Well isn’t this interesting? The bloody Drug War in Mexico is not about stopping the flow of drugs. It is about determining who controls the flows. In cahoots with the US government.
The more information uncovered throughout the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious, the more incriminating and controversial it becomes. According to some recent allegations made by a high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative in American custody, Fast and Furious was an agreement between the United States government and the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel to help take down rival cartels. Likewise, the operative indicates that drugs were permitted to be trafficked across the U.S. border from 2004 to 2009, incriminating both the Bush and Obama administrations, if proven true.
Operation Fast and Furious was a gun-walking operation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, wherein the ATF lost track of 1,700 guns. The operation resulted in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, and a number of the guns lost during Fast and Furious appeared at a variety of crime scenes. Investigation into the operation has been particularly incriminating for the ATF,
Jesus Vicente Zambada-Neibla, known as the “logistics coordinator” for the Sinaloa Cartel and a close associate of Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman (pictured), is now claiming that the strategy orchestrated between the United States and the Sinaloa Cartel through Operation Fast and Furious was one of “divide and conquer.” The United States allegedly financed and armed the Cartel in exchange for information that allowed the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take down rival drug cartels. Zambada-Neibla indicates that so long as the Sinaloa Cartel continued to deliver intelligence to those American agencies, drugs were permitted to be trafficked across the U.S. border.
Ah. “If proven true.” We will never know the truth until we end Prohibition. Some nights I lay awake thinking “what if THEY kill me or my kids or my friends” for my writing on this subject. I suppose that would be one indicator of what the truth is. At my expense.
Another way to find out would be to do some digging on your own. Obviously it is possible I’m mistaken. It has happened before.
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To understand this crazy, immense, darkest of black-ops, aka marijuana prohibition, it helps to go back to fundamentals.
Everyone who has been paying attention knows marijuana is less “addictive” than coffee and FAR less harmful than alcohol. Indeed, polls show public support for ending the fraudulent marijuana prohibition has now passed 50 percent – nationwide. So why do we still have this barbaric persecution?
Because police, prosecutors and politicians build their careers and empires on it. Because industries like alcohol and pharmaceuticals don’t want the competition. Because other interests like the drug treatment/testing industry and the prison industries depend on it for their life’s blood. Because many shaky corporations couldn’t exist without the laundered money. And because government uses marijuana prohibition as a means of controlling minorities and the poor, and as a pretext for meddling in other countries’ affairs.
Of course, the TRILLIONS of dollars made by the drug gangs have not been buried in the ground. They have been invested in legitimate business, causing another huge support of this persecution of millions of innocent people.
For a good view underneath the iceburg, see Catherine Austin Fitts’ excellent article: “Narco Dollars For Beginners.” – keeping in mind that while Fitts employs cocaine because it best suits her metaphor, FBI statistics show marijuana sales comprise 80 percent of all “illegal” drug transactions.
http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/narcoDollars.html
It’s time to dismantle the marijuana-prohibition-industrial-complex!
John,
Thank you. That is the argument – well stated and concise – that I have been making for quite some time.
You can follow links to other CA Fitts pieces on the subject in my link buried in the post and reprised here:
http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/terrorists-dealing-drugs/
More on narco banking:
http://www.madcowprod.com/2012/07/27/hsbc-narcobank-big-fail-big-jail/
I don’t know why I never made the connection to Afghanistan that you did. Thanks for that! I have been stewing over that for years, wondering why the heck we charged into that quicksand and seem determined to stay.
But it makes sense. The narco-state we have become would, of course, want to control that hub.
I must be missing something. I followed a couple of links to Fitts, but they were to the same article I referred to.
It’s terrific to see someone else appreciating Fitts’ insight! And the William Colby quote is one of my favorites.
I can understand how many would not want to pull the plug on the bogus drug war, since it would be a dangerous shock to our economy. But I say go ahead and do it. What good is all our wealth (a big collective “our” there) if it is built on the continued suffering of millions of innocent people? I’d prefer to collapse back into the stone age and have a clear conscience.
I have been following the horrendous war on marijuana consumers since the sixties, and despaired when Reagan came into office and halted the enlightenment that almost emerged with Jimmy Carter.
Many dark years later, hope was once again brought to life with the passing of California’s Prop 215 in 1996. I consider that the true beginning of marijuana reform as a movement.
Now we have 18 states with medical marijuana, many areas that have made marijuana arrests the lowest law enforcement priority, and polls showing public support for ending marijuana prohibition has now passed 50 percent, nationwide!
Even the huge corruption that rules us cannot stop this idea whose time has come. The only thing that could stop it would be another 9-11 event. (I won’t even get into who I believe was behind that.)
It seems it’s easy to scare Americans into giving up their freedoms. Hopefully, we’ll get wise to the thugs that have commandeered our government, and perform a thorough house-cleaning before they try that again.
To me, the only honest, capable presidential candidate is Gary Johnson. That’s probably why he’s been shut out of the process by the parties and the mainstream media.
John,
Yes the Fitts links all go back to the Narco News articles.
Look up “Catherine Austin Fitts Dillon Read” for some different stuff.
I can understand how many would not want to pull the plug on the bogus drug war, since it would be a dangerous shock to our economy. But I say go ahead and do it. What good is all our wealth (a big collective “our” there) if it is built on the continued suffering of millions of innocent people? I’d prefer to collapse back into the stone age and have a clear conscience.
My sentiments exactly.
John,
I forgot to credit you for your Fitts link. Would you like me to do that in my latest post?
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Thanks. I’m not too savvy about all the blogging protocols. It’s fine to credit me if you like.
I’ve been researching and debating the monstrous war on marijuana consumers for 16 years, and I’ve always operated under the adage: “It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit.”
The only goal that matters to me is ENDING the damn thing!
I feel we have done a good job raising awareness. It looks like we have a good chance in November with three states having marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot. I believe the success of just one will drive a stake through the heart of the already crumbling prohibition fraud.
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