network attack

multiply the numbers to a city state or nation of your choice :


"By Friday, when the violence appeared to subside, authorities had counted 170 dead: 107 suspected criminals, 41 police and prison officers, 18 inmates and four civilians."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0520brazil0520.html



"Amnesty International has appealed to Brazil to heed human rights standards while investigating the violence. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4991802.stm

watch the linkage : short circuit and the path of least intelligence:

criminalization [as phenomenological modus operandi and not as labelling] is destabilization, criminalisation [as m.o. and not as labelling] induces repression. repression opens up other fault lines for exploitation. - conveniently in the aftermath one can blame the other ..... loop loop loop.

"you can lead a man to violence, but you cant make him think."

at what threshold criminality level, does policing become impossible?
at what threshold, with undifferentiated citizen and prisoner/criminal rights, does policing become impossible?

e.g. - in a simplified case: if it takes six law enforcement officers to arrest a suspect, then the assymptote threshold tipping point [ excluding the possibility of more than two possible roles ie other jobs etc] is at 1/7.

consequently establishing a malignant criminal enterprise is an act of war against the host state.
dependency in host state once equilibriated will rebound against the enterprise. if the criminal product[ not including diversification of distributed product through distribution lines] is sourced extraterritorial to host state, the source state can be paralysed. in most situations, the gradient in terms of money value, means the host state is more powerful than the source state and can monopolise hi-cultural mechanisms. often the source state's power of projection at a hi cultural level is undermined due to immiscible and antagonistic persono-state identity matrices which are manifested and sealed at group level. - a consequent reflection.

attempted escapes from this situation: all of which can be tricky:

nationalism or attempts at national unity using elements from nationalism
crackdown on criminality
purge of corruption
managed corruption[tm]
relinquishing control of network and product/revenue stream in host nation


resulting in : diminished position in international agreement


semi-accidental attempts escapes :

migration, emmigration from source, immigration to host
projected propaganda within host country

each of which are blessings and curses, and again, any state worth its salt will reflect.



resulting in : compromised position in international agreement.

of course there are many more elements to this, not considered here.

- realitystructure

other sources:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/19/content_4571138.htm


media? reports suggest the gangsters leaders are soft, fantasists, who think that only their side is allowed to fight :

"The violence was triggered Thursday by an attempt to isolate the gang leaders — who control many of city's teeming, notoriously corrupt prisons — by transferring eight to a high-security facility."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003000388_webbrazil17.html

...not sure about that, though maybe they've internalised too much of certain gangster idioms.
and perhaps, as in the recent banlieu problems in france have sargents in the place of generals.
oddly, though not oddly at all really, certain sections of western political discourse make excuses for them, an ideological seal, conflating the issue with broader progressive, humanitarian, governance and civil liberties considerations - another example of of auto-immune problems in their own present politic and illustrating the mirror principal.

rule one : from the perspective of solutions for poor people : you can't fight corruption with corruption.

rule two: "the system" requires indiscipline and revolt

rule three : gangsters who co-opt political ideology are always enemies of poor, downtrodden people, a short circuit.

- realitystructure