From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ The New Form of Politics: Drug Lords and the Waning of the Nation State (Excerpted from Strategic Investment newsletter, October 26, 1994) "I got a political action committee.. I got an organization called 21st Century VOTE...That's the folks in the projects, the poor people. You got them dope fiends and wineys, we can get the vote out. We got the army." - Larry Hoover, Gangster Disciples leader, and reported power behind 21st-Century VOTE Crook Pac Politics can be a dirty business. The Chicago Tribune and ABC News have illustrated this once again with reports on the activities of 21st Century Vote, a new political action committee, reportedly funded by Chicago dope dealers. Already the committee has paid out more than $114,899 to state and local politicians. [...] Why criminals buy politicians Politicians ultimately control both policing and the judicial process. They determine who is in command of the police department and who becomes a judge. The politicians frequently have a major influence on which crimes and whose crimes are investigated. If drug dealers can control the politicians who select police officials, hire and fire prosecutors and appoint judges, they can make millions, and even billions, unmolested by the law. [...] So it is hardly surprising that drug dealers like Larry Hoover of the Gangster Disciples try to elect their favorite politicians. The bad boys from Chicago's bad neighborhoods have only been doing what comes naturally to drug dealers - buying political influence and protection. What is extraordinary is that they dislosed it. Normally, drug gangs are not detained by the niceties of campaign finance laws. When it comes time to buy politicians, they simply buy them. Cash or a wire transfer to an offshore account is usually the preferred method of payment. Drug dealers tend not to register their payments with election officials in triplicate. [...] For those unwilling to be bought, the drug dealers can offer worse. [...] Murder is a part of their business. Where they cannot buy a police investigator or bribe a witness who has incriminating evidence, the frequently resort to violence. [...] What should be sobering is the realization that these guys are the small-timers. [...] The real drug lords are the wholesalers. If Larry Hoover is dealing with hundreds of millions in the south side of Chicago, the importers and wholesalers are dealing in billions. The real drug lords are not buying aldermen, they are buying governors and congressmen and the leaders of countries. Or shooting them. [Discussion about the recent shooting of Rutz Massieu, secretary- general of the ruling PRI party in Mexico.] The Arkansas Connection [...] By far the most chilling recent news report deals with the wholesale drug trade that flourished in Arkansas when Bill Cllinton was governor. [...] The October 9 issue of the Sunday Telegraph of London published an extensive expose of the activities of Bill Clinton's friends and supporters in importing illegal drugs into the United States during the 1980s. [Lots of specifics about corrupt practices of Clinton & Co., including campaign slush funds, quashed investigations, unusual deaths, coke parties, money laundering, etc.] The Telegraph story ties the money laundering close to Bill Clinton, and his hip pocket bank, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. Clinton created ADFA in 1985 just as the drug profits really began to flow. The authorizing legislation was drawn by former assistant U.S. Attorney General, Webster Hubbel, then of the Rose Law firm. ADFA issued more than $1.3 billion of the bonds. In spite of the huge size of these transactions, proper records were never kept. Or if kept, are no longer available. ADFA cannot now account for who bought the bonds or where the money went. Thus the Telegraph comment: "There have been many allegations that ADFA served as a `laundromat' for dirty money. In December 1988 it wired $50 million to the Fuji Bank in the Cayman Islands. Investigators will be looking for proof that the money - all of it - returned to Arkansas for its intended purpose of building family homes." These explosive revelations were not printed in a supermarket tabloid, but in one of Britain's leading newspapers. [...] We have been told that former federal agents who investigated drug trafficking in Arkansas believe that at least one and possibly two large offshore accounts were established for Clinton's benefit under the name of "Chelsea Jefferson." [...] Clinton's FBI [Discussion of how the Justice Department has been neutered.] The current FBI director, Louis Freeh, is highly regarded. He was appointed on the urging of Robert Fiske, who was also highly regarded. Yet Fiske, who was appointed by Janet Reno to investigate Whitewater and the death of Vincent Foster, apparently failed to notice more than 40 clues and contradictions suggesting that Foster did not commit sucicide. It is interesting to note that the former FBI director, William Sessions, was fired abruptly the night before Vincent Foster died. [...] FBI field agents in Arkansas are under orders from Washington not to investigate ADFA. [...] It will be difficult, as long as Clinton remains President, to fathom which of his policies are aimed at forwarding the national interest of the United States, and which involve the foreign or domestic policies of the drug lords. His connections to the multi- billion wholesale trade in illegal drugs that flourished in Arkansas during his governorship cannot be ignored, and can no longer be covered up. [...] Much to their regret, the American press will be obliged to report this information. It is already widely disseminated on the Internet, and discussed on many radio talk shows. It will either leach out gradually, the way news used to pass in whispers in the former Soviet Union, or you will wake one morning to find it in the New York Times. [...] The question is whether a quiet resignation will be enough to put the system on a sound footing for the future. I doubt it. I am convinced that this whole issue must be aired in a thorough way, so that the American people have a chance to understand how pervasive the power of the drug lords is. Without that understanding, effective reform is unlikely. And unless it is flushed clean, the American political system in its present form will be lucky to survive. A quiet departure for Clinton, therefore, may not be in the best interest of the country, especially if it leaves persons friendly to the interests of the drug lords in control of the Justice Department and highly placed in law enforcement agencies, and perhaps even the CIA. [Comparison of USA to collapse of decadent Rome.] Hope that Republicans win the Congress While there is evidence of bipartisan involvement and embarassment in the scandalous activities of the drug dealers, Democrats are totally in control in Washington and in most of the Southern states where the drug dealers are most active in buying political influence, particularly among governors. [Hope is expressed that (1) Republicans will win control of congress and that they will conduct real investigations.] Take the profit out & Lure them above ground A workable (perhaps revolting) cure is proposed: (1) legalize drugs and (2) provide some sort of amnesty for drug lords who confess during a brief grace period (to move the subterranean drug organizations in the open and out of organized crime).] The American system today is more corrupt and therefore vulnerable than we commonly suppose. More than any past President, Clinton has made his compromises with the drug lords. Only he knows precisely how this happened. Perhaps he was ready for it all along. Perhaps he was blackmailed. Perhaps he just slipped into an untennable situation while using drugs and found it difficult to extricate himself. Be that as it may, he has contributed to the growing power of the drug lords. If drug sales are not legalized, and soon, you can expect all the worst consequences. The barbarians are within the gates. They are armed, wealthy and thoroughly ruthless practitioners of the "new form of politics." With every day that passes, their fortunes compound, and therefore their capacity to corrupt the law and bend it to their own ends increases as well. Let them do their work unimpeded for a few more years, and we will learn to our sorrow as we bow that they are not called "Drug Lords" for nothing. Sincereley, James Davidson [Strategic Investment is $109/12 monthly issues, and is well worth it. SI, 824 E. 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