Welcome to the jungle...

The official death toll here in the greater Orlando area for the year is currently at 100, but it could jump rapidly at any time depending on how many shooters are involved on any given night. When I last checked on 9/26/08 the count was at 85, so as you can see, the violent Domestic Urban Terrorists have been quite busy. When you examine these statistics In light of the fact that our killed in action in Iraq is currently in the high two hundreds for the year with ten KIA in roughly the last thirty days, while in the same time frame we have fifteen dead here in the Orlando area, maybe we should become less preoccupied with Iraq and start working on a plan to pull out of Orlando. An even better suggestion might be to redefine all the districts of greater Orlando according to crime saturation and officially designate some areas as hostile zones. Then we could have the State Department issue warnings for Americans traveling here as they do for other counties since many of the combatants in the area are now allegedly armed with AK47's, the same rifles used by insurgents to assault our troops in Iraq. Read this article and watch the video:

'Disposable' AK 47s...

Here is a quote:

Orange County's latest murders reflect an alarming trend for law enforcement: urban firefights with dozens of shots fired. The shooters in Tuesday night's double killing outside a Pine Hills apartment complex emptied two AK-47s into the victims and fled, discarding the assault rifles, two handguns and a shotgun.

"They just disposed of them like disposable cigarette lighters, I guess, because they're so easy to get," sheriff's homicide Detective Dave Clark said Friday. "I mean, it's really unusual for people to leave stuff like this behind."

Andre Patterson, 27, and Joshua Sharpe, 25, were shot repeatedly in the parking lot of Kensington Cottages apartments on Burroughs Drive off Hiawassee Road. Crime-scene technicians found 58 cartridges fired by the AK-47s and an undisclosed number from the other firearms.

One of the AK-47s had a 30-shot magazine. The other had a 40-shot magazine. Both had been fired until empty....

www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-shootout1108oct11,0,563660.story?track=rss

Some other incidents:

Men With AK-47 Storm Chuck E Cheese's

www.local6.com/news/14580461/detail.html

I-Drive Wendy's robbed with AK47

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hzXbhnyVZc&feature=related

Robbers armed with a handgun and AK47…

blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_local_orlandocrime/2007/03/osceola_deputie.html

Maybe we are needlessly putting our already over worked law enforcement officers in harms way. I will be the first to admit that we have well trained highly qualified SWAT teams here, but I am starting to think that it might benefit us to implement an additional supplemental strategy. Maybe we should consider enlisting the help of PMC's like Blackwater, you know, the private security contracting firm that has been doing security details in Iraq. Have them bring in a few of their Little Bird helicopters, some high tech equipment, and a bunch of their best elite teams. We can deploy them into the area west of I-4 that runs parallel to the highway north to south, which news casters can now refer to as the Kill Zone, The Rectangle of Death, or The West of I-4 Corridor. The other out lying areas where the number of deaths are less concentrated will now be designated as the Green Zone, or maybe something a little more Sunshine State tourist friendly such as the Orange Zone. (click on link to see map below)

www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/data/orl-homicidemap2008-main,0,5382337.htmlpage

We can treat the operation as sort of a mini competition, seeing as how Florida residents love sports rivalries (Gators vs Seminoles etc), and compare how the Domestic Urban Terrorists teams perform against the Blackwater teams statistically. We should of course, have the Blackwater operators wear helmet cams, so we can eventually edit the footage down for broadcast as a reality TV show, which might attract enough advertising revenue to pay the contract for Blackwater which would eliminate any expense to Florida taxpayers. Maybe Disney would be interested in the TV production aspect, (writer grins) and the spin off merchandising numbers would be phenomenal. Of course the show would only last one season, due to Blackwater's cancellation of the other teams contract, but after that Orlando would be relatively crime free as it once was not so long ago.

Now for comparison, let's take a look at another crime ridden city and peer into a possible window to the future for Orlando residents if something isn't done about this escalating problem. The city I am referring to is New Orleans, which was riddled with crime and murder courtesy of the city's Domestic Urban Terrorists until Katrina hit. Many Americans are still not aware of this, but some of the first people on the ground there were...you guessed it, Blackwater, who beat the federal government and most aid organizations to the scene with what initially was a small group of less than two hundred operators which eventually expanded to about six hundred. There were some incidences of rape, murder, and other crimes initially, but law and order was established in a relatively short period of time, because the criminals weren't willing to engage elite soldiers equipped with the best in military weaponry. The National Guard were deployed there as a presence within that first week as well, but I am not sure if they were allowed to have live rounds chambered in their M16s due to posse comitatus, which for all intents and purposes would make them unarmed.*** After the flood, the crime went down considerably in New Orleans much to the premature joy of the city’s elected officials. Do you know why? Because the criminals were relocated to other cities such as Houston and Atlanta where they immediately resumed their previous activities raising the crime rate there exponentially. You can read about it here:

articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/28/nation/na-houston28

www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1194016,00.html

I have been reading that the crime in New Orleans is back on the rise, due to the city's former gang members returning home once again. Here are some links where you can read about it:

www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1175489,00.html

www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/national/nationalspecial/30crime.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Relocating criminals in hopes of eliminating crime, as proven by the above articles is not a sound strategy for securing the safety and well being of law abiding citizens. I think it is high time we face reality and change the rules of engagement.


*** In past disaster scenarios our National Guard soldiers were sent in carrying unloaded weapons, as happened when hurricane Andrew pummeled south Florida in 1992. I spoke with a young man in the military who was deployed to South Florida as a presence to deter looters after Andrew struck . Unfortunately, the soldiers had received orders to leave their M16's without rounds chambered. The gang members figured this out, and held a few of the soldiers at gunpoint while they liberated their M16's from them, with the end result being the weapons ending up on the streets to be used in future crimes. Looting was rampant there as lawlessness ran wild in the form of armed gangs roaming the streets wreaking havoc on law abiding citizens. One person who I know shared with me how his father was attacked in the drive way of their home by gang members in a van who were on a looting spree armed with shotguns. His father exercised his second amendment right and shot the leader killing him, and the rest of the group fled the premise in haste. When the Los Angeles riots occurred, the same scenario transpired when the Police were ordered to retreat, as they sent in the National Guard, once again with empty weapons. To send a soldier with an unloaded weapon into an area where armed gangs are roaming the streets is nothing less than gross negligence on the part of our decision makers.