Trend 1: Heavy Weapons
Watch future riots to see if heavy weapons such as attack aircraft, artillery, or armored
vehicles are used to suppress them. If they are, we'll know we've taken another critical
step towards Civil War II. Actually, in the Los Angels riot of'92, armored personnel carriers
were used by the Los Angeles police to flush out organized snipers in the predominately
black Jordan Downs housing project (Robert vernon, LA. Justice, Focus on the Family
Publishing, 1993, pp. 22-27.). Armored personnel carriers are not police vehicles; armored
personnel carriers are military attack vehicles. Armored vehicles were necessary because
the riot was not actually a riot, but a hybrid somewhere between a riot and a war. It is a
stark fact that these riots are increasingly taking on the characteristics of outright warfare,
and that the police are increasingly and necessarily taking on the characteristics of armies
in order to fight these wars. This ongoing conversion of our police departments into military
formations is reflected by their increasing use of armored vehicles, helicopters, bullet-
spraying assault rifles, combat helmets, bulletproof vests, military uniforms, sniper rifles,
and military organizational structures such as SWAT teams.
Trend 2: Ethnic Militias
Watch riots for confrontations between armed ethnic militias, because such confrontations
will certainly precede Civil War II. Actually, a confrontation between armed ethnic militias
has already occurred. In the Los Angeles riot of '92, Korean merchants spontaneously
formed a de facto ethnic militia (Newsweek, "The Siege of LA.", May 11,1992, p. 38.).
They armed themselves with pistols and shotguns, stationed themselves on the roofs of
the buildings in their shopping center, and coordinated their defense of their property with
citizen band radios. In so doing they successfully defended their property against similar
armed ethnic militias composed of black street gang members that torched much of Los
Angeles. In the Los Angeles riot of '92, armed ethnic militias confronted each other on
American soil, but the significance was missed, intentionally or otherwise, by the politically-
correct establishment media. Why?
Trend 3: Barricades
When rioters erect barricades, they're taking an important step, consciously or
unconsciously, towards creating a new nation, however small or temporary. These
barricades are boundaries. They proclaim that all on one side are of the same tribe, and
that all on the other side are foreigners. These barricades are physical boundaries that are
preceded by and reflect the boundaries in the hearts and minds of those who erected
them. After these physical barricades are torn down by the police, the barricades still
remain in the hearts and minds of those who erected them, and therein lies the real
problem, because barricades in hearts and minds can not be torn down by any amount of
police force.
Trend 4: Siege of Police Stations
Nations do not allow hostile armed forces on their territory, so watch for rioters laying siege
to police stations and military installations. The media will call these sieges attempts to
punish the police or capture their weapons, but that's only half the truth. The greater truth
is that, consciously or unconsciously, these rioters are creating a new nation, and that they
perceive the police as the occupying army of a foreign power. Also, watch for attempts to
seize radio and television stations, and government buildings.
