RE: Fraud in Minnesota
I’m not sure that most Americans understand that in large swathes of humanity, there is no actual concept of “fraud,” particularly fraud against the government. Instead, there is a belief in the virtue of getting away with what you can to help yourself and your tribe.
I spent a lot of my life in the Middle East and Central Asia, working closely with foreign contractors and foreign governments to provide support to American military operations. As a US Army officer with a big checkbook courtesy of Uncle Sam, I can’t really count the sheer number of times I was offered bribes to award a contract, or falsify records to do things like create larger (fake) headcounts at places like dining facilities, or to just simply be on the take for future illegal requests.
Of course I had enough sense to never comply with such requests. Moreover, they were never explicitly structured as “bribes”; instead it was usually along the lines of “Here I have these Rolexes as gifts for you and your wife to show our friendship.” (Unfortunately, too many US officers and NCOs succumbed to this siren song and ended up breaking rocks in Leavenworth.)
The weird thing about this to me was that whenever I turned down such an offering, it was treated as a grave insult. I was the one in the wrong, and not the fraudster trying to bribe me. They considered it rude that I was in their country and refused to accept how things got done. After all, why did I not want to help my tribe by helping their tribe?
Let me repeat: in these cultures, FRAUD IS NOT EVEN A CONCEPT. There is only what helps your tribe.
Such thought processes are so alien to Americans and much of the West. We are raised on the presumption that our institutions are valid, that the rule of law always prevails, and that integrity is universal. We need these presumptions to have working governments and economies, and without those presumptions—without the mental barrier that causes us not to accept outright fraud—our nation would quickly descend into the economic and social hellscape of countries like…. ummm… you know…. SOMALIA!
So when we import people en masse from cultures that accept bribery and fraud as routine, acceptable ways to advance one’s tribe, we should not be surprised that things like the $8 BILLION fraud schemes of the Somali population in Minnesota happen so easily.
Introducing a fraud-based culture based on tribalism into America is like introducing some sort of lethal virus into a population that has no natural immunity. The virus will spread and grow, unchecked, because it is so alien to the host. Similarly, a culture of fraud is anathema to American thinking, and it must be cut out before it consumes the host.
So when you see and hear patriotic Americans decrying what is happening in Minnesota or elsewhere, and when they seek deportation of the offenders, it is not “racism,” it is not “bigotry,” it is not “xenophobia”; instead, it is preserving the American tradition of responsible institutions and national integrity.
Let me explain why people from the third world are often prolific scammers. This time with sock puppets for the literary challenged:
The first world assumes rules will be enforced. The third world assumes they won’t, and plans accordingly.
The first world is built on trust and delayed reward. The third world survives on speed, extraction, and immediacy.
The first world teaches civic duty because law protects effort. The third world teaches survival because law cannot be trusted.
The first world rewards cooperation over time. The third world rewards whoever gets there first.
The first world invests. The third world extracts.
The first world builds systems meant to last. The third world learns to live inside the ruins of broken ones.
Assimilating people from these areas is almost impossible. Certainly not worth the risk. No reward is worth it.
War veterans have so much experience with this.
Listen.
Ok GWOT vets. It looks like the world needs more story time because apparently they don’t get it yet. The aim is to highlight the dangers of mass unvetted migration from where we fought, and the third world as a whole.
Let’s set aside all of the heinous things we’ve seen the native population do to one another. Set aside the child r*pe, bestiality, murder of innocents. Today, let’s just talk about how most of them were purpose built to enrich themselves through a culture of corruption. I’ll start:
1. We tried dissuading Afghans from planting opium in Kandahar. Tried getting them to farm saffron instead. We helped them dig ditches, lined them with rubber, and gave them equipment. They took the rubber to shingle the roofs of their homes, cannibalized the equipment for private use, sold the saffron, and planted opium anyway.
2. On payday, every single officer in an Afghan soldier’s chain of command would get a cut of their pay. Until the soldier got next to nothing. Hence why they stole everything to make ends meet.
3. In Iraq, some U.S. NGO made the locals a water park. Complete with an artificial pool and jet skis. When we turned it over, the locals drained the pool to irrigate their crops and cannibalized the jet skis for their own farming engines. (This was a stupid project so I get it….kinda)
4. In Iraq, we had to give money to local business to stimulate the economy and use “money as a weapon system”. They took millions and left the country, bought cars, or bought weapons.
Thats just a few, I have many more. One could argue they steal due to poor conditions, but how is that America’s problem? You’re seeing many of these types steal billions here just this week.
The thing that keeps those folks acting “correctly” over there is tyranny. A dictator. That’s why their punishments are so violent for theft and such.
The West is incapable of chopping off the hand of a thief. And why should we have to? What benefit does it give us to surround ourselves with people like that?
At the end of the day, in my experience, people from that area of the world will do anything to save themselves, especially the men. On a raid in Baghdad I had a target use his wife as a shield after the breach.
Most will leave their women and children behind in a war zone for their own safety and never look back. Remember the images of the planes from the Afghan withdrawal?
A man who will leave his family to die for his own safety is not a man I personally would want to share my neighborhood with in western civilization.
You don’t have to hate these people. But you have to understand who and what they are. It would take generations to have any chance at assimilating them.
How do you screen for “the good ones” from cultures that keep no records? Our experiential sampling size is simply too large to ignore.
To save our civilization, we are going to have to make hard decision on who we let in, if any.
For the organization below, this is not the hill to die on.
For the GWOT vets, fire away. I’m sure your stories are better than mine.
The actions of a man charged with a heinous crime have derailed the lawful U.S. immigration applications of people from 18 countries so far, including Afghanistan. Afghans are facing uncertainty at home and in the U.S.
Read why we can't turn our back on Afghans and other immigrants due to one man's crime: bushcenter.org/publications/s
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