In the sixties General Richard Seccord ran a covert operation in Vietnam with intelligence agencies to help move Thai and Laotian heroin to market and by the late sixties American cities were awash with cheap Asian heroin and Richard Nixon declares a war on drugs. In the eighties the Reagan administrations foreign policy emphasis was on Central America and what drug floods American streets? And whose name was connected with it? Why cocaine and Richard Seccord of course, tougher penalties longer jail terms and more prisons.
It’s actually genius in its evil simplicity, you import the drugs profit from the drugs expand your police powers to fight the drugs and as the price goes up and you make even more profit then you run for reelection on your record of being tough on drugs. And why were we in Central America in the first place? To fight socialism in Nicaragua and who would have been hurt by that? Who stood to lose? That’s right American Corporations.
We invaded and captured Manuel Noriega in Panama but knowing now what we know about Saddam do you think Noriega’s real crime was selling drugs? Or might it perhaps be to whom he was selling them to or for? The meth epidemic has hit almost every community in America the active ingredient ephedrine is manufactured by a small handful of pharmaceutical plants worldwide but does your government move to regulate the source at that level? No, no, no, it’s better to regulate every drug store in the country to make them keep records of who is buying what. The US occupies Afghanistan and American morgues have begun to fill with heroin overdoses. Those dumb afghan’s don’t know how to step on their product so it reaches the market too pure they’re not very good yet at being capitalist’s.
I recently watched a program on C span with the director of NORMAL and the assistant director of policy for the DEA discussing decriminalizing marijuana. For one hour the two participants took phone calls and in that hour not one call not one was against the decriminalizing marijuana laws. Republicans Democrats Independents Libertarians not one agreed with the government’s position. Medical Marijuana? No such thing says the DEA the FDA studies conclude there are no benefits from Marijuana. That ridicules on its face Chinese medical books that predated the time of Christ advocated medical marijuana. But the FDA insists, claiming there is no benefit. For who? Who funds drug studies at the FDA? Either the government or the drug companies and of all the people in prison for drugs convictions how many are marijuana arrests 50%
The FDA is correct there is no benefit in medical marijuana, for the drug companies or the prison industries that is. In his book The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitson points out in describing the Russian prison system what he called the sewage system explaining the police had to keep finding guilty people or number of convicts would decline and the police would be accused of not doing their jobs properly and any chance for advancement was based solely on the number of confessions. If the government were to allow decriminalized marijuana they would have to shut down whole prisons and many of America’s prisons are run by… Corporations for profit. And even the dying aren’t exempted, Medical marijuana clubs are shut down despite the goal of alleviating the suffering of the dying. The drug companies instead came up with a pharmaceutical substitute for medical marijuana; you know the same drug they said that didn’t have any benefits in the first place. It’s a suppository, and that in it’s self should give you an idea of what they think about you.
So just how maniacal and evil are these corporations? The skies the limit there are no limits. Enron is a good case in point not because they looted the pension fund but because not one Enron executive thought enough about the thousands of workers to say, “If this doesn’t work what will become of our workers.” Anymore than the guards at Dachau wondered if the prisoners had enough warm blankets. Who are the most profitable corporations in the world? We are fighting wars in which two countries? The reasons for both of these wars were faulty and defective to the point of nonsensical. Yet a pipeline will be built in Afghanistan and favorable oil legislation is rammed through the Quisling Iraqi Parliament.
Do I paint too black a picture or is our future perhaps not that bleak? I do not like to use the word fascism to describe our current situation for fascism is nationalistic. The Nazis and the Italians wanted to use fascism to improve conditions in their own homelands. To me this is corporatism It is a blend of fascism and feudalism and its only purpose is to aide it’s robot masters. In October of 1943 Heinrich Himmler said, “What happens to a Russian, to a Czech does not interest me in the slightest. Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to deaths like cattle interests me only so far as we need them as slaves to our Kulture: otherwise it is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging and anti tank ditch interests me only in so far as the anti tank ditch for Germany is finished.”
Now substitute employees for Russian and Czech, substitute corporation for Kulture now Substitute Corporation for Germany. You’ve just converted a Nazi mass murderer and convicted war criminal into a corporate executive, unashamed that they have left US communities in rubble like Yugoslavia what did GM tell city officials in Flint Michigan? We owe you nothing! Like a rock all right, right upside your head but before you cry tears for Ford and GM’s demise remember they are opening news plants in India and China. How is their behavior and different than that of Heinrich Himmler? “What happens to Flint Michigander or a Kansan does not interest me in the slightest. Whether communities live in prosperity or starve to death like cattle interests me only so far as we need them as slaves to GM or Ford.
So fellow slaves on this great global plantation what is our future? Will we do something about global warming besides lip service? Not hardly, corporations are slow to learn, the example of the space program in the sixties, which fueled the computer industry and the telecommunications industry, are lost on the American corporation. They live by the principle of profit today is better than profit tomorrow. You see there are no guarantees that way. Now a hundred and fifty thousand troops and billions of tax dollars that works. Besides that doesn’t come off the corporations bottom line, and weren’t they going to buy those politicians anyway.
Like Dorothy in Oz looking behind the curtain all of a sudden it all makes sense why Hillary Clinton supports George Bushes war. Why American politicians won’t speak out about Iraq realistically the folly the foolishness and bald-faced lie of it. Now’s not the time to play the blame game they say. Well then when is the time? If you do something stupid at your job what’s the first thing your boss is going to say? Tell him now is not the time to point fingers and as you pickup your last check ask yourself aren’t we supposed to the boss in this country?
It’s the corporate double standard, if you’re Dick Cheney and shoot someone you tell the police to come back tomorrow. If your Rush Limbaugh and get caught with drugs at the border while on probation its woopsy for Joe six-pack it’s slammer time. If you start a war with bad intelligence and get thousands killed it’s wrong to point fingers but if you’re in a traffic accident that gets people killed and give your defense as bad intelligence it’s slammer time. If your employer discovers that your hooked on drugs and even though you’ve tried to kick them you keep going back your fired unless you’re a supreme Court Justice you don’t suppose that knowledge at the FBI made him susceptible to blackmail do you? Credit card corporations even have a special category for politicians and public figures. They always ask for their money back nice, they wouldn’t want some rider to appear on a bill or some football player to score a touchdown and say don’t use X credit card they suck!
So the necessary changes and adjustments? Democracy means any government that supports our goals regardless of how it came to power. Tyrant or madman is anyone who opposes our goals. Conservative is anyone supportive of the status quo Liberal anyone non-supportive of the status quo, Patriot anyone who kills or dies for our corporate beliefs, Terrorist is anyone who kills or dies opposed to our corporate beliefs. A religious extremist means Islamic, a fanatical evangelical means a conservative Christian. Globalism means corporate rape, Free trade means free for the corporations. The American dream means fantasyland. Belief that our government truly cares for the interests of its people means idiot.
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