[Red Jones]

that corresponds to a lot of what I read also. Except that I'm not a liberal, I'm a right-winger and very non-republican.

The story I believe is that Reagan told his people to fund the contras after congress had specifically shut down funding for the contras. I remember those days, there was a big effort in conservative press to support contras, I wanted to send them money. Reagan was kept in the dark as to how the money was raised. But the cocaine smuggling was what paid for the guns for the contras. The effort was successful. The communists were shut down in central america.

Another thing the CIA did to fund the contras was they brought about 10% of El Salvadoran population to California as illegal aliens and created some big businesses that employed these people all so that these El Salvadorans would send money to contras in appreciation.

There are legitimate reasons for the CIA to want to penetrate and even to control or set up a drug smuggling operation. But I think that the people who rule our country and use this CIA for dark purposes have gone way too far. They are short-circuiting and bypassing the democracy completely and in an illegitimate manner. Problem is that they control the media, and any politician who stands up to them will either be discredited or killed through covert activities.

What happened at Waco? That was CIA murdering 90 americans. Things have gotten out of hand, but we as free citizens are finding it impossible to get the CIA under control.

[philman_36]

They are short-circuiting and bypassing the democracy completely and in an illegitimate manner.
There is that word again...
"A Republic, if you can keep it."
There is not, and never was, any "democracy" to short-circuit or bypass. The Republic, however, was bypassed and short-circuited a looooooong time ago.
You're not helping with your faulty wiring either.