I’m ultra-low-class: got to work and work and work. I plan on going up… but it implies I could become a target for those who would take my liberty away; worse yet, they would take liberty away from those I consider my family. So I’m forced to think about all those things strangers would do to me, so I can take preventive measures.
I’m forced to think like a hitman, kidnapper, robber, spy. Like a criminal. You don’t have to behave like one. Lots of criminals are quite civilized when they’re not being criminals. But when it’s time to steal, kidnap or kill they do so with a blood curling efficiency.
Due to non-existent trust I have in the authorities — by own experience, no less! — I would not even call them in case someone tries to threaten the life of those who are my own. I just would try to make that person stop existing. Just like the authorities do when someone criticizes them. Just like a criminal would do.
These days you have to do unto others before they do unto you. I’m one of those who believe in the idea of don’t do to others what you don’t want done to yourself, but a criminal won’t care about it.
This begins by arming up. A pistol, a rifle, a shotgun. Look for someone trustworthy who can provide them and teach how to use them. Doesn’t take a lot of mental effort; you just need to know what not to do to hurt oneself or those you love…
Firearms are regulated by the army? Learn how to use blades. A bit of martial arts if you have no weapon. With a twist you can break an arm; with some headphones asphyxiate someone. Just need to know how and know oneself capable of it.
Soon the day will come when everyone carries some type of weapon. Those who don’t is because they’ve got shadows who do. The day will come in which a criminal tries to rob the wrong person and pays with his life and the body disposed of in an empty lot. It’s here when I think of the other side of the coin: the family of the — now quite dead — criminal will wait for him; when he doesn’t come they will think the worst and suffer because of it.
A lot of people have left the country because of this. These are the smart ones who leave the war zone behind. It takes a lot to leave behind friends, school, work, family… a whole life. But they’re the smart ones. They escape before it becomes impossible, sometime around 2010. Some crazy fool will try to rise up in arms, in a macabre celebration of the bi-centenary of the Independence war and the centenary of the Mexican Revolution. All you need to do is get the month right.
That this is an alarmist post? True. But I’m just writing up what lots of people already have echoing in their minds.