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They'd rather throw more money at law enforcement/fascist paramilitaries and make laws that criminalize everything up to and including breathing.
America was involved in that trade at one point just ask the CIA and who said they ever quit?
It's crazy to me that "the CIA sold drugs to poor and minority communities to keep poor people down" is still treated like a conspiracy theory.
They FULLY ADMIT TO IT!
Like MKULTRA it doesn't matter what the truth is.
Are we talking about Iran-Contra, or a different instance?
Iran-Contra was about raising dark money. They did it to poor and minority communities because they knew they were least able to protect themselves, not just for the sake of keeping them down
To be fair, they created crack cocaine, etc., and facilitated numerous other addiction crises both in the US and abroad. 🤢🤬
Wasn't crack originally created by a low level LA dealer to make a bigger profit from the same product volume and THEN deliberately weaponized by the CIA to destroy (mostly black) neighborhoods?
Or did Snowfall take even bigger liberties with regard to historical accuracy than I realized?
TBF, they "investigated" themselves and found no criminal acts — despite admitting in "an internal report issued by the CIA" they were "at least aware of Contra involvement in drug trafficking, and in some cases dissuaded the DEA and other agencies from investigating the Contra supply networks involved."
While I'm sure that's technically factual, (ie. via "classifying" anything they don't want to reveal to the voting public), damning evidence showed that the CIA's "Contra drug links included, among other connections, payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, and in some cases "after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies"
So, even though keeping themselves free of blame is essential to their agency's very existence, we're left with what "facts" they allow to be published.
tl; dr: They're notorious for facilitating crime while technically staying clean of criminality themselves. They may not have cooked it up in their own labs, but they clearly funded and paved the way for those that could, instead.
Ergo, much as a parent is charged in shootings by a minor (finally!)(US), they are wholly complicit at best. 🤢🤕
ACAB, and ofc AFAB, too.
Depending on your definition of blamelessness, that could logicallymean that it never actually existed 😉
Oh, it's not my definition, but theirs. It's how they stay spotless and taxpayer-funded for generations now.
The conspiracy theory is that it was to keep poor people down.
The reality is that they didn't directly sell drugs, they just protected people who did to financially support terrorists, or prevented interdiction to protect traffickers who gave them information that could be used to stop drug trafficking.
This was acceptable to them because they considered poor minority communities unimportant.
It's kinda worse, but it wasn't an attack on the poor. They weren't considered important enough to attack.
They were just an acceptable loss if it meant some people had the money to machine gun Nicaraguan civilians.
The poor were seen as an acceptable loss, but I think the most important specific point is they were seen as the most vulnerable group that was least able to defend themselves
I mean, selling for profit during Iran-contra, sure.
But to pretend the CIA wasn't directly attempting to hurt working class people and furthering class warfare is far too forgiving and naive.
I'm not sure it's forgiving to say that they killed them out of expediency.
We have literal recordings of the motivations behind much of it, or cases where they documented the decision plainly. Poor communities don't have the political pull to get a serious response, so directing traffickers they want to have continued funding there is a way to protect that trafficker.
The war on drugs was structured to target black people and anti-war groups.
Is it really better to say they weren't trying to hurt them, they just didn't view them as people so were entirely unconcerned with what happened to them?
Which it was, however directly or indirectly.
Yeah they did. Bought drugs too.
And right wing foreign governments, and right wing guerillas. And to combat left wing governments, and left wing guerillas.
Yeah it was. A coordinated worldwide mission to oppress the left wing is a coordinated worldwide mission to prevent the poor from rising up and taking what's rightfully theirs from their rich oppressors.
The implication was that they sold drugs to poor communities in America to keep poor communities in America surpressed. Recasting it by saying CIA activities in opposition to anything left of Pinochet are a directed attack on the poor is both shifting it to where I don't think the statement was intended, and also reducing the complexity of their objective.
They didn't give a shit about poor people. They cared about supporting the power structures that employed them. Hurting poor people was just an expedient means towards that end.
Yes, the power structures they supported were largely aligned with financial means because obviously they were, this is America.
I lumped right wing dictators and guerilla groups under the umbrella of terrorism. If the shoe fits and all that.
Citation needed on the CIA directly buying and selling drugs.
They did that too.
Fixed it for you.
On the contrary. I'm saying that attacking the poor was one of many goals of a multifaceted strategy, not the only one.
That's not quite true. They had no love for them, but they were not stupid enough not to fear them.
And to do so is to actively suppress dissent from and agency of the poor
Fixin'
Yet you refuse to acknowledge that this necessarily means that they were opposed to poor people, or you're just denying their awareness of it.
Here's an overview
Do you have anything more specific than a category page, or did you intend to link to a general pile of vague references that generally surmise
Or from one of the journalist pieces the spurred more investigation:
Which is a whole hell of a lot of "exactly what I said".
The cutesy correction of someone else's words isn't persuasive, and is nonsense when you don't even change the meaning.
You see money as the source of an entrenched power structure. I see money as the side effect. It's an efficient way to exert power
They don't need cocaine to surpress the poor in America.
Oh yea we are totally still into that shit
Hey! It's almost Christmas and I'm tired of asking via unencrypted email drafts on a commercial client.
I need drugs and operational funding if you want the stochastic chaos, my guys. Tell the Director it's about time to flip back to chapter 1 on the playbook, we always found the last chapter the most boring part of the re-reads.
You and every other operative out there. Drumpfs been hosing us on funding
Hook. It. Up.