GOLDEN TRUMPET'S
"PROTECT YOURSELF" SERIES
ESSAY #5

Most people think when I talk about the potential violence and rioting and worse, they think I am only talking about the cities. No, I am talking everywhere, especially suburbia. You may have run away to escape the violence of the city. Guess what? It followed you.

Most of you are over 50 and have no interest in what the youth are doing. Therefore, you may not have heard the term: WIGGERS. Essentially what it is is white teenagers imitating the underground gangster culture. This is nothing new. The earliest example I can think of is Jesse James's Gang. They were civil war veterans who decided to try and make a living robbing trains. Even today, the James gang is admired, and imitated in countless movies.

The next teen-age generation to follow the criminal culture comes from the age of prohibition. The girls were flappers and the boys all had hip flasks. A lot lot you are probably old enough to have been teen-agers at the time. That was your form of rebellion. Again movies of the time and even now, glorify the criminals. Can you imagine Jimmy Cagney not saying: You'll never take me alive, Coppers!

In the early war years we had Zoot-Suiters. It didn't catch on like the others because of the war and the government was able to get everyone to toe the line and wear the same thing. Zoot Suits were banned because they used too much material. However when it is an idea whose time has come, it will express itself. The baggy clothes of the zoot-suiters became the baggy clothes of the counter-culture of today. Now we have Wiggers. They dress in baggy clothing, the style is known as Hip hop, listen to rap music, the loudest and most foul mouth they can find and have their own slang. They want to imitate the criminal culture because they feel mistreated and misunderstood as did every criminal misfit has either in the past or today.

These Wiggers have spread all over the country and they can be dangerous. How dangerous? Go the the seemingly safest, suburb you can find and visit the police station. Ask if there any drugs or gang activity because you are worried for your children. If the police are honest with you, you will get an education. The gangs are out in the deepest reaches of suburbia because drugs are in the suburbs and need gangs to distribute the poisons. Drugs and gangs are everywhere!

I don't understand why the young like the criminal culture. I just know they do. Some of their attempts to imitate are really funny. The music of the criminal culture and many of the young today is rap. Especially Gangsta Rap when tend to using lot of cussing and lots of rough sex. One of the funniest things I've seen was I was out in the local farm country. It was harvest time. Out in the middle of a field was this crewcut blond hair kid that looked like your typical farm boy. What made it funny was blasting in the tractor's CD player was some of the nastiest rap music I ever heard. The kid was dancing and getting seriously down. The tractor was rocking like a low rider car. (I didn't know John Deere made a low rider version.) I later found out it quite common for the kids listening to hard rap in farming communities. The family hates the music but puts up with it, because the chores are getting done.

Most of the teen-agers attempts to imitate the criminal or gangsta culture aren't funny but dangerous. Things may have change but for years, one of the most dangerous gangs where I live wasn't in the inner city but suburbia. These kids saw the gangsta culture and decided to be what real gangsta call "Wanna-be!" Of course this upset the wanna-be. To prove how tough they were, they gave each other, the other gangs and the police serious trouble. Violence to match what I seen growing up.

These Wanna-be get their idea of what the gangsta culture from Hollywood movies. Just like gangster movies were very popular and profitable back in the 30's, Gangsta films make big bucks today. If you think my writing show some of the seamier aspects of life and are shocked, that's nothing! I'm shocked at what I see in these movies. They teach depravity I didn't even think possible. Believe me, I've seen depravity! Writing about the hood or making movies has a purpose. It is real life, it's educational. So I am not for censorship, I just wish people, especially the wiggers would not try to imitate what they see.

Imitating these movies is a bad idea. First, these children are too young to know you can get hurt imitating what you see on television of movies. A good example. Many children see Superman on TV and try to imitate him by flying. That alone has filled the emergency rooms. The latest imitation example I can think of, was from a movie a few years back where these teenagers -- to prove something or other -- would go to a busy highway and lie in the middle, right on the median strip. Good scene in a movie, bad scene in real life. A lot of kids died.

The main feature of the gangsta movies is the incredible amount of violence in them. For a wanna-be however, that violence isn't enough. You want to surpass what you see on the screen to prove you're a bad-ass and not some jive wanna-be nobody is scared of. When they try to be violent, they get caught by the local police. The violence they were attempting, scares the pants off the officers. So far, the police have been able to stop them. They won't in a riot situation.

When the currency collapses, what will the wanna-be, the junkies and just plain trouble-makers be doing? A lot. This is either the chance to prove themselves or rip off a big score. You will have destruction for destruction's sake. Only it won't be what you expect and it will be different from what is happening in the cities.

In the cities you got hundreds of stores crowded together. This makes it easy for the looter to go shopping. In the suburbs the stores are spread out. Malls, being private property, are pretty good keeping out drugs and the crime that accompanies it. (Well, yes and no. Prostitutes find malls an easy place to pick up dates.)

What do you do? You want to commit mayhem. You want an easy target and you want to destroy for the fun of it. Why not attack trucks? It is easy set to up a blockade to crash a truck. You can clean out the trailer at your leisure. No cops will stop you. Like I said They will be busy elsewhere. These blockades will be dangerous for the ordinary motorist as well. It will be as dangerous as walking down a city street, turning the corner, and finding you walking into a riot. Only they is a riot taking place at 55 mph. The wanna-be will be using car jacking, drive-by shooting and road rage, the same techniques they learned in the movies, to hurt you. A lot of homeowners have guns and hope that will protect them but so do the wanna-be. It will be a shoot out situation. You'll be scared. Not the wanna-be or they will be more afraid of showing they're scared of using their weapon. The wanna-be want to prove nothing scares them.

As the highways get clogged up by accidents, even if the cops could come, they may not be able to. The rioters are going to get tired of watching car crashes, and sooner or later going to get the idea of attacking homes. Remember, this destruction is for destruction sake. The rioters aren't going to be stupid enough to ring your doorbell, say Hello, "I'm your neighborhood looter." They won't introduce themselves because they know you liable to reply: "Say hello, Good-bye!" and reply with a shotgun blast to their face. However, if you're main goal is not robbery but to destroy things, start a fire. You see the fire coming, and head for the hills. The looters run into your house, grab what they can and with their stolen cars outrun the fire.

So what do you do in this situation to protect yourself? Well, knowing your neighbors will be a big help. It is obvious we are getting into bad times. It will soon be obvious to everyone we are going getting into dangerous times. It is at that time, it would be a good idea to introduce yourself to your neighbor and offer to provide mutual protection for each other. You make even get to know the trouble-makers of the neighborhood so when the conditions are ripe for a riot, you can keep those trouble-makers isolated and under watch to keep them from starting riots.

What else can you do? I assume you have a gun or two to protect your family. Also get a couple of ABC fire extinguishers. I believe as i said in the last essay, fire could be a very big danger.

You can set up blockades of your own to keep the bad guys from getting to you. Your neighbors may get you funny look but explains the possible dangers and then up set up a blockade for them.

Videotape the violence. It won't stop the riot in progress but after it is over, the police will be very interested in knowing who the local trouble makers are and a tape could help the police lock them up.

Unfortunately, I can think of only a few ideas to protect yourself I haven't already covered. Maybe this will help you think of some more. If you do, tell others in the forum. Other than my suggestions, pray for luck. One thing you have going in your favor, The troublemakers in the suburbs are wimpier than those in the city so the rioting and looting shouldn't last as long. Maybe a few days before things get back to some semblance of order.

Again, let me know what you think in the forum.

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