I once thought street gangs were stupid, this was back in junior high. I have cousins on both my paternal and maternal side that are into their respective gangs. Sometime during high school I went in to see what the big deal was about. Why people would waste their lives, risk going to prison, and kill people for what looks like a flag (a rag – colors) and three letters.
I went the easy way and went into TRG’s girl division called LRG [Lady Raskal Gang] because my cousins and their close friends ran a set [branch] and they just let me in without having to go through all that sexing or jumping in or doing something to prove your loyalty.
Tiny Raskal Gang was started way back in the 80′s in Long beach by two Khmer boys named Thea and Rith. These two were getting picked on by Mexicans and blacks back in those days and they started a little clique to defend themselves. Way back then it was just called Thea and Rith Gang, thus the TRG, but that evolved to mean “Tiny Rascals Gang” soon afterwards. Then they added their numbers 7126 at a later date. The numbers 7126 means the same thing as the letters: the 7=T, the 12=R, and the 6=G.
Twenty years later and 712 Gang has grown to become the largest Asian gang in America. Today it’s mixed, meaning it’s open to any race down with the gang. It’s nation wide, from Fresno to the east coast.
The OG’s Thea and Rith got deported a while back back to Cambodia, which was a stupid move on America’s part. Other 7126 members in Long Beach got deported too. This is an example of short sighted, immediate gratification. The stupid authorities here thinks deporting members out of the US is going to reduce crime rate in inner cities. Sure, it does, for a while. Until the people you deport regenerate their gangs in their home countries. Then what you have isn’t just a nation wide criminal organization – but an international one. This is the state most evolved gangs have taken; for example La Mara Salvatrucha Trese [MS13]. These newly evolved international gangs are now becoming the new problem – internationa drug, arms, and people traffic.
These stupid people running America just don’t learn from past mistakes. Prohibition gave birth to the Mob; drug prohibition gave birth to gangs. The stupidity comes from law makers who sit in their office, totally oblivious to the problem and its cause – completely removed from the reality of these cities – who just pass laws to cover symptoms to get paid and re-elected. If anything, these law makers are the other side of the crime coin, who actually help create the crime, the gangs, the prison over population, the deaths, and the lose of millions of tax payers money. Lao Tzu once said: The more laws you pass, the more crime your create.
Since I got to see my set working and operatng from the top down, or inside out, I have a different perspective on gangs, then the average gang member.
From my “insider” perspective gangs are unincorporated corporations. This unincorporated corporation has its “CEO’s,” called Heads; “Managers,” called OG’s and dispensible “Employees,” called Juniors or Foot Soldiers.
Like any corporation, gangs Capitalize off of a comodity. By Capitalize I mean the use of Calipatistic exchange of a product from the manufacturing source to the Market for a profit, called “Capital.” The “product” these gangs sell is one legally incorporated corporations cannot touch or sell: Drugs.
To sell drugs, you need a market: a certain section of a city, where there exists consumers for the product – dope heads in our case. This produces two problems: Competition, and safely selling the product without risking management’s asses – otherwise, there would be no business. This problem is taken care of by one agent: Juniors or foot soldiers.
Usually a junior is a punk ass teenager between 13-17. This is where the magic or real power of a gang comes into play. How do you, as management of a corporation instill or induce these teenagers to dedicate their lives to serving the gang, by selling dope, securing territory, risk their lives and freedom by killing competition? The answer is simple: Emotional and Ego manipulation. You spark their passion and manupilate their perception of reality. Don’t ever underestimate the power of burning passion. It’s what made all nation-states possible.
Boyz are by nature usually naturally group oriented and compettive anyways. Generally you take a new junior and let him hang out with you (the gang). The more he hangs out with you, the more he realizes their is a heirarchy, and eventually this young boy will want to begin to impress the right people up in the heirarchy. You straight aways introduce him to your enemies, phisically – usually in a club or at a house party. Your enemies makes your gang members.
Putting that junior into a situation where he physically experiences “the enemy (rival gang members) as he is accompanied by people he phychologically assumes are his associates – with which he has attached his identity with, makes the gang member. Nothing binds a group together like war and shared struggle – even a manufactured one. This shit is the same shit you do with a skinhead gang. A few skinheads takes a new junior and exposes him to “the enemy.” The act of the new junior skinhead being exposed to an angry black guy or whatever causes him to emotionally severe his identity with these people and he binds that identity tight with those assocites he hangs out with. It’s the same thing you do when you are conditioning a new recruit of a political party (Democrat or Republicans). You hang out with him, bond with him, make him feel a part of the party, then expose him to the enemy – the rival party; their ideology; their agenda – Us versus Them. It’s just a phychological method of tapping into that ancestral tribal nature ingrained in us. If the new recruit wants to continue being accepted by the party, he will reject anything associated with the enemy. If he wants to impress his superiors, he will act and do things for recognition – Purple Hearts, patches, kudos, being called OG – arbitrary, meaningless trinckets of recognition.
No person, group, party, or naton, will ever get anywhere or achieve anything great with our a rival or enemy. The rivalry between America and Communist Russia made America what it is today. The newly manufactured rivalry between Communist China, and the US will make America what it will be tomorrow.
Germany once made Europe. It once made England and its European allies the most powerfull force in the world. What happened to the British Empire, England, and its European allies, once Germany was crushed, and no real rival existed anymore? Sure there was Russia. But Germany actually invaded and killed; thus generating a deep emotional rivalry. Russia was never more than an intellectual rivalry. Think about it for a while.
Back to our gangs. So you have these foot soldeirs working the streets, recruiting their friends, selling product, and securing turf. This opens to door for management to start up a new business. These juniors will form sets [branches]. These sets will then need arms – which the OG’s will seel to them. In every case, it becomes apparent that one class of members has apprehended and is exploiting another for personal gain and profit.
In this way, what we call a gang is very similar to a “Temple” as described in the Black Book of Satan – being an organization put together by a Master and/or Mistress who know how to manipulate people to exploit them for their own pleasures, and personal gain. Not only are gangs like Temples. Gangs actually cull people and are proud of it. When a gang says it culls people, it’s not just talk to look hardcore. We all know gangs are violent and kill people.
Girls in these gangs are a very important factor. Usually in gangs, the boy that acts and does the most – who is “hardcore” – gets the most attention. In gangs the girls that don’t do anything and get the most attention from Seniors (OG/Management) becomes the object of attention to the juniors.
It’s a like a pecking order of girls. There are girls at the bottom of the food chain, and those at the top. Why waste your time trying to impress a bottom girl, when you can impress a top girl and rub shoulders with the OG’s? This causes the boys to compete with one another – the top dog, gets the top girls. It’s primal human nature at play. This happens in any group, be they gangs, churches, or nation.
I once insight roled as a Mormon. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to a youth ward (church meeting for young Mormons). Those Mormons are very clever! “Church” meetings are separated into age groups – all the parents and married people meet at their own time; and the young unmarried members meet up together during their own time.
All the girls [at least in our ward] are well dressed and pretty. Not church wear either. More like cute dresses, and skirts; thongs and g-strings; and heels. I wasn’t the only one that dressed like that. Every other top girl at our ward did to. We usually stick together at the ward and sit together through service. And we talk about the boys. The boys that are talked about the most – who get the most dates – are those that have spent tens of thousands of dollars and years as a Missionary. The other boys are rejects. As soon as a boys returns to his home ward from his “Call” [as a Missionary] he’s already the talk of the ward among us girls, and he’ll already (unbeknownst to him) have a handful of very attractive girls who want to date him. And those other boys knew it. They know they were nobodies. What does this do? It exploits primal human nature, and causes these other boys to beg their parents to spend money on them so they can go out and do their missions for the Church – to whose real benefit?
Same shit goes down in political parties. If you ever go to meetings and associate in their group activities. The girls will date those guys that work to riase up above the other guys. That’s really attractive to us girls for some reason. It like you have your shit together and you can dominate other guys – alpha male status.
Me and Kayla once had an intellectual debate about gangs and crime. She thought gangs were stupid, and that crime was not genuine human nature.
True, from a foot soldier’s perspective, or from a local citizen’s perspective, gangs are stupid. But from the perspective of management, gangs means power, money, and girls. What else is their to live for in life. What has every hero ever risen to the top of the man pile for but for the glory of power, wealth, and sex?
Kayla once thought that genuine human nature was like pre-columbian native Americans or wild wolves as opposed to modern humans, and modern dogs. She said that crime was a side affect of city life, and therefore, it was unnatural.
True. This is so, many thousands of years ago. And it is still true in some primitive areas. But 6000 years ago a faction of the human race invented something called: civilization, where we took ourselves out of feral nature, and made cities to live it.
Kayla once said that true primal nature was like the nature of a wild wolf; whereas the pathological nature of something like a rotweiler or pitbull is a conditioning or manifestation of being locked up in a cage.
It’s true, from a localized point of view. But if we were to step back and see the bigger picture – seeing all time frames as one holistic entity – then the wolf and pitbul are the same entity in different causal time frames.
I asked Kayla to imagine a boxing ring and a boxer inside it. If she were to remove the boxer out of the ring, he would no longer be a boxer, but a normal person who just knows boxing. The ring and the boxer are in fact the same single “enity.” The ring makes the boxer, and the boxer makes the ring. the pitbull and his cage, are the same single “enity.” The environment or ecosystem and the animals in it are not separate phenomena, but the same holistic enity – the same integral system.
The city makes the citizens, and the citizens make the city. Yes, we once lived in jungles and hunted. But as we evolved we created these cities out of our own minds and creativity. These cities are an evolutionary manifestation of our primal envirnment. We and the city are a single integral ecosystem system.
When a certain part of this ecosystem is deprived of money, and its units (citizens) can’t buy food, and goods, the city itself creates the criminals. These criminals are nothing more than a product of the city surviving. We are a product of the city, and in turn, the city is a product of us. If crime is unnatural, then this city is unnatural. If civlization is unnatural, than the evolved – civilized human – is unnatural.
What’s a gang anyways but a group of young men out to get some glory? Isn’t this who all nations and empires started out? As a gang of young men out for glory. The incoherent crime and violence, matures into organized actions and maneuvers. These organized criminal organizations then evolve into political forces – forces that make and execute policies. These inturn become nations and empires.
What has the capitalist hooligans of the Hudson Bay Company or West Indies Company turned into? And the Columbian drug cartel? The opium slanging, arms buying Taliban – what are they becoming? What is the drug cartel destroying Mexico quicly becoming before our eyes? Nothing strikes fear in a nation-state most, then that which threatens it’s own existence. These gangs are rival nations in seed form. These cartels are saplings. Crime and criminal organization is the foundation of every empire and nation on earth.
Crime is not only natural, its altogether human, and the bedrock of human civilization. Why else would it have followed us across time, and evolved along with us – like a dark shadow we are ashamed of. We’ve long left our “animal nature” behind. It’s evolved – into something much more criminal.
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