Next, we discoursed of Men and Mockingbirds. Mockingbirds make an immense amount of trouble in the world of birds, and carloads of gangsters circulating around Montgomery County can do the same. You'd never suspect either a mousy little bird, or crappy late-model Nissan Sentras and Civics full of young central-americans to capable of so much hell-raising, and that's how they get away with it.
In Part III we covered heinous crimes here -- and elsewhere -- which were clearly gang-related, and pointed out that our pattern detector indicates that most of the most-heinous crimes in recent months have been committed by illegal aliens, most of which had at least loose associations with notorious gangs of transnational scope.
In Part IV, with much use of the literary technique of weaving together a lot of different story lines, including a bit of foreshadowing and inclusion of seemingly-unrelated anecdote and even the inclusion of an illustrative analect from Confucius, we tried to lay out an explanation of why, exactly, Thomas Hardman is what he is and does what he does, and has the variety of reputations that he has. Towards the end of that entry, we laid out all of the clues necessary for the astute reader to understand without qualification that almost everything I do, think, or say, is motivated by a very few concerns, and almost all of those are rooted in my need to increase public safety by any reasonable means.
I find it difficult to understand, at times, how actions of mine -- which clearly reveal my deep concern for public safety -- can be twisted by thoughtless observers or wicked revisionists to suit their own wild fantasies, or political or business agendas.
Throughout the mid and late 1990s, I agitated in a variety of ways including lots and lots of discussion on the InterNet, to restrict access to driver licenses for illegal aliens and even temporarily-admitted legitimate visa-holders. I declared, endlessly, that no good could come from the policies then in place, and indeed that the extant policies placed us all at profound national security risk.
I endured a variety of endless attacks, everything from being called a racist to a nativist to a jingoist, and often enough online acrimony spilled over into Real Life. Yet as much as it horrified and saddened me, I considered myself vindicated by the dreadful attacks of September 11, 2001. Had any of the policies I have long recommended been followed, those attacks might never have occurred, and could have occurred only with a great deal more effort... effort of the sort that would likely have been incapable of escaping notice. Yet the prevailing attitude was "it is good to be lax". I beg to differ, as do the "9/11 Families".
Aside from the terrorism which has launched us into, thus far, eight years of full-scale overseas military operations, there has been another frightening trend, one very well documented. It is the growth of gangs, both here in the USA and in almost all nations outside of the US.
Ask any agent with the Border Patrol, or with any of a variety of Federal agencies that have missions which inevitably involve the border, or contraband that transits the border. These gangs are as well funded as comparably-sized US military units, and often have better equipment, at least in their units that do the "grunt work" of smuggling contraband ranging from illicit narcotics and other drugs, to trafficking in human cargo. The distribution networks are generally very well organized, and are immense, stretching from the "stash houses" at or near the border zones, into our own neighborhoods.
The recent abduction and stabbing of a 15-year old Langley Park boy are believed to be the work of the Mexican Mafia's subsidiary gang, the 18th Street gang. This should give the astute reader some idea of the scope and reach of these transnational crime corporations.
Assistant State's Attorney, Jeffrey Wennar, recently was interviewed by Gazette:
The bloody feud between 18th Street and MS-13 traces to the streets and prisons of Mexico, El Salvador and California, said Assistant State's Attorney Jeffrey Wennar, one of the county's lead gang prosecutors.
"It's a historic rivalry. … There is that ongoing rivalry that merits them attacking each other without provocation," he said in an interview. "… Although they are both under the umbrella of the Mexican Mafia, they are archrivals."
The Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates that 18th Street has between 30,000 and 50,000 members active in 44 cities and 20 states nationwide, according to the FBI's 2009 gang threat assessment.
While MS-13 has garnered more local headlines and attention, 18th Street has "been around for a real long time" in Montgomery County, Wennar said.
Yet neither Wenner, nor the Gazette, have made it clear how many of the 10 persons suspected of kidnapping and murdering a 15-year-old boy had valid Maryland Driver's Permits.
Astute readers may properly fail to make the inference that non-astute readers, and clueless fuckwads as well as disingenuous deceivers, may impute. Some might suggest that actually I just hate Mexicans, and the rest of this is all me just reaching for any excuse to slag on "Latinos".
Let's now put all of that sort of tripe and poppycock to rest.
I graduated Robert E Peary HS in Aspen Hill in June of 1976. As a very young adult, I emerged from school directly into one of the primary battlegrounds of the Cold War, though one of the more frosty-cool rather than one of the hot "proxy war" zones. Fortunately for me, I was out of town for most of the next four years. I "finished growing up" in a boom town which was all-American all of the time, when it wasn't too busy being so definitively Texan.
As time went on, and the Cold War deepened and changed from something characterized by proxy wars -- such as Vietnam or revolutionary or civil wars in places like Argentina or El Salvador or Nicaragua -- and it evolved into something far more characterized by feeling out the capabilities of the opponents without actually testing them militarily. I came of age in the dark shadows cast by the looming specter of global thermonuclear war and many of those shadows, it seemed, tended to hover right around Aspen Hill and Silver Spring Maryland, no less than they hovered around various nearby military and government facilities or beautiful downtown McLean Virginia.
Illegal aliens from El Salvador, Nicaragua, or even Argentina, they are not required to offer any proof of their legal presence in the USA, before they will be issued a license to drive, and motor vehicle registrations, in Maryland, at least until June 1 2009.
Neither are any of the people who have been illegally in USA since I graduated from high-school into the middle of the Cold War.
When I say I am deeply concerned for national security and public safety, it's not "all about Mexicans". Far from it. They're just a huge layer of icing, so to speak, lathered on top of a rather small, but exceptionally dangerous core of cake.
You could, in a lot of ways, think of MS-13 and 18th Street and Mexican Mafia gangsters, permeating the suburbs of Washington DC, as nothing more than window-dressing... or nothing more than a distraction.
When Maryland finally goes "REAL-ID Compliant", completing the process in 2014, that means that no foreign spies will have a license to drive here, at least not real ones that will show up in the system as bona-fide and verified.
Nor, I am happy to say, will any of the illegal-alien gangsters.
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