A Glimpse Into Our Future

One of my rules to live by is that if things get bad enough, people will accept just about anything to make it better (or at least not as bad).

That principle is going to be put to the test and soon if my view into the crystal ball is accurate.

A lot of virtual ink has been spilt here about crime in general and black crime in particular, not coincidentally as most violent crime is committed by blacks from sea to shining sea. It is something of an epidemic and despite Their attempts to keep us from Noticing by not reporting statistics, avoiding the use of mugshots and other nefarious tactics, people are noticing. If a jogger carjacks a White couple in a forest but the media doesn’t make a sound, did it really happen?

Our black criminal class is bad but manageable because they are a) dumb, b) lazy and c) mostly spend their time shooting each other. It isn’t that difficult to avoid them.

But the mestizo gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua? Those f*ckers are vicious and crazy and a lot smarter than Ja’Quiff and company. They are less like Boyz n the Hood with random and thoughtless violence and more like the Mafia with organization and a code of silence. They go to suburbs and ritzy neighborhoods with a plan and high-tech gear to block alarms. Whereas blacks might shoot ten people at random while missing their intended target, mestizo gangs seem more likely to kill their target and their target’s entire family just to make a point.

For years the nations of Central America have been slaughterhouses as the big narco-gangs basically ran those countries and killed whoever got in their way, with El Salvador leading the way. El Salvador is a tiny country, smaller than Israel, with a population of only around 6 million but they murdered each other by the bushel basket. The numbers are staggering when you look back over the last 20 years or so.

Then a new El Presidente took office, President Nayib Bukele, and things have changed. The big difference is that now when you get arrested in El Salvador and even look like you might be in a gang, you go away for a long time in a prison that actually is a punishment unlike U.S. prisons where you watch TV and lift weights, so you are even more dangerous when you get out.

In a rare act of actual journalism, CNN visited one of these prisons.

When people talk about hard time, that is what hard time looks like. That is what it should look like. If Ja’Mbalaya knew that getting caught would mean spending a decade in a giant concrete room with nothing to do but stare at the guards staring at you, shitting in a communal open toilet and drinking from a giant communal jug of water, he might not think twice about committing a crime, but he might think once. Prisoners are intentionally housed with rival gang members but if you screw up you go in the hole for a couple of weeks and their solitary confinement doesn’t look like somewhere you want to be. They spend 23 1/2 hours in these giant cells and the odds are none will ever get out.

There is no privacy here, no trace of comfort. Armed masked guards provide constant surveillance and prison officials say the lights are on 24/7. There is a haunting stillness as the prisoners’ hollow stares meet our curious gaze. There’s an emptiness in some of their eyes, an unnerving vacancy that suggests their souls have departed, leaving mere shells behind.

The deprivation is deliberate, a departure from pre-Bukele times when inmates were said to eat better than civilians. “Now, here, what they get for breakfast is beans, cheese or a mix of rice and beans, maybe plantain and a cup of coffee or atole (a corn-based drink),” says the director of Cecot, Belarmino García, as he shows us around. “For lunch, it’s rice, pasta, and a beverage. Dinner is the same as breakfast. Meat doesn’t exist here, chicken doesn’t exist here, special menus don’t exist for anyone.”

Outside of war, there is no death penalty in El Salvador but there is also no intention that these men will ever be released. Gustavo Villatoro, El Salvador’s public security minister, offers a blunt assessment of the government’s approach to gang members. “We believe in rehab, but just for common criminals,” he says, differentiating between so-called gang “collaborators” and gang members.^{https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/06/americas/el-salvador-inside-cecot-prison/index.html}

This is the future, when the people have finally had enough and start to string up ACLU lawyers that demand halal meals and sex change operations for murderers and rapists. A revolving door prison with basketball courts, weights for lifting, libraries and classes to “better” themselves is only a minor inconvenience but this place is a hellhole that serves as a real deterrent.

That all sounds great of course, who wouldn’t want to see people that molest children or rape women, or murder get tossed into a nightmare like that?

The problem is that once you start locking people up and throwing away the key after setting aside legal precedent, it isn’t hard to do the same with enemies of the state. One only need look at the January 6th political prisoners and the clamoring from the left to discard the First Amendment as “dangerous to our democracy” to see that there can just as easily be 60 political dissidents in a giant concrete room as there are murderers and rapists. Hells bells, being “racist” or “transphobic” is worse than being a non-White murderer anyway.

We need only look to places like jolly old England where rather than arresting non-Whites raping White English girls, the authorities are focused on hate crimes. Not just “criminal hate crimes”, a nonsensical term to begin with, but now under Keir Starmer they are going after “Non Crime Hate Incidents” such as a school child saying a fellow student smelled like fish. Yes, the British police investigated this and are bound and determined to stamp out anyone saying anything slightly mean to anyone else: UK: Labour Doubles Down on ‘Non Crime Hate Incidents’ Despite Backlash. One shudders to think what they would have done in my school where calling people faggot was pretty common.

I have been of the opinion for some time that the reason crime is out of control is that They want it out of control for the simple reason that if things get bad enough, people will accept anything to make it stop. If the price of keeping the streets peaceful is that political dissidents get locked up next to killers, most people will be OK with that. Never underestimate what people will accept if it means slightly less discomfort or inconvenience for them.

We didn’t win anything in the “election,” we just took another step toward an uncertain future and our job is to do what we can to ensure that we control the future instead of Them.