Re: [GZG] Troop potential

I'd add that the potential gang members also learn to be part of
something 
bigger and better than just a local gang.  The "Green Machine" can be a 
great method of acculturation into national society.

Michael Brown
mwsaber6@msn

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From: <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:56 AM
To: <gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [GZG] Troop potential

>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Tailby <john_tailby@xtra.co.nz>
>>
>> > ----- Original Message ----
>> > From: Robert Mayberry robert.mayberry@gmail.com [1]
>> > I wonder whether the use of peacetime conscription changes a
>> > country's culture appreciably? I'm inclined to say it should, but I
> haven't
>> > seen anything on it.
>>
>> Yes, the unemployed gang members now have military tactics training,
>> more experience with weapons and possibly more reason to hate
society.
>> Now they have the skills to do something about it. Definately a
>> culture change for the better.
>
> This is only an issue where 'unemployed gang members' are a problem in
> the first place and where they have easy access to military type
> weapons.
>
> I don't think military-trained criminal gangs have ever been a serious
> problem in the European countries that have a draft, nor in the US at
> the time when they had conscription.
>
> A highly unusual exception happened a few years ago when Hell's Angels
> in Sweden (or was it Denmark ?) fought their turf wars with Bazookas
>
> Plus, in modern forces, most recruits don't learn that much about
> tactics that are useful in gang warfare. Maintaining a tank engine in
a
> ghetto war ?
>
> Greetings
> Karl Heinz
>
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