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<blockquote data-quote="Gxg (G²)" data-source="post: 63662926" data-attributes="member: 238335"><p>No one says that coming in illegally is something that's not an issue - but how they're treated afterward (just as it is with not torturing prisoners because we are to be honorable) is something that needs to be considered strongly.</p><p> </p><p>A lot of things mentioned when it comes to Marijuania are often ignored - although I will say that it's made into something very negative that's not fully accurate. And that is said in light of others who work on the issue - legalization is not the issue anymore than it was with alcohol. More of this I've tried to share in-depth <a href="http://www.christianforums.com/t7694233-7/#post61555209" target="_blank">here</a> in #<a href="http://www.christianforums.com/t7722037-2/#post62413508" target="_blank"><strong>20</strong></a> / #<a href="http://www.christianforums.com/t7694233-12/#post61560162" target="_blank"><strong>113</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.christianforums.com/t7651849/?highlight=marijuana" target="_blank"><strong>Medical Marijuana & Schedule 1</strong></a> ) - and here as well in <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/45191/marijuana-legalization-the-war-on-drugs-is-a-blessing-for-big-pharma-big-tobacco-and-big-alcohol" target="_blank">Marijuana Legalization: The War On Drugs Is a Blessing For Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, and Big Alcohol </a></p><p> </p><p>Government already controls the masses with drug addiction when it comes to the "War on Drugs"...</p><p> </p><p>Glad for others like Milton Friedman sharing much needed truth on the issue....</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIznGX7sCqQ" target="_blank">THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY: The War on Drugs </a></p><p> </p><p>And historically, when seeing what the government has done with drug policy, it's amazing how much the problems they say need to remain "illegal" were already funded by the same government. There'll always be an underground economy that unites all sides in darker ways even while those sides are against each other above ground. For example, I was able to talk with one soldier who served in North Korea back in the 80s and it was amazing hearing some of the things he shared with me - specifically on all of the things he had deep regret for when seeing first hand how many were exploited over there by the U.S. When he and I talked on the ways the U.S harmed other nations that ended up connected to North Korea like Laos, he shared with me some information on the Heroine trade being a very big deal there.</p><p> </p><p>As noted best in <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704563/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">Heroin in brown, black and white: Structural factors and medical consequences <span style="color: #000000">in the US heroin market</span> <strong>...</strong></span></a>...prior to 1980, heroin in the US was sourced from the three predominate producing regions in the world: Southeast Asia, aka the Golden Triangle of Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Thailand; Southwest Asia, i.e., Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran; and, to a minor degree, Mexico. The largest producer at that time was the triumvirate called the Golden Triangle, the name referring to the shape of the three constituent countries and the richness of the opium trade. Opium from the Golden Triangle accounted for 55% of the world&#8217;s opium in 1986 (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704563/#R45" target="_blank">United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, 1999</a>) and the heroin derived from it accounted for 19% of the US market (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704563/#R32" target="_blank">National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee, 1992</a>). </p><p> </p><p>In<a href="http://druglibrary.eu/library/books/McCoy/mccoy.pdf" target="_blank">terestingly enough, as Heroin/other drugs were a big deal in the South Asian economy</a> (with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+CIA%2C+Drug+Trafficking+and+American+Politics&oq=The+CIA%2C+Drug+Trafficking+and+American+Politics&gs_l=youtube-reduced.12...41363.41363.0.42220.1.1.0.0.0.0.53.53.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.pjye27yuNBo" target="_blank">the CIA being deeply connected with the Drug Distribution game </a>around<a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+CIA%2C+Drug+Trafficking+and+American+Politics&oq=The+CIA%2C+Drug+Trafficking+and+American+Politics&gs_l=youtube-reduced.12...41363.41363.0.42220.1.1.0.0.0.0.53.53.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.pjye27yuNBo" target="_blank"> the world </a>- <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/id/ciadrugs/cia-golden-triangle.html" target="_blank">including in nations that were against the U.S</a>, more here in #<a href="http://www.christianforums.com/t7706740/#post61916993" target="_blank"><strong>4</strong></a> / #<a href="http://www.christianforums.com/t7698610/#post61676073" target="_blank"><strong>9</strong></a>) the CIA also <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=w2MGt9aWpeoC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=Laos+was+abandoned+by+the+U.S+due+to+heroin&source=bl&ots=NH39PcxqJC&sig=Nxu5vOJ94wJSlmvxlPmEI4C1vkE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Be9gUeeqApCG9gSRp4CACQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=Laos%20was%20abandoned%20by%20the%20U.S%20due%20to%20heroin&f=false" target="_blank">funded the people of Laos with smuggling Heroin drugs on planes into other areas </a>to<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=w2MGt9aWpeoC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=Laos+was+abandoned+by+the+U.S+due+to+heroin&source=bl&ots=NH39PcxqJC&sig=Nxu5vOJ94wJSlmvxlPmEI4C1vkE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Be9gUeeqApCG9gSRp4CACQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=Laos%20was%20abandoned%20by%20the%20U.S%20due%20to%20heroin&f=false" target="_blank"> keep cash flow going for funding the war - and benefitting the U.S when it came to drug capitalism</a> and <a href="http://www.lycaeum.org/drugwar/DARKALLIANCE/ciah3.html" target="_blank">funding through the black market</a> (all in secret while publically saying Laos was "neutral" when the goal was to destabilize the country/bring it in line with U.S interests of capitalism so they could influence the region and more areas near it). </p><p> </p><p>More specifically, the CIA&#8217;s complicity in drug trafficking/black market resulted from its alliance with the Hmong tribes who, since the 1950s, had been used by the French to fight Vietnamese leftists. As early as 1959, CIA operative Lucien Conein stated that eight teams were training Hmong tribesmen on the Plain of Jars...and in 1960 the CIA began recruiting units to patrol the border with China and even to send Yao and Lahu tribesmen into Yunnan province to monitor traffic/tap telephone lines. Operating out of Vientiane, the CIA also sent recruits to the patrol the Vietnam border as well as to send Green Beret commando units into North Vietnam to sabotage the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The largest goal of the CIA, as said before, was to wage secret war against the Pathet Lao in northern Laos....for from 1960 to 1974, the CIA maintained a secret army of approximately 30,000 tribesmen in the mountains of northern Laos which riginated with Vientiane CIA station chief Shackley and his Clines, The CIA used their own planes to get the drugs smuggled - and the CIA relied on the villagers to supply the manpower to continue to replace the wounded and killed....and in return for providing recruits, the Hmong opium growers received CIA support and their economy flourished. <a href="http://darkpolitics.wordpress.com/cia-involvement-in-drug-smuggling-part-2/" target="_blank">It became a harmful relationship in the end in light of what the drugs did later - especially with Drug Lords</a>.....but it achieved a lot of things pragmatically for the U.S.</p><p> </p><p>The CIA's policy of tolerance towards its Laotian allies did not change even when they began producing heroin to supply U.S. combat forces fighting in South Vietnam....as in 1968-1969, CIA assets opened a cluster of heroin laboratories in the Golden Triangle region where Burma, Thailand and Laos converge. When Hmong officers loaded opium on the CIA's Air America and the Lao army's commander-in-chief opened a heroin lab to supply U.S. troops in South Vietnam, the Agency was silent. All of this heroin was smuggled into South Vietnam. And by 1971, according to a White House survey, 34<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MauWlUjuWNsC&pg=PA714&lpg=PA714&dq=Laos+was+abandoned+by+the+U.S+due+to+heroin&source=bl&ots=3RhDwSLI4z&sig=NzlvfX7pe5EX_lCoAuBv-jpNjTM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CAdhUZqTH5LI9QS_4YFQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwATge#v=onepage&q=Laos%20was%20abandoned%20by%20the%20U.S%20due%20to%20heroin&f=false" target="_blank">%, or more than one-third, of U.S. troops were addicted to heroin. </a>...<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=czd4aRDYQjsC&pg=PA284&dq=The+U.S+abandoned+the+people+of+Laos+over+Heroin/Drugs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QQZhUfWUG5Tw8ASUuYHoAQ&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=The%20U.S%20abandoned%20the%20people%20of%20Laos%20over%20Heroin%2FDrugs&f=false" target="_blank">and many felt that the Hmong people should not have been helped if they had heroin in their veins </a>- even though the U.S helped in facilitating the Drug Trade because of how it helped in their war efforts. Essentially, instead of trying to restrain drug trafficking by its Laotian assets, the Agency participated in, engaged in, concealment and cover-up. </p><p> </p><p></p><p>And that connects with us even having nations that are deemed opponents of the U.S (like North Korea) getting involved since funding the Drug Trade gave them a greater market to work with. For more info (reference): </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.state.gov/j/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2003/vol1/html/29837.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">Southeast Asia</span></a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.preservingourhistory.com/Laos.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">LAOS : The Secret War</span></a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9b61d03e4f970b20d9026794fd75fec7" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">Laos' Secret Drug War Lives On - NAM</span></a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/524830/The-Politics-of-Heroin-in-Southeast-Asia" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia</span></a></strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://kms1.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/105153/ichaptersection_singledocument/411b1127-4f26-4e1c-b018-ad0cef742798/en/3.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">North Korea and Illegal Narcotics: Smoke but No Fire?</span></a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/Koreas/Lintner-Bertil/North-Koreas-underground-railroad-to-Thailand" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">North Korea's underground railroad to Thailand | Conflict </span></a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/07/laos-and-drugs-trade" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">Laos and the drugs trade: A second wind from the Golden Triangle </span></a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-L8B8ydtHZ4C&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=North+Korea+worked+with+Laos+in+Heroin+trafficking&source=bl&ots=Z76cXx1-QL&sig=u-f_3MnEoYC-c-vmP8h6mUgvlxI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CAphUffDC4vc8ASapIHIAg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwBw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism - Volume 1 - Page 142 </span></a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.academia.edu/221664/Wars_Ontogeny_Militias_and_Ethnic_Boundaries_in_Laos_and_Exile" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc"><strong>War's Ontogeny: Militias and Ethnic Boundaries in Laos and Exile .</strong></span></a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=zRzLxbknhfU%3D&tabid=1295" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">Constructing a Rogue State: American Post-Cold War Security Discourse and North Korean Drug Trafficking- Johnson <strong>...</strong></span></a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://dimension.ucsd.edu/CEIMSA-IN-EXILE/publications/Students/Mako.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1122cc">War &#8220;on&#8221; drugs: The reasons and consequences of the CIA&#8217;s involvement in the drug trade and the phoney &#8220;war&#8221; against drug dealers. <strong>...</strong> - UC San Diego</span></a></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://youtu.be/SYYuD9mSRtg" target="_blank">The CIA, Drug Trafficking and American Politics: The Political Economy of War </a></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://youtu.be/cWKHbDAUN-s" target="_blank">The Last CIA Whistleblower: Drug Trafficking, Training Terrorists, and the U.S Government</a></p><p></p><p>Thus, I do not find it surprising in the least that the only way for the U.S to combat the Communists they deemed as enemies was to fund/introduce on a GLOBAL scale the Drug Game...Narco Capitalism (which has destroyed thousands of lives in the U.S/worldwide)...through utilizing Black Market/secret sources as a means of supporting the PUBLIC face of Capitalism in forms that many were comfortable accepting in what they considered to be the "Free Market." And trying to control the people by still convincing them to keep certain drugs ILLEGAL rather than legalized.</p><p> </p><p>It's all interconnected.....and in many respects, it's similar to what occurred with the history of Bootlegging: the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law...for Smuggling was usually done to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular jurisdiction (more <a href="http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/RumWar.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> and<a href="http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/1999/10/bootleggers.pdf" target="_blank"> here </a>/<a href="http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/watch-video/#id=2082675582" target="_blank">here</a>) - and just as it was done back in the day when the people weren't really helped by it, so it is today with the war on drugs. <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2016370756_guest01stamper.html" target="_blank">Prohibition is truly a parallel to modern war on drugs</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-40VnMG94" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-40VnMG94</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHelNNtYEbo&list=EL_tUZadHTcC4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHelNNtYEbo&list=EL_tUZadHTcC4</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gxg (G²), post: 63662926, member: 238335"] No one says that coming in illegally is something that's not an issue - but how they're treated afterward (just as it is with not torturing prisoners because we are to be honorable) is something that needs to be considered strongly. A lot of things mentioned when it comes to Marijuania are often ignored - although I will say that it's made into something very negative that's not fully accurate. And that is said in light of others who work on the issue - legalization is not the issue anymore than it was with alcohol. More of this I've tried to share in-depth [URL="http://www.christianforums.com/t7694233-7/#post61555209"]here[/URL] in #[URL="http://www.christianforums.com/t7722037-2/#post62413508"][B]20[/B][/URL] / #[URL="http://www.christianforums.com/t7694233-12/#post61560162"][B]113[/B][/URL] and [URL="http://www.christianforums.com/t7651849/?highlight=marijuana"][B]Medical Marijuana & Schedule 1[/B][/URL] ) - and here as well in [URL="http://www.policymic.com/articles/45191/marijuana-legalization-the-war-on-drugs-is-a-blessing-for-big-pharma-big-tobacco-and-big-alcohol"]Marijuana Legalization: The War On Drugs Is a Blessing For Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, and Big Alcohol [/URL] Government already controls the masses with drug addiction when it comes to the "War on Drugs"... Glad for others like Milton Friedman sharing much needed truth on the issue.... [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIznGX7sCqQ"]THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY: The War on Drugs [/URL] And historically, when seeing what the government has done with drug policy, it's amazing how much the problems they say need to remain "illegal" were already funded by the same government. There'll always be an underground economy that unites all sides in darker ways even while those sides are against each other above ground. For example, I was able to talk with one soldier who served in North Korea back in the 80s and it was amazing hearing some of the things he shared with me - specifically on all of the things he had deep regret for when seeing first hand how many were exploited over there by the U.S. When he and I talked on the ways the U.S harmed other nations that ended up connected to North Korea like Laos, he shared with me some information on the Heroine trade being a very big deal there. As noted best in [URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704563/"][COLOR=#1122cc]Heroin in brown, black and white: Structural factors and medical consequences [COLOR=#000000]in the US heroin market[/COLOR] [B]...[/B][/COLOR][/URL]...prior to 1980, heroin in the US was sourced from the three predominate producing regions in the world: Southeast Asia, aka the Golden Triangle of Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Thailand; Southwest Asia, i.e., Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran; and, to a minor degree, Mexico. The largest producer at that time was the triumvirate called the Golden Triangle, the name referring to the shape of the three constituent countries and the richness of the opium trade. Opium from the Golden Triangle accounted for 55% of the world’s opium in 1986 ([URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704563/#R45"]United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, 1999[/URL]) and the heroin derived from it accounted for 19% of the US market ([URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704563/#R32"]National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee, 1992[/URL]). In[URL="http://druglibrary.eu/library/books/McCoy/mccoy.pdf"]terestingly enough, as Heroin/other drugs were a big deal in the South Asian economy[/URL] (with [URL="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+CIA%2C+Drug+Trafficking+and+American+Politics&oq=The+CIA%2C+Drug+Trafficking+and+American+Politics&gs_l=youtube-reduced.12...41363.41363.0.42220.1.1.0.0.0.0.53.53.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.pjye27yuNBo"]the CIA being deeply connected with the Drug Distribution game [/URL]around[URL="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+CIA%2C+Drug+Trafficking+and+American+Politics&oq=The+CIA%2C+Drug+Trafficking+and+American+Politics&gs_l=youtube-reduced.12...41363.41363.0.42220.1.1.0.0.0.0.53.53.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.pjye27yuNBo"] the world [/URL]- [URL="http://www.angelfire.com/id/ciadrugs/cia-golden-triangle.html"]including in nations that were against the U.S[/URL], more here in #[URL="http://www.christianforums.com/t7706740/#post61916993"][B]4[/B][/URL] / #[URL="http://www.christianforums.com/t7698610/#post61676073"][B]9[/B][/URL]) the CIA also [URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=w2MGt9aWpeoC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=Laos+was+abandoned+by+the+U.S+due+to+heroin&source=bl&ots=NH39PcxqJC&sig=Nxu5vOJ94wJSlmvxlPmEI4C1vkE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Be9gUeeqApCG9gSRp4CACQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=Laos%20was%20abandoned%20by%20the%20U.S%20due%20to%20heroin&f=false"]funded the people of Laos with smuggling Heroin drugs on planes into other areas [/URL]to[URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=w2MGt9aWpeoC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=Laos+was+abandoned+by+the+U.S+due+to+heroin&source=bl&ots=NH39PcxqJC&sig=Nxu5vOJ94wJSlmvxlPmEI4C1vkE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Be9gUeeqApCG9gSRp4CACQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=Laos%20was%20abandoned%20by%20the%20U.S%20due%20to%20heroin&f=false"] keep cash flow going for funding the war - and benefitting the U.S when it came to drug capitalism[/URL] and [URL="http://www.lycaeum.org/drugwar/DARKALLIANCE/ciah3.html"]funding through the black market[/URL] (all in secret while publically saying Laos was "neutral" when the goal was to destabilize the country/bring it in line with U.S interests of capitalism so they could influence the region and more areas near it). More specifically, the CIA’s complicity in drug trafficking/black market resulted from its alliance with the Hmong tribes who, since the 1950s, had been used by the French to fight Vietnamese leftists. As early as 1959, CIA operative Lucien Conein stated that eight teams were training Hmong tribesmen on the Plain of Jars...and in 1960 the CIA began recruiting units to patrol the border with China and even to send Yao and Lahu tribesmen into Yunnan province to monitor traffic/tap telephone lines. Operating out of Vientiane, the CIA also sent recruits to the patrol the Vietnam border as well as to send Green Beret commando units into North Vietnam to sabotage the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The largest goal of the CIA, as said before, was to wage secret war against the Pathet Lao in northern Laos....for from 1960 to 1974, the CIA maintained a secret army of approximately 30,000 tribesmen in the mountains of northern Laos which riginated with Vientiane CIA station chief Shackley and his Clines, The CIA used their own planes to get the drugs smuggled - and the CIA relied on the villagers to supply the manpower to continue to replace the wounded and killed....and in return for providing recruits, the Hmong opium growers received CIA support and their economy flourished. [URL="http://darkpolitics.wordpress.com/cia-involvement-in-drug-smuggling-part-2/"]It became a harmful relationship in the end in light of what the drugs did later - especially with Drug Lords[/URL].....but it achieved a lot of things pragmatically for the U.S. The CIA's policy of tolerance towards its Laotian allies did not change even when they began producing heroin to supply U.S. combat forces fighting in South Vietnam....as in 1968-1969, CIA assets opened a cluster of heroin laboratories in the Golden Triangle region where Burma, Thailand and Laos converge. When Hmong officers loaded opium on the CIA's Air America and the Lao army's commander-in-chief opened a heroin lab to supply U.S. troops in South Vietnam, the Agency was silent. All of this heroin was smuggled into South Vietnam. And by 1971, according to a White House survey, 34[URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=MauWlUjuWNsC&pg=PA714&lpg=PA714&dq=Laos+was+abandoned+by+the+U.S+due+to+heroin&source=bl&ots=3RhDwSLI4z&sig=NzlvfX7pe5EX_lCoAuBv-jpNjTM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CAdhUZqTH5LI9QS_4YFQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwATge#v=onepage&q=Laos%20was%20abandoned%20by%20the%20U.S%20due%20to%20heroin&f=false"]%, or more than one-third, of U.S. troops were addicted to heroin. [/URL]...[URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=czd4aRDYQjsC&pg=PA284&dq=The+U.S+abandoned+the+people+of+Laos+over+Heroin/Drugs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QQZhUfWUG5Tw8ASUuYHoAQ&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=The%20U.S%20abandoned%20the%20people%20of%20Laos%20over%20Heroin%2FDrugs&f=false"]and many felt that the Hmong people should not have been helped if they had heroin in their veins [/URL]- even though the U.S helped in facilitating the Drug Trade because of how it helped in their war efforts. Essentially, instead of trying to restrain drug trafficking by its Laotian assets, the Agency participated in, engaged in, concealment and cover-up. And that connects with us even having nations that are deemed opponents of the U.S (like North Korea) getting involved since funding the Drug Trade gave them a greater market to work with. For more info (reference): [LIST] [*][URL="http://www.state.gov/j/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2003/vol1/html/29837.htm"][COLOR=#1122cc]Southeast Asia[/COLOR][/URL] [*][URL="http://www.preservingourhistory.com/Laos.html"][COLOR=#1122cc]LAOS : The Secret War[/COLOR][/URL] [*][URL="http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9b61d03e4f970b20d9026794fd75fec7"][COLOR=#1122cc]Laos' Secret Drug War Lives On - NAM[/COLOR][/URL] [*][B][URL="http://www.scribd.com/doc/524830/The-Politics-of-Heroin-in-Southeast-Asia"][COLOR=#1122cc]The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia[/COLOR][/URL][/B] [*][URL="http://kms1.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/105153/ichaptersection_singledocument/411b1127-4f26-4e1c-b018-ad0cef742798/en/3.pdf"][COLOR=#1122cc]North Korea and Illegal Narcotics: Smoke but No Fire?[/COLOR][/URL] [*][URL="http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/Koreas/Lintner-Bertil/North-Koreas-underground-railroad-to-Thailand"][COLOR=#1122cc]North Korea's underground railroad to Thailand | Conflict [/COLOR][/URL] [*][URL="http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/07/laos-and-drugs-trade"][COLOR=#1122cc]Laos and the drugs trade: A second wind from the Golden Triangle [/COLOR][/URL] [*][URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=-L8B8ydtHZ4C&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=North+Korea+worked+with+Laos+in+Heroin+trafficking&source=bl&ots=Z76cXx1-QL&sig=u-f_3MnEoYC-c-vmP8h6mUgvlxI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CAphUffDC4vc8ASapIHIAg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwBw"][COLOR=#1122cc]Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism - Volume 1 - Page 142 [/COLOR][/URL] [*][URL="http://www.academia.edu/221664/Wars_Ontogeny_Militias_and_Ethnic_Boundaries_in_Laos_and_Exile"][COLOR=#1122cc][B]War's Ontogeny: Militias and Ethnic Boundaries in Laos and Exile .[/B][/COLOR][/URL] [*][URL="http://www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=zRzLxbknhfU%3D&tabid=1295"][COLOR=#1122cc]Constructing a Rogue State: American Post-Cold War Security Discourse and North Korean Drug Trafficking- Johnson [B]...[/B][/COLOR][/URL] [*][URL="http://dimension.ucsd.edu/CEIMSA-IN-EXILE/publications/Students/Mako.pdf"][COLOR=#1122cc]War “on” drugs: The reasons and consequences of the CIA’s involvement in the drug trade and the phoney “war” against drug dealers. [B]...[/B] - UC San Diego[/COLOR][/URL] [/LIST][CENTER][URL="http://youtu.be/SYYuD9mSRtg"]The CIA, Drug Trafficking and American Politics: The Political Economy of War [/URL][/CENTER] [CENTER][URL="http://youtu.be/cWKHbDAUN-s"]The Last CIA Whistleblower: Drug Trafficking, Training Terrorists, and the U.S Government[/URL][/CENTER] Thus, I do not find it surprising in the least that the only way for the U.S to combat the Communists they deemed as enemies was to fund/introduce on a GLOBAL scale the Drug Game...Narco Capitalism (which has destroyed thousands of lives in the U.S/worldwide)...through utilizing Black Market/secret sources as a means of supporting the PUBLIC face of Capitalism in forms that many were comfortable accepting in what they considered to be the "Free Market." And trying to control the people by still convincing them to keep certain drugs ILLEGAL rather than legalized. It's all interconnected.....and in many respects, it's similar to what occurred with the history of Bootlegging: the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law...for Smuggling was usually done to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular jurisdiction (more [URL="http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/RumWar.pdf"]here[/URL] and[URL="http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/1999/10/bootleggers.pdf"] here [/URL]/[URL="http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/watch-video/#id=2082675582"]here[/URL]) - and just as it was done back in the day when the people weren't really helped by it, so it is today with the war on drugs. [URL="http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2016370756_guest01stamper.html"]Prohibition is truly a parallel to modern war on drugs[/URL] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-40VnMG94[/url] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHelNNtYEbo&list=EL_tUZadHTcC4[/url] [/QUOTE]
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