[marktwain]

Not much coverage of this.

[FreedomOfExpression]

BTTT

[marstegreg]

Thank you for posting. I had no idea.

[gaijin]

I used to scoff at the “CIA/Cocaine” stuff, but in view of the Gun Walker scandal.....I’m sad to say I’m now listening to these nutty kooks.

I...think the kooks could be RIGHT.

And that makes me terrified.

It looks like export of weapons/import of addictive drugs were twin sides of the same government coin.

Does the US government despise America?

[TennesseeGirl]

Mena, AR and the Clintons immediately came to mind.

[subterfuge]

Ha. It’s been obvious for decades. The “War On Drugs” is more of a partnership between big government, Mexico and the industry known as “law enforcement.”

Fits in nicely with the Democrat-constituency demographic too.

[Pollster1]

A high-ranking Mexican drug-cartel operative extradited to the United States claimed in a recent court filing that he was actually trafficking tons of cocaine on behalf of the American federal government

Does anyone seriously think that anyone in our government wants that stuff in the United States.

"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."
- Barack Obama

Never mind.

[Darksheare]

Gunwalker II, the Dopening.
If only it were a grade Z movie instead.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Operation Drug Walker.

[nathanbedford]

I used to believe that the war on drugs was poisoning the American bloodstream with corruption at such a rate that the rule of law was threatened. I also believe that if you have no rule of law you have no democracy, therefore, waging a futile war against drugs was actually to unwittingly make war on our own democracy.

Whether this news account is true or not is a small matter. What really matters is that our society is under more immediate and greater threat from the current administration whether or not it is double dealing cocaine with the Mexicans. We are in such peril from so many sources that we must actually prioritize the threats against us. I would say that the harm we do ourselves by waging the war on drugs is a far lesser threat than our fiscal and monetary crisis. It is less of a threat than what might happen to our democracy if Obama gets another term. It is less of a threat than if our creditors simply stop buying our bonds.

The reckoning cannot be long delayed. We will have no more money to pay for double dealing from the Pakistanis, we will have no more money to pay dubious tyrants in Egypt, we will have no more money to incarcerate hundreds of thousands of drug felons and otherwise wage a hopeless and self-defeating drug war, we will simply have no more money. Our options are falling away. We shall soon know how quickly we must face the dénouement when it comes time to extend the debt.

If as you read this reply you do not see how these matters are connected, I truly hope your vision is better than mine.

[Inyo-Mono]

God’s grace is no longer upon us.

[Just mythoughts]

fyi

[blueunicorn6]

If the California liberals can elect Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein, but they can’t get marijuana legalized, then you know the fix is in and the illegal drug money controls the Democrats.

[Gilbo_3]

Webb eventually died from two gunshot wounds to the head in what authorities dubbed a “suicide.”

well if at first you dont succeed...ouch, dammit...

[manic4organic]

Obama had to replenish his stash.

[Lurker]

I’ll bet you a buck this is somehow intertwined with Project Gunwalker.

[little jeremiah]

Is this relevant for the list?

[Cyropaedia]

In a way, it helps provide some kind of reason as to why Ramos and Compean were railroaded by the Feds.