Chapter 489: Quelling the Turmoil
Fifth Avenue, New York's most famous street, is a shopping paradise.
In the past, there was a lot of traffic and crowds of people.
Today, this "Dream Street" is covered with broken glass and bloodstains, and the cars and shops on the side of the street are in flames, and the chaos is like a ruin.
Thousands of thugs armed with baseball bats, chains, knives, and guns destroyed everything along the street with their weapons, and robbed luxury stores of clothing, bags, watches, and all kinds of precious metals.
This is the darkest hour of Fifth Avenue.
The ugliness of human nature is shown naked at this moment.
The mobs have always gathered in the name of justice, doing evil deeds, and venting their desires, anger, and hatred to the defenseless people.
The protest against the violent enforcement of the law by the police turned into a large-scale smashing and looting.
The boycott of Japanese products turned into smashing ordinary people's cars.
Demands turn into riots, those seeking justice become thugs, no government will ignore them, and in the end, the only means is to counter violence with violence, and to stop another kind of violence by violence.
The U.S. government is a government that is quite tolerant to the people, and ordinary people can scold the president, the secretary of defense, and congressmen on the street and on television, and even run to the door of the White House to burn the national flag, but there is only one thing that the U.S. government cannot bear, and that is riots.
Other countries will deal with riots in a gentler way, the best thing is to let the police calm down, at most high-pressure water cannons, tear gas, if this does not quell, then the government will make peace with the rioters and agree to the conditions put forward by the rioters.
But the United States is more tough, generally sending regular troops to carry out military suppression, 92 years of Los Angeles riots that shocked the world, the US government sent 15,000 soldiers to suppress, and finally arrested more than 10,000 people.
There have been six major riots in the history of the United States, and these riots were all initiated by blacks without exception, and they came every few years, like a woman's great aunt.
Since the death of Martin Luther King, the black group has replaced non-violent resistance with violence, especially after tasting the sweetness a few times, these people have become more and more careless, and every time they protest, they are like devils entering the village, smashing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, and there is no fear in their hearts.
Because they believed that the government would eventually compromise and victory would be theirs, just like the Los Angeles riots in '92, the government finally fired several police officers and police chiefs involved and compensated the victims more than $3 million.
However, this time their wishes were doomed to fail, because they met a leader who was not very tolerant and not very democratic.
John came to jail for burning the flag and being invited to tea for saying the wrong thing, so he couldn't understand American democracy, let alone tolerate the rioters.
According to John's understanding, the relationship between the government and the people is either the east over the west wind or the west wind over the east wind.
When a typhoon struck Wanwan one year, the authorities took active rescue operations, but when Xiao Jiu went to inspect the disaster area, the people still waved a banner that read "Disabled government, careless of human life" to protest. If this kind of thing was in the era when Lao Chiang was in power, no one would dare to easily put up such a banner, even if the disaster relief was not effective.
So this is how people are good at being bullied by others, horses are good at being ridden by people, and when the government is too good to speak, the people become difficult to speak.
If the people of the Gallic rooster in World War II could also show this ruthlessness to resist the government, they would not have raised their hands and surrendered in 39 days, watching their wealth and women being robbed, their families being killed, and being imprisoned in concentration camps.
So these Gallic people living in the romantic capital will only be ruthless to their own government, because the government will not kill them, and when they encounter the army of tigers and wolves, they will be soft in an instant, at best they are just a group of children who are spoiled by the government, they only know that they are dependent on the government, and they will rebel against the government once their welfare is reduced, in their values, they don't care if the country is destroyed or not, what they care about is their own interests.
Therefore, it is not a good thing to be too democratic, once populism is born, it will cause the people to lose the will to struggle, and will only reach out for welfare, and once the demands are not met, they will use violence to solve the problem.
John will not get used to this group of people, back then, Mr. Si of the fighting nation carried out a purge in the country and killed more than 20 million people, most of these people are powerful and powerful, including three KGB leaders, and there are countless generals and high-level government officials.
The total black population in the United States today is only about 20 million, and 99 percent of these people are in the lower echelons of society.
But John didn't plan to do this, the black community hadn't stepped on his bottom line yet, and a little punishment was enough.
Following John's order, the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division and the 18th Airborne Corps of the U.S. Army left for Washington, D.C., the 10th Mountain Division and the 1st Marine Division went to New York, the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Division went to Los Angeles, and the 2nd Marine Division left for San Francisco .......
John sent a total of 11 divisions with a total of 200,000 men to quell the rebellion, which was the largest counterinsurgency operation since the founding of the United States.
After receiving the order, the 10th Mountain Division and the 1st Marine Division quickly entered New York, took over the city, and the whole city officially entered the stage of military control.
"A regiment is in charge of Fifth Avenue. ”
"The Second Regiment is in charge of Wall Street. ”
"The third regiment is in charge of Whitewater. ”
After the army entered the city, the military top brass assigned the task of quelling the rebellion, and the person in charge of the counterinsurgency in New York was Major General Daniel, commander of the 10th Mountain Division.
John chose Major General Daniel to be in charge of countering the rebellion because he was an eagle, brave and belligerent, and had a tough attitude. The rioters will never have good fruit to eat when they meet such people.
"Shooting is allowed in this rebellion, and anyone who dares to resist will be brought to justice on the spot. Major General Daniel looked at his subordinates solemnly and gave John's order.
When the order was given, the troops moved quickly, and Colonel Casse Keller rushed to Fifth Avenue with his regiment, where he was tasked with quelling the riots.
By the time Colonel Casse Keller arrived on Fifth Avenue with his troops, the former shopping paradise was in shambles, with thousands of police officers and thousands of thugs confronting each other.
"One battalion and one company blocked the 34th to 42nd streets, the first battalion and the second company blocked the 43rd to 51st streets, and the third company of the first battalion blocked the 52nd to 60th streets. "Seeing the urgency of the situation, Colonel Kasé Keller quickly assigned the task.
After the assignment was completed, Colonel Casse Keller then found the police chief at the scene, there were many rioters, and the army alone was not enough, and police assistance was needed.
"You're in charge here?"
"Yes, Colonel. ”
"We'll go first, and then you'll be involved in the arrest. ”
"Okay, no problem. ”
The person in charge of the police scene nodded, he had already received an order from the chief to cooperate with the military operation.