{"id":57431,"date":"2018-01-20T04:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=57431"},"modified":"2018-01-20T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T04:20:09","slug":"follow-up-on-ms-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=57431","title":{"rendered":"Follow Up on MS-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<strong>Mark Safranski<\/strong> \/ &#8220;<strong>zen<\/strong>&#8220;]<\/p>\n<p>Quick follow up to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=57316\">MS-13 Murder or Blood Sacrifice? SWJ on 3rd Generation Gangs<\/a> <\/strong>at <strong>SWJ<\/strong> sent to me by <strong>Dr. Robert Bunker<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/jrnl\/art\/third-generation-gangs-strategic-note-number-eight\"><strong>Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 8: Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) Links to Occult Rituals and Santa Muerte Veneration or Worship<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) as a street gang\u2014as well as a group with prison gang attributes in Central America\u2014has greatly evolved over the course of the last four decades. Starting out as a Los Angeles \u2018stoner gang\u2019 (Mara Salvatrucha Stoners\u2014MSS), it then was directly influenced by the brutality of the El Salvadoran civil war with an influx of new members (losing the second S in the gang name in the process), became a vassal of the Mexican Mafia (with the addition of the 13 to its name\u2014MS-13), was increasingly influenced by the Mexican cartels, and finally has come under the sway of darker Santa Muerte influences. Beyond its journey from a local street to a transnational power-seeking gang, the overlapping ideological themes and cultural narratives underlying Mara Salvatrucha\u2019s evolution have been built upon a foundation of Satanism, occultism, brutality and torture, and rampant criminality. While some gang cliques and their members are still primarily secular in their orientation and view Satanism and occultism from more of an ideological perspective many others embrace a violent magico-religious cosmology in a sense becoming \u2018true believers\u2019 that now adhere to amoral or even evil spiritual values that invite sacrifice and torture&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/jrnl\/art\/third-generation-gangs-strategic-note-number-eight\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also a recommendation &#8211; read <strong>Sam Logan&#8217;s\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/This-Mara-Salvatrucha-Americas-Violent\/dp\/B003BVK2O4\"><strong>This is For the Mara Salvatrucha<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1347926115i\/5996864._UY400_SS400_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Mark Safranski \/ &#8220;zen&#8220;] Quick follow up to\u00a0MS-13 Murder or Blood Sacrifice? SWJ on 3rd Generation Gangs at SWJ sent to me by Dr. Robert Bunker: Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 8: Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) Links to Occult Rituals and Santa Muerte Veneration or Worship Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan Mara Salvatrucha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,308,306,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-gen-gangs","category-john-p-sullivan","category-robert-j-bunker","category-swj-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57433,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57431\/revisions\/57433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}