LOIE
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Just watched an eye-opening, informative documentary on the History Channel called "America's War on Drugs."
The show documents the United States government’s love affair with drugs, drug cartels and drug money. According to former CIA agents, DEA agents, former drug kingpins, reporters and corporate whistle blowers, nobody in government ever took the war on drugs seriously.
Instead of treating drug addiction as a social and health problem they used it for political purposes. The war continues to feed itself because they created an enemy and instilled fear in ordinary citizens that turned Americans against each other. The divide and conquer strategy. One politician was quoted as saying, “Did we know we were lying about the drug problem when we started the War on Drugs? Of course.”
From the U.S. Army’s use of LSD for mind control experiments on soldiers, and turning a blind eye while drug cartels fly their product into the U.S., to the CIA selling discount cocaine to inner city dealers, the government has had a hypocritical relationship with drugs and built up a system of social control. They have spent trillions of dollars with no positive results and have dehumanized large portions of the American population and created mass incarceration. No one can say thank you for helping me with your war on drugs.
It was the government who funded an illegal war in Nicaragua by flooding the inner cities with illegal drugs. People who lived through it said it was like they dropped a bomb on the inner cities, decimating entire communities. The introduction of white powder was killing black people.
Then when militarized policemen came in to control the situations, they would take the drugs from the evidence lockers and sell it back to the dealers on the street. Corruption was rampant. Laws were written that would put away a street kid for 5 years for possession of 5 grams of crack. It would take 100 times that amount of cocaine for a rich, white kid to get the same 5 year sentence. It wasn’t just that more people were being locked up, but that they were being locked up for a much longer period of time.
We have even been told that the war on terrorism is about religion and ideology, when in reality, it is also about drugs and drug money. While making us fear the foreign boogeyman, the government continues to allow cartels all over the world to freely bring drugs into our country, as long as they give them some intel in return.
Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars lobbying congress to make sure they are free to continue producing pain killers they know are more addictive than morphine. They spend millions on TV advertising, while other countries don’t even allow drug companies to advertise.
One whistle-blower said that they are killing us not only with illegal drugs, but also with legal drugs. The companies, she said, care only about making money for their shareholders. And I add that politicians care only about staying in office and will do and say whatever it takes to keep their positions of power and control.
The show documents the United States government’s love affair with drugs, drug cartels and drug money. According to former CIA agents, DEA agents, former drug kingpins, reporters and corporate whistle blowers, nobody in government ever took the war on drugs seriously.
Instead of treating drug addiction as a social and health problem they used it for political purposes. The war continues to feed itself because they created an enemy and instilled fear in ordinary citizens that turned Americans against each other. The divide and conquer strategy. One politician was quoted as saying, “Did we know we were lying about the drug problem when we started the War on Drugs? Of course.”
From the U.S. Army’s use of LSD for mind control experiments on soldiers, and turning a blind eye while drug cartels fly their product into the U.S., to the CIA selling discount cocaine to inner city dealers, the government has had a hypocritical relationship with drugs and built up a system of social control. They have spent trillions of dollars with no positive results and have dehumanized large portions of the American population and created mass incarceration. No one can say thank you for helping me with your war on drugs.
It was the government who funded an illegal war in Nicaragua by flooding the inner cities with illegal drugs. People who lived through it said it was like they dropped a bomb on the inner cities, decimating entire communities. The introduction of white powder was killing black people.
Then when militarized policemen came in to control the situations, they would take the drugs from the evidence lockers and sell it back to the dealers on the street. Corruption was rampant. Laws were written that would put away a street kid for 5 years for possession of 5 grams of crack. It would take 100 times that amount of cocaine for a rich, white kid to get the same 5 year sentence. It wasn’t just that more people were being locked up, but that they were being locked up for a much longer period of time.
We have even been told that the war on terrorism is about religion and ideology, when in reality, it is also about drugs and drug money. While making us fear the foreign boogeyman, the government continues to allow cartels all over the world to freely bring drugs into our country, as long as they give them some intel in return.
Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars lobbying congress to make sure they are free to continue producing pain killers they know are more addictive than morphine. They spend millions on TV advertising, while other countries don’t even allow drug companies to advertise.
One whistle-blower said that they are killing us not only with illegal drugs, but also with legal drugs. The companies, she said, care only about making money for their shareholders. And I add that politicians care only about staying in office and will do and say whatever it takes to keep their positions of power and control.
