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The State Strikes Back

It Could Happen Here

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The FBI Announces Gangs Have Infiltrated Every Branch of the Military

This would be a terrifying and demoralizing situation for the vast majority of American law enforcement. Street criminals in particular are much more likely to use violence. Raising the temperature is critical because it's how we go for mass unrest to outright revolution. Right now, there is no evidence that any American street gangs support any kind of organized activity against the US government other than selling drugs and stuff. But criminals have a long history of making fantastic revolutionaries. Abu Musab al-Zarkawi, the George Washington of ISIS, was a drug dealer in gangster back in Jordan before he found Allah. Joseph Stalin robbed banks before the Bolshevik Revolution. It is not so great a jump from gang leader to

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