Addendum 1A: The Phony and Racist “War on Drugs”...
The Drug Pay-off...
Drug-related income has to be enormous for the CIA, narco-cops and related “law enforcement” agencies. They have to get their “cut”, both on an institutional scale and personally for their aiding and abetting the drug trade as narcotics flood the world.
“In its 1997 World Drugs Report the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the value of the market at $4 trillion, ranking drugs alongside arms and oil among the world's largest traded goods. An online report published by the UK Home Office in 2007 estimated the illicit drug market in the UK at £4–6.6 billion a year” (Illegal drug trade, Wikipedia)
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There is a long and dirty history of deep involvement of the US secret political police at home and abroad with the trade of harmful narcotic substances. For instance: “At two critical junctures after World War II, the late 1940s and the late 1970s, when America's heroin supply and drug addiction seemed to ebb, the CIA's covert action alliances generated a sudden surge of heroin that soon revived the US drug trade” (The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, New York 1991, Alfred W. McCoy, p. 17).
Major US banks are intimately tied in with the international and national drug trade. “Banks Launder Billions of Illegal Cartel Money... Bank of America, Western Union, and JP Morgan, are among the institutions allegedly involved in the drug trade” (TheHuffingtonPost, Sep 22, 2014). Even when big bankers occasionally admit guilt, they are let off with just a slap on the wrist. No big banker in the US has ever gone to jail for massive drug-related financial activities!
The huge US gang structure – not only tolerated, but in fact sponsored and protected by US “law enforcement” - comprises the primary structure of American small-scale wholesalers and retailers of destructive narcotics: “Street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs are the primary distributors of illegal drugs on the streets of the United States. ... Gangs primarily transport and distribute powdered cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, MDMA, and PCP in the United States” (Drugs and Gangs Fast Facts - US Department of Justice).
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Drug “Enforcement” - a Powerful Weapon against Liberation of Oppressed Peoples in the US...
On the other hand, what purports to be “law enforcement” of dealing drugs is directed with special ferocity against the racially oppressed Black and Brown communities in America: «The Drug War, Mass Incarceration and Race... With less than 5 percent of the world’s population but nearly 25 percent of its incarcerated population, the United States imprisons more people than any other nation in the world – largely due to the war on drugs. Misguided drug laws and draconian sentencing requirements have produced profoundly unequal outcomes for communities of color. Although rates of drug use and selling are comparable across racial and ethnic lines, blacks and Latinos are far more likely to be criminalized for drug law violations than whites» (Drug Policy Alliance, Feb 10, 2016).
“Approximately 12–13% of the American population is African-American, but they make up 35% of jail inmates, and 37% of prison inmates of the 2.2 million male inmates as of 2014 (U.S. Department of Justice, 2014)” (Statistics of incarcerated African-American males – Wikipedia). One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001” ( NAACP | Criminal Justice Fact Sheet).
The “War on Drugs” in the US is not in the slightest directed against the massive sale and usage of harmful narcotics in the country. This “war”, however, serves as a pretext to terrorize and further oppress the Afro-American and Latino-American population of the country and thereby suppress strivings to liberation from oppressive poverty and racial persecution. In particular, young people in the massive US ghettos and barrios are viciously harassed and arrested – and not infrequently murdered - on virtually any pretext. Their common lot – long-term imprisonment, where they simultaneously are forced to work for semi-slave wages as a mass source of ultra-cheap labor for American corporations. (“How Prison Labor is the New American Slavery and Most of Us Unknowingly Support it», Return to Now, June 13, 2016)
The US has exported an adaptation of drug-and-mass-oppression polices to neighboring countries, especially Mexico. In Mexico and Central American countries the US stimulates ferocious drug wars, supplying ample weapons to both drug cartels and subservient governments which encourage massive reciprocal murder. “By November 30, 2012, the official death toll of the Mexican Drug War was at least 60,000. Estimates set the death toll above 120,000 killed by 2013, not including 27,000 missing” (Mexican Drug War – Wikipedia)
The result: oppressed peoples torn apart by internecine wars and thereby incapacited in liberating themselves from US imperialist domination and puppet national governments.
US imperialism in the raw. Democracy anyone?
DICTATORSHIP !!
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении более 13 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!! Всё это — ещё доказательство, что настоящий действующий закон в США — Закон джунглей.
ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕНО !!
ВНИМАНИЕ: ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!
The Drug Pay-off...
Drug-related income has to be enormous for the CIA, narco-cops and related “law enforcement” agencies. They have to get their “cut”, both on an institutional scale and personally for their aiding and abetting the drug trade as narcotics flood the world.
“In its 1997 World Drugs Report the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the value of the market at $4 trillion, ranking drugs alongside arms and oil among the world's largest traded goods. An online report published by the UK Home Office in 2007 estimated the illicit drug market in the UK at £4–6.6 billion a year” (Illegal drug trade, Wikipedia)
…...................................
There is a long and dirty history of deep involvement of the US secret political police at home and abroad with the trade of harmful narcotic substances. For instance: “At two critical junctures after World War II, the late 1940s and the late 1970s, when America's heroin supply and drug addiction seemed to ebb, the CIA's covert action alliances generated a sudden surge of heroin that soon revived the US drug trade” (The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, New York 1991, Alfred W. McCoy, p. 17).
Major US banks are intimately tied in with the international and national drug trade. “Banks Launder Billions of Illegal Cartel Money... Bank of America, Western Union, and JP Morgan, are among the institutions allegedly involved in the drug trade” (TheHuffingtonPost, Sep 22, 2014). Even when big bankers occasionally admit guilt, they are let off with just a slap on the wrist. No big banker in the US has ever gone to jail for massive drug-related financial activities!
The huge US gang structure – not only tolerated, but in fact sponsored and protected by US “law enforcement” - comprises the primary structure of American small-scale wholesalers and retailers of destructive narcotics: “Street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs are the primary distributors of illegal drugs on the streets of the United States. ... Gangs primarily transport and distribute powdered cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, MDMA, and PCP in the United States” (Drugs and Gangs Fast Facts - US Department of Justice).
…......................................
Drug “Enforcement” - a Powerful Weapon against Liberation of Oppressed Peoples in the US...
On the other hand, what purports to be “law enforcement” of dealing drugs is directed with special ferocity against the racially oppressed Black and Brown communities in America: «The Drug War, Mass Incarceration and Race... With less than 5 percent of the world’s population but nearly 25 percent of its incarcerated population, the United States imprisons more people than any other nation in the world – largely due to the war on drugs. Misguided drug laws and draconian sentencing requirements have produced profoundly unequal outcomes for communities of color. Although rates of drug use and selling are comparable across racial and ethnic lines, blacks and Latinos are far more likely to be criminalized for drug law violations than whites» (Drug Policy Alliance, Feb 10, 2016).
“Approximately 12–13% of the American population is African-American, but they make up 35% of jail inmates, and 37% of prison inmates of the 2.2 million male inmates as of 2014 (U.S. Department of Justice, 2014)” (Statistics of incarcerated African-American males – Wikipedia). One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001” ( NAACP | Criminal Justice Fact Sheet).
The “War on Drugs” in the US is not in the slightest directed against the massive sale and usage of harmful narcotics in the country. This “war”, however, serves as a pretext to terrorize and further oppress the Afro-American and Latino-American population of the country and thereby suppress strivings to liberation from oppressive poverty and racial persecution. In particular, young people in the massive US ghettos and barrios are viciously harassed and arrested – and not infrequently murdered - on virtually any pretext. Their common lot – long-term imprisonment, where they simultaneously are forced to work for semi-slave wages as a mass source of ultra-cheap labor for American corporations. (“How Prison Labor is the New American Slavery and Most of Us Unknowingly Support it», Return to Now, June 13, 2016)
The US has exported an adaptation of drug-and-mass-oppression polices to neighboring countries, especially Mexico. In Mexico and Central American countries the US stimulates ferocious drug wars, supplying ample weapons to both drug cartels and subservient governments which encourage massive reciprocal murder. “By November 30, 2012, the official death toll of the Mexican Drug War was at least 60,000. Estimates set the death toll above 120,000 killed by 2013, not including 27,000 missing” (Mexican Drug War – Wikipedia)
The result: oppressed peoples torn apart by internecine wars and thereby incapacited in liberating themselves from US imperialist domination and puppet national governments.
US imperialism in the raw. Democracy anyone?
DICTATORSHIP !!
/////////////////////////////////////////////
Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении более 13 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!! Всё это — ещё доказательство, что настоящий действующий закон в США — Закон джунглей.
ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕНО !!
ВНИМАНИЕ: ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!