Gang Peace?
Community Activists Just Don’t Get It
By Daniel Muniz

Every city and even small towns experience gang violence. These thugs wreck havoc on impoverished communities and create a climate of fear among its residents. Sadly, it is the innocent bystanders of the ghettos and barrios who have to pay the price for the pain and suffering that the hoodlums inflict.

As a result, every few years there are community activists who try to cobble together a truce between rival gangs or even attempt to establish a gang summit in hopes that opposing gangs will find a peaceful resolution to their conflict. These activists have good intentions which cannot be denied but ultimately such work is nothing more than a farce and a pipe dream because these solutions are for the wrong problems.

First of all, gang bangers are thugs that cannot be negotiated with or reasoned with. They are violent criminals who belong in jail and they need to be in there for a very long time. Violent crime is a lifestyle choice for these degenerates so unless they decide to change their way of life, they are going to continue on their path of destruction which includes heavy drug use, stealing, vicious assaults, and even murder.

In fact, so many prison documentaries have testimony of older inmates who admit that each criminal has to individually reach a point in their lives where they decide that they are too old to be behaving like a hoodlum. So in other words, it becomes a personal decision to completely abandon a destructive lifestyle. And until that happens, these miscreants are going to continue doing what they enjoy which is violence and breaking the law.

There are also a number of documentaries that show juvenile delinquents and gang bangers admitting that they love the life of gang banging. They like terrorizing people and breaking the law and fighting rival gangs. They also admit that they revel in running from law enforcement and not being a part of society. And even incarceration doesn’t deter them because prison is nothing more than just one of many destinations. It doesn’t matter if one night they are in a crack house, the next day in jail, or the following night breaking into your house. It just doesn’t matter to them.

So in essence, the community activists are attacking the wrong problem. Negotiating a truce or a peace with them is totally ludicrous.

First of all, these hoodlums shouldn’t have a gun in their hand or any kind of weapon for that matter. If they already have a criminal record, like a felony, then they are forbidden to do so anyways. But the bottom line is that these thugs shouldn’t even be walking the streets but they brazenly do so.

Why don’t the activists bother to examine why the lowlifes are allowed to roam our streets with impunity?

The harsh reality is that certain activism is a dismal failure. For instance, activist organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have been extremely successful in making correctional institutions as outrageously expensive as possible to build and to maintain so it is not economically feasible to keep these miscreants locked up for too long. As a result, our prison systems are woefully overcrowded and early releases are the norm.

Next are the racial arsonists like Al Shaprton and Jesse Jackson on the national scene along with all the small time activists on the local level. They consider putting a handcuff on a thug to be police brutality and racist. And worse, they seem to excuse all the bad behavior done by minorities. Because of this abandonment, they aren’t willing to take the responsibility of cleaning up the ghettos and the barrios because it is a lot easier to blame the white man and the government instead of pointing the finger at the hoodlums who are committing the violent crimes.

As someone who grew up in the barrio, I can say that the people who do the violent crimes in the bad neighborhoods are the very same people who live in those same bad neighborhoods.

Yet, so many hug-a-thug activists look at people sitting in jail as political prisoners and victims.

Then there are the poverty warriors. These activists have a government program for every social problem. They seem to ignore the fact that hundreds of billions of dollars has already been spent on the war on poverty and there is not a whole lot to show for it. The poverty warriors refuse to take into account the cultural problems such as teenage pregnancy, absentee fathers, drug use, high school dropouts, etc. These are very real problems that no amount of government money is going to solve because they involve personal responsibility.

If the community activists want to stop violent crime in the ghettos and barrios, then they need to do some soul searching.

The people that they consider to be their natural allies such as the ACLU, hug-a-thug activists, poverty warriors, and all the like have been doing them a disservice for decades. These allies excuse bad behavior and they refuse to admit that it is a personal decision to wave a gun around or to commit a violent assault.

In order to have safe streets and safe neighborhoods, thugs need to be locked up in prison for a very long time instead of exploiting the revolving door of our current justice system. The brutal truth is that it is not the law abiding citizen who are committing the violent crimes but the hoodlums. It is outrageous that these street hoods are freely roaming our streets instead of sitting inside of a prison cell.

Until the community activists recognize and accept that harsh reality, they will not make much progress on stopping violent crime because they don’t understand the mechanisms that allow it to flourish.

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