When two men
get into an argument and one of them makes a fist and swings, the other usually
tries to deflect the strike and makes a fist to strike back. The goal is to be
the "last man standing."
When two or
more men gang up on another it is not a fight but a beating that is intended.
Unless the lone recipient of the violence is a master at martial arts, he's
going to get the beating. He may even look for an object to yield as a weapon.
He may have come prepared to defend himself with a concealed weapon such as a
knife or handgun.
The
complexity of conflict continually escalates up through conventional warfare to
battles between highly weaponized military forces and men in tents in the
desert. Whereas the heavily armed military use the brute force of their
armaments, the vastly weaker adversary must use deception, surprise, innovation
and outrageous acts.
In the film
"Battle of Algiers" the captured Algerian fighter was being
interrogated by the French military. The
man was part of a bomb attack where the explosives were secreted in a baby
carriage. The French officer was outraged by the fact of their enemy using the
cover of the carriage in their fight for independence from the French
Colonials. The Algerian replied, "You give us your airplanes and we will
give you our baby carriages." In short the Algerians were using whatever
tools and weapons they could muster against the vastly larger French military.
How long the
victim of violence will hold off fighting back is an unknown quantity. Bullies
in the school yard are often surprised when their quarry finally strikes back
and devastates the bully by a factor of 10x or more. The victim had reached
that point where a measurable commensurate response is out the window.
Sometimes the victim seeks a response that involves far more than the actual
bully.
It has been
suggested for how to create terrorists is to bomb, kill and maim a person's
family and neighborhood and there be no remedy and no stopping the next attack.
A man gets angry quite easily when justice is not forthcoming.
Here in the
US we have been having a terrible season of police killings of minority persons
where the city or state refuses to indict the killers, indicts and drops
charges, or takes the killers to trial only to fail to convict. Such outcomes
are viewed as being nearly 100% of the time. This leave no room for remedy. The
question is how long will any demographic stand down and accept that police are
being given the right to kill people of your demographic with impunity. How
long will it be before minority persons "use their baby carriages"
against the superior armed militarized police?
Cities in
America are very fortunate that protesting angry people only riot, burn cars,
and loot stores in their venting the frustrations created by unjustified police
killings of unarmed black men. It is fortunate they are highly armed and
inclined to shoot back when the confrontations erupt.
The fact of
police killing of citizens is make even more egregious when the statistics are
viewed.
The news reports show a black man getting gunned down within seconds of police confrontation while a white man is negotiated with and arrested (or not) for greater alleged violations after hours of confrontation. Black men who only were minding their own business get arrested for "resisting arrest" when there was no arrest-able infraction in the first place. Black people who were seeking the assistance become the suspect/assailant who gets arrested and or killed by the police. Black people who get shot by police who were looking for someone else who has an outstanding warrant. The reports that show the utter disregard for the injured and dying police shooting victim who is allowed to die. The videos of beefy police officers descending on a black suspect and suffocating him or kicking and punching him mercilessly while other officers stand around and watch the assault. The considered opinion is these officers are heavy users of steroids for body-building and may be manifesting "Roid Rage." Then the police unions refuse to be drug tested for any illicit drugs which may be contributing to their violent behaviors.
We as a
society are creating the conditions for a major rebellion here in the US. When
the guilty go unpunished anger will be intensified. Back in the 1970s there
arose the assertion that criminals were getting away with their crimes. They
were "getting off on a technicality." They were getting mere hand
slaps from liberal judges. So as a response, state legislatures enacted a
barrage of statutory minimum sentencing requirements and the so called
"three strikes" rule that could put a man in prison for life for
stealing a pack of cigarettes. Charles Bronson became a celebrity for his five
Death Wish movies where he is the reluctant vigilante killing all the very
ethnic-looking bad guys. Dirty Harry movies also became popular.
Everyone in
this country knows there is a police violence, police shooting epidemic going
on, even though there are a few conservative minded people who have raised
denial to an art form. If nothing is done to stem the tide of violence and
death at the hands of police officers we will be creating a class of terrorist
who will take it into their own hands to obtain their notion of
"justice."
The tinder is dry. The wind is blowing. It will only require a spark to set a conflagration going. The Principle of Imminent Collapse asserts that it only requires a nudge to bring down a volatile system.
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