The United States throughout its population centers is plagued by inner city street gangs.

Here is the bottom line.   Most young gang members are born in the US and thus citizens of this country which puts them in a special class above illegal aliens.  There are hundreds of thousands of people in the world who would give their right arm to become a US citizen.

The solution to the gang problem is to adopt a policy called “Domestic Appreciation”.   The nature of this policy is essentially that those individuals who misuse their natural citizenship through participation in gangland warfare are given the opportunity to experience life outside the United States by becoming involved in foreign policy initiatives.

Specifically what this means is that because the Latino gangs, for example (see disclaimer below), already have an organized command structure of generals, lieutenants and soldiers, these individuals are placed in military training facilities in the Nevada desert to form readiness units to fight America’s wars.  The idea is that if you are going to exercise all this aggressive energy gang banging on LA streets then you might as well redirect that energy overseas participating in relief operations or reestablishing peace fighting in the Middle East.

This policy is in no way racist.  It is simply just a great idea.   Because right now the Latino population in the California Prison System exceeds 80% and provides fodder for MSNBC’s “LockUp: Raw”.   California, the Southern part, is teetering on the brink of collapse anyway.

The idea is that instead of filling up jails and prisons adopt a “dirty dozen” mentality and put these individuals in highly trained Special Forces units to carry out projects around the world.    The byproduct would be that they are exposed to people in other countries who are less fortunate and would gain a sense of respect and appreciation for their natural heritage as US citizens rather than imploding on the streets through mayhem and drug trade contributing nothing to the greater good.  Ding Chavez, the right hand man to John Clark in Tom Clancy novels, is the model for these concepts.

Currently however, protecting the continuity of prisons and the police state is extremely profitable.  Because it is big business it is in the government’s best interest to keep the population destabilized and the prisons full to generate jobs and release federal funding.

One of the signs of the imminent disintegration of society is when the best jobs left in the local economy are sheriff deputies, prison guards, county prosecutors and border patrol agents. These individuals are not manufacturing or producing anything except feeding off of a political agenda.   California is over policed anyway as exemplified in recent news about overzealous, over employed, bored Highway Patrol officers in Truckee harassing citizens in order to justify their jobs and fill their shifts.  Look.  We need police.  They are ultimately good.  But just like any job where there are too many employees for the available work everyone is scrambling to make up stuff to do and “perform” in order to justify their jobs.  Applies to anything.    If you are sitting in your police cruiser in the Northern California forest patrolling rural highways and nothing is happening except the occasional Bigfoot sighting then you will be inclined to pull over citizens for sport because you are bored.

A better use of resources is to adopt the view that says, “If you are going to be in a gang then you can be in our gang.  We have a nice all expense paid training facility in the Nevada desert.” This is not some glorified military detention facility.  This is actual high-end military training – discipline, education, teamwork, self-respect, leadership development – appreciation for God and country – rather than wandering around North County Correctional Facility controlling the payphones.

The other thing we would want to do at these facilities is bring in evangelical Christian spirit-filled chaplains to get these boys saved and filled up as an alternative to their roman catholic default heritage initiated by Cortez.

If you look around the world at Roman Catholic countries are any of them doing well?  This is simply an objective observation.   Italy?  Mexico?  Brazil?    Brazil is actually pretty good.

Beyond all of the social commentary, the point is that Domestic Appreciation has to do with exposure to the rest of the world.  If your average garden variety Long Beach, SouthSider, gang member was provided some world class military discipline and training and then was sent overseas to experience the hell, pain and poverty of the way the rest of the world actually lives they would come back into society with a healthier objective view of what it means to be a productive and appreciative member of society and a patriot.

Because the truth is that currently we have a volunteer army.  The factual statistics of those killed and wounded from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts show that the highest percentage are individuals from small town America – Main Street USA.  This reflects the nature of faith, family, connection to place and heritage, and respect for traditional values, community, God and country.

Small town folks join the military.  Urban zone folks, by and large, because of the liberal nature of population centers, do not.  However, the urban centers choose our presidents in elections.   So there is a very interesting juxtaposition between rural America fighting the wars and the liberal population centers determining the foreign policy.

(Disclaimer: This discussion, although using Latinos as an example, applies equally to all racial groups – Whites, Blacks and Asians.   The same scenario applies to white skinheads who cook up Meth in Nebraska or affluent White wall street stock traders or cocaine dealers or the Paramount PeckerWoods in SoCal.   Because the thing is we live in the society of equality and diversity which is great to hold things together and relieve surface tension but when things fall apart in that 10 minute window of time (i.e. Rodney King riots) they will ultimately divide along racial lines.  They always do because it is human nature and that is just the way it is. )