By Michael Snyder ~
The Economic Collapse
February 4, 2013
What did you
think was going to happen? Moral standards have been falling for decades,
we have allowed massive hordes of criminals, gang members and drug dealers
to enter this country illegally, and thanks to our
declining economy
our inner cities are being absolutely ravaged by poverty.
Was such a
combination really going to produce peace and prosperity? Should we be so
shocked that we now have open war on the streets of America?In the United
States today, there are millions upon millions of young people that can’t
find jobs, that are living in poverty, that have no hope for a better
future, and that have been raised without any moral standards. These young
people are becoming increasingly desperate, and desperate people do
desperate things. ‘As I wrote about the
other day, for those under the age of 18 living in the city
of Detroit the poverty rate is
60 percent.
Should we be surprised that Detroit police are now telling people to “enter
Detroit at your own risk“. At this point, the FBI says that
there are approximately 1.4
million gang members living in our cities. That number has
risen by an astounding
40 percent
just since 2009. Did we somehow delude ourselves into thinking that there
would not be severe consequences for allowing that to happen?
Today,
Mexican drug cartels are active in
more than 1,000 U.S.
cities. Are they selling drugs and committing crimes in the
area where you live? Well, don’t be so shocked. The federal government has
left our border with Mexico wide open for decades even though the most
violent drug war on the planet has been raging just across that border.
Stupid decisions produce stupid results. Sadly, this is just the
beginning. When our economy fully crashes the open warfare on the streets
of America is going to get much, much worse.Let’s take a
closer look at what is currently happening in a few of our largest cities…
Los AngelesDid you know that
Latino gangs are systematically pushing black families out of some areas of
Los Angeles? For example, once
upon a time Compton was a predominantly African-American area. But now it
is
65 percent Latino,
and there is a relentless campaign of intimidation against many of the
African-American families that remain.One of these
incidents was recently profiled in
the Los Angeles Times.
A black family moved into Compton near the end of December, and since that
time they have been the victims of endless harassment by Latino gangs. When
a 19-year-old African-American friend came to visit the family one day, four
thugs told him that blacks were barred from the neighborhood and they
started beating him with metal pipes. A story in the
Los Angeles Times
described what happened next…The 19-year-old
family friend managed to break free that first day and run into the house,
where the children were the only ones at home. The attackers
left, but a half-hour later a crowd of as many as 20 people stood on the
lawn yelling threats and epithets. A beer bottle crashed through the living
room window as the youngsters watched in horror.“They were scared
if they called the sheriff they’d be killed,” Westin said. “So they called
their mom, who called the Sheriff’s Department.”The gang members
were gone by the time deputies arrived, but they kept coming back, almost
daily, driving by slowly until they got someone’s attention, then yelling
racial insults and telling them to leave. The mother sent the children to
live with relatives and is now packing up to leave herself.As horrifying as
that sounds, the truth is that it is
not
an isolated incident.According to
the Los Angeles Times,
similar attacks “have taken place in Harbor Gateway, Highland Park, Pacoima,
San Bernardino, Canoga Park and Wilmington, among other places.”
OaklandUp the coast in
Oakland, a horribly violent gang war has gotten so out of hand that city
officials are holding press conferences about it.Violent crime in
the city of Oakland increased by
23 percent
in 2012, and police say that gang members were responsible for most of the
approximately 2,000
robberies and 65 homicides that took place in the second half
of the year.As
the San Francisco Chronicle recently explained, the violence continues to
escalate and city officials don’t know how to solve it…Nearly all the
violent crimes in Oakland in the last few months, including two killings
over the weekend, have been committed as part of a “war” between rival
groups that was sparked by the slaying of a girl last summer, Police Chief
Howard Jordan said Monday. Jordan said
“about 90 percent” of the killings, robberies, shootings and other
“senseless acts of violence” in the city since mid-2012 can be directly tied
to the killing of a girlfriend of one of the combatants.Over time, the
warring factions have become increasingly violent and have grown in number,
sometimes by merging with other groups, Jordan said at a news conference
called in response to an outbreak of gunfire over the weekend.
ChicagoSavage murders
happen so regularly in Chicago at this point that very few people are even
shocked by the headlines any longer. The murder rate in the city increased
by about 17 percent in 2012, and 2013 has already started with quite a
bang.Just check out
what happened on Saturday. 7 people were murdered and six others were left
wounded. The following is how the Chicago Tribune described one of the crime scenes…On West Van Buren
Street, a body could be seen lying in the roadway, near the curb and a bus
stop. A man who only
identified himself as the teen victim’s uncle said the boy, whose family
lived nearby, had simply gone to run an errand. “He was just
going to the store,” the man said. “They just killed him just like that.” Later, the man
paced back and forth on the sidewalk, shaking his head in disbelief.So why has
Chicago become such a violent city? It is because of
the gangs.Today,
approximately
80 percent
of all murders that happen in the city of Chicago are gang-related. And as
I have written about
previously,
there are only about 200 police officers assigned to Chicago’s Gang
Enforcement Unit to handle the estimated
100,000 gang members
living in the city.Perhaps Chicago
could do more to handle all the crime if they had more money, but at this
point they are flat broke and so is the entire state of Illinois. In fact,
the state of Illinois just had its credit rating
downgraded once again.I picked out
three examples to discuss above, but similar things could really be said
about hundreds of U.S. cities
from coast to coast.
Once upon a time,
gang activity was fairly limited to certain pockets of the country. But
now, it is more widespread than ever. According to the
Justice Departments National Drug Intelligence Center, Mexican drug
cartels were actively operating
in 50 different U.S.
cities in 2006. By 2010, that
number had skyrocketed
to 1,286.Are you starting
to get the picture? So why doesn’t
the federal government secure the border and make sure that everyone that is
coming into this country is doing so legally?That is a very
good question. For some reason, every single president that we have had in
recent decades has chosen to leave the U.S. border with Mexico virtually
wide open. And so millions
of criminals, gang members, drug dealers and welfare parasites continue to
pour into the country. The following is whatone local police
chief down in Texas is saying about what he is seeing along
the border…The problem is
not going away. “Most of them
have people here or they’re just trying to make it over here so they can
start making a better living for themselves,” La Joya Police Chief Julian
Gutierrez told Action 4 News.No matter how
many miles of border fence is erectedit seems nothing will stop the
thousands of immigrants, crossing our border illegally, from continuing
their journey.“A lot of times
we talk to them and ask them why they’re coming here, Gutierrez explained.
They say they’re coming for the ‘American Dream.’ I always tell them that
they’re here illegally—how do they expect to find work? They always say
it’s a lot better than their country.So what is the
Obama administration doing about this? They don’t
consider it to be a problem.In fact, one of
our stations along the border with Mexico will no longer be manned with real
people at all. The following is from a recent
ABC News report…Get ready for the
very first “unmanned” border station on the U.S.-Mexico border. Slated to
open at the end of this month, the Big Bend National Park in Texas will be
staffed by, you guessed it, computers.But what the
Obama administration does seem to be concerned about is giving immigrants
lots of “benefits” once they get here.For example, did
you know that the federal government actually has a website that teaches
immigrants
how to sign up for
welfare programs once they arrive in the United States?Meanwhile, we
can’t even come close to taking care of our own citizens. According to the
U.S. Census Bureau, there are
more than 146 million
Americans that are considered to be either “poor” or “low
income” at this point.Poverty is
absolutely exploding
in this country, and
the middle class
gets smaller with each passing day. When the next major economic downturn
strikes, the unemployment numbers are going to start spiking again and
millions of families are going to lose all hope that things will ever turn
around for them.Meanwhile, the
very foundations of our society continue to rot and decay right in front of
our eyes. At this point, approximatelyone out of every
three children in the U.S. lives in a home without a father.
The U.S. has the highest divorce rate in the world, the highest rate of teen
pregnancy in the world, and there are
19 million
new STD infections in the United States every single year.Our nation is a
complete and total mess, and many of our major cities are being transformed
into gang-infested war zones that are on the verge of total meltdown. Is it any wonder
that millions of American families have chosen to become
preppers?
Nothing is going
to stop the societal meltdown that is coming. That is especially true with
Barack Obama running
things.Sadly, most
Americans still have their heads in the sand and are pretending that
everything will be okay somehow. Sadly, most
Americans still have a tremendous amount of faith in the system. But anyone with a
brain should be able to see the storm clouds that are coming.So get prepared
while you still can. Time is running
out.