Obama is a creation of the 1980's Medellin Cartel.

Yup, I had no doubt Obama was in with the cartels. My guess was the heroin, golden triangle, Iran cartels. It isn't communism we have to worry about, it's the cartels. Ideology is just a guise that criminals hide behind. Criminals with money are dangerous.

I grew up in Miami. It was a world where my friends parents were "double agents", dealers, and money launderers. One friend's father was assassinated in the Everglades and we read the details of the deaths from government documents with transcripts of testimony from a Cuban informant, detailing how the double agent met with other informants and was shot in the head with a 9mm, after being accused of working for the CIA. My family is from South America. I've seen Presidents, Police, Elegant Business Men, and educated Bankers involved in the drug trade either by choice or extortion. Colombia was a beautiful nation that was corrupted by the cartels which were enabled by foreigners such as Soros. Everyone has a price. Cocaine was coming in from Latin America, and Cuba, but the DEA was in Colombia burning crops, it was a meter of time before dealers got caught. Bank owners were going to jail. Crooked cops were put in jail, and cocaine was too expensive for curious kids. I never saw heroin in my life. I never knew anyone who did. The crap is all over the nation now. There is NO WAR ON DRUGS today, and "Just Say No" turned into "Legalize It, It's Medicinal".

Your post reminds me of something, a quote from a Miami Vice episode, The Prodigal Sun, Part 2:

"Money is a commodity, like oil or water," Johnston soliloquizes, in a superior manner.
"And that American dollar, is the best brand there is in the world.
Now those of us who have it, can make more of it, by loaning it to those that don't.
Not so long ago, our bank loaned a lot of money to our friends in Latin America. We are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars.
Now they aren't going to repay that by selling straw bags and clay pots.
If these Latin borrowers default, we would be decimated. And we are America.
We are the entire free world. When we sneeze, everybody catches cold.
That is why, it's very, very important, that we nurture and protect our Latin brothers' major cash crops."

I've never been able to get that line about the straw bags and clay pots out of my head. Simple, easy to understand explanations are like that. They stay with you.

Things have progressed a bit since that Miami Vice episode, all the way to Mena and beyond.

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