Lying cops again?

The idiot newscaster asks the top local cop: “Are people seeing things?”

People are imaging their homes being raided and their plants being destroyed? Really? Is this guy serious?

So who is doing it?

Cops? Criminals? Private contractors?

What’s the difference? The differences are pretty blurred these days.

Cannabis is the “solar energy” of plants

In the 1700s, cannabis and tobacco were both regularly grown crops.

In the 1800s, the same.

In the earliest part of the 1900s, the same.

Cannabis was to use to make rope and clothe and a new method for making it into paper was invented. It was also used – in tincture form, not smoked – as a medicine.

And then, after Prohibition was repealed, it was made illegal and became the biggest make-work program for cops and prison guards imaginable.

The biggest toxic drug dealers in the world

Who is making money from the opioid crisis?

Meet the Sackler Family.

They invented Oxycontin, they lied about its nature and flim flammed doctors into prescribing it.

Who is “they”?

One family: The Sackler Family.

The death toll so far: 200,000 people

A comment from YouTube about them:

“The biggest drug dealers in the world…Escobar has nothing on these crooks.”

How was this kept secret all these years?

They followed a model used by the Sinaloa drug cartel.

Instead of fighting the government, they bought the government.

Tax free too

“Freeway” Rick Ross says there are informants who make as much as $5 million a year. That’s an extreme of course, but incomes of $50,000 to $200,000 a year are not unusual. And it’s all tax free.

There’s another side to it.

In a town near me, the Chief of Detectives was arrested for flat out stealing money from the informant budget. No one was auditing him. He claimed to paying informants and just pocketed the money. He got three well deserved years in prison for that.

Here’s some research that Earth First has done on the legions of informants who try to sabotage environmental groups. One of their favorite tricks is to incite people to violence.

http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/informant-tracking

Many ways to profit from the drug trade

Drugs are big business for police.

First, without “drugs” we’d need a whole lot less cops – and judges, ADAs and prisons too.

Second, police get promoted based on how much cash they can seize and how many DEA-rewarded drug busts (i.e. a joint in a car) they can make.

Third, no small number of cops flat out are in the drug business. They provide security for drug shipments, bust competing gangs on behalf of criminal associates, re-sell drugs seized in arrests and in the case of Kingston, NY steal “drug bust” money.

It’s quite a circus and it’s relatively rare to see a whole police department go down at once.

This is archival footage, but it makes the point.

“Did we know we were lying?”

There’s been a “war on drugs” for at least 100 years, but it went into warp overdrive under Richard Nixon.

Why?

Now, at last we know.

It was a political game to excuse attacks on the the black community and the anti-war movement.

John Ehrlichman, White House Counsel in 1969.

Here’s the bottom line:

“Did we know we were lying about the drugs?”

“Of course we did.”