carterfsmith

Author of From Patriot to Pirate | Asst. Prof. & Mc Program Director @MTSU | Retired U.S. Army CID Special Agent | History × Justice

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You Made the Right Call… But Can You Defend It? https://t.co/4Q1iMjUUgF via @YouTube

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Spent 20+ years Army MP/CID. Here's what I know: domestic extremists are harder to track than street gangs or OMG/Bikers — no leader, no pattern, and now they're running drones, ghost guns, and crypto. The threat nobody's prepared for. #GATM #MTGM #gangs

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Spent 20+ years as a U.S. Army CID Special Agent. Here's what I know: gang members enlist to train, then take that training home, and most cops don't recognize the tactics when they see them. Gangs. Military. The overlap nobody wants to talk about. #GATM
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We talk about military-trained gang members like they're a recent threat. Sam Mason was doing it in 1800. War gives men skills. The frontier gave him opportunity. The result? America's first documented MTGM. Read history. https://t.co/gSJrEOMyLT #CriminalJustice #AmericanHistory

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@kennardmatt wrote the first edition of this book before Gangs and the Military came out. Here is the updated version along with several years of context for those who denied the possibility of a problem. There is a cancer in the ranks of the U.S. military. It’s time to treat it.

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My new book is out

HOW THE U.S. MILITARY RECRUITED NEO-NAZIS, GANG MEMBERS, AND CRIMINALS

As the white nationalists in Trump admin begin a new Crusade in Iran, it couldn't be more urgent

"Fluent, powerful, and authoritative"—Financial Times

Buy here: https://t.co/pRkCHKP5ox

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@hunnit_dollar @bushbastard762 @ChristianHeiens Every major gang and extremist group has had members in the military, and every branch has had gange, OMG, or DTE members, The ones to be concerned with are those smart enough not to get outed while serving. They will be even more dangerous as civilians, in your community. #MTGM

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@HitmanNumber86 @Dragoon19111 @Mageba_wav You’re right - the military doesn’t brainwash— just gives folks an opportunity, like a foster family or halfway house. But judges and many parents think it does more. It teaches skills, which can be used for good/bad. The U.S, has had military-trained gang members for 250 years.

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My academic analysis of the evolving landscape of policing research is available on @ResearchGate: https://t.co/aWp4Nt3OUe

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Are you a consumption addict? https://t.co/Ei76WNcRYx

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Check out my latest article: Leveraging the Battlefield:
Military-Trained Gang
Members Across History https://t.co/5l2bkrAIMF via @LinkedIn

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Check out my latest article: Title: Practical Use of AI in the Criminal Justice Classroom: Ethical Tools, Real Applications, and Future Readiness https://t.co/f0EOdkgpEC via @LinkedIn

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Interview on the article with JAR Dispatches 03/23/2025: Carter F. Smith: Samuel Mason: Revolutionary ... https://t.co/hTRPX4AKdq via @YouTube

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See one of my last papers here. https://t.co/AiudVIfijj

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This isn’t rebellion for the sake of noise.
It’s about remembering where the authority actually rests—not in titles or buildings, but in people.
Not just some of them. All of them.
Including you.
So let’s begin. Part 6

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Don’t read this like it’s a sermon. It isn’t.
It’s a flare—fired into the dark to see who’s still out there.
If it hits home, say so. If it doesn’t, speak up. But don’t go quiet.
Because silence is what broken systems count on to stay intact.
Part 5

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This is common sense. Not as a phrase, but as a demand. We speak plainly here. We reject the idea that the average person is too weak or too confused to participate in self-government. The only requirement is honesty—and the will to act once the fog is cleared.
Part 4

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No officeholder, no law, no institution is above the reach of a thinking people.
This is not a theory paper. It’s a torch. If it lights a fire in you, good. If it offends you, better—because truth usually does before it liberates.
Part 3

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The real power of a free people is not in their anger but in their clarity. Once the truth is plainly spoken, it spreads faster than fear. That was the lesson in 1776, and it holds today.
Government is not sacred. Systems are not permanent. Part 2

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Things are not working. That much is obvious. But here’s the real problem: we’ve been trained to think we’re too small to change it. That our voice is drowned out. That things are too complicated, too corrupt, or too far gone.
That’s a lie.
And it’s time to say so.
Part 1

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A nation cannot drift into greatness. It must choose it. #commonsense