A funny story about a bully gangster rapper named 40 Glocc from the streets of LA

[imp]

Lil Boosie and Gucci Mane have done some shit. They got some cred.

Shyne is the realest of them all though. This dude kept his mouth shut and did his time when most other guys would have said anything to save their own ass.

I have alot of respect for Shyne

Shyne WAS a good rapper but there is no way im doing ten years for anyone.

I will snitch on anyone if it keeps me out of the shower hall in belmarsh.

This unwritten code is never meant to be broken on the streets or in the world of crime but in my world my family are first and associates second.

[VictorCharlie]

I don't know you personally, you may well be an exception to the rule. That last sentence is an Einstein quote which holds very true in my opinion. There are numerous studies which indicate the psych profile of criminals and law enforcement or military types are virtually identical. In fact if you just swapped all the uses of gangster and military in your post, it would hold just as true. A gang is generally a conformist organization just like the military, and a lot of the same rules apply. Respect for "authority" is just a prevalent and important in a gang, and carries similar consequences. I see nothing you wrote which refutes this whatsoever. I do know that there are enough people who aren't attracted to the idea of holding rank over others or resorting to violence in the first place, although it's unlikely anyone does inherently

Well according to your quote anyone who has ambition to be in a position of leadership is of low morality. I guess every world and business leader are just really bad people. Sounds pretty silly. I'm not an exception to any rule. I can't say I've ever personally had a leader in or out of uniform that I would classify as of low morality. If you don't see how different an organization a criminal gang and a military unit are then I don' think you are being objective about the issue. Clearly you don't understand the "rules" in the military or you would see that they are not the same and don't apply equally to both military and gangs. This isn't about me needing to assert my authority it is about what a breakdown in discipline does to a unit, particularly in combat.

[p4pking]

Uh, no. A position of FORCE, means you physically intimidate somebody and are in a position to inflict bodily harm as part of the job description. Being powerful and having control over people by other means is different, for one thing it requires a brain. I do believe that many businessmen and politicians are utter sociopaths of a different type and no more admirable mind you.

For many kids growing up in a certain environment, joining a gang is no different than slightly more privileged kids joining the military. They do so for exactly the same reasons, and hope for the same things out of it more or less, that was my point. Obviously neither of us are objective about it though

[Jerry Rice]

Uh, no. A position of FORCE, means you physically intimidate somebody and are in a position to inflict bodily harm as part of the job description. Being powerful and having control over people by other means is different, for one thing it requires a brain. I do believe that many businessmen and politicians are utter sociopaths of a different type and no more admirable mind you.

For many kids growing up in a certain environment, joining a gang is no different than slightly more privileged kids joining the military. They do so for exactly the same reasons, and hope for the same things out of it more or less, that was my point. Obviously neither of us are objective about it though

It's time for life lessons with p4pking

[VictorCharlie]

Don't go moving the goal posts now. Any position of authority is backed by some level of force whether it be political, financial, physical etc.

position of FORCE, means you physically intimidate somebody and are in a
position to inflict bodily harm as part of the job description

The only job description that sounds like is a professional fighter. It damn sure doesn't describe the role of a officer or noncommissioned officer in the US Army.

Being powerful and having control over people by other means is different,
for one thing it requires a brain.

So you don't think people that are law enforcement or in the military (your examples) attained their positions through hard work, intellect and ability or as you put it, have a brain?

For many kids growing up in a certain environment, joining a gang is no
different than slightly more privileged kids joining the military. They do so
for exactly the same reasons

Why do you think privileged kids join the military? Couldn't really be farther from the truth. Most Soldiers come from lower to middle class families. Most join the military to get money for school and/or job training. Some do it simply to get out of small town USA. I don't think that is a big part of the Bloods and Crips recruitment pitch. You make a lot of sweeping generalizations about people and things you don't seem to know much about.

[Jerry Rice]

Why do you think privileged kids join the military? Couldn't really be farther from the truth. Most Soldiers come from lower to middle class families. Most join the military to get money for school and/or job training. Some do it simply to get out of small town USA. I don't think that is a big part of the Bloods and Crips recruitment pitch. You make a lot of sweeping generalizations about people and things you don't seem to know much about.[/QUOTE]


He seems to be the type that doesn't know much about anything.

[p4pking]

Yes thanks for your insight here, Jerry Rice.

VC, A soldier or police officer is a position of force. A lawyer or CEO is not, although they hold much more legitimate influence and control over others. It's not moving the goal posts, I meant force in a physical sense and you're taking it to mean any kind of authority. I'm not going Chomsky or anything here.

When I said SLIGHTLY MORE PRIVILEGED, I meant as opposed to kids who grow up in ghettos without families etc and are far more likely to join gangs. I'm well aware that it's still lower class people who join the military.

I don't believe most soldiers or police officers have obtained their position through intellect, no. If you want to take having a brain as literally as my other points go ahead, they have the kinetic intelligence to salute and fire a weapon.

[VictorCharlie]

P4P, you clearly don't understand the military if you think that our leadership positions are based on a threat of physical violence or force. Why do you think a CEO has more legitamate authority than say a commanding officer? I'm not a LEO so I can't speak for them but leading Soldiers in combat takes a tremendous set of skills and attributes, particularly in our current assymetric conflicts. Feel free to carry on your prejudices but you don't know what you are talking about. Nothing like a good dose of Saddo bigotry to push through a 24 hour shift.

[p4pking]

I didn't say anything about leadership positions though, except to make the difference between force and influence or authority clearer. Now that is moving the goal posts.Obviously at the highest echelon military leaders will have great intellect and years of very specific education and training, but that's hardly required to enlist for basic training now is it. Is being a common soldier not a position based on the threat of force

[VictorCharlie]

Your original post was in response to me. I hold a leadership position in the military. You've made blanket statements about the military of which comprises lots of leadership positions. Are you now altering your statements to only be relevant for basic trainees and brand new Privates? All officers and most NCOs in the Army are college educated and all have specific training in their field. You should probably stop talking about the military. You really don't seem know the first thing about it.

Is being a common soldier not a position based on the threat of force

A Soldier's duty is to obey the orders of the President and officers appointed above him/her and to defend the Constitution. I guess if you are just going to make up a term then it can mean whatever you want. Soldiers also are regularly part of humanitarian missions both in the US and abroad. I've personally had more deployments now in support of humanitarian missions than combat operations. You seem to really want to pigeon hole service members as morons whose only purpose is to kill.

[p4pking]

I didn't say their only purpose is to kill. My initial response was just to your story about privates pushing that guy down the stairs. You offered that charming little tale and alluded to the military to begin with, I assumed that incident didn't directly involve anyone in a leadership position, but if so that hardly weakens my argument. My point was there are parallels as to why people join and the type of people you find in either discipline, nothing more. I don't know anything about being a gangster either, I find it about as interesting as the military.

[VictorCharlie]

Boy you can tap dance with the best of them. You didn't get what I was saying in my origianl post b/c no one was actually getting pushed down stairs. You don't have an argument. You have some false preconcieved notions about people that join the military and use that to make baseless insulting generalizations about a whole group of people. If you aren't interested in the military that is fine but if your are going to post about what kind of people join and what kind of job it is then you should be better informed. You come across as a real bigot in this thread.

[ninjaspy3]

Boy you can tap dance with the best of them. You didn't get what I was saying in my origianl post b/c no one was actually getting pushed down stairs. You don't have an argument. You have some false preconcieved notions about people that join the military and use that to make baseless insulting generalizations about a whole group of people. If you aren't interested in the military that is fine but if your are going to post about what kind of people join and what kind of job it is then you should be better informed. You come across as a real bigot in this thread.

I've had several young Soldiers that were "gangsters" before joining the Army. They always seemed so surprised when their bravado didn't impress their fellow Soldiers. I will never forget the young man from inner city Chicago that wasn't going to follow orders from some dumb honkey. Strangely enough after slipping in the shower and then later falling down a flight of stairs he became a stellar performer. Those damn Privates are so clumsy sometimes.

I was just content to follow the back and forth until I got to the last statement where you, VictorCharlie, claimed that no one had actually been pushed down the stairs after insinuating that the falling down the stairs was not an accident but rather a form of hazing. I think it's pretty disingenuous to try to play it both ways by insinuating hazing as a method of correcting the former gangster's behavior, and then later claiming that someone misunderstood what you were trying to say.

[VictorCharlie]

It seems neither of you two understood that post. Nor was I being disingenuous or talking about hazing. When you don't understand something and clearly P4P has no understanding about service members or the military it is probably a good idea to ask for clarification before popping off with bigoted comments.

I don't really have the time to cover all the facets of leadership, team building, espirit de corp, duty, integrity etc but everyone has their own leadership style so let me clear some things up. All Soldiers go through an adjustment period where they transition from their civilian lives to a military lifestyle. Most do it with a few minor hiccups to include inner city kids. Most issues require small azimuth checks and corrective training but insubordination cannot be tolerated. A Soldier that is insubordinate will get verbally counseled and then written counselings. So once we reach a point where I've exhausted all of my tools to adjust a Soldiers behavior it becomes the commanders discretion of what type of UCMJ he will face (loss of rank, time, pay, confinement etc). When a Soldier tells me that he doesn't have to listen to some honkey that he doesn't respect b/c I'm not from the street I'd explain that we can do 1 of 2 things: 1 I can make my recommendation to the commander for UCMJ or we can go behind the barracks and handle it man to man. On the two occasions this happened the Soldiers both decided they'd whip my ass. We came back from the barracks with a few bumps and scrapes respectively and the Soldier had a new perspective that for starters they weren't nearly as tough as they thought they were and two that maybe this honkey might be a good guy to follow into combat. The story to explain the bumps and scrapes was to tell the commander they "fell down the stairs" or "slipped in the shower". That was why I used the quotation marks. The end result was a Soldier becoming a valuable part of his team and not having a UCMJ violation over his head. But hey according to P4P we are all a bunch of low moral mouth breathers so whatever is clever I suppose.

[p4pking]

I only read the last sentence, sounds about right.