Spanish Town Gangs
Spanish Town gangs are formed for both similar and different reasons than the Kingston gangs. Spanish Town's two most infamous gangs, the One Order Gang and the Clanzmen, were formed strictly out of trusted political affiliations. Before the 'One Order & Clan' generation, youths in Spanish Town stuck together in coalited gangs similar to many of today's Kingston gangs, committing petty crimes as their only resource of financial gain. Eventually, small gangs from De La Vega, March Pen and Rivoli (all PNP affiliated areas) came together and created a super gang, in which they labeled themselves as 'Clansmen'—clan meaning being born into a family—but in terms of the concept of these southern Spanish Town youth, the word Clan came from inspiring "Karate Movies", which were mainly action filled Chinese/Japanese movies, which involved a lot of violence and killings from gang warfare between clans of ninjas or samurai's. The Jamaican Clanzmen was really formed to become an extortion racket where gang members who were all poor would capitalize and the people who had money, the working class. With more money within the gangs possession, guns and ammunition were not very hard to come by. Thus becoming so powerful, they threateningly offered recruits to smaller gangs to join the Clan as "Unification makes you stay strong" (which rhymes in the Jamaican accent). Many smaller gangs gave in to the Clans recruitment offer while some gangs refused simply because of one mans rivalry to another man who was in or joined the Clan. Eventually, these small gangs was forced to join as the refusing 'person' was killed and left the other outside gang members the choice to either 'roll with us or get rolled over'. The Clanzmen wanted to take over the whole of Spanish Town as they successfully conquered most areas eastwards but faced problems while trying to conquer northern areas while not even reaching to the west side of town.
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