Gangs Have Infiltrated Military. How Great a Threat?

[tombogan03884]

I still don't think we are seeing anything to get especially worried about, nothing we did not see in the 20's and 50's.
We have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan for 10 years, with increased numbers of combat veterans it is only reasonable to expect an increased number to be involved in crime of all sorts.
Hell, Whitey Bulger was in the Air Force.
If I remember right in The Godfather Micheal Corleone had been a Marine in the Pacific.
My point is that it is not a new thing.

[Big Frank]

The new gangs, especially the Mexicans, aren't like the old gangs. As far as I know the old gangs didn't go to such extremes, like decapitating their rivals.

[twyacht]

The MSM media is making a big to do about an Iraq Veteran, Scott Olsen 24, clocked in the Occupy Oakland Flare up with a tear gas grenade to his melon. Head shot with a tear gas grenade.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/27/iraq-veteran-injured-in-occupy-oakland-clashes-now-in-fair-condition/

I guess the other side of the spectrum from gangs, well,....let me rethink that,...

[tombogan03884]

The MSM media is making a big to do about an Iraq Veteran, Scott Olsen 24, clocked in the Occupy Oakland Flare up with a tear gas grenade to his melon. Head shot with a tear gas grenade.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/27/iraq-veteran-injured-in-occupy-oakland-clashes-now-in-fair-condition/

I guess the other side of the spectrum from gangs, well,....let me rethink that,...

F*ck him, just because he's a veteran doesn't make him some kind of "saint".
It doesn't give him some deep secret insight into the problems of America, or how to solve them.
If he wants to hang out with a bunch of communists he deserves to get clocked.
He was a veteran ? Big deal, So weren't Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, and John Murtha.

[jnevis]

Got to agree  with Tom.  If you're going to protest and do stupid $h!t when the cops start lobbing CS grenades to break up a riot if you get hit you deserved it.

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[twyacht]

I'm not contradicting your position. Just posting how the MSM, is MUM about the real intentions of this agenda.

The MSM is making a big stink about this, not me.... Muslims and Nazi's, Socialists, and Communists may see things differently, but they are becoming allies to bring down this country.

The gang aspect, as was posted, is not new, military tactics were trained into folks that joined the U.S. military that have now taken it to an insurgent level against our own country.

Hence the last line in my post....

[Magoo541]

F*ck him, just because he's a veteran doesn't make him some kind of "saint".
It doesn't give him some deep secret insight into the problems of America, or how to solve them.
If he wants to hang out with a bunch of communists he deserves to get clocked.

Amen!

He was a veteran ? Big deal, So weren't Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, and John Murtha..

What's worse than a slime ball that served in the military?

One that didn't!

[TAB]

I don't see many gang bangers being able to hang 4 years in the miltary. 

[tombogan03884]

I don't see many gang bangers being able to hang 4 years in the miltary. 

My point. Many of the ones who do have found something they were searching for before hand and stay for 20+.

[jnevis]

If they were open about it they could be processed out.
Some do find the "family" and security that caused them to join the gang but others can't wait to get out.  MOst bangers I've delt with have spent their whole life "fitting in" whether the hood, prison, or otherwise.  Four years in the Service is nothing to 18 years in South Central.