Former Drug Cop: "I cried for a year once I found out what I'd been involved in"

[Peace Patriot]

30. My comment above (re Fox trashing of thought itself) may be relevant to...

...what is going on behind the scenes among our transglobal corporate/war profiteer rulers regarding the legalization of drugs and the Big Pharma/Big Ag/Big Chem interests 'waiting in the wings' to take over and monopolize the trillion+ dollar illicit drug trade.

I was alerted to this matter about a year ago when the rightwing president of Colombia, Manual Santos, came out publicly for the total legalization of drugs, along with the rightwing president of Guatemala, and a commission of rightwing/centrist Mexican leaders.

How odd, I thought, that the very politicians and police/military forces that have benefited from the BILLIONS of U.S. taxpayer dollars in aid for the U.S. "war on drugs" would be the ones to call for the end of it. Had Obama told them that the "cupboard is bare" and they need to figure out some other way for rich to make lots more money?

But, given what the U.S. "war on drugs" was mostly used for--murdering labor union leaders and other advocates of the poor, and brutally displacing FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their farm lands in Colombia; also, in my opinion, the consolidation of the huge underground drug trade into fewer hands (elimination of the small players and rivals, and better funneling of its trillion+ profits to U.S. banksters, the CIA and other beneficiaries)--what I began to see was a long term corporate plan, with Stage 1: prep for U.S. "free trade for the rich" (the brutal phase), and Stage 2: "free trade for the rich" in all markets including a new market, with legalization, in medicinal, recreational and/or addictive drugs (legalized mass production of these drugs, using pesticides, genetic modification, the slave labor produced by massive dislocation and union busting, etc.).

If I am right, the increasing votes for legalization in U.S. states are both genuine and permitted (via 'TRADE SECRET' vote 'counting' by monopolist ES&S, a corporation with far rightwing ties). I think the reason that Barry Cooper was permitted on Faux News at all, the reason that U.S. voters have been permitted to vote for legalization and the reason that legalization seems to be '"in the air" now, when the idea was completely black-holed in the corporate 'news' in the previous decade and for 40 years in total, may be that the corporate/1%-er interests--for which Faux News are the chief 'news' clowns--are ready for Stage 2. (They have their patents, their production/marketing plans, their accumulated fertile Amazonian farm lands, their slave labor force--all of it in place.)

Colombia is a U.S. client state. It made no sense to me that its U.S.-vetted president would come out with such a bold, shocking, 'liberal' initiative as drug legalization without an OK from Washington DC.

One of the things left to explain are the FBI raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in western U.S. states--business operations that are legal in their states. It seems very provocative. But I think it's similar to clearing the peasants off the land in Colombia--eliminating the small players, prior to the big players stepping in.

Another factor--and I have no answer for this one--is the huge police/prison/military complex that is so entrenched and that has ripped off the public for trillions of dollars, over four decades, for the phony, corrupt, murderous, failed "war on drugs." How to mollify this fascist establishment? We see it being pressured already, with super-hypocrite Eric Holder (lawyer to Chiquita during their rightwing death squad phase in Colombia) now calling for lighter sentencing for drug 'offenders.' The MIC, having stolen most of our money and wrecked our economy with yet more unwinnable wars, surely has created a cash-flow problem, for keeping all those non-violent 'offenders' in our hellish prisons for long, punitive terms. But the problem is much bigger than this, and involves not just prisoners but also the millions of people employed by the system that put them there, not to mention the pointless brutality, that Cooper alludes to, of their methods of doing so (S.W.A.T. teams for invading a home, for a bag of marijuana). Massive layoffs in the police state is like massive layoffs in the military. It would send the economy into deep depression--one we might never recover from. We have gone that far off the cliff into fascism--so many of our people employed in fascist positions, enforcing fascist laws--that we can't afford (or think we can't afford) to change the policy.

This may be what is preventing Obama from moving quickly into legalization and the realization of Big Pharma/Big Ag/Big Chem's big plan to legalize and monopolize the drug trade.

There may also be controversy, and even an internal war, among of our corporate rulers, between those who are benefitting from the lucrative profits of illegalized weeds and processed substances and the war machine that puts up this high-cost farce of brutal opposition to it, on the one hand, and those who have planned for, and see the profit potential, of legalization, on the other.

I don't think "good government" comes into this at all, or only extremely peripherally (by a few, very few honest people in government or business). I think it is overwhelmingly a matter of contending forces within the uber-rich/corporate establishment. Sad to say. But the outcome will certainly affect millions of lives--indeed, all of our lives (the fascist anti-drug state is so pervasive), so we should try to understand it.

Why did Faux News allow Barry Cooper to speak at all? Was it simply to shout him down? Or was it to "run a flag up the flagpole" for the corporate "plan"? Do Faux News owners/execs have fingers in the pie (Big Pharma/Big Ag/Big Chem)?

Above all, though, Faux News DOES NOT WANT US TO THINK ABOUT IT. Our betters will make these decisions and fight their duels amongst themselves. We have nothing to say about the "war on drugs" or legalization--or, rather, we have much to say, but these powers--the powers that Faux News shills for--care not a whit what we think. We will be TOLD what to think. Our votes will be manipulated to their purposes. Cooper, I think, is totally sincere. But the management decision to put him on TV may not be--in fact is quite surely not.

What they want us to do is engage in a thoughtless shouting match, until the goals of the uber-rich are decided.