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ORIGINAL: Level

CBS) Like most American cities, Columbia, South Carolina, has its share of problems, but nothing prepared the Sheriff Leon Lott for what his department discovered last August.

Four U.S. Marines – who proudly snapped pictures of each other – were recruiting local kids, some as young as 13, into the Crips street gang. The leader was a lance corporal.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/29/eveningnews/main3108597.shtml

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

In a land of citizen soldiers, this story is not news... gangs and individual criminals have found a home in the military community for many, many years.
As far as benefitting from the military training, I'm chalking that up to hype. Becoming an urban gang member is already a pretty rigorous process, and weapons skills have never been the exclusive province of active duty troops.

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ORIGINAL: came4U

Nutty militia groups from every place on the face of the earth has benefitted from having a few active leaders who had previous duty experience. The FBI watches them just as much equally, yet they seem extra paranoid when the 'monsters' that US policy has created (both the black man forced into poverty and US. Marines just doing what they have learned). The average Marine keeps his training under wraps for a rainy day once gone from active duty.  But, give him/her a situation of duty (foreign or domestic) or life and death, you/somebody will get hurt. 

Semper fi.

Once a marine, always a marine. Besides these guys (training Crips) aren't active duty any longer as far as I read.  Are they are supposed to forget all they have learned? They never forget lol, that is the purpose of their entire long, drawn out, tortourous training. 

If a Crip member had formal university training in bio-chem are we to know that beforehand and yank him out of classes? LOL.

This is a free country last time I looked, what job experience you gain from such institutions and how you use it would hopefully be for good and not evil. This isn't the first or the last time this has occured (former military training used to do numerous illegal activities from bank robberies to arms/drug dealing).  For God sakes Iran-Contra was done from the inside LOL, with free and unlimited license. If it weren't for certain snoopy journalism Oliver North would have never been caught.

In this case, it is merely white man's fear of the underclass, fear of the oppressed in that by Gods 'they' might have learned some organizational skills (american made)that we have used on other underclasses on 'us'.

Not to mention we wouldn't want the Crips to learn emergency medical practices either ..whew, they might be able to save their own on the way to hospital.  That should be top secret info right there. LOL puleaaaaaaaaase.

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ORIGINAL: RosaB

Level,

I saw that story on the news.  Frightening to say the least.  It may not be news to some, but, it was alarming to me watching the manuvers one of the gang members  was using, while he was shooting it out on the streets with members of the police force.

Watching the story was enough to cause me to be concerned about how some gang members are increasingly signing up in the military, specifically, for the purpose of aquiring the training for the primarily to enhance their skills for controll and for committing crimes in their neighborhoods.  The criminal populas of recruits in the military may not be new, but the combat skills being used of the everyday thugs are certainly being improved via this medium and that in my mind is cause for concern. 

Rosa

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ORIGINAL: came4U

The marines, navy, army and airforce has been talking street hoodlums since Moses.

well, except for the College boys they need for officers.

The guy is a lance corporal, wowzer, basicly he is teaching only what he learned from bootcamp, he is a few months past being a PFC.

I wouldn't panic, could be worse...oh oh, the Pathers have the real edumacated guys LOL.

Deal with it. This isn't newly fabricated anger distilling within the black youth/culture.  It is justified neglect of assimilation.  Your mess that the general public aided and abetted in creating. Creating ghettos really helped in providing for a culture of persons who were ill-prepared with new found 'freedom'.  What activities happened within those ghetto walls were dismissed as 'let em live like rats as long as they stay within such confines....'.

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ORIGINAL: came4U

The marines, navy, army and airforce has been talking street hoodlums since Moses.

well, except for the College boys they need for officers.

The guy is a lance corporal, wowzer, basicly he is teaching only what he learned from bootcamp, he is a few months past being a PFC.

I wouldn't panic, could be worse...oh oh, the Pathers have the real edumacated guys LOL.

Deal with it. This isn't newly fabricated anger distilling within the black youth/culture.  It is justified neglect of assimilation.  Your mess that the general public aided and abetted in creating. Creating ghettos really helped in providing for a culture of persons who were ill-prepared with new found 'freedom'.  What activities happened within those ghetto walls were dismissed as 'let em live like rats as long as they stay within such confines....'.

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ORIGINAL: came4U

freedom of association...aka free country.

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ORIGINAL: came4U

The govt watches all offside-militas, sometimes from the inside.

Where have you been?

They are untouched mostly unless caught doing dirty deeds, thus, freedom of association laws.

The FBI itself has its own agenda in watching them. They have an almost 'absolute freedom'.

Why should I have to notify you of this? lol

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ORIGINAL: came4U

no, that would be a cult-militia lol.

they watch cults too.