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I also believe there's too much money being made from the "War on Drugs" for it to be stopped, and that includes the vast sums made by the CIA and the groups with which it colludes

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Obama & Co = Trafficking in Illicit Drugs

Asked if his New York Crime Family was dealing in narcotics, John Gotti replied: "No, who can compete with the government?"

Here Read:

+ DynCorp: Beyond the Rule of Law / Colombia Journal:

--"Despite the fact that a company contracted by the U.S. government to carry out its program of fumigating and eradicating coca crops in Colombia has been caught smuggling heroin out of the country, no attempts have been made to bring it to justice."

"These discoveries might only be the tip of the iceberg as DynCorp’s activities are conducted in absolute secrecy and appear to be beyond the jurisdiction of any governmental body. A high ranking police official in Colombia, who has known about DynCorp since their 1993 arrival in Colombia, told Semana magazine, 'no authority, whether the Civil Aviation Authority, police or army, is authorized to search DynCorp’s planes. Nobody knows what they carry on their return to the United States because they are untouchable.'”

"According to the Guardian Weekly, the U.S. government’s contract with DynCorp is full of ambiguities, giving the company even more leeway to avoid oversight by both Colombian and U.S. authorities. This not only increases the opportunities for DynCorp employees to personally profit from drug-trafficking, but also enables the company to conduct counter-insurgency operations for the U.S. government that go far beyond their official role of assessing and implementing the fumigation of illicit crops."

+ Breaking the Grip? Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia / Human Rights Watch:

--"Eric Holder would have a troubling conflict of interest in carrying out this work in light of his current work as defense lawyer for Chiquita Brands ..."

"Chiquita has already admitted in a criminal case that it paid the AUC around $1.7 million in a 7-year period and that it further provided the AUC with a cache machine guns as well."

"Indeed, Holder himself, using his influence as former deputy attorney general under the Clinton Administration, helped to negotiate Chiquita's sweetheart deal with the Justice Department in the criminal case against Chiquita."

+ Banana Cream Pie / The Next Hurrah:

--"I asked him about the drugs-for-weapons exchange and the Chiquita freighters.... 'Look, there were drugs, and there were times that they sent drugs for weapons. They sent the kilos of drugs, and from out there, those duros said we are going to send this many kilos of drugs and I need this many rifles,' Lorenzo said."

+ Dirty Tricks, Inc.: The DynCorp-Government Connection Conspiracy Digest:

--"Even more sinister is the fact that DynCorp manages email and information systems for many federal investigation agencies like FBI, DOJ and SEC. What does that mean? Whenever criminal behavior is detected, DynCorp controls the information, giving it defacto power to subvert the process of law and cover-up corporate-government criminal activities."

"Dudley Mecum, DynCorp Director since 1988, who just happens to also be the managing director of ... CitiGroup, the New York banking conglomerate, convicted of serial money laundering and other criminal offenses."

+ Citigroup Tries to Repair Its Image in Japan / NY Times:

--"In particular, the regulators discovered that the office did little to monitor against money laundering ..."

+ The Banking Industry´s Dirty Little Secret: Money Laundering For The Drug Cartels / American Chronicle:

--"The United Nation´s Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa recently told the Austrian magazine Profil that drug money has been the only thing that has kept many major banks in business."

+ UN crime chief: Was the bailout the largest drug money laundering operation in history? / Corrente:

--"The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime had found evidence that 'interbank loans were funded by money that originated from drug trade and other illegal activities,' Costa was quoted as saying. There were "signs that some banks were rescued in that way."

Now consider how, in USA v. Juan Vincent Castrillon (2nd Circuit Homepage / Decisions / Sotomayor Dissent), Judge Sonia Sotomayor stated:

"I agree fully with the majority that there was ample evidence establishing the existence of a large-scale, international money laundering conspiracy. I disagree, however, with the majority's conclusion that there was sufficent evidence for a rational juror to conculde, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Huezo had the requisite knowledge and specific intent to launder the the proceeds of specified unlawful activity so as to support his conviction for money laundering or conspiracy."

Yet the facts of the case are:

Huezo drove a fellow conspirator and a suitcase containing $500,000 to a meeting with an undercover cop.

On a latter occasion, surveillance disclosed that Huezo started his Jeep then left it running while positioning himself so he could see both the front of the house and the street, whereupon another conspirator emerged with a suitcase containing another $500,000 which he placed in the back of the Jeep for a second delivery.

Huezo had $6,000 cash in his possession.

+ National Drug Intelligence Center Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Drug Market Analysis 2009 (USDOJ):

"The San Juan High Intensity Financial Crime Area (HIFCA) reports that the leaders of high-profile money laundering organizations based in Central American and South American countries maintain money laundering cells in Puerto Rico and the USVI. The cells launder the illicit proceeds generated by traffickers operating in the HIDTA region and, in doing so, use financial institutions, money remitters, shell corporations, bulk cash smuggling, and other methods, such as the Colombian Black Market Peso Exchange."

+ FALN, Holder, and Obama: The Price Paid by One 'Ordinary American' / Human Events:

New Year's Eve, 1982: NYPD's bomb squad rushed to headquarters at One Police Plaza--a Puerto Rican Independance Group (FALN) bombing had destroyed the entrance...

A total of 4 FALN bombs exploded in a single hour that night--including at the Manhattan FBI office and a federal courthouse in Brooklyn...

Though Puerto Rico voted to remain a part of the US, the FALN waged war on America with bombings, kidnappings, threats and intimidation. The most horriffic attack was the 1995 Fraunces Tavern bombing in Lower Manhattan--timed to go off during lunch hour...

"After members of the FALN were arrested, they threatened Judge Thomas McMillen's life ... Carmine Valentine told the judge, "You are lucky that we cannot take you right now," ... Dylcia Pagan warned the courtroom: "All of you, I would advise you to watch your backs." And Ida Rodriguez told the judge, "You say we have no remorse. You're right. ... Your jails and your long sentences will not frighten us."

"Eight of these FALN terrorists later would receive pardons from President Clinton ..."

"Holder played a central role in freeing these terrorists ... in this case he recommended that clemency be granted--despite vehement opposition from the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and his own Justice Department."

+ Tony Rezko / Wikipedia:

--"... the jury found Rezko guilty of six counts of wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, two counts of corrupt solicitation, and two counts of money laundering ..."

+ Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy / Boston Globe:

--Obama helped Rezko--his close friend and most important fund-raiser--get $87,000,000 to renovate 1,000 low-income Chicago apartments.

Barry and 'the boys'

Chris-If you haven't read his book(s) - you should pick them up. 'Barry and the boys' is a must read. Hard to find, but well worth the search.
Goes into the history of CIA drug running and Iran Contra history.

Daniel Hopsicker is one of

Daniel Hopsicker is one of the few that will dare to write what many only whisper.
Of course, no msm publisher has it in them to challenge the legalese of the government fronts, so Hopsicker remains the best kept secret.
Hell- I read the other day that some website had to go to Sweden to take on cyber bullies because the servers and publishers here just wouldn't take them on...wasn't worth the fight or something.
Ah the freedom of the press in America-ain't it grand!

Good advice

Thank you JimRinX, for your sound drug abuse advice. I'll be sure to pass your comments on to my kids. As for your recommendation about how to get the "good" Mexicans into this country, I think you have found the key to solving our immigration problems. Who says that using drugs won't enhance creative thinking? You are living proof that drugs can turn an ordinary nitwit into a blithering idiot.

Thank you for your input,

Thank you for your input, Sarah. But now that you're stepping down as governor, no one cares what you have to say.

totally wasted drug war

Under Reagan, Congress decided that law authorities would be able to seize the assets of drug dealers. This has lead to police departments targeting drug dealers as a means of funding their departments, and even targeting wealthy people with the hopes of finding a drug connection. Police have seized the homes of the parents of teen drug dealers, and even tried to seize rental properties where drug dealers lived. Here in Muncie, Indiana the mayor recently sued the county prosecutor to get a larger cut of the money from drug seizures. I can't find one good reason for keeping marijuana illegal, and lots of reason for legalizing it.

Fear Not

The way I see it, we still retain the permission, through open channels of information, to label the corruption pretty much line by line, like the boss cop on a blackboard, but you know, looking at the guilty who are sneering with elite dismissal--much like most of the players in the last admin (neocons always displayed the same gestapo derision no matter how blatantly guilty)--I just don't see much of the corruption ranks worrying all that much about it.

All this corruption, this impossibly immense corruption, and what, where, when has anything at all been done about it? The very planet had become rotten of it. Mexican and other South American leaders are dead by the weekend if they come out against the drug trade. The Obama savior shall survive if he dribbles within the zone, but if he comes out loud and sure about ending the drug trade, he shall be hit. And this is but one of a category of he-had-better-keep-jokin'-and-shiftin'-and-look-the-other-way. Obama is but a guest at the godfather table, and has had his lessons on being hip to the room.

I fully expect a highly right wing takeover. By this I do not mean that the rightwingers will control it all--they already control it all. The change in the administration was but a folding of tents and taking up the footlights of the players who have had the parts of leaders. Actors do not pick the parts, the director picks the players for the parts. What I do mean is the public at large shall have their views metanoically shifted for them, as a conclusion of folks meddling in their drug profits. All you LaRouche afficianadoes will remember to remind all that the pharmetceuticals (the true invisible ninjas) are lethally present witin the shadows. I mean, the growing facism in America has to, by its very nature, constrict in circles of diminishing diameter, growing ever tighter. Letting the herd graze in one such circle always provides fleece-filled current trends for draining boobus americanus at will. Our last concentric grazing ground still provided americans with legitimate real estate dealings, over-sighted for honesty, and not the current scammery that foreclosed americans, poofed their 401's, etc by still undisclosed shiftiness. And, of course, it is still going on. Already across America, Americans see themselves now as consumers, no longer as citizens. The public at large are largely ledalong nincompoops, and no better example exists than the highly entrenched beliefs of the evils of manijuana, a long, well-financed, clout-produced, force-fed fiction with purpose. So successful has been the campaing of disinformation regarding mary j that most americans think it what they have been told to think it. One could also note, when talking about irrigated idiocy, that within the ranks of that army of berzerkers the right wing has at the ready--christian "soldiers marching at to war"--one sees an incredible, similar denseness displaying an almost comic, contradictory-prone belief structure. Their fundy jaws clench for spilling blood in name of the blood of the lamb. These believers with blood in their teeth wait only to be pointed. They shoot doctors, don't they? Their philosophy challenges most true christian beliefs, as well as the scientific community. They know that the jesus they define is good, and marijuana, or whatever the finger is pointed at, is bad. The reason modern day american fundamentalism/evangelicalism has such a quilty structure is that it was largely created by political ninjas, not metaphysicians.

The trigger will be some boom somewhere in America. But this time, nobody knows who. And one by one, we look at each other and begin to wonder, and suspicions grow--to the facists, a treasured paranod mode. That is what they want.

When is soon. Just hangs on what Obama is finally forced to stand on, and how adamant those who helped elect him are in complaining of his looking the other way.

But, all in all, the facists have it.

Hogwash!

What hogwash! Like everything, it's all the fault of the dirty, commie, pinko, homosexual, Muslim, illegal alien, non-white, liberals!

The GOP will rise again!

Bottom line

Our justice system has degenerated into an organized system of corruption, the inevitable result of prohibition - whether of alcohol, drugs, or whatever other vice is in high demand. Unless the overwhelming majority of the people stop buying the prohibition propaganda, recognizing the cancer it has produced in our society, and fight for change, it will continue to destroy lives and drain our wealth.

Such a corrupt system is notoriously resistant to reform, change will not come easily.

The Drug War in Six Acts

Stop the hypocrisy and sheer madness of the un-winnable war against drugs.

How long have we been without personal sovereignty over our bodies and why should anyone decide what is good or not for others?

If people want to pursue happiness why not as long as it does no harm except perhaps to the users, let people do what they want ?

It is an insult to humanity that people who "indulge" in their personal persuit of happiness can be sent to prison for "their crime" !!!!!

Shamefully America has over 2 Million of its people in Gulags most possibly for "drug" related "crimes" each at a cost of $55K per year !!!

Meanwhile prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs do !!

The DEA etc etc is just one enormous racket and a criminal waste of Taxpayers money giving employment to thousands of evil "nosy- parker" type people who pry into the private habits of people who only wish to enjoy their rights in the pursuit of happiness.

http://tinyurl.com/caz8w6
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Harvard_economist_Legalize_all_drugs_to_03...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001291.html

What the Mexicans need is....

...a Safe Sanctuary, her in El Norte, where they can hide if they DO chose to rat out these scumbags; and not they themselvesm but ther whole families - and anyone else who might be hurt because they did the right thing.
The Item on our Reporter Friend made that clear!
At least we'd be letting the truly 'good' people come here to live and work!
JimRinX
P.S.: To all the ignorant rural kids of the world; DON'T EVER TRY CRACK - NOT EVEN ONCE! I used to be unambiguously pro-Cocaine legalization - right up until the time I found out about crack the hard way! If I hadn't of quit Cigarettes twice (and 'cross-tops', once) I'd have been hard pressed to EVER get it outta my life.
Smoke Pot! JimRinX KNOWS, young-ens!

we've

i agree with several of the comments up here.
the 'war on drugs' is just buying into the whole money-making scheme that the drug trade essentially is. as long as these drugs remain illegal, people in all those sectors (fbi, dea, military, social work, politicians, police, lawyers, etc) will continue to rake in the dough. we've created a vicious cycle here and the more money we spend 'warring against drugs', the more we are just fueling the drugs themselves.

Smart posts.

I also believe there's too much money being made from the "War on Drugs" for it to be stopped, and that includes the vast sums made by the CIA and the groups with which it colludes. Notably, George HW Bush has been in the CIA since at least the early Sixties and ran the CIA in the Seventies, so when George Jr. decided to use the least effective means of stopping drug smuggling and use, it wasn't an accident.
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