How do they get paid for this shit?
Unbelievable idiocy:

The lines between terrorism and criminality are becoming blurred as an increasing number of former criminals join the Islamic State group and create a "gangster jihad," according to a British report released Tuesday.

JESUS H. CHRIST. You think this needed a "study"? This connection has been true and PERFECTLY WELL KNOWN forever. It's harder to pin down before 1800 because definitions of 'terrorist' and 'criminal' were different; but you can see it clearly in all revolutions since 1800. (Roving bands of robber/radicals have always existed, but 'terrorist' wasn't a word until those wonderful French defenders of Libertay Fraternitay Egalitay, with the help of Marquis de Sade, developed ferocious cruelty and mass murder into a fine art.)

After Genocidist Lincoln slaughtered 1/7 of the country to satisfy his blood fetish, then occupied 1/4 of the country to satisfy his sadism, lots of Confederate soldiers continued their rebellion on a small scale. They quickly figured out that plain old robbery was more fun. Jesse James and his contemporaries were 'terrorists' who turned into criminals.

This connection was well known and openly discussed in the '60s, when black gangsters turned 'political'. Vice Lords -> Panthers. Now it's happening again with #blacklivesmatter. Plain old professional criminals are turned into radical heroes.

Again with IRA in the '70s. Smugglers, robbers, 'terrorists', all the same people.

It's tautological in terms of skills. If you're trying to run a revolution, you need some frustrated vengeful engineers to draw up the plans and organization, and you need technicians with solid experience in robbing and beating and shooting to implement the plans. Where do you hire those technicians? Prison.

Dead serious. We don't pay toddlers for realizing that Fire Is Hot, or for discovering that Water Up Your Nose Is No Fun, or for studying the Correlation Between Hammer And Owie. Why do we pay packs of 60-year-olds for discovering equally obvious facts of nature? Every time a "study" finds that genes determine behavior, we pay and publicize it. Every time a "report" finds that dogs are smart, we pay and publicize it. We should halt all of this shit and require scientists to GROW UP. At least get beyond the two-year-old stage.

Labels: defensible spaces, skill-estate

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