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REALITY VS. FANTASY
By Victor Marrero

        Ever watch Death Wish I, II, III, IV ect, ect?  Do you hear
people talk about how kids don't duke it out anymore, they just pull out
their Glocs? Ever had a Chicano Studies class taught by a teacher who
doesn't come from the neighborhood, or class of people he or she is
talking about?  Or if they did come from the barrio they haven't gone back
except to go to politically correct luncheons to get slimy with
politicians. Does this or that teacher tell you things like Logan Heights
"gangmembers" are connected with the Arellano Felix drug cartels? Does the
teacher promote the idea that gang members are part of an international
mafia conspiracy that networks all over the world?

        If what the media, the movies, and X teacher or teachers said were
true then gang members would if they were internationally connected with
drug cartels not be living in run down apartments. They would move to La
Jolla, and eat at expensive restaurants instead of "kicking it" by the
Liquor store in Logan. If it were true that inner city youth are walking
the streets and going to school with Uzis on the level that some people
believe were true then police wouldn't feel as arrogant and confident as
they do when they approach the average 16 year old wearing baggies and
showing tattoos.  They would be patrolling the streets in armored cars,
and tanks.  If ghetto kids were as well armed and weapons trained as some
distorted and exaggerated realities would lead us to believe, the whole
police department would be like one giant SWAT team driving armored
vehicles.  

	What the L.A riots proved is that even facing people who are
mostly armed with bricks, bottles, bats, the police will back off if the
odds aren't with them, and  their chance of winning isn't 500%.  Do you ever
see a cop approach somebody their own size or bigger, and that they think
could be a threat to them without a lot of backup?  That's why the
National Guard was called after the riots.  I say after because when we(I
was one of the troops)got to Willshire Blvd everything was already said
and done. It's my personal theory that I can state now since I am no
longer a Private First Class whose place is not to "question policy
makers" that the government delayed the arrival of troops by not
expediting ammunition issue because it preferred to have things cool on
their own.  If there were so many gang members in L.A ready to go with
their AK-47s, or whatever else I think that martial law and the Army would
have been put into place long time ago.  The powerstructure that controls
our lives with their internationalized big money(the real mafia) could not
afford to let that many youth equip themselves to fight them without
taking some assertive action.  What it's doing now is making sure that
inner city residents who do arm themselves are put away by making gang
profiles on them, and then hitting them with the Three Strikes Law.  Ever
see the movie Panthers?  That's one from our side.  A lot of California
gun legislation has been passed after poor people started arming
themselves to fight the state.            

	Finally inner city youth are not part of an international mafia
scheme because to do that they would have to be united across neighborhoods,
nationalities, and have more sophisticated organization than what I've
found working with them.  If they were in fact united the police would
have to take steps to see that they disunite by doing a drive by on one
gang and then spreading the word that a rival gang did it.  That's what
they did when they heard there was a gang truce during the riots.  As one
of the National Guard Troops I remember that the gang truce was our boogie
man.  If the police don't do it with a drive by they'll cross out a gang's
name on a wall and put the other gang's name on it.  Or they can have
their infiltrators spread personal lies and rumors to break the truce.
Ever heard that saying "Divide and Conquer?"  Look past your faith to see
that it's happened here before, is happening now, and will probably happen
more viciously in the future.