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Gary Webb, journalist of the now infamous, "Dark Alliance" series -- a series that forced the Central Intelligence Agency to admit that it was using drug profits made from selling cocaine to Los Angeles' children and adults to finance the Nicaraguan Contras -- committed suicide 4 years ago, yesterday.
Next year I will get the date correctly. If no one else mentions his story, I will, whereever I find a news or blog outlet that fails to mention this man's monumental contribution to the truth and to journalism throughout the world.
Because of Gary Webb, we all came to realize and recognize that Ronald Reagan's administration was founded on lies, that the entire national security establishment of the United States just might be as putrid as the world's poor said it was. Not all CIA agents or government spooks are bad people or work on lurid assignments, but there is a faction within the US national security establishment that does. It was at these darkest of the shadow warriors that Gary Webb shined a well-researched light with laser-like focus.
And for this "crime" Gary Webb was blacklisted and left unable to practice the craft that he was born to practice, a craft that he had been practicing since his high school days.
I personally do not believe that Gary Webb killed himself. Too much about his story makes no sense to me, but much about the enemies of Gary Webb and the blogosphere he helped create does.
Everything we do here at OpEdNews, and elsewhere in cyberspace, we do because of the light cast from the heavens by our brother, Gary Webb.
