"War on Drugs" : Slogans Slop and Cops

I'm in the process of doing research on how the war on drugs is in fact empowering multiple insurgency movements all over the world. This article is just one of many that argues that: there is no "war on drugs", and in fact this so called war is a tactic by the government to promote political and economic agendas in poor countries, while simultaneously eroding the constitutional rights of all Americans.

It is my contention that the US government has historically implemented policies which target cartels who are on their "shit" lists(i.e.groups that fail to work with them in reaching their geo-political goals such as installing "friendly" governments), while overtly allowing others to operate with impunity.

Historically the US government agencies have had a history of working with international narco-terrorist, some of these rogues include: Manuel Noriega in Panama, Nicaraguan Contras, Zapata Oil connected to the CIA through George H.W. Bush Sr., the Colombian black-ops group " Los Pepes created by the DEA and now some of the most powerful narco-terrorists in Columbia , as well as various street gang operations, to name a few.

Publicly however police forces are well financed to target domestic drug dealers, with an emphasis on arresting users and small time dealers in the inner cities and suburbs of America (overwhelmingly minorities), while the narco terrorists who kill border agents, civilians, government officials and police, freely run their enterprises transporting mind boggling amounts of drugs across the MOST POLICED AND "SECURE" U.S. PORTS AND BORDERS IN THE WORLD.

Mexican and South American drug dealers, adapting to the recent tide of worldwide "war on terror" have taken notes from their middle eastern counterparts using URBAN WARFARE GUERRILLA tactics developed in Iraq and Afghanistan; textbook examples on how to effectively destabilize a government, terrorize a population, and hobble security forces, while simultaneously generating profits that rival Exxon Mobile and Chevrons record breaking revenues despite a world wide recession. While state and local governments go broke, cartels are flush with cash...drug money,not "charitable donations".

What do they do with all the billions of dollars they make? The days of Escobar style excesses are over, no longer do they buy soccer teams, or try to run for government offices, they have far greater aspirations. Why run for office when you can create your own fiefdom? They carve out territory, and having learned from history invest in much more lucrative ventures such as: buying off politicians, placing bounties on government officials, assassinate federal, state and local police who refuse to co-operate, murder politicians, invest in submarines, tunnel building technology, anti-aircraft weapons, earth moving equipment, satellite phones, thermal and night imaging technology, bulletproof SUV's designed to defeat border security, along with millions of weapons imported from China and the US.

They recruit, train and pay salaries to legions of poor foot soldiers recruited from the worst gangs and poorest neighborhoods, while simultaneously corrupting local and federal police officials who operate as the "special forces", spies and "Intel" agents for the cartels. These are the most educated and well trained in "counter-terrorist" tactics (sometimes by US FBI, DEA, or Special Operations known as "trainers").

Narco terrorists are highly profit motivated and committed to their cause, they have no fear of the government and are in fact the number one threat to all governments that host them within their borders...they are the wave of the future.

Today's narco-terrorists have access to an almost unlimited cash flow via drug sales, making the Bin Laden fortune look like pocket change. These groups are OPENLY AND BRAZENLY CHALLENGING THEIR GOVERNMENT SECURITY FORCES, with one message: STAY OUT OF OUR WAY AND LET US OPERATE, OR BE READY FOR TOTAL WAR. This includes the areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Columbia, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, South Asia, and the more than 230 cities in the US.

The US policy of requiring developing countries to participate in the eradication of plants that have grown wild in their countries since the beginning of time is absolutely futile. The mafia in the US was created, funded and empowered by the prohibition of ALCOHOL (which anyone can make with a little sugar, grapes, and yeast). If policy makers are truly worried about the health of the public why not outlaw: Caffeine, Nicotine, Ibuprofen, Vocodine, Oxycontin, all opium based pain killers.... oh and LIQUOR, which kills millions of people every year. Why not create a Utopian society of totally sober and clean people 100% drug free (isn't that what Americans want)?!?!

Lets examine some of the governments latest facts about drug use in America: according to a 2008 study by the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DRUG ABUSE :

- 48 MILLION AMERICANS have abused PRESCRIPTION drugs BEGINNING AT AGE 12...THAT'S 20% OF THE US POPULATION ADDICTED TO LEGAL DRUGS.

- 129 million or 51.6% reported being current drinkers of alcohol, and 58.1 million described themselves as BINGE DRINKERS

- As compared to 20 million or 8% who used "illicit drugs" (IE.marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, etc).

To keep it short I left out nicotine, caffeine addicts and itemized narcotics such as designer drugs.

All these substances including caffeine and nicotine have harmful side effects, can be addictive and are considered "drugs" by FDA standards. Sound crazy? So too is the indiscriminate, culturally racist attitudes toward selectively picking and choosing WHO can consume WHAT substances then constructing MEGA POLICE BUREAUCRACIES TO INCARCERATE THE USERS and DEALERS.

Reference this blog for more facts on what the "war on drugs" is really doing to the world: http://wwwnarcowars.blogspot.com/ . Whose really benefiting from this so-called war? Pharmaceutical companies and the US government seem to be at the top of the list, followed closely by Cartel bosses and Terrorist groups.

After 40 years of this so-called war, why is it that I can walk one block in any city and buy drugs imported from Mexico, Columbia, South East Asia, Canada or Afghanistan? There's no such thing as a war on drugs, its a broken slogan used by the politicians and police agencies to persuade the public to acquiesce to the enactment of highly restrictive laws and policies that suppress the rights of common Americans and countries throughout the world, simultaneously expanding police and security forces within the US for "national security purposes".

The war on drugs has achieved two things for certain: The US has more people locked in prisons for drug related crimes than any other country in world history, even California alone has more people incarcerated than China; second, Americans have conceded to give up many constitutional rights to rid their communities of drugs; the end result: FEWER RIGHTS, and MORE DRUGS than ever in US history.

I can buy a gun, a beer, cigarettes or a hardcore sex tape anywhere but if I buy a joint even with a prescription....off to jail I go. Who makes these laws up? Maybe its the real drug dealers....CIA, DEA, State Department, FBI, Pharmaceutical lobbyists? Certainly its not the families of the generations of black and Hispanic youth wiped out on the inner city streets by this so called "war on drugs", nor the thousands of world wide victims of NARCO-TERRORISTS WHO IN SOME CASES HAVE WORKED FOR AND WITH THE US GOVERNMENT.

THINK ABOUT IT

AMIR AL KATIB