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Originally Posted by nmap

First, an excerpt:

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A young woman who worked at a Denny's Restaurant on Albuquerque's West Side was killed Saturday morning during what police describe as a takeover-style robbery, and officers are still searching for suspects.

Police by mid-afternoon Saturday detained two possible suspects from the 10 a.m. robbery at the Denny's on Coors Boulevard at Iliff Road NW.

"Four masked men came in with guns," Brian Thompson told News 13. "Two went toward the back. That's all we could see because we all hit the ground."

Albuquerque police spokeswoman Nadine Hamby said witnesses told police they saw between two and six suspects.

She said police are interviewing at least 100 people to piece together what happened.


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A Saturday morning breakfast for 60 restaurant guests quickly turned into a nightmare.

Police said a group of masked men and possibly women stormed into the popular diner and began shooting.

Witnesses said us one of the men had a machine gun, the others fired handguns at random.

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This seems a bit odd - beyond the usual robbery.

The restaurant was crowded, with 60 or so customers in for breakfast. Between 2 and 6 bad guys(?) come in, one perhaps with an "assault rifle", in what the police call a takeover robbery.

They kill an employee, leave, and the police get there.

So is this suggestive of the troubles in Mexico migrating north? Does it indicate a possible trend in robberies? And - what does one do to avoid such excitement?

And now, a little something to reflect on. This is from The Trends Journal, Spring 2009, run by Gerald Celente (subscription only service, hence no link). It is written from the perspective of a narrator in the year 2012.

The Denny's attack seems to correlate rather well with the predictions below.

MARKET OPPORTUNITIES
In the US, up to 2009, a good portion of violence was gang-on-gang and drug related, but it would not stay that way. The American appetite for drugs, though huge, had its limits. 20,000 gangs vying for the same market produced a power struggle that saw individual gangs looking to both diversify and merge with competitors. Other businesses gangs were involved in included auto theft, assault, burglary, extortion, home invasion robberies, homicide, identity theft, insurance fraud, mortgage fraud, prostitution rings and weapons trafficking.

But the most profitable gangland business model imported into the US from Mexico was kidnapping.

Between 2007 and 2009, nearly 700 kidnappings for ransom were recorded in Phoenix. These were confined almost exclusively to Latinos involved in the drug
or immigrant-trafficking industries.

But by 2012, Phoenix, along with Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, New York City … would look like Mexico City. Kidnapping would become an equal opportunity criminal occupation with extraordinary profit potential. It would expand exponentially beyond the current Latino/drug/trafficking market sectors to include anyone (white, black, old, young) able, or thought to be able, to pay a high ransom.

Trend Forecast: Beyond organized crime (white collar and gangland), America and much of the world would experience a vicious, long, and intractable crime wave. As economies deteriorated, the criminal class would expand as the disenfranchised underclass sank to desperation levels, and substantial numbers of the middle and even upper classes became the new lower class.

Freelance criminals would vie with gangs and other organized professionals in the search for easy marks and powerless prey. From Ponzi schemes to bank robberies, from home invasions by marauding teams to garden-variety street muggings, crime would pay handsomely.

No amount of “get tough on crime” legislation, police on the streets or CCTVs would stop or mitigate the trend. There would be no time to dial 911. Even gated community dwellers would be vulnerable. Rent-a-cops at the gates would be no match for well-planned assaults by well-armed thugs.

The aware and prepared … those understanding just how out of control society would become, and those who had acquired the skills for survival would stand the best chance of navigating the chaos safely.

But Americans were not prepared. Not by a long shot.

Trendpost: Guns, ammunition, self-protection, self-defense, bodyguards, alarm systems, safes, bullet-proofing (autos, glass, vests), guard dogs, surveillance cameras, window gates … anything and everything having to do with crime prevention will be big business.

I just don't get it!............. Going into a "Denny's" with all that firepower,just doesn't make any sense........ If they were hitting a bank,they would need it,but Denny's!......

Big Teddy