Perhaps It Is Time To Reinstate the Draft

Gang Activity In The Military

ONLY ON KFOX:

The El Paso FBI office has renewed its focus on gang activity after discovering some U.S. soldiers are affiliated with one of the most violent gangs in country. El Paso FBI agents are now focusing on identifying soldiers they believe are affiliated with the Folk Nation gang.

Agents told KFOX there is an increase in gang activity across the city, including Ft. Bliss.

"We have identified in excess of 800 members that claim allegiance to a gang under Folk Nation. In that we've identified approximately 80 personnel both civilian and military ...who have participated in violent criminal activity," said Jeremy Francis, a special agent with the El Paso FBI.

"There are some cases that the El Paso Police Department is aware of and that the military officials are aware of," said Cesar Cortez, FBI supervisor with the Criminal Enterprise Division.

The FBI said the leadership in these types of gangs will look for people who are young and interested in joining the organization and then encourage them to join the military.

"They will hand pick them, ask them to keep their record clear so that they can enlist in the military and then once they're in the military, they want them to try and gain access to weapons and explosives and basically try to filter that back to the street level," said Francis.

Now this is really frightening. America cannot afford to have its all-professional military to have gang factions within. The hazards of having an all volunteer, standing professional army become readily apparent when this type of thing occurs. Our forefathers were highly skeptical of the government having a standing professional military, for good reason. With a professional army comes a number of hazards to our freedom. This is the reason militias are so protected in the constitution. It is also the reason that the unrestricted right to keep and bear arms is so vital to the American citizen. It must be the unrestricted right in order to provide the citizens a viable recourse against an over-aggressive private (or professional) military under the control of government bureaucrats. It would be very easy for these gang members in the military to strike out individually as rogue armies, was this allowed to fester. Call me paranoid, but I prefer that our citizens always have an alternative to total reliance on the benevolence of an unresponsive government.

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