There Is Not a Scintilla of Humor in This Posting
All new organizations have to start at the beginning and the beginning is not an easy place to start from. There are bumps in the road and usually a major crash or two or more before the kinks get ironed out.
The fledgling organization I want to blog about today is going through the first paragraph above and we wish them luck...Or do we?
Here come my bullets...
Ø The First Organization Meeting quickly dispensed with routine matters before the senior leadership got down to business.
Ø One top official said their Teamwork and Recruitment needed improvement.
Ø The leaders created a catchphrase for Widening Its Influence and Improving Cash Flow called “The Program”.
Ø A Meeting Leader told the group that they are going to need Total Cooperation and, if they are going to succeed, they will have to Work Together.
Ø For years, their impact on the U.S. was local—confined to specific neighborhoods and cities scattered across the country.
Ø That was the old way but they plan to put the old way behind them and Branch Out.
Ø Already their influence has started to Grow.
Ø Also they are growing their ability to leverage its network of local franchises into a Cohesive National Brand.
Ø A series of trial runs have already been conducted that show how they can be successful in pushing to make their mainstream leap by Streamlining Its Management Structure and creating Uniform Standards, much like any multinational company.
Ø The U.S. Government has not looked favorably upon their Efforts to Organize.
Ø On the other hand, there are Members of Congress in favor of looser restrictions say the Government’s Negative Rhetoric Is Overblown.
Ø Despite these road blocks Membership Has Grown by several thousand members over the past decade or so and it now Stretches To At Least 40 States and the District of Columbia.
Ø Dues range from $15 to $30 a month, largely paid by members who work as laborers, construction workers or dishwashers and most of this money is wired out of the country.
Ø The group was founded in the 1980s in and around Los Angeles by immigrants, who had fled their country’s civil war.
Ø Their goal now is to Begin Consolidating Members under a Single Cohesive Leadership Structure.
My bullets will now change and you will see that I have not been talking about Widgets International but about MS-13...
Ø MS-13 is looking to move into territory once occupied by the Italian Mafia and now held by Mexican Drug Cartels.
Ø One of the first new rules shows how they are getting serious about Organizational Control is that Anyone Wanting To Kill A Rival Must Secure Prior Approval.
Ø A key question, one that will determine whether MS-13 can make the jump to National Significance, is whether this transformation can Impose Order on its unruly and violent young members.
I find it interesting and alarming how MS-13 (in the top bullets) sounds like any other up and coming organization striving for recognition and acceptance.
Here is the kind of information that made me peck out “alarming” in the paragraph above above...
Ø Five gang members have testified in court.
Ø All of them were immigrants from either El Salvador or Honduras who entered the U.S. illegally.
Ø They admitted to committing street crimes, assaults and killings largely targeting rivals and suspected informants.
Ø Their weapon of choice was a machete because, as one gang member said, it allowed him to “cut somebody’s head off easily, and that person will not scream or make noise.”
Ø A Junior Member at age 21 testified how suspicion grew that another member was a snitch.
Ø He and associate were told “to make soup” of the suspected informant.
Ø “To make soup” is code for killing someone.
Ø In a deserted park, he grabbed the suspected informant from behind and held him, while the other man stabbed him.
Ø After the victim kicked him, the holding associate took out his folding knife and also stabbed the victim.
Ø They left the teen for dead and tossed away their knives and bloody clothes.
Ø Gang leaders were impressed by the work and promised to promote them to full gang status.
Ø The two associates were arrested before they were actually made gang members (how disappointing that must have been for them).
Ø Only later did they learn that the suspected informant was never truly an informant.
Notice the newspaper referred the killers “associates” in the 6th bullet above as if they were really working for Widgets International instead of calling them Thugs, Murderers or Criminals.
Those lawmakers in favor of Looser Restrictions better be careful. Taking the position that the U.S. Government is over reacting to MS-13 is not being careful.
Maybe it would be better said that the Good Ole USofA ought to...
Be Afraid...Be Very Afraid
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: Maybe Fella is over-reacting...Or is he? Here is an excerpt from an article from the Wall Street Journal about El Salvador where MS-13 is well established and the innocent citizens of El Salvador are wishing their government had over-reacted long ago:
Ø Politicians must ask permission of gangs to hold rallies or canvass in many neighborhoods, law-enforcement officials and prosecutors said.
Ø In San Salvador, the nation’s capital, gangs control the local distribution of consumer products, experts said, including diapers and Coca-Cola.
Ø They extort commuters, call-center employees, restaurants and store owners.
Ø In the rural east, gangs threaten to burn sugar plantations unless farmers pay up.
Ø While drug cartels collect profits from customers abroad, with dollars and euros trickling into local communities, these gangs steal from their own people.
Ø Documents collected in a recent federal investigation in El Salvador found that MS-13 extracts extortion payments from bus companies, retailers and other businesses.
Ø The payments range from a few dollars a day on each vehicle operated to hundreds of dollars a month charged to vendors in public markets.
Ø Drug enforcement officials said El Salvador’s gangs earn about $20 million a year from extortion, with an estimated $3 million coming from businesses in San Salvador’s historic center.
Ø The gangs also sell drugs and stolen cars, adding to the revenue from legitimate businesses they have seized.
This certainly could not happen in the Good Ole USofA...Or could it?…Or is it?
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