The War On Drugs?
Following up on The Shock Doctrine and The Fallout of Bad Choices series...
Over at a financial forum...
During the Vietnam War, the US made the Golden Triangle. Air America, company owned and operated, was used to transport heroin from a company run lab in Laos for distribution throughout SEA.
NAFTA was created in part to facilitate and increase cross border drug trafficking. Upon Clinton stepping down in 2000, the USA had the highest incarceration rate in the world.
In 2000 when Shrub took office, the Taliban had completely banned opium production in Afghanistan, eradicating 90% of the world’s heroin. Shortly after 9/11 and the US invasion, Afghani heroin production went through the roof and is now at an all time high.
Corporate America has their profit interests to serve as well, ranging from managed healthcare and big pharma to incarceration. Locking them up is a small booming "cottage" industry taking down $80B per year, pun intended.
Let the numbers speak.... US Deaths in 2016: prescription oxy and vicodin +4% 17,536; heroin +23% 12,989; synthetic opioids +73% 9,580; overdose +11% 52,404.
Some perspective: Car crashes +12% 37,757; Gun deaths, including homicides and suicides, +7% 36,252. Source.
One wonders why we are in the midst of a prescription opioid addiction, overdose and heroin epidemic? Wake up and smell the mountain grown coffee, not the poppies or Mrs Olson. Here are some photos of American troops guarding Afghani poppy fields, but never, ever, destroying that cash crop.
For those who choose not to be an ignoramus, if you want to open your eyes, as a starter I highly recommend this four part series. An accuracy review.
The War on Drugs has been and is an ongoing war, the question is, who is this war being waged upon? Ya Got Trouble? Yes, sir. With a capital "T" right here in River City.....
Over at a financial forum...
"It's "OK" now to win at all costs, even if it means working with enemies of the state or even terrorists, if it suits our purposes. Arms for hostages arming the founders of ISIS - where do we sign?" - PThe Nattering One muses... Ya Got Trouble? It's been "OK" even if it means working with enemies, terrorist groups and corporate interests to legally and covertly disenfranchise, vilify, incarcerate and murder millions of our own citizenry. Just a small sampler of inconvenient truths...
During the Vietnam War, the US made the Golden Triangle. Air America, company owned and operated, was used to transport heroin from a company run lab in Laos for distribution throughout SEA.
NAFTA was created in part to facilitate and increase cross border drug trafficking. Upon Clinton stepping down in 2000, the USA had the highest incarceration rate in the world.
In 2000 when Shrub took office, the Taliban had completely banned opium production in Afghanistan, eradicating 90% of the world’s heroin. Shortly after 9/11 and the US invasion, Afghani heroin production went through the roof and is now at an all time high.
Corporate America has their profit interests to serve as well, ranging from managed healthcare and big pharma to incarceration. Locking them up is a small booming "cottage" industry taking down $80B per year, pun intended.
Let the numbers speak.... US Deaths in 2016: prescription oxy and vicodin +4% 17,536; heroin +23% 12,989; synthetic opioids +73% 9,580; overdose +11% 52,404.
Some perspective: Car crashes +12% 37,757; Gun deaths, including homicides and suicides, +7% 36,252. Source.
One wonders why we are in the midst of a prescription opioid addiction, overdose and heroin epidemic? Wake up and smell the mountain grown coffee, not the poppies or Mrs Olson. Here are some photos of American troops guarding Afghani poppy fields, but never, ever, destroying that cash crop.
“The Nixon campaign had two enemies, the antiwar left and Black people. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and the blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” - counsel and chief domestic advisor under President Richard Nixon , John EhrlichmanComing full circle to P's statement, it always has been "OK", most just don't know it, or are afraid to acknowledge or admit it and conveniently look the other way. This is cognitive dissonance and conscious ignorance in operation. You want the truth, you can't handle the truth.
For those who choose not to be an ignoramus, if you want to open your eyes, as a starter I highly recommend this four part series. An accuracy review.
The War on Drugs has been and is an ongoing war, the question is, who is this war being waged upon? Ya Got Trouble? Yes, sir. With a capital "T" right here in River City.....
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