Was the “War on Terror” Really a Cover For a New American Narco-Republic?

Was the “War on Terror” Really a Cover For a New American Narco-Republic?

Corporate “Freedoms” a Money Laundering Bonanza

By Gordon Duff

Years ago, Michael Ruppert, a long time friend and former Los Angeles police detective, discovered the largest drug ring in history, headed by the CIA, importing tons of cocaine into American cities. 

Ruppert, aided by DEA and FBI “rogue” agents still loyal to the United States, began his own war on drugs. His website, www.copvcia.com and publication, From the Wilderness, exist in a ghost like state. 

Ruppert was threatened, fled the country to Venezuela, then to Canada, was poisoned but survived, taking two years to recover.  He was the subject of this 2009 Oscar winning documentary:

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Ruppert broke the drug story first, and, as you note from the video, was one of the first to note the depth of the financial crisis that is evolving as I write.

Years ago, when he traced the flood of drug money into the US, buying police, buying governments, UN controls were subverted and funds flowing into political races was limited.  You could buy a crooked cop but you couldn’t buy a president, though a couple seem to have been “rented,” something we will be looking into in the coming weeks.

Thus, Americans have found themselves in a new position.  They have to ask themselves this question:  When is a person less than a person?

Who Unleashed the Corporate Furies Upon Us ?

At one time such discussions involved race or ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion.  Now we have one answer:

When that person is not a corporation with sufficient liquidity, be it from oil, weapons or even laundering narcotics profits, to buy political power under the wild and irresponsible definition applied by 5 Supreme Court justices.

This is more than legalizing bribery or even money laundering.  It is an open admission that, not only is America not a democracy, it is no longer a republic.

The term “monarchy” implies leadership.  Even “kleptocracy” implies a measure of order, though that order is, in itself, criminality.

Burning Down Around Our Heads

As pointed out by Vladimir Putin, America has become “parasitic,” not just on the world, eating resources, bullying, coercing, but it has chosen to feed off its own population and has, in that process, officially certified “humanity” as an inferior subspecies suitable for being bred as draft animals, even for food.

Corporations and those that serve them, our governments, our police forces, our military, are in symbiosis with a parasitic species that will eventually have to be eradicated if mankind is to survive.

Read the news, apply these descriptions, these definitions, this nomenclature.  Is this a working hypothesis?

This is where the Supreme Court’s decision to allow unlimited corporate political contributions comes to the surface.

This 5/4 vote, with the 5 crooked judges, the ones who put Bush in office after he lost an election, the ones who continually vote away our rights, got away with something akin to murder.

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Over the last few decades, an international mechanism has been put in place to control money laundering.

Money Laundering is an 'Official' Franchise Now

States that fail to follow rules on bank transactions, movement of cash, the endless flow of bribe money, drug money, that has bought and sold governments for centuries, have been isolated and eventually brought under control.

This left the real money laundering to intelligence agencies with their private contractors, their private air forces that move cash by the ton, the CIA and Mossad not the only ones by far, the French, the Russians, the Turks more than involved along with Pakistan’s ISI and India’s RAW.

Diplomats have laundered cash, drug money, particularly any Bush envoy and even members of congress, both House and Senate, have carried financial instruments worth hundreds of millions from nation to nation to circumvent UN conventions on money laundering.

Without such laws, there can be no free governments, no free elections.

Then the US Supreme Court did a very strange thing.  It decided that corporations could send unlimited money on elections as part of their “free speech’ as “individuals.”

There is nothing in the Constitution that establishes corporations or gives them rights over normal humans.  In fact, a corporation can now be the most powerful person in America if not one stockholder is American and the corporation has only one “registered agent” in the US, and even he doesn’t have to be an American citizen.

Did the Supreme Court Destroy the Republic ?

What isn’t said is this:  The Supreme Court decision fully circumvents UN conventions on money laundering.  Any normal legal controls that would prevent the movement of bribe money, drug cash by the billions, is now considered, according to US law as “protected speech.”

Yes, the Supreme Court made corporations “people.”  It also turned “money” into “speech.”

This is how corporations talk and any attempt to enforce international laws is now, by US law, an infringement on the “free speech” of corporations.

So if a dictator somewhere or a drug baron, cares to buy congress, and, I assure you, they already have, the FBI can do nothing.

There can be no investigations, Interpol can’t be involved, the UN can’t stop it, no international court has authority, as it does in every other nation.

American criminals are now, not only above the law, they constitute our government itself.

Was America Raped ?

The driving force behind this change was the need to provide “political expression” for the $80 billion dollars of drug money flowing out of Afghanistan.

This money would no longer be secure unless 100,000 US troops was there to provide security for the drug production, aided by 100,000 more private contractors, all paid for by the US government.

It is the same government that is now bought by that same money as carefully arranged by 5 members of the US Supreme Court carefully appointed for this purpose and others.

Those others include sitting silently by American leaders become war criminals, invasions, kidnappings, torture, constitutional rights violated, habeas corpus suspended, and not one word from the Supreme Court because Justices like Clarence Thomas, ducking impeachment for financial issues for years, are allowed to run our government, a front for the drug barons.

Massive incontrovertible evidence now indicates that the Bush Administration, at some point, recognized drug revenue as a powerful political tool to control America and much of the world.  Working off the “Bush I” model, the Iran/Contra drug cartels, at some point, perhaps as early as 2002, America went “rope-a-dope” on the War on Terror and guarding our southern border with Mexico and “full speed ahead” with flooding the world with narcotics.

Whether you believe Afghanistan was involved in 9/11 or are a part of the ever increasing numbers who view 9/11 as a Bush conspiracy, one fact is inexorable. 

Who Did the Supreme Court Put Under the Gun ?

America has built the largest drug empire imaginable in Afghanistan, not just “looking the other way,” but spending millions on improving opium harvests and building a heroin processing industry.

American military and intelligence resources have been used to distribute drugs worldwide and handle tens of billions of dollars in narco-profits.

The US Supreme Court went as far as to, by a 5/4 margin, as is so often the case, legalize drug profits to be flooded into the American political system. 

The “corporations” given unrestricted rights to “donate” to campaigns are doing so with laundered drug money, now approaching a billion dollars an election cycle, buying, not just members of congress but governors as well, invariably Republicans for some reason.

The numbers themselves are staggering.  Between 60 and 80 billion dollars in heroin is now produced in Afghanistan, distributed worldwide, trucked into Russia, flown to Europe and America.

At the same time, America’s border with Mexico sits open, for a decade now, 8 years of Bush administration partnering with the Mexican drug cartels, trucking narcotics across America with full continuity into the Obama administration through the Department of Homeland Security, CIA and Pentagon.

Another Narco Victim Down - Many More to Follow

It isn’t like anyone doubts this.  We talk of 30 million illegal aliens but not of the truckloads and planeloads of drugs that enter the US every day. 

Fleets of vehicles distribute narcotics across the US, to municipalities whose police, whose courts, whose local governments are increasingly being paid, not just to look the other way, but to fully participate. 

Yet all we see is a half dozen photos of Marines walking through poppy fields in Afghanistan, not the dirt cheap heroin that children in Americas schools can buy on the playground.

In fact, there is no reporting of any of this at all, not even in the midst of the “Operation Fast and Furious” scandal where Homeland Security and the Drug Enforcement Agency were caught arming cartels with weapons used against American law enforcement personnel.

The real findings from “Fast and Furious” were more than guns, but one of the dozens of times law enforcement stumbled over the mechanism of America’s narcotics driven economy.  When is the last time you heard about the “War on Drugs?”

The answer is simple.  America changed sides.  Talk to your children about drugs, how cheap they are, how easy to buy.

Then take a good long look at your government, your police, your courts, your judges and prosecutors and the gang in Washington. How serious is the drug problem in America?  Why isn’t it being reported anymore?  Who has that kind of power? Why the silence?

Not the Fields of Glory From the War Poem

Think money, enough money to buy anyone, anywhere.  Where do you think the mysterious millions come from that pay for our elections. 

It used to cost $10 million to run a presidential campaign.  Now some members of congress in rural areas, nearly unopposed, spend that and more.

Our last congressional election cost $1.2 billion and nobody knows where that money came from and nobody can ask.

Asking is now illegal.

Tracking down money, bribes, drug money, it doesn’t matter, kickbacks from crooked banks, part of the trillions stolen by defense contractors, “following the money,” as long as some of that money is paid to politicians is now a violation of “free speech.”

In fact, with a little checking, there are very few crimes that have not been “legalized” for corporations, for members of the government.  They are all above the law.  They can’t be sued, only those that speak up can be arrested but are usually murdered.

Now, sometimes, out of “kindness,” the drug barons simply remove them from office using a flood of cash sent into the US with the help of the Supreme Court.

If you think any of this is made up, find a law enforcement official and send this to him.

Ask if it is possible to investigate corporate campaign donations, even if it is knowingly drug money.

From Veterans Today @ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/04/was-the-war-on-terror-really-a-cover-for-a-new-american-narco-republic/

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The War on Drugs is a War on Human Rights

Even Cops Think It's A Bad Idea

The War on Drugs is a War on Human Rights

 

By David Hollier

The evidence all stacks up: the war on drugs has obviously and tragically failed. David Hollier asks former US police chief, Norm Stamper, why we're still fighting a losing war.

Forty years ago, Richard Nixon declared "all-out war on drugs", and enlisted the support of global allies. Since then the war on drugs has cost the United States US$1 trillion, drugs are cheaper and more available, the profits for trading them greater than ever and the violence of the entire culture of prohibition escalating. By all of its own criteria, the "war" has failed utterly. 

So why on earth are we still fighting it? 

While Australia is still an enthusiastic front-line ally, many countries have beat a hasty retreat. Mexico and most South American nations have recently abandoned the policy. Earlier this year, US Senator Jim Webb introduced a bill seeking to reform the entire criminal justice system, saying the nation is "wasting billions of dollars and diminishing millions of lives" on ineffective strategies such as the war on drugs. The bill has the backing of a growing band of police dissenters. One such group, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), believes the policy is a disaster for law enforcement in the US. 

One of LEAP's key advisors is former Police Chief Norm Stamper. After 34 years fighting and losing the war on drugs — three of them as chief of police in Seattle — Stamper left the force. He now blogs on Huffington Post and travels extensively, making LEAP's case for legalisation. He calls the war on drugs "the most devastating, dysfunctional, harmful policy since slavery". Stamper was in Sydney to speak at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas alongside fellow contrarians Germaine Greer and Christopher Hitchens, but I caught up with him in the tiny auditorium at the NSW Users and AIDS Association in Surry Hills. 

I asked Stamper why, given its catastrophic failure, the war on drugs still has overwhelming political support.

Almost all US States have become addicted to federal money to fight drugs, Stamper told me. "The toughest nut to crack will be the prison industrial complex — especially the private ones. You get paid per prisoner per day. Why would you want to reduce crime?" And the public prison system is also invested in the status quo. "Powerful unions have strong memberships in the prison system. They tend to present any policy that reduces incarceration as a threat to job security and their own survival." 

No wonder the United States, with 5 per cent of the world's population, has 25 per cent of the world's prisoners. Of these, 500,000 are in prison on drugs charges — 1200 per cent more than in 1980. 

Before you shake your head and mutter "only in America", the situation in Australia is appalling, too. The Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation conservatively estimates the annual costs of our drug war at $6.7 billion. Official stats are hard to come by, but according to Drugs and Law Enforcement (Spinney Press), in the decade to 2006 at least 50,000 people a year were arrested for drugs, the vast majority of which were for marijuana. In what should be an embarrassment to Australian law enforcement, 84 per cent of marijuana arrests in 2004-5 were for consumption. 

It was one such petty bust that made the penny drop for Stamper. Like fellow officers, he'd accepted that possessing a joint was a felony, and that getting promoted meant racking up his arrest sheet. "I'm not proud of it, but the power went to my head," he confessed. 

Then he kicked down the door of a 19-year-old kid and, "snatching the weed out of his flushing toilet", busted him. "Taking him down the station for a felony charge, I suddenly saw this kid as a fellow human being, and I'm busting him when I could be out solving real crime." 

Stamper came to understand he was playing a role in the deadly narrative established by the prohibition policy of the 1920s and 30s. "Prohibition created the culture of violence. It invented Al Capone and the industry of dealing in illicit products for which there is unstoppable demand. Drive-by shootings, overdose deaths, massive profit and the violent defence of that profit against competitors. The whole framework got started with prohibition." 

Stamper sees the horrors of the Mexican drug cartels — who have recently taken to leaving their beheaded victims in public places — as the latest extension of this violence and intimidation. The cartels and their members are now in 230 cities across the US — and everywhere they set up, cops are soon dealing, extorting and kidnapping, just like the cartels. 

Some nations are tired of this spiral. After going along with America's war on drugs for decades, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia have all backed away from a policy of interdiction. All are moving towards decriminalisation in attempts to free up funding and police to deal with the violence and to relieve prison systems bursting at the seams. They've done it quietly, so as not to offend the United States. 

Stamper feels it bodes well that the US did not stand in the way of this. But he believes decriminalisation, while a useful first step that stops user arrests jamming the system, must be replaced with legalisation. "Only legalisation gets to the heart of the issue; it stops the trafficking, the violence and the corruption, by regulating and taxing the whole process. Then you can truly begin the process of harm minimisation." 

It's hard to fault the man's determined optimism. But what about the pharmaceutical industry, I ask him, which is a fierce supporter of the war on drugs? Stamper concedes their power, but is sure "their opposition will dissolve once they see there's a place for them at the table of a regulated market". 

I also put to Stamper the commonly expressed fear that legalisation will just result in more users. "There's a sustained production of misinformation about the real issues, the reason for the violence and corruption," he told me. "We need a massive education strategy to bring the truth to the mums and dads."
In Australia, the Drug Law Reform Foundation and the NSW Users and AIDS Association are recognised leaders on drug policy, education and management. Generally, the approach of drug advocacy groups is to fly under the radar. The Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) in Kings Cross is a perfect example. Opened amid a media storm of scare-mongering and conservative moral panic in 2001, it has quietly become established.

Why? Because it works. Staff have dealt with 2557 overdoses without a single death. Rather than encouraging drug use, MSIC has enabled health officials to build an accurate picture of drug use in Sydney. This allows them to devise policy based on facts instead of moral positions based on fantasies. It saves lives and saves money. 

Tragically, shock jocks and church leaders still pipe a seductive tune for the unthinking — and political leaders remain too meek to confront them. This moronic tune needs to become the real target for anyone, politicians included, interested in ending our outrageously expensive and utterly failed attempt to prohibit drugs.


In the US, Stamper readily accepts that change will be incremental, but with "75 per cent of all Americans believing the war on drugs has failed, we have the critical mass of public opinion. It's getting the leaders who whisper their support to speak out".

 Thanks to Aidan (Ned)!

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