In general, the big bad guys are able to keep a lid on their activities. Let’s say a genuinely independent drug mafia arose in the city of “Ruriville.” You may think that the police want to prevent it from selling drugs as this hurts the community.
Indeed, the Ruriville police may chase after and apprehend that particular mafia. I don’t know of any such cases but there must be many.
In other cities, the local drug mafia isn’t independent. It may be part of a Major Drug Cartel or even THE major drug cartel. If so, the police will be expected to keep hands off. How’s that for a shocker? This has been understood for a long time by anyone who has looked into it. The biggest drug dealers are protected from prosecution. I assume that’s why so many people are drug-addicted. “Someone” wants our society to be burdened with addicts.
The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1919, prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquor. Some have said that this amendment, supposedly under the auspices of The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, was part of a clever game to corrupt all police. Once that was in place, “prohibition” was repealed by Amendment 21.
The phrase “police corruption” usually suggests that a cop gets paid, off the record, for letting criminal activity proceed. Today, however, “police discipline” may be a better term. A cop lets the cartel members, and ordinary mafia members, commit their crimes as he, the cop, has been trained to do so. He does not need to be handed an envelope under the table.
A few years ago, in Boston, I was a passenger in a car driven by my friend whom I believe was part of the British MI-6. He got pulled over for running a red light. The cop asked him for his car registration paper. He handed it out the window. After viewing it, the cop simply handed it back with the greeting “Thank you.” Boy, was I disgusted by that “Thank you.” I felt sorry for the cop — does he really want to kowtow to red-light-runners?
The fact is that the top dogs of this world have got nearly everyone under control. Once police are under control, there should still be room for, say, state prosecutors to move in on criminals but they, too, stay their hand. Whispers in the community could reach news reporters but their editors are disciplined to censor anything that is forbidden. Clergy and academics look away.
One possible explanation for the ease with which a whole nation gets controlled against pointing to the bad guys is the fact that each of us is tied into the system by our job and our career. Losing one’s livelihood, or the camaraderie of co-workers, is a big deal. Plus, one does not want to stick out. I believe humans have a strong instinct to follow the norm, and silence about certain subjects is definitely the norm. It’s always easier to shut up
Perhaps the fear of losing the job remains at a subconscious level — one need not even be aware that there is a problem, as we are good at “denial.” And here, the mainstream media is our friend. The TV not only diligently avoids the forbidden topic, it contributes substantial, perhaps massive, material on related topics that will assure us that it’s not the big baddies who are causing the problem (such as drug addiction).
The Role of the Whistle Blower
That said, some individuals just can’t shut up. There’s the expression, familiar from being broadcast in train stations: “If you see something, say something.” The whistle blower has to say something, even at risk of death, in the long run — or, in the short run, of being called a nutjob. The whistle blower often has no support from friends, but if he hears of other whistle blowers he may be very relieved to meet them.
A particularly risky situation for him to be in, is that of the military. A soldier’s duty is to stick with the team effort, as his buddies’ lives depend on it. Or, as they say in the Navy: “Loose lips sink ships.” Moreover, mutiny by troops is a crime that will get you hanged or thrown overboard without further ado.
Consider the soldier-pilot, Gene Tatum. He caught wind of the importation of drugs from South America. Funnily enough — and you will agree this is pretty funny — he found a way to record what was happening by writing notes on the back of flight logs. You could say he made an official record of the Army’s misdeeds, in situ. Here is an affidavit he wrote, although it has not been entered into any prosecutor’s file, as far as I know. The bolding is mine:
I, Dois Gene Tatum, declare: I was a helicopter pilot for the United States Army … I witnessed activities [including] rampant drug smuggling into the US involving people in control of the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the armed forces of the US. I have documented some of these activities on military flight plans… I was present while there were discussions as to where drug money was being siphoned on the Panama to Arkansas run. Present at this meeting were Manuel Noriega; William Barr; Joe Fernandez; Mike Harari; General Gustavo Alvarez. Participating in this meeting via satellite telephone was VP George Bush, Oliver North, and William Jefferson Clinton, then governor of Arkansas.
After I refused to perform a mission that I felt was beyond my willingness to execute, I notified my handlers that I wanted out of the operation, which at that time was known as Operation Pegasus. Their response was to warn me that no one leaves the operation.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the above facts are true…
Gary Webb, Journalist for the San Jose Mercury News
Now we turn to the case of Gary Webb. In the 1980s, he got into the research on crack cocaine which was a sudden epidemic in the US. He noticed it in the black community of California’s cities. He saw both the destruction of the addicted persons and the destruction of families by the incarceration of street-level drug dealers.
(As an aside, I mention that the “war on drugs” led Congress to give new powers to the federal government, many of which are unconstitutional.)
Webb knew of the Iran Contra doings, and tracked cocaine importation down to the CIA. When you think of it, who better than America’s famous covert agency to be the committers of any crime since they enjoy secrecy? (It’s also said that the World Bank is a trafficker of drugs — why not? They have international resources and — I ween — hitmen.)
Webb started to write a series of articles called Dark Alliance for his employer, the San Jose Mercury News. In those days, the 1980s — but not later — it was part of American culture for an investigative journalist to dig into a subject and share the news with all. I imagine he was scared but must have believed he could prevail. He was furious when, after three articles in the series, his newspaper retracted those articles!
Maxine Waters, now age 82, was recently re-elected to the US House of Reps with, reportedly, 77% of the vote. She has served for 30 years so far. In 1998 she was on a committee in Congress to investigate drugs. I believe she started out helping Gary Webb but got pulled in and has not been heard from since (on that matter).
You will understand how Webb had no hope of getting Congress’s help when I tell you that the chair of the committee was Porter Goss, who had been a CIA man during the alleged drug business. Wait, aren’t our reps supposed to look out for us? Apparently, that has gone out of style. Obedience to one’s Party leader is now the criterion for excellence on the Hill.
(Another aside: it is so annoying that not only does mainstream media squelch stories, but they place their pals into roles of gatekeepers within the alternative media. Here are some journalists that I feel sure are not gatekeepers: Daniel Hopsicker, Wayne Madsen, Dee McLachlan, Jim Corbett, Jon Rappoport.)
The Death of WhistleBlowers
This article makes the pitch that some people have a mission to blow the whistle and nothing stops them. Note: the term “whistleblower” originally meant an employee who sees his company turning out a bad product or bowing to corruption. It still means a person who has discovered a bad thing and wants to share it, but it also means a person who sees an unsolved problem and sets out to discover the dirt.
There are many whistle-blower deaths in America. It is fairly rare, however, for government to agree that the death was a consequence of the blown whistle. The person can always be claimed to have had a heart attack or committed suicide. If he dies in a car crash, it is never officially admitted that the crash was made to happen. If it is a plane crash, one can always cite the weather or mechanical failure.
Gary Webb’s death involved two gunshots to the head. I cannot prove that he was murdered, but I think once you have made the first shot, you’d be unable to coordinate a second shot. A farewell letter to his children was produced in his writing, which for a time made the suicide story seem legitimate. However, the FBI has all our handwriting down pat and can supply any document needed. Webb was working on a new scoop just before his death; this may have been his downfall.
I won’t attempt to list other whistle-blower deaths, but you can easily find them on the Internet, for example, by searching “suspicious deaths, Bush/Clinton.” There is also a website called Political Graveyards for the deaths of politicians while they were in office. The JFK assassination led to so many deaths of witnesses that Richard Belzer and David Wayne made a full book of them, entitled “Hit List.”
I have assembled a motley group of whistle-blower deaths in my 2015 book, “Fraud Upon the Court,” using only deaths between 2000 and 2010. Note: I’m awaiting a “WB death” myself; my ego is constantly deflated when folks tell me I’m not important enough to warrant one.
The point of this article is not to discourage anyone from whistle-blowing. It is to say that some people have an urge, thank God, to get at the truth. What we need is a huge number of whistle-blowers.
Why not?