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\n(learn more about the book at the “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

After London’s suburbs were wracked by the worst riots in a generation after a young black man was shot to death by the police, it becomes even more obvious that any vague talk of an impending revolution of the “poor” in America against the “Super Rich”<\/a> is overlooking one very obvious reality of our present demographics.<\/p>\n

Maybe it doesn’t mean much to you that the average black family has eight-cents of wealth<\/a> for every dollar of wealth owned by whites, that the the ongoing recession has doubled the wealth gap between blacks and whites, or that the unemployment rate of blacks is edging up on twice as high<\/a> as the white rate – easily surpassing it when you count incarcerated blacks. After all, a black child in American is nine-times more likely<\/a> than a white child to have a parent who’s locked up.<\/p>\n

But let’s look into the data and the implications a little bit more, because no economic disparity is starker than the one that correlates directly with race.<\/p>\n

The very idea of what it means to be poor is color-coded, as while 1 in 3 blacks live in poverty, less than 1 in 10 whites do.\u00a0 Despite making up roughly 13% of the population, African-Americans only control one-point-three percent<\/em> of America’s net financial assets.\u00a0 And yet the very definition of poverty itself now varies to the point of absurdity, since “poverty level whites control nearly as many mean net financial assets as the highest-earning blacks, $26,683 to $28,310. For those surviving at or below the poverty level, this indicates quite clearly that poverty means one thing for whites and another for blacks.”<\/a><\/p>\n

And as the real estate market crashed blacks have suffered much more severely than whites. Even when income and credit are controlled for, black families now have their homes foreclosed on and are on their way to being kicked out into the streets over three-times as often as white families<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The impact of these facts have echoed across generations, as nearly three-quarters of all black children grow up in homes with no net financial assets. That’s nearly double the rate of white kids.\u00a0 And nine in ten black kids grow up in homes without enough monetary reserves to last more than three months at the poverty line if their income were to drop, roughly four times the white ratio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Good thing our African-American population doesn’t have anything else to be ticked off about.<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to imagine a more poetic dichotomy than LeBron James furiously stroking his ego all over the national media during a one-hour ESPN special at the exact same time Oakland’s African-American community was threatening to begin a slow-motion implosion.\u00a0 While every major news channel was busy fluffing LeBron, a jury lacking a single black member ruled that Johannes Mehserle, the cop who shot Grant in the back after he was called a “bitch-ass nigger”<\/a> and while he was handcuffed facedown on the ground, was guilty only of involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n

The legal equivalent of accidentally jumping a curb and running someone over with your car, admitting only that Grant is in fact dead and Mehserle’s reckless – but possibly accidental – actions lead to his death.<\/p>\n

Folks in Oakland were, understandably, just a little bit unhappy.<\/p>\n

Any outside element seeking to sow the seeds of dissension and unrest in America doesn’t have to squint too hard to see that there are potentially hundreds of thousands of other men who might be a little bit pissed off and a little bit predisposed to violence.<\/p>\n

Men who have spent time in prison, have no jobs<\/a>, no love for the police – and who might jump at the idea of killing a few of them. And the nation we’re currently engaging in a soft nuclear detente with is easily the most likely to try and take advantage of this situation, which was best illustrated by what Iran did at the very start of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Right after they released all the women and children, they released one other subset of the hostages.<\/p>\n

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All of the African-Americans, making a direct appeal to their status as fellow victims of American oppression.<\/p>\n

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And yet most Americans had almost no idea that the ’79 Revolution, which put the current theocratic totalitarian regime into power, was going on at all. Other than maybe Kermit Roosevelt, pretty much no one in America had the slightest clue that anything of any importance was going on in Iran until the hostage crisis began at the tail end of the Revolution, on November 4th<\/sup>, 1979. The hostage crisis was the culmination of the Revolution, it had begun nearly two years earlier<\/a> in early 1978, when the first street rallies and demonstrations coalesced on Qom’s dusty streets.<\/p>\n

It was the Iranian hostage crisis that held the world’s attention rapt for 444 days, and which suddenly made events that before seemed utterly immaterial to the average American a staple of their nightly news.<\/p>\n

And, fittingly, it was the hostage crisis which gave birth to the formalized hierarchy of American Special Operations, the United States Special Operations Command, which still exists largely unchanged today. The botched rescue effort, thwarted by insufficient planning and operational naivete, served as a telling foil for the aptitude and guile the Iranian regime went on to demonstrate in countless acts of state sponsored terrorism in the years that followed.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>President Carter’s botched rescue effort, Operation Eagle Claw<\/a>, was a clusterfuck in every sense of the word. Not only did eight American servicemen lose their lives as a desert sandstorm whipped up and made helicopter flight all but impossible, but Iran gained control of six state-of-the-art American helicopters.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to imagine a mission going worse.<\/p>\n

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Iran, on the other hand, soon proved itself a master of irregular warfare. The furnace of the Revolution burnt away any element of Iranian society which might have weakened the new regime, and allowed it to sharpen Iran’s military into a formidable and deft weapon.\u00a0 In 1983 the Iranian military masterminded the truck-bombing<\/a> of the U.S. Marine barracks outside Beirut, one of the most devastating surprise attacks in American military history. And then throughout the 1980’s Iranian sponsored terror took lives in Jerusalem, Rome, and countless other Western cities – soon becoming classified by the United States as the world’s most active sponsor of terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

But what is state-sponsored terrorism really?<\/p>\n

On a purely analytical level, it’s simply another term for irregular warfare. Whether or not an act of violence breaks the Geneva Conventions shouldn’t be the judge of whether or not it’s considered “terrorism.” Certainly not whether it’s considered an act of Political Terrorism, a phenomenon that has clearly defined boundaries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Because terrorism, as a means, has such a broad nature you have to categorize terrorist violence within a framework before you make any sort of analysis if it’s going to mean anything at all.<\/p>\n

The most potent form of terrorist violence to beset the West in the modern era is Political Terrorism, classically considered to be carried out by insurgent guerrillas and nationalist revolutionaries of all shades and stripes. It’s the outcome of violence used with precise timing and targeting in the right set of social circumstances. Political Terrorism follows a three-step chain-reaction that can only be catalyzed within a society laced with the proper concentration of conflicting social currents.<\/p>\n

The first step is Symbolic Terror, dramatic violence, the more enrapturing and menacing the better. This leads to the second step, which will always occur if an act of Symbolic Terror is effective: capturing the media’s attention. With the media enraptured and disseminating the fear created by seemingly indiscriminate violence throughout society, the third and final step of provoking the establishment to commit its own acts of violence begins. The third step’s retribution marks the start of Political Terrorism.<\/p>\n

It, in turn, both gives the terrorist group credit and marginalizes the retaliating authorities by pushing them off the moral high-ground that allows them to exercise violent means of coercion.<\/p>\n

And it is this third step that is the most important point of the cycle of Political Terrorism. Triggering the ouroboros<\/a> of vengeance is a political terrorist’s real aim – all of the violence and death would be meaningless if he can’t goad the established authority into striking back.<\/p>\n

It is this retribution that validates his ideology and makes others aware of his cause, and which truly weakens the authority.<\/p>\n

And in just the last year, a new term has been coined to describe what happens when the cycle of Political Terrorism is triggered within an international context of warfare that allows travel between nations and cultures, and the instantaneous transmission of events from anywhere in the world to everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

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Before coining the term “accidental guerrilla,” David Killcullen fought as a member of the Australian military in theatres of war on multiple continents, and served as a counterterrorism adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and General David Petraeus, as well as serving as the chief counterterrorism strategist for the U.S. State Department. The term accidental guerrilla has its origins in the native resistance to the War on Terror that began after 9\/11.<\/p>\n

As Killcullen traveled to areas where there was ongoing military action against declared “terrorists,” he noticed an odd phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Many, in fact most, of the men fighting against American forces didn’t actually ascribe to the violent jihadi ideology that led al-Qaida to perpetrate 9\/11. They were just average locals who found outsiders engaged in a shooting war on their turf, and felt compelled to join in. In the words of one Afghani villager who spontaneously joined in with the Taliban in an ambush against American troops, “when the battle was right there in front of them, how could they not<\/em> join in? …This was the most exciting thing that had happened in their valley in years. It would have shamed them to stand by and wait it out.”1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

As outlined in his ground-breaking book The Accidental Guerrilla<\/a>, the phenomena follows a four step cycle that’s nearly identical to Political Terrorism, and that can be simply understood as Political Terrorism within a specific framework. Kilcullen describes accidental guerrillas as the result of a syndrome, and illustrates it using biological analogies and four stages:<\/p>\n

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  1. infecting an area where the State has a waning influence<\/li>\n
  2. reaching a virulent potential for widespread media dissemination by carrying out acts of captivating violence<\/li>\n
  3. drawing in outside intervention to deal with this new virulent threat<\/li>\n
  4. a rejection of the heavyhanded outside intervention by the local population, which wins the infectious agents sympathizers and followers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And so accidental guerrillas are born when they become infected by the virulent influence of al-Qaida or any other radical ideology, and fight back against any outside intervention that follows. Not necessarily because they agree with the radicals, but because they feel compelled to reject what they’ve come to see as an unjust and illegitimate outside power.\u00a0 At most, they make up about 10% of an insurgency at any given time.
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    \nThe rest of the book goes on to illustrate how the accidental guerrilla syndrome rallied locals to the side of international jihadis everywhere from Iraq to Afghanistan to East Timor, and argues that the syndrome was responsible for mobilizing most of the violence against an outside American military presence. Locals who either want in on the action, or are afraid “the Crazies will kill them,”    2<\/a><\/sup> reportedly make up nearly 90% of those fighting back against what’s been sold to them as a military operation undertaken by outsiders.<\/p>\n

    In the last few chapters of the book, Kilcullen addresses the potential for Europe to act as a stating area for terrorism and future accidental guerrillas, as well as the role there of micro-havens, “urban undergrounds, alienated ethnic groups, and slums where the writ of government does not always run and where police and security services’ situational awareness is low.”3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    But oddly enough, the potential for accidental guerrillas to emerge in America is never explored.<\/p>\n

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    Another nearly identical term for “microhavens” is State Shells. At the broadest level, State Shells are semi-autonomous polities hosted within a nation that are able to impose their own will and organizational structure on some segment of society beyond the reach of local government regulation.<\/p>\n

    Strictly speaking, State Shells are cohesive organizations which have “a monopoly on the means of violence; territoriality; taxation; and public bureaucracy”4<\/a><\/sup> within their stomping-grounds. The depth and breadth of the will they are able to impose varies greatly from situation to situation, but generally State Shells establish a following in a society by filling gaps left open by the government.<\/p>\n

    The less able a government is to provide public works and order, from hospitals to schools to support for the needy, the bigger the opportunity a State Shell has to gain credibility and then power within a pocket of that state. Hezbollah, the PLO, the IRA, ETA, and the Shining Path, are a few of the more notorious State Shells.<\/p>\n

    A crucial common-denominator among all State Shells is economic independence from the host government \u2013 State Shells must be able to raise their own funds, either through their own taxes, outside support, or often via the illicit trade and smuggling of drugs and guns. Within America the drug trade forms a particular poignant example of this, as the hierarchy of gang commerce has come to mimic the corporate pyramid of power – with lots of low-level workers propping up a few kingpins.<\/p>\n

    Many of the world’s most recognizable terrorist groups are prime examples of State Shells filling the gaps created when a government \u2013 beset by political violence, incompetence, or upheaval \u2013 is unable to fully govern.<\/p>\n

    Or, in the modern American case a government may lose its grip on governance because of economic catastrophe, as California is one of the first but not the last state to openly discuss ending many forms of public welfare and support for the needy, and is already laying off cops and other public officials. This creates even wider gaps for gangs to fill, as in many urban black communities gangs already provide jobs in the form of drug dealing, and act as the de facto security force and arbiters of justice.<\/p>\n

    Within a State Shell there is no such thing as the rule of law, and the exercise of Godfather-esque impersonal power that is based not on a code of justice but individual whim is paramount over political representation or citizenship. Although they do provide public works, a State Shell’s overall effect is not a positive one on the society that hosts it, as they are by nature exploitative and predatory.6<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    Examples of this behavior span numerous continents and countless generations. But nowhere and never has it been so apt than among the minority populations of America’s innercities. Gangs serve as imperfect examples of State Shells, but examples all the same. If there’s anywhere a State Shell might find traction in America, it’s among our urban minority innercities. For generations our urban innercities have been haunted by gang life and the drug trade.<\/p>\n

    Neither gang life nor the drug trade manifested spontaneously out of the black community. They only emerged after racially biased drug laws caused blacks, who make up 14% of our drug-users but over half of those imprisoned for drug-use, to find their lives dictated by a life behind walls we all built but refuse to see.<\/p>\n

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    Nearly any way you look at it, our current economic crisis is impacting our poor black communities much more acutely than our poor white ones. The most obvious indicator is the still skyrocketing unemployment rate, which for young black males is now twice as high as their young white counterparts. But simple unemployment doesn’t capture the full scope of economic distress.<\/p>\n

    Throughout history, social uprising have coincided with high levels of economic disparity. The American Revolution, the French Revolution, China’s Cultural Revolution, both of Russia’s modern revolutions, and even the ’79 Iranian Revolution all <\/span>received a heavy push from economic discontent.<\/span><\/p>\n

    It seems as if the poor have some unseen threshold, like they can only get so poor before they lash out violently against the system. Like the odds a social uprising will occur increases in tandem with the level of economic disparity.<\/p>\n

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    And for going on two generations now, America’s level of economic disparity has been steadily rising. This ongoing financial crisis may be what finally causes it to crest over.<\/p>\n

    The precise era that saw a drug-law fueled explosion in our prison population, the early 1970s, are the exact same years that the economic situation of blacks began to starkly worsen and that the gap between rich and poor is wrenched wide open. Beginning in those years and continuing into today, “the economic status of black compared to that of whites has, on average, stagnated or deteriorated.”25<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    Up until 1973, the precise year the Rockefeller drug laws were passed, the difference between black and white median income had been closing. But then that year it changed course, and in “an ominous bellwether… the gap between black and white incomes started to grow wider again, in both absolute and relative terms.”26<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    In the nearly forty years since America’s modern drug laws were passed, there has been a massive increase in economic inequality by any measure. In the early 1970’s not only did the income gap between black and white begin to widen again, it also becomes much more top-heavily favored to the very rich – who happen to be almost exclusively white as well.<\/p>\n

    One way to capture it is by examining what portion of America’s total income the top 1% of earners receive. The share of that top 1% has nearly doubled since 1970, and it’s now the same size as the income earned by everyone in the bottom 40% of earners combined.27<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    So the very few families who make up the top 1% of all earners have a combined income that matches the incomes of all the families in the bottom 40% of earners.<\/p>\n

    Looking at economic well-being another way, in terms of financial wealth or “stocks, bonds, real estate, businesses, and other financial instruments,” as of 1998 the top 1% of families controlled nearly half of that pie, with the top 20% controlling fully 93% of it. Meanwhile, the bottom 40% of families actually have negative financial wealth – their debts actually surpass their assets.28<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    And this cavernous gap has only been widening, between 1998 and 2001 the net worth of families in the top 10% of America jumped 69%, significantly more than any other group.29<\/a><\/sup> In the years leading up to that point, between 1988 and 1999, the difference in net worth between black families and white families grew by $16,000 and the gap in net financial assets grew by $20,000. By 2004 white families had an average net worth of $81,000, and black families an average net worth of just $8,000 – roughly a tenth of the average white family’s.30<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    With home equity making up 44% of an average American’s family’s net worth and fully 60% among our middle class,31<\/a><\/sup> the statistics around homeownernship further delineate the racial schisms of American wealth. Not only do blacks pay higher interest rates, have higher downpayments, have less access to credit, get turned down more frequently for loans no matter what’s controlled for, and pay what amounts to an 18% “segregation tax” because homes in black neighborhoods have much less equity than homes in white neighborhoods32<\/a><\/sup> – but since 1970 black homes have appreciated in value roughly half as much as white homes.33<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    Even Eminem seemed to have little sense of the irony that was invoked as his self-consciously white autobiographical film, 8 Mile<\/em>, highlighted the hopeless plight of Detroit’s urban black community that’s existed for generations. The 8 Mile district was created in 1941, when a six-foot wall was built around a black enclave that was deemed unfit to accept loans from the Federal Housing Administration. This was “part of a system that divided the whole city, in theory by credit-rating, in practice by colour.” And so the segregation that emerged in Detroit “was not accidental, but a direct consequence of government policy.”8<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    This policy of segregated mortgages became known as “red-lining,” and by the 1950s one in five black borrowers was paying interest at over 8%, while it was about impossible to find a white family paying more than 7%.9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    And yet this economic line extends far past that generation. The fact that blacks are foreclosing at a much higher rate than whites in the current crisis was predestined by the conditions of the loans they received, as banks turn down equally-qualified blacks much more often than whites, and forced blacks to pay higher interest on their loans. Housing values are indelibly color-coded, as the average value of a white house appreciates much quicker than a black house. All of this is snowballing into a collective institutional bias that cost black families at least $82 billion even before this current crisis began.10<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    Hotlanta served as a case study for mortgage-based racism, as the Pulitzer-winning series in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution<\/em> “The Color of Money” so aptly captured.<\/p>\n

    It showed how blacks were routinely rejected for loans which whites in a comparable economic situation were accepted for. And this phenomenon wasn’t isolated to one city, as a 1991 study showed that out of 6.4 million mortgage applications nationwide, even after income was controlled for – blacks were rejected twice as often as their white counterparts. However that wasn’t the worst of it, in urban centers such as Boston, Philly, Chicago, Minneapolis, blacks were rejected three-times<\/em> more often than whites.11<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

    Even well-to-do blacks have been unable to escape from this institutional prejudice.<\/p>\n

    Wealthy black neighborhoods in the DC suburbs have a much tougher time getting loans than low-income white areas, and in Boston blacks living on the exact same street as their white neighbors and earning similar incomes found it much tougher to get a mortgage than their white neighbors. Joe Kennedy summed up the cumulative effect of this racial injustice well, describing “an America where credit is a privilege of race and wealth, not a function of ability to pay back a loan.”12<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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    The city of Baltimore partly captures how higher-rate loans to blacks have affected foreclosure rates, with several Wells Fargo loan officers testifying<\/a> that they targeted “mud people” for “ghetto loans,” resulting in 71% of foreclosures in that city being made on black homes in recent years. And so, even when income and credit score are controlled for, across the nation blacks are more than three-times more likely than whites<\/a> to have their home foreclosed and be thrown out into the streets.<\/p>\n

    America may have nominally advanced from “separate but equal,” however the reality of racial disparity still haunts the bottomlines of black mortgages and checkbooks, holding them back from fully embracing the dream we’re all supposed to share.<\/p>\n

    This racial stratification has created neighborhoods ripe for infection by radical Islamists hoping to begin the accidental guerrilla syndrome. Black neighborhoods have more crime, more poverty, and less governance than wealthy white ones – the ideal conditions for an outside terrorist infection to set in. And the process is made even easier when you consider the effect the prison system has on black communities, isolating young men away from their friends and families and everything they’ve ever known for years at a time, the ideal circumstances for softening someone up for radicalization.<\/p>\n

    Once radicalized, they’re released back to their old neighborhoods to begin spreading the contagion that had been injected into them in prison while they were held prone by hopelessness, isolation, and fear. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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    If the Accidental Guerrilla theory of terrorism is correct, America shouldn’t be worried about the detonation of a nuclear device in one of our ports, about the release of a biological plague, or any outside element directly attacking our country. The risk of retribution is simply too great, as Tom Clancy so bluntly illustrated in Executive Orders<\/em> – if any attack can be traced back to your soil, America will not hesitate to blithely erase you from the map.<\/p>\n

    As the events of 9\/11, 3\/11, and 7\/7 have made abundantly clear, adherents of radical Islam who seek to attack the West won’t do it through any weapon of mass destruction. Homemade bombs with cell phone triggers have already proven highly effective, and are easily produced.<\/p>\n

    And as events in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere have borne out – the most effective way for radical Islamists to attack a society isn’t by using overpowering technological capabilities or advanced biological weaponry to inflict massive civilian casualties. Instead, it’s by co-opting weak and vulnerable elements of the society who don’t feel like they have protection from a strong central government, and by exploiting pre-existing social tensions and fissures.<\/p>\n

    To create accidental guerrillas from a desperate and angry minority community that feels abandoned by their neighbors and their nation.<\/p>\n

    As revolution burns in Iran, what emerges will either be a strong and progressive state intent on embracing choice and human freedom, or a totalitarian theocracy hardened by the violent removal of any element of dissent. Iran is just warming up, the Islamic Revolution took the better part of two years, this progressive one will at least take several more months.<\/p>\n

    It might seem like what’s going on over there won’t touch your life here.<\/p>\n

    But if Iran were to look for a weak point in America’s armor, it would be where accidental guerrillas have emerged in other societies – among our disaffected minority populations, who have been subject to an incredibly disproportionate<\/a> amount of time in prison, as well as several generations of stifling economic realities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    If African-Americans who have been converted to radical Islam while in prison do successfully pull off an attack that claims innocent lives (as already happened in Arkansas and was attempted in New York), and the police cracks down on their communities in turn – it’s not hard to imagine the urban black communities protesting and rioting against what they’ve in the past seen as an unwarranted and unjust crackdown.<\/p>\n

    Our urban police forces don’t exactly have a calm or productive relationship with our urban minority communities, accidental guerrillas will be far from endangered if the cycle of Political Terror begins in America.<\/p>\n

    America isn’t supposed to be about advancing the strongest members of our society while isolating weaker ones, but about providing a fair chance to everyone. So long as we continue to look the other way, and pretend nothing is wrong as economic and judicial realities tie the hands of so many of our neighbors, we remain exposed to the threat of outside forces inciting accidental guerrillas.<\/p>\n

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