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Although without employment since mid 1995, forced by conscience to assist my father who became increasingly handicapped, I also decided to home school my children who at the time were aged 5 and 7. By late 1999, I decided to turn my attention to a more public sphere and do what I could, to alert people of my community to the dangers of an expanding drug trade at our doorstep. I put together a brief newsletter entitled THE CITIZEN, with a front page article entitled THE PLAGUE.                                   

At the same time I launched a letter writing campaign to area churches asking for their help, and a petition drive to force the Newark archdiocese to implement anti-drug education in its schools. Other letters requested specific details from the two main school systems in the city (public and private) regarding how they were addressing the need to educate elementary and high school children to the dangers of drugs. The response was anemic, partly because little was being done by the schools.                     

By April 2000, I had completed the legal work myself and incorporated a non profit corporation entitled The Citizen for Social Responsibility, in the State of Delaware, as well as in the State of New Jersey, and applied with the IRS for 501c3 status. By the summer of 2004, many newsletters later circulation in the thousands, we launched on the Internet. By the beginning of 2009 our Internet site visitors numbered 1300 to 1500 per month. Website hits numbered in the hundreds of thousands.                                 

Sometimes I catch myself wondering in retrospect if I made a mistake in taking the steps that I have during these past years. Indeed would I do it the same way, if I had a second opportunity to live over these past years… I don’t know.                         

Would I, like so many others, instead be a coward, and choose to look the other way. Could I ignore the ravages of what these merchants of death obtain as a result of their profits? Could I live with my conscience knowing that certain individuals, whom I know by face and reputation, are helping to destroy human lives, entire families and neighborhoods and yet choose to remain silent?                            

If I chose to play ‘see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil’ could I live with myself, would I remain the person whom I am. Would I remain true to myself? No, I would not, so therefore I could not ignore these ‘plague masters’ and their horrid affairs.                                             

If everyone responded like I have, our communities, our nation and our world would be better for it, of this I am certain.                        

In 1970 a young Yale graduate student, Alfred McCoy, went to South Vietnam in order to conduct a study into the outbreak of heroin use among American servicemen fighting in the conflict that we have come to know as the Vietnam War. McCoy’s initial study, evolved into an exposé that documented that the U.S. government was directly involved in narco traffic in Vietnam, and Laos. (see The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, by Alfred W. McCoy, Harper & Row, 1972), available at www.Amazon.com .

McCoy’s work documented that drugs were being used to garner profits that were then used to fund illegal black ops. Operations which ordinarily would not be funded by Congress.                                         

By design, agencies of the U.S. government formed alliances with members of organized crime, and foreign citizens to conduct these activities which are in violation of domestic and international laws.                              

In 1996, Gary Webb, a journalist working for the San Jose Mercury News uncovered further U.S. complicity in narco trafficking within the United States.                                                            

His reports were compiled into a book entitled Dark Alliance (see Dark Alliance, by Gary Webb, 7 Stories Press, 1998 ISBN 1888363932).

Webb’s accounts trace back narco traffic in Central America during the early 1980’s to activities by the National Security Council and the Reagan White House.                                                         

As we can see, U.S. government complicity in narcotraffic activities have precedents, and they have been documented.                           

So the question I entertain is: did I stumble upon a domestic narco-traffic operation in New Jersey’s largest city, which has the blessing of U.S. government intelligence agencies? If so, why are they condoning drug traffic inside the United States?                                                    

Is the U.S. government relying on laundered funds to prop up the U.S. banking system? Are drugs being used as a direct method of warfare against minority communities? We see a direct effect, do we not; Newark is undergoing a so-called Renaissance, at the expense of minority communities who are being pushed out. Commenced during the Sharpe James years, it has accelerated during the current Cory Booker administration.                                

Public housing, many of it built in the 1960’s initially saw an epidemic of drug traffic, then violent crime. Recently public housing in the city has being demolished, and poor residents are being pushed out of the city.             

The cost of municipal services is also being increasingly taxed at higher and higher levels, city budgets usually take longer to be approved impacting on late tax bills that catch strapped residents with shorter periods to make payments. Recently city furloughs further dimished customer service hours at city hall at the payment kiosk, all this forcing the city’s upper working class and lower middle class to deal with increased financial pressures and decisions to sell their homes and also move out.                                        

Entire neighborhoods in the last decade have been altered with many properties being demolished so that ‘cookie-cutter’ box-like housing with modern amenities and miniature lawn-frontage can be erected in their place.

The fact that I have continued to bear the brunt of tactics of harassment and intimidation bear witness to the fact that my speaking out has caused disquiet in some sectors of the law enforcement community with direct ties to the very activity that I have complained about.                                  

Drug traffic in the Newark area is a law-enforcement protected operation, of this I have little doubt.                                                

One more item of interest for the reader: On September 12, 2009, NJ State Police, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Newark and Dept. of Homeland Security agents conducted a sting operation and nabbed a federal agent who along with two other men were involved in ‘stealing’ drugs from narcotraffickers.

The sting, was set up as a fake shipment in order to entrap the federal agent. "Authorities said they began their investigation in June, when Doyle [the rogue federal agent] allegedly told a government informant the trio had been robbing drug dealers.." (Star Ledger 09-12-09, Drug Sting Collars Fed Agent. )                                                             

Sure, a federal agent stealing drugs from traffickers in order to sell them himself is just as bad, as if sold by the traffickers themselves. But, hold on, think about this; did this rogue agent perhaps steal from the ‘wrong people’? Did he steal from traffickers being protected by the Feds themselves?         

The question remains; is narcotraffic, a protected operation in Newark, and if so, in how many other regions of the country is this happening?              

Nearly 1 in 100 people in America is in jail, most are poor-- is the war on drugs simply a farce? The United States hold 25% of the world's inmates.  Clearly jails are being used as a method of controlling the population, and it isn't all tied to crime.  Let us not forget that Stalin, as well as Mao's China employed the use of jailing people for political reasons.

And are drugs being used as a method of social engineering?                 

NARCOTICS ARE TOOLS OF SOCIAL CONTROL                                                                                                                                                                            

When Afghanistan was administered by Islamic zealots, the Taliban, it saw a virtual extermination of the opium poppy. Afghanistan had no commerce to speak of, in narcotics.                                                       

By 2004, after George W. Bush declared his ‘war on terrorism’ and named the Taliban as a nemesis; Afghanistan grew to be the region from which most of the world’s cocaine emerges. The United Nations has documented this, just do a google search for details.                                            

That commerce and traffic has continued to explode, and Afghanistan’s people today are struggling with the social problems, and crime that emerges with the drug trade. So the presence of the U.S. military in Afghanistan has aided and facilitated the commerce in cocaine.                         

Once again the involvement of the U.S. government and its many agencies are directly tied to narcotraffic: our tax dollars hard at work to foment destruction, in order to feed illicit profits for the merchants of death.

America has ceased to be the shining example of the 'city on the hill', the hope of the world, the democratic model for individual freedom, advancement of principled liberty. Our institutions have become corrupt, and vampire-like.

The commerce of cocaine has achieved that, as a result we are a nation falling from grace, denuded of values and morals. Government institutions can no longer be trusted to be working for the good of the people.           

Ralph Nader who campaigned for president numerous times, who has been a legendary activist for consumers of this country, has reached similar conclusions about the corruption that has gripped our nation and our government. In a recent book just published, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! 7 Stories Press, 2009 ISBN 10: 1583229035. Although this is a work of fiction, Nader's first, it serves as an allegory for what ails America, and how it could be all fixed if only the rich and powerful of this nation so wished it to be.                                           

I highly recommend that you read Nader's book.                    

In conclusion, the hope of America lies in its people, many of whom are good decent people who toil hard and struggle for a living in a society they still believe in. The hopes and dreams of prior generations of Americans who lived through the ravages of the second world war, the great fight against fascism, of Roosevelt's New Deal; through the hope of the Kennedy years; and Johnson's Great Society... the culmination of all those hopes and dreams reside still in the hearts and minds of most Americans.                    

The Reagan and Bush years have led the nation in a direction away from those ideals, those prior hopes and dreams.                                      

The promise of change, that we witnessed during Barack Obama's drive to the white house tapped into that prior history of hope, even though what we witness today from an elected President Obama is a betrayal to those ideals.

Hope for our collective future lies with the people, not in one man. Change can only happen when people unite and stand up against the forces of hatred, violence, and corruption, and cry out: ENOUGH!                   

America can be great once again, the hope of the world, the home of principled values and liberty, but only its people can achieve that, not institutions, not government administrations, not bureaucrats.                

Posted  October 05, 2009

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