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CIVIL UNREST? PROBABLY NOT HERE, OR HERE, OR HERE

Guest Post by SSS

“The hunt for truth is the most difficult of human endeavors.” – SSS

I live in the metro area of one of America’s poorest cities, Tucson, Arizona.  Population 530,000, and metro area close to 1 million.  Poorest?  Well, among America’s cities, Tucson is somewhere around the 5th or 6th poorest in the country, depending upon which stats you read.  City crime rates, most of which stem from drug trafficking and gang activity, are among the highest in the state of Arizona, but quite low compared to other cities of its size in our nation.  Yet the probability of civil unrest in Tucson, even on a small scale, is low.  Large scale civil unrest, as we have witnessed in Ferguson MO, Baltimore and elsewhere, is even more unlikely.  Why?

Here are some more facts.  The racial composition of Tucson is White 47%; Hispanic 42%; Black 5%;  Native American 3%; Other (mainly Asian), 3%.  The important figure is 42% Hispanic, most of whom are Mexican-Americans.  The large presence of Hispanics in Tucson, El Paso, and Albuquerque, among many other southwestern cities and towns with a large presence of Hispanics, is a buffer against any serious civil unrest.  And that buffer is built on the Hispanic community’s CULTURE because ………

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DON’T TRY TO ROB A SIKH WITH A KNIFE

Guest Post by Wirecutter

Yeah man, I was walking into my favorite neighborhood liquor store for a sixpack of relaxation and all of a sudden I heard all kinds of yelling and screaming coming through the open door. It’s a good thing they were open too because all of a sudden some scrawny fucking mexican gangbanger came flying out head first (literally) landed at my feet with a panic stricken look on his face.

Now, I’ve been coming here 4-5 times a week for beer, tobacco and snacks for the past couple years and I know these storekeepers to be good honest people. They’re Sikhs from Punjab and sure, they talk funny, but when was the last time a liquor store employee chased you down in the parking lot to give you your change?

Because of that, when I see a body being physically ejected from their store, I figure it’s gotta be for a good reason, right? So I stopped right in front of Jose to keep him from making a clean getaway. About .3 seconds later, Mr Singh Jr came flying out with either a sawed down baseball bat or an oversized tire billy (it was hard to tell because it was moving so fast) and commenced to whaling on poor Juan.

I stepped off to one side to avoid the blood spatter and Singh Jr says, “Escuze me, I be right wit’ choo, Boss” and I said “You bet” and stepped around Pedro because I wanted to get my beer and get the fuck out of there before the law showed and detained me for not seeing a goddamned thing.

I got my beer and stepped up to the counter and Junior was back inside while his daddy got a few good licks in himself.

“Can you believe he tried to hold us up with this?” as he holds up a cheap fucking dagger.

“Should’ve just shot the motherfucker, bro.”

“No need for excessive bloodshed, Boss” he said as I was walking out, careful to avoid slipping in Chico’s pool of blood and the puddle of piss as Poppa Singh was panting and trying to catch his breath. Poor guy has the heart but his age is betraying him.
Folks don’t realize that you really don’t want to fuck with the Sikhs. One of the tenants of their religion is defense of self, family and property and they take that shit very seriously. They don’t fuck with you, you don’t fuck with them.