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<p>You have the wrong mindset about the criminal mind. Your mindset could get you or your loved ones killed at the worst. Could do irreversible damage to your professional career at the least. </p>
<p>Not every criminal is after your possessions. There are psychotic people out there who could be after your life. Just looking at them the wrong way, one-upping them during a presentation, or not moving out of there way on the sidewalk could be all that is required to set them off. When you meet these people, they might not want to attack you that instant, but they will remember you, find out where you live, and trust me…those people are not after your laptop or bed frame. They just want to see you burn. </p>
<p>The purpose of the brace and escape ladder are not to protect your possessions, it is to buy you time to escape in case you find yourself dealing with one of these psychotic murderers. </p>
<p>Some of them are driven by ideology, they think they are “alpha”. Others are just crazy nuts. In some places, the law-abiding populace is disarmed. In this case, you’ll have to escape until you have an advantage, either to get defense where it is allowed, or to escape and live another day to call the police. </p>
<p>The protection I described only protects you against petty criminals. </p>
<p>The truth is, using violent force is not “alpha”. Alpha would be using your power and influence to get someone to do it for you, and remain completely unconnected to the crime. Plausible deniability. An example of this is our (The United States) covert political intervention in the 1964 Chilean election.</p>
<p>Or our monopoly on deciding when democracy is just and when it is not. Our international interests supercede any people’s rights to a fair and free election, especially if the predicted winner is against us. That is REAL power. Being too big to fail.</p>
<p>In the business arena, convincing the world that you need a bailout and defrauding billions of people and getting away with it, that is Alpha.</p>
<p>Going into a gas station to do an armed robbery or stabbing someone harassing you is not Alpha. Alpha would be opening your own chain of gas stations and petroleum refining rigs and forcing the other gas stations out of business through fraudalent business practices, and destroying the credibility of the guy harassing you.</p>
<p>That is Alpha. Convincing the rest of the world or the law that your use of force, violence, and terrorist tactics are justified and correct.</p>