating police will pass tactical intel to their civilian friends on the outside. Some clever individuals will have exploited their technical know-how and military experience to build real-time intel collection tools, such as private UAVs. Police will have access to urban security camera footage showing MUYs moving barricade materials into position—a normal prerequisite to a flash mob riot intended to stop traffic. Tip-offs to the vigilantes will be common, and where the networks are still functioning, citizens may still be able to access some video feeds. Sometimes, police will even join the SAV teams, incognito and off-duty, blurring the teams into so-called “death squads.”

The operation I will describe (and it’s only one of dozens that will be tried) uses two ordinary pickup trucks and eight fighters. Two riflemen are lying prone in the back of each truck, facing rearward, with removable canvas covers concealing their presence. Their semi-automatic, scoped rifles are supported at their front ends on bipods for very accurate shooting. A row of protective sandbags a foot high is between them and the raised tailgate.

In the cab are a driver and a spotter in the passenger seat who also serves as the vehicle’s 360-degree security. The two trucks don’t ever appear on the same stretch of road, but coordinate their movements using one-word brevity codes over small FRS walkie-talkie radios. Each truck has a series of predetermined elevated locations where the intersection in question will lie between 200 and 500 yards away. Each truck is totally nondescript and forgettable, the only detail perhaps being the non-MUY ethnicity of the suburbanite driver and spotter driving relatively near to a riot in progress.

By the time the two SAV pickup trucks arrive at their firing positions on different streets and oriented ninety degrees to one another, the flash mob riot is in full swing. A hundred or more of the rampaging youths are posturing and throwing debris into traffic in order to intimidate some cars into stopping. The riflemen in the backs of the pickups are waiting for this moment and know what to expect, trusting their spotters and drivers to give them a good firing lane. The spotters in each truck issue a code word on their radios when they are in final position. The tailgates are swung down, and the leader among the riflemen initiates the firing. All-around security is provided by the driver and spotter.

Lying prone and using their bipods for support, the shooters have five to ten degrees of pan or traverse across the entire intersection. Individual rioters are clearly visible in the shooters’ magnified optical scopes. Each of the four snipers has a plan to shoot from the outside of the mob toward the middle, driving participants into a panicked mass. The left-side shooters start on the left side and work to the middle, engaging targets with rapid fire, about one aimed shot per two seconds. Since the two trucks are set at ninety degrees to one another, very complete coverage will be obtained, even among and between the stopped vehicles.

The result is a turkey shoot. One magazine of thirty aimed shots per rifle is expended in under a minute, a coded cease-fire is called on the walkie-talkies, and the trucks drive away at the speed limit. The canvas covering the truck beds contains the shooters’ spent brass. If the trucks are attacked from medium or close range, the canvas can be thrown back and the two snipers with their semi-automatic rifles or carbines will add their firepower to that of the driver and spotter.

Back at the intersection, complete panic breaks out among the rioters as a great number of bullets have landed in human flesh. Over a score have been killed outright, and many more scream in pain for medical attention they will not receive in time. The sniper ambush stops the flash mob cold in its tracks as the uninjured flee in terror, leaving their erstwhile comrades back on the ground bleeding. The commuters trapped in their vehicles may have an opportunity to escape.

This type of sniper ambush and a hundred variations on the theme will finally accomplish what the police could not: put an end to mobs of violent rioters making the cities through-streets and highways impassible killing zones. Would-be rioters will soon understand it to be suicidal to cluster in easily visible groups and engage in mob violence, as the immediate response could come at any time in the form of aimed fire from hundreds of yards away. Even one rifleman with a scoped semi-auto can break up a medium-sized riot.

Many citizens will take to carrying rifles and carbines in their vehicles, along with their pistols, so that if their cars are trapped in an ambush they will have a chance to fight their way out. If their vehicle is stopped outside the immediate area of the flash mob, they will be able to direct accurate fire at the rioters from a few hundred yards away. Inside the fatal hundred-yard radius, unlucky suburbanite drivers and passengers pulled from their cars will still be brutally violated, but the occurrences of large mob-driven street ambushes will be much less frequent once long-range retaliation becomes a frequent expectation.

THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO VIGILANTISM

Where they will be unable to respond swiftly or effectively to the outbreaks of street riots by MUY flash mobs, the police and federal agents will respond vigorously to the deadly but smaller vigilante attacks. These sniper ambushes and other SAV attacks will be called acts of domestic terrorism and mass murder by government officials and the mainstream media. A nearly seamless web of urban and suburban street cameras will reveal some of the SAV teams by their vehicles, facial recognition programs, and other technical means. Some early arrests will be made, but the vigilantes will adapt to increasing law enforcement pressure against them by becoming cleverer about their camouflage, most often using stolen cars and false uniforms and masks during their direct-action missions. Observe Mexico today for ideas on how this type of dirty war is fought.

Eventually, the U.S. Army itself might be called upon to put out all the social firestorms in our cities, restore order and security, pacify the angry masses, feed the starving millions, get vital infrastructure operating again, and do it all at once in a dozen American Beiruts, Sarajevos and Mogadishus.

Good luck to them, I say.

A few hundred “Active IRA” tied down thousands of British troops in one corner of a small island for decades. The same ratios have served the Taliban well over the past decade while fighting against the combined might of NATO. Set aside for a moment the angry starving millions trapped in the urban areas, and the dire security issues arising thereof. Just to consider the official reaction to vigilantism separately, it’s unlikely that any conceivable combinations of local and state police, federal law enforcement, National Guard or active-duty Army actions could neutralize or eliminate tens of thousands of former special operations troops intent on providing their own form of security. Millions of Americans are already far better armed and trained than a few hundred IRA or Taliban ever were. And the police and Army would not be operating from secure fire bases, their families living in total safety thousands of miles away in a secure rear area. In this scenario, there is no rear area, and every family member, anywhere, would be at perpetual risk of reprisal actions by any of the warring sides.

In this hyper-dangerous environment, new laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in vehicles would be ignored as the illegitimate diktat of dictatorship, just when the Second Amendment is needed more than ever. Police or military conducting searches for firearms at checkpoints would themselves become targets of vigilante snipers. Serving on anti-firearms duty would be seen as nothing but pure treason by millions of Americans who took the oath to defend the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Politicians who did not act in the security interest of their local constituents as a result of political correctness or other reasons would also be targeted.

A festering race war with police and the military in the middle taking fire from both sides could last for many years, turning many American cities into a living hell. Remember history: when the British Army landed in Northern Ireland in 1969, they were greeted with flowers and applause from the Catholics. The Tommys were welcomed as peacekeepers who would protect them from Protestant violence. That soon changed. Likewise with our tragic misadventure in Lebanon back in 1982 and 1983. Well-intended referees often find themselves taking fire from all sides. It’s as predictable as tomorrow’s sunrise. Why would it be any different when the U.S. Army is sent to Los Angeles, Chicago or Philadelphia to break apart warring ethnic factions?

For a long time after these events, it will be impossible for the warring ethnic groups to live together or even to mingle peacefully. Too much rage and hatred will have been built up on all sides of our many American multi-ethnic fault lines. The new wounds will be raw and painful for many years to come, as they were in the South for long after the Civil War. The fracturing of the urban areas, divided by no-man’s-lands, will also hinder economic redevelopment for many years because the critical infrastructure corridors will remain insecure.

Eventually, high concrete “Peace Walls” like those in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will be installed where the different ethnic groups live in close proximity. That is, if recovery to sane and civilized norms of behavior are ever regained in our lifetimes and we don’t slide into a new Dark Age, a stern and permanent tyranny, warlordism, anarchy, or any other dire outcome.

Dark Ages can last for centuries, after sinking civilizations in a vicious, downward vortex. “When the music’s over, turn out the lights,” to quote Jim Morrison of The Doors. Sometimes the lights stay out for a long time. Sometimes civilization itself is lost. Millions of EBT cards flashing zeroes might be the signal event of a terrible transformation.

It is a frightening thing to crystallize the possible outbreak of mass starvation and racial warfare into words, so that the mind is forced to confront agonizingly painful scenarios. It is much easier to avert one’s eyes and mind from the ugliness with politically correct Kumbaya bromides. In this grim essay, I am describing a brutal situation of ethnic civil war not differing much from the worst scenes from recent history in Rwanda, South Africa, Mexico, Bosnia, Iraq, and many other places that have experienced varying types and degrees of societal collapse. We all deplore the conditions that might drive us toward such a hellish outcome, and we should work unceasingly to return America to the path of true brotherhood, peace and prosperity. Race hustlers of every stripe should be condemned.

Most of us wish we could turn back the calendar to Norman Rockwell’s America. But we cannot, for that America is water long over the dam and gone from our sight, if not from our memories. John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” If that is true, judging by current and even accelerating cultural shifts, we might already have passed the point of no return.

The prudent American will trim his sails accordingly.

[American Patriot]

Matt Bracken. I thought I recognized that name immediately, but couldn't remember from where. Castigo Cay.... that's where. Time to read the article.

[American Patriot]

The prudent American will trim his sails accordingly.

That I shall, a Starboard Tack to the south, as it were....

/grin

[Ryan Ruck]

One thing I forgot to mention when I posted the piece, remember there are record numbers of people currently on food stamps with 15 million added since Obama took office.

Makes one wonder if an outcome as laid laid out above is planned.

[Ryan Ruck]

Another bit of information to consider that I've seen in some of the discussion of this piece, and one thing that Matt didn't include in his scenario, gang members joining the military to get training.

http://www.newson6.com/story/1694967...n-our-military

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-3107316.html

I'm pretty sure there are even a couple links here where we had discussed this issue previously.

[American Patriot]

He said something about "gang members being familiar with weapons" and tactics - so perhaps assumed it?

[MinutemanCO]

It all sounds so cracked and crazy when viewed from a superficial, mom and pop kinda way. But when you dig, even just a little bit, this stuff just stares at you from the hole, vile and stinking, waiting to be recognized. God forbid you actually start connecting some dots...

[American Patriot]

You know, MMCO.... here's my take on what you said. The "sounds so cracked and crazy" thing.

It's not just a mom and pop point of view. It's a view of the uninformed, ignorant and misinformed of the Left. THEY can't grasp the depth of this and don't see that 2 weeks is about all a city has once the power fails or some other system ceases to function.

As Ryan pointed out about "gang members joining the military" to get training... in the past six or eight months here in Colorado Springs - we have had MULTIPLE shootings, and shoot outs, several dead. Guess who did it?

Military members who were GANG MEMBERS FIRST, and are out there in the public with their old buddies laughin' it up over taking down dumb people. Every, single incident has involved one or more black service members.

So - It's already HAPPENED, and going on as we speak.

One would imagine that being in the military and understanding your mission would bring one around to a grasp of right and wrong.

The problem is even now, the military is removing a real reason for you doing your job. These kids aren't briefed any more like we were about the whole reason the military exists.

We used to have to go through classes to explain the unit mission, or the way the military fit in with government (or presidential) policy.

[MinutemanCO]

Wow. Give them military training and no moral foundation in which to employ said training. What's the product of that equation... deadly, uncaring thugs. Sounds pretty fascist to me. Or maybe anarchist. The thugs would be willing to do the bidding of said communist fascist leaders for the right price or a promise of power.

I'll tell you what though, my mind doesn't want to grasp what my eyes are seeing. I have to force myself to believe that what I'm seeing is actually happening and that we as a society may have to contend with this reality. And in short order.

[Ryan Ruck]

He said something about "gang members being familiar with weapons" and tactics - so perhaps assumed it?

I just took that to mean they had been heavily indoctrinated into the "thug life" culture from an early age, not necessarily military training. If you want to see a good example of this, watch a fictional (though heavily based in reality) TV series HBO put out a while back called The Wire. Shows how ingrained the "thug life" culture is in the urban population from an early age. Very, very few get out but most just follow the rest of the pack.

One would imagine that being in the military and understanding your mission would bring one around to a grasp of right and wrong.

The problem is even now, the military is removing a real reason for you doing your job. These kids aren't briefed any more like we were about the whole reason the military exists.

We used to have to go through classes to explain the unit mission, or the way the military fit in with government (or presidential) policy.

The military is too busy giving presentations on diversity and sensitivity now.

[American Patriot]

I think... given my own personal experiences here that MOST of the "thugs" don't have ANY weapons training whatsoever and the first time most of them fire a gun the first time is doing a "drive by" (They do that often around here, shooting at random houses).

[Ryan Ruck]

Damn, I was just thinking about this... I swear somewhere I read a law enforcement piece that said the average "thug" has more weapon familiarization and shooting experience than the average cop, or something similar . I wish I could remember where I read that. I will try to hunt it down...

[American Patriot]

Hmmm.... I can't imagine how. They steal guns they've never seen or used before. They DO NOT pay to go to the range (I mean that goes against their thinking). City kids with guns... where do they practice using them?

Now, taking them apart and getting familiar doesn't require a training course.

And we all know they don't give a shit about safety, how many have shot themselves in the leg or groin because they don't know how to use a safety?

But, I'll look into it too.

Oh.. one other piece of "evidence" would be the fact that nearly every criminal that pulls a weapon the cops loses, unless the cop is surprised by the thug in the first place. Right?