A wise man said, the best money is in pretending to fight a problem you create and losing. The government’s pretend War on Drugs, while being their main importer is a perfect example. A second important saying is that isolated incidents don’t exist. So if the War on Drugs wasn’t an isolated fraud, could the War on Crime be another?
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Crime is any action (like printing fake money, smuggling drugs, murder and robbery) that the leaders prohibit to you, because they want to do it themselves. Most of America’s wealthiest blue blood families amassed their wealth by activities considered to be criminal: the Delanos and the Coolidges did it with narcotics trafficking, the Kennedys and the Rockefellers with alcohol smuggling, etc. William Chambliss, professor at George Washington University remarks aptly:
“Organized crime really consists of a coalition of politicians, law enforcement people, businessmen, union leaders, and – in some ways least important of all – racketeers.” (On The Take) “In Seattle, Washington, I discovered a symbiotic relationship between organized crime and the police that made it impossible to differentiate between them. Law enforcement officers, from street patrolmen to police chiefs to members of the prosecuting attorney’s office, not only accepted payoffs from people who organized illegal gambling, prostitution and drug sales, but the police and prosecutors were instrumental in organizing and managing these activities. Seattle is not an exception; it is the rule.” (Power, Politics and Crimes)
An isolated incident? They don’t exist. A February 1926 statement by “a group of concerned prominent citizens in Chicago” describes the same situation being prominent already 70 years ago:
“Many public officials are in secret alliance with underworld assassins, gunmen, rum-runners, bootleggers, thugs, ballot box stuffers and repeaters… a ring of politicians and public officials are operating through criminals … under police protection.”
Organized crime and law enforcement make unique bedfellows in the service of our society’s richest. At one side you have a grim group operating under a gang code of silence which committed 23.800 break-ins in 25 years in Chicago alone, ran a death squad, blackmailed and murdered appellate and Supreme Court judges it didn’t like. That’s the FBI. The Mafia, in contrast, is organized. Michael Milan was a hit man (murderer) whom Edgar Hoover FBI chief purloined for his death squad from his pal, Mafia boss Frank Costello. In Milan’s book, The Squad – The U.S. Government’s Secret Alliance with Organized Crime you get an insider account of the cooperation:
“I saw what the cops were doing, and the FBI and the CIA, and plenty of government agencies… I was both inside and outside the law at the same time, and I couldn’t tell one side from the other.”
“They were holding this [informant] at the Williamsburg Precinct station. The cops tossed me into the lockup with the rest of the drunks, slapped me around just to make it all look like it was on the up-and-up. They slipped a knife into my pocket, and then disappeared. The flask of booze I passed around worked really fast. It had to, because Mr. Lucchese [the mafia boss] and some of his associates dropped in to see how I did the job. I woke the rat up first; when he saw Lucchese staring at him, he pissed down his leg. Then I cut him. They let me out of the lockup, packed me into a car, and we ditched the knife in the East River. The drunks slept through the whole thing. It was the same story during the war when I had to rub out people for Captain Roscoe McCall.”
“Once Edgar Hoover got angry at an appellate judge out in Kansas, who threw out every conviction the local cops could get. President Johnson just threw up his hands and told Hoover the judge would be in office “for the rest of his life.” Then he winked. That was all Hoover needed. He polled each one of us after that meeting. He said, “It’s a judge, boys, take your best shots.” They sent me down to do the hit, but Hoover wanted him to experience the pain. “Make it special” he said. “Make it nice and slow…”
It’s hard to tell the government and the mafia apart when they murder people together; perhaps using score cards will help. The death toll of white collar crime (what “national interest” really stands for) is estimated being five times, its financial toll being fifty times the toll of blue collar street crime. Income taxes which appear to be collected without legal authority in the United States (mostly pocketed by the same elite) amount to a fraud still ten times higher. All in all, the elite takes you for 500 times the amount what the occassional freelance mugger, burglar or fraudster could, while pretending to “fight crime”.
People’s actions are determined by their sense of justice, not dusty law books. Crime is a pure product of law, the ideology which criminalizes to one group what it allows to an other, thereby working fundamentally against justice. Tacitus didn’t remark by accident that the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws; a centralized law-based government’s main business soon becomes the production (and pretend fighting) of crime. See, intelligent people in any age soon realize that a privileged minority who taxes away up to half of their income to build somptuous palaces and fortunes for itself, who pretends to be their servants yet disallows the termination of its hiring, has no function. So this minority must rely on laws to preserve its racket, using law enforcement effectively to fight against progress and justice. This is why today only 20 percent of law enforcement wiretaps in the United States target criminal activity. And this is why the police manhandles war protesters, civil rights activists, and other voices of progress with special savagery worldwide but kowtows to “insider” mobsters: just professional courtesy. After all, they don’t only fight together on the same side of the fence – one day they’ll steal it together too.
[...] A striking example of this is the Mafia itself, which started out as a genuine government fighting the invaders of Sicily in the 19th century. Observe a governments’ true priority by its choice after victory: the need for its violence gone, instead of becoming a public institution of progress, it stepped up the racket and the robberies. The Sicilian Mafia is not a government gone bad. It is a government focusing on its core business, extortion, after its disguise of pretend benevolence vanished. Let its example remind you what a government’s primary business is: crime. This may include sending your family members knowingly to death in wars, blowing up buildings on thousands of people like you, bombing oil producers abroad to drive up the price of your gas, emptying your pockets in a bogus "war on crime" and much more. War being simply the highest form of organized crime, it’s no surprise why a Mafia government pursues this old lucrative trade of theirs in spite of every civilized citizen’s opposition. [...]