Why do GOOD People Cause More Murder?

"In times of tyranny and injustice when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history." ~ Brian Helgeland

Whenever we sensationalize incidents of violence we GUARANTEE that there will be an INCREASE in violence. Whenever we create a SENSE of lawlessness by law enforcement we GUARANTEE that there will be an INCREASE in crime, murder and violence. And we GUARANTEE that there will be an INCREASE in citizen confrontation with police, more unnecessary deaths like Eric Garner, and/or a dramatic reduction in police response to crime.

As a result, WE will inadvertently create the SAME environment in other cities around the country that now exists in Chicago. If we are going to sensationalize violence, we must recognize that there is a consequence.

An associate professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego Dr. David Phillips, Ph.D., conducted a study which was published in the American Sociological Review that showed highly publicized violence produces an increase in the murder rate.

Dr. Phillips concluded "They provoke aggressive behavior which results in an increase in homicides." He examined the national rate of homicide after 18 heavyweight championship fights over a five-year period and noted that the rates shot up in the days following the fights. The study also showed that when black fighters were beaten, the number of black male homicide deaths rose--and when white fighters lost, there were more white male murder victims. 

This indicates that murders occur because people imitate the violence they see on TV or hear about on the news.  "The violence that's most likely to be imitated is the kind that's real, exciting, justified, socially approved and heavily rewarded!"

Since Dr. Phillips’ study was published there have been eighty-five major studies examining the correlation between highly publicized violence and the homicide rate. Only one failed to find a causality relationship between the highly televised violence and the increase in murder.

A similar correlation was found between highly publicized sports violence and the increase in rates of Domestic Violence during or in the days following the Super Bowl.  The study, relying on domestic violence data collected in 12 National Football League franchise cities noted that 40 percent more women are battered on Super Bowl Sunday than on a normal Sunday.

Young people today live on a strong daily diet of violence. In their current culture, unlike youth cultures of times past, life imitates art. Whatever they see on video, social media, movies or TV they try to replicate those images or ideas in real life. When they hear or see lawlessness and violence they replicate what they heard or saw which results in an increase in crime, murder and violence.

The problem I have is Black people never recognize when they are being set up. Regentrification is in progress in every major city across the nation. Under Section 8 rules poor Black people are being required to move to suburbs and middle-class Blacks are being frightened into fleeing. There is a Sicilian axiom “Quando c'è sangue sulla strada acquistare immobile” which means: when there is blood on the street buy property. Violence is increasing because other people want to buy city property and because Black people react to an increase in crime and violence so predictably.

Facebook conducted a “mood experiment” last month by manipulating people’s news feeds with content designed to make them “feel” either happier or sadder than normal, before testing them to see how they responded in their own posts. By manipulating people’s mood on the sadder end they were causing some people to become outraged and angry. We have been seeing a LOT of old old police brutality videos showing up in our newsfeeds lately. Predictably, what have Black folks been doing?

If you don’t know and understand terms like Psychological Warfare, MK Ultra, Manchurian Candidate, Behavioral Engineering, Low-Intensity Conflict,  etc., various methodologies to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, there is no way that I can lead you to see what is REALLY going on in urban enclaves like Chicago and why.

I spent 20 years in the Army as an Intelligence Analyst. I know a psychological warfare operation when I see it. The average Black person is much smarter than me. They believe that their opinion should carry the same weight as my knowledge and experience.

I tried to get Black folks to see that the more you protest to prevent police from being aggressive with catching criminals and subduing crime the more you create an opportunity for the criminal to commit more crime, violence and murder. Now, “more” evidence of that has come to light as THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE RATE OF CRIME AND MURDER IN CHICAGO! http://bit.ly/1rhlyFn

The cops were conducting stop and frisk, catching people with guns or making them afraid to get caught carrying. The people PROTESTED AGAINST STOP AND FRISK, the cops stopped checking people for guns, now Black people are murdering other Black people in record numbers nearly every weekend.

WHY do murder rates like Chicago happen? They happen because Black people, so called GOOD Black people, are too damn hardheaded to listen. Our people have a habit, much like little children, to react emotionally rather than respond rationally and strategically.   

I was born a real real junior Black militant. I didn’t come out of my mother’s womb head first, I came out fist first. That book “The Spook Who Sat by the Door” is nearly an autobiography of me. I have always been ready to take the first bullet for my people if they were willing to organize and fight. I have had to stand down however because all my people want to do is talk.

Too many people in our community have a “somebody gotta do sumthin’” mentality. A grown ass Black man posted a blog recently not only exclaiming “somebody gotta do sumthin” but suggested that the community pay the FOI to perform security. I was so heated by the utter ignorance and sheer cowardess  which were the motivating forces behind the blog I had to contain myself.

He never talked about what HE personally was going to do other than perhaps “pay” somebody else to do something. My brothers are so weak and fearful it is tragic. GOD empowered and positioned men to be the protectors but they are too scared to face THEIR OWN NEPHEWS AND SONS WITH GUNS, take them out of their hands, and nurture these young boys and men back to sanity.

I am tired of hearing people complaining about the “symptoms” of the problem and never stopping to consider what is the “root” of the problem; where did it begin and why? Unless you understand where it began and why, you will NEVER know HOW to eliminate the problem in a permanent way.

You see, I believe in the Tea Kettle Theory. That theory suggests that if the sound a tea kettle makes is bothering you, the optimum solution is NOT to plug up the hole in the top. The optimum solution is to turn off the fire at the bottom. Turn off the fire and you will never have that problem again unless the fire is turned back on. Eliminate the root cause of any problem and you will never have that problem again unless somebody plants a seed that germinates more roots.

My people loooooove to argue and complain but they don’t want to fight. They believe that because they can see the symptoms they can prescribe a cure. They don’t recognize that medicine only treats the symptoms and is not a cure. You achieve a cure when you eliminate the cause.

I have grown weary of trying to show my people the light. They are like people sleeping in a darkened room. If you shine light on them, the light of truth, the first thing they do is yell “turn off that light”. But if you keep trying to shine the light on them, rather than getting up to fight the enemy, they will want to fight you.

The killings that are happening in Chicago and the environment it creates is a low-intensity conflict, a.k.a., Guerilla warfare, which is the calculated result of a protracted psychological warfare operation.

In the same way an army does to attrit, weaken and demoralize their enemy, congress is engaged in a program of systematic deprivation of Black and Brown people. The objective is to systematically reduce our overall numbers in the population. Look at the number of things they have voted to eliminate or reduce that Black and Brown people depend on to survive: SNAP, school lunch, unemployment benefits, minimum wage increase…. You know the list; it’s a long one. But, food? Really? You vote to take food away from babies?

I watch this and I see my people sitting back complaining but do nothing except look for a “leader” to do something. Who, by the way, are the “leaders” of the Asian, Hispanic and White communities? Why is it that Black people are the only ones who have to have a leader? We have many leaders but in times of war you need a General.  Farakhan, Shapton, Jackson, et. al., are leaders but they are poor Generals.

I am relegated to sitting back and waiting, first to see if my people awaken out of their sleep; second to see if they are really ready to fight; and third to see if they will organize.

The only two things an opposing force respect is large amounts of money and large groups of people. However, they don’t even respect those two if the people aren’t organized and the money isn’t pooled. It’s the difference between striking someone with and open hand or closed fist. One will make you sting while the other will knock you out.

Whenever my people are ready, I am willing….