Hawaii Observer

Looking at the daily paper, it is fascinating how addicted our government became to lying. It does it 24/7 now, even if it causes a clear disadvantage. Have you ever wondered, what might be the reason?

The answer lies in a little-advertised factoid by the Washington Institute of Policy Studies. They calculated that the oil business is not the world’s largest sector of economy. Arms and narcotics trafficking is.

Our government does not “fight” the biggest narcotics trafficker. It does not “tolerate” it, either. It IS the biggest narcotics trafficker, whose hard dependence on drug revenues claims the lives of thousands of Americans whom it falsely swore to protect. Books like Al Martin’s The Conspirators describe how select federal personnel mans the transport of narcotics from US bases like Ilopango or El Salvador and Cap Haitien in Haiti. The drugs arrive through a “safe corridor”, a red carpet passage for the undisturbed shipping north of narcotics and south of weapons. (”Secret service” consists of two words. “Service” means it provides a lucrative service. “Secret” means, not to you.)

The four largest states for the importation of drugs are New York, Florida, Texas and California. The top four money laundering states are New York, Florida, Texas and California. Finally, 80 per cent of all Presidential campaign funds come from - you guessed, New York, Florida, Texas and California. In plain terms, if you don’t draw an income from drug dealing, you are not likely to become the President of the United States. Nor the party who elects one.

Do foreign governments match the crime gang blueprint less closely? James Mills, the author of the Underground Empire writes, “Over a period of five years I became convinced of the participation in the drug traffic of high officials in at least 33 countries, from Afghanistan to the United States… Without the cooperation of governments, the international narcotics industry could not exist. But governments, our own particularly, lean over backward to conceal this fact from their constituents… The profits of drug exports alone, of Mexico and Colombia amounts to 75% of their total export earnings. So much for Mexico’s oil and Colombia’s coffee. ”

Media complicity in suppressing this information is a given. In Great Britain, every monarch drew a revenue from the drug trade since 1729, including the present occupant of the throne. Yet, the British dailies managed to appear for hundreds of years without even hinting that the Empire’s main source of income could be opium trafficking by the British East India Company and its descendants. Officially, the Company was selling tea.

When you espouse a criminal lifestyle, murder becomes a business event. A Pan Am flight 103 might get blown up here, or a President Kennedy might get gunned down there. An Oklahoma Federal Building might explode or a World Trade Center might collapse in the infighting. When it happens, do you expect the Administration to say,

“Sorry, such is gangster life”-? No, you’ll get fairy tales about lone nuts working in a group whose attack, the White House with its goodness of heart, is simply at a loss to explain. Can you imagine the New York Times announcing: “To protect drug trafficking interests, your children are going to the Mideast to kill the rival dope gang”-? Unlikely. How nicer the same sounds as: “To protect national interests, the military joins the war on terrorism.”

This is how we get pious platitudes about helping Kosovo, Panama, Afghanistan, Lebanon or Iraq. Of the five, only Iraq has significant oil reserves, but all are (or are becoming) vital points of drug trafficking. In Kosovo, the heroin business was controlled by the Serbian secret service, but it really shot up after US takeover. In Afghanistan, the Taliban banned the growing of opium poppies, but after US “liberation”, the drug production is up 1000%. In Panama, Noriega’s entourage wanted a higher bribe for American drug shipments, so a US-taxpayer subsidized invasion lowered the rate. The seizure of boats. loaded with tons of drugs during Operation Enduring Freedom (see pictures) is the last missing piece of the puzzle. The Washington Post remarked sternly: “Terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda rely on narcotics smuggling to finance their operations.” Yes, and so does every government.

What distinguishes a criminal gang from a government? Only real estate. If it trafficks drugs on an other government’s beat, it’s a crime gang, if it does it on its own, it’s a government. Is the ability to vote in an election who gets impunity to kill thousands of us with narcotics trafficking a true sign of democracy? Shouldn’t the definition of democracy begin with the choice to vote “no one”on this - and the vote being implemented ?

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