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The Drug War Book
Posted by FoM on January 19, 2002 at 16:52:32 PT
By M. L. Simon 
Source: Rock River Times
I have just been reading a book called Drug War: Covert Money, Power, and Policy by Dan Russell. Drug War is a massive 675 page expose on the drug war. It names names, gives places and dates, and is well footnoted. But before you dive into this book, be warned that the writer is very much a hard leftist, and it shows in the adjectives used and the tone of the writing. You could also say he was a great student of the secret government. In other words, what would be commonly described as a conspiracy theorist. He has also written a book, Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda, Patriarchy and the Drug War. 
Now, my theory about the war between the sexes is as follows: In a matriarchy, women control men through economy and sex. Lineage is passed through the mother. In a patriarchy, men control women through economy and physical power. Lineage is passed through the father. In human history, patriarchies dominate. Why this is so is no doubt an entertaining question. But that is a whole ‘nuther story. All that said, I still found the book very interesting.The book is about power and mind control—the power of one civilization or culture to dominate and then extinguish another. When William Bennett says America is in a culture war against drugs, he isn’t kidding. And this war did not start with Richard Nixon or the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914. It began 500 years ago when the Spanish brought military power and the Catholic Inquisition to the Americas. The Catholics were very insistent to the point of torture and murder that no thoughts outside those allowed by the church were permitted. Worship done under the influence of mind-altering chemicals obtained from plants was to receive special attention. The dogmatic absolutists of 500 hundred years ago have morphed into the moral absolutists of today. What I like to call the American Taliban.The power today is military and economic. The mind control is open and obvious, which is why no one notices it. What you can think about is controlled by making some subjects taboo, while giving you way too much information on other subjects that were formerly hidden. In other words, you will get plenty of stories and morality plays about the state of sex in America. With all this hot stuff going on, you would think no subject was taboo in the media. You would be wrong. When was the last time you heard an anti-prohibition opinion whenever the government announces some new draconian drug policy? The answer is that drug policy stories are never balanced. This is funny in a country where the anti-terror war faction comprising 10 percent of the population gets equal time with the pro-terror war faction comprising 90 percent.Seventy-five percent of Americans say the drug war is not working. About half those people are ready for full legalization as the answer to the problem. Yet, from the news reports and the way the subject is handled, you would think that less than 1 percent of all Americans would fall in to these categories, and those would be fringe wackos. The subject is absolutely taboo.Why do I think this is happening? Because the networks and newspapers all get government funding. The networks depend on the government FCC for their airwaves. And finally, they are all subject to FBI criminal investigation and IRS financial investigation. A very big incentive to follow the government line on critical policies. A word to the wise is usually sufficient. Now you know why Gary Condit’s sex life was more important than the militarization of the drug war in South America when reporting on the happenings in government and the world. You need to see: http://www.narconews.com/ if you want the current drug war news from Central and South America.Finally, I’d like to quote a paragraph from the book:“Fascism is always maudlin. Industrial fascists need a scapegoat to coalesce. Without the pharmakos, the Nigger, the Judas, the Witch, the Dealer, the Fiend, the Hippie who inflicts such great hurt on Our Salvation, there is no rationale for an ongoing Inquisito, without which the structure of industrial fascism would be left standing naked. It ain’t so much what they’re for, it’s what they’re against.”You can find out about all these subjects and more by reading Drug War: Covert Money, Power, and Policy, which I would give a 3.2 out of 4.0. Michael C. Ruppert of  http://www.copvcia.com  has good things to say about it as well. You can find out more about Dan Russell and his books at: http://www.drugwar.com Saying of the week: The government as guardian of morality went out with the Taliban.Ask a politician: Do you support drug prohibition because it finances criminals at home or because it finances terrorists abroad?This week’s politician is:Senate Judiciary Committee Member Mr. Robert C. Byrd of West VirginiaVoice: (202) 224-3954FAX: (304) 343-7144e-mail: senator_byrd byrd.senate.govM.L. Simon is an industrial controls designer and independent political activist.Source: Rock River Times (IL)Author: M.L. Simon Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2002Copyright 2002 - The Rock River TimesContact: frank rockrivertimes.comWebsite: http://www.rockrivertimes.com/How The Terror War Took Your Rights - M.L. Simonhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11499.shtml
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Comment #5 posted by observer on January 20, 2002 at 13:11:45 PT
drug war ''doublethink''
... consult the passages on double-think and duck-speak in Orwell's "1984" for further enlightenment on neurolinguistic mindwarping." -- Robert Anton Wilson Doublethink  means  the  power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind  simultaneously,  and accepting both of them. The [drug war] intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart of [the drug war], since the essential act of [prohibitionists] is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies -- all this is indispensably  necessary.  Even  in  using  the  word doublethink   it   is  necessary to  exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. -- 1984 
resist prohibitionist doublethink!
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Comment #4 posted by DdC on January 20, 2002 at 13:00:27 PT
The Drug War Is The Inquisition
The Drug War Is The Inquisition
by Dan Russell
http://www.drugwar.com  "In a civilised society, it is the duty of all citizens to obey just laws. But at the same time it is the duty of all citizens to disobey unjust laws."
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I suggest a simple experiment. Everytime you hear the expression "the war on drugs," change it mentally to "the war on some drugs." At the same time call up to mind all the Drug Stores and Bars/Saloons in your town or neighborhood and all the cigarette shelves in your friendly supermaket and remember that the government has started no war against them. When you understand that we have no "war on drugs" but only a "war on some drugs," consult the passages on double-think and duck-speak in Orwell's "1984" for further enlightenment on neurolinguistic mindwarping."
- Robert Anton Wilson 
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Comment #3 posted by QcStrt on January 19, 2002 at 19:38:30 PT
           still works.
Say what you will, this is My field of Expertise! last 30 years You can try to disclaim it, but it still works.Lost in the Illusion   In this essay I hoped to disclose some of the technology which is here now and advancing rapidly. More than this,
   I am hopeful that the information would be useful in assessing the state of technology from what appears in some
   of the open literature. What has happened in the United States which has allowed segments of our government to
   set agendas which run counter to the values most of us hold?   The transparency of government - the idea that we should be able to look into our government and see clearly the
   values of the population reflected there is an absolute expectation. Are there risks in transparent government?
   Yes, an open society necessitates that certain risks be taken.   As technology advances, the ability to control populations and manipulate outcomes also advances. Because we
   know how to control the weather, create earthquakes, force behavioral changes and manipulate the physiology of
   people does not mean that we should do it. The age we are in requires even greater safeguards of personal
   freedoms, not further constraints upon it. If freedom is what is being defended than freedom is what must be
   inherent in the actions our governments take in creating aspects of our reality.    1.February 6, 1998, Brussels, Belgium, European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Security
     and Disarmament. 
    2.New World Vistas: Air and Space Power for the 21st Century - Ancillary Volume; Scientific Advisory
     Board (Air Force), Washington, D.C.; Document #19960618040; 1996; pages 89-90. 
    3.Ibid. 
    4.Department of Defense Directive, Policy for Non-Lethal Weapons, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
     Defense, Draft July 21, 1994. 
    5.Interviews in late February by Nick Begich. 
    6.Department of Defense Directive, Policy for Non-Lethal Weapons, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
     Defense, Draft July 21, 1994. 
    7.Ibid. 
    8."Expert Meeting on Certain Weapon Systems and on Implementation Mechanisms in International Law",
     Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland, May 30 - June 1, 1994.
     Issued July 1994. 
    9.Chemical Weapons Convention, Article II.9(d). 
    10."Expert Meeting on Certain Weapon Systems and on Implementation Mechanisms in International Law",
     Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland, May 30 - June 1, 1994.
     Issued July 1994. 
    11.Discussion with Dr. Patrick Flanagan on August 2, 1995. 
    12."Expert Meeting on Certain Weapon Systems and on Implementation Mechanisms in International Law",
     Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland, May 30 - June 1, 1994.
     Issued July 1994. 
    13."Non-Lethal Technologies; Military Options and Implications", Report of an Independent Task Force
     sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Malcom H. Weiner, Chairman, released June 22, 1995. 
    14.Ibid. 
    15.Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology, Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editor, Air University
     Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, June
     1986. 
    16.Ibid. 
    17.Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology, Lt Col. David J. Dean USAF, Editor, Air University
     Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, June
     1986. 
    18.Anchorage Daily News; "Future Weapons May Avert Deaths"; by Michael Raphael. 
    19.Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense News Briefing, Secretary of Defense
     William Cohen, April 28, 1997. Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S.
     Strategy at the Georgia Center, Mahler Auditorium, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 
    20.The Wall Street Journal; "Malaysia to Battle Smog With Cyclones"; by Chen May Yee; page A19,
     November 13, 1997. 
    21.Anchorage Daily News; "Report Says Iran Bought Nuclear Arms"; page A-8, April 11, 1998. 
    22.U.S. Patent #4,959,559; "Electromagnetic or Other Directed Energy Pulse Launcher"; Inventor: Richard
     W. Ziolkowski; Assigned to the United States of America as represented by the U.S.Department of
     Energy, Washington, D.C. 
    23.Ibid. 
    24.Investor's Business Daily; "Star Wars: Force Not with Us, US Remains Defenseless Against Missile
     Attack; August 25, 1997; page 1. 
    25.Anchorage Daily News; "Army Laser Zaps Satellite"; by Paul Richter (Los Angeles Times); October 21,
     1997. 
    26.Anchorage Daily News; "Ex-CIA Officer Faces Charges of Espionage"; by James Risen (Los Angeles
     Times); page A-3, April 4, 1998. 
    27.Ibid. http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/starwars.htmlhttp://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/ground.htmlhttp://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/
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Comment #2 posted by goneposthole on January 19, 2002 at 18:56:07 PT
the zen of mind control
yings the yang. My thoughts are controlled? Yeah, right.And Osama bin Laden is telling me what I will do next.The tao of mind control takes me there, too.
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Comment #1 posted by qCsTRT on January 19, 2002 at 18:23:53 PT
       mind control
The power today is military and economic. The mind control is open and obvious, which is why no one notices it.
   What you can think about is controlled by making some subjects taboo, while giving you way too much
   information on other subjects that were formerly hidden.Scientific Advisory significant study to look forward into the next century and see what was possible for new weapons. 
   In one of the volumes published as a result of the
   study, researchers, scientists and others were encouraged to put together forecasts of what might be possible in
   the next century. One of those forecasts shockingly revealed the following:     "One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be
     pulsed, shaped, and focused, that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to
     prevent voluntary muscular movements, control emotions (and thus actions), produce sleep, transmit
     suggestions, interfere with both short-term and long-term memory, produce an experience set, and
     delete an experience set.
   Think about this for a moment - a system which can manipulate emotions, control behavior, put you to sleep,
   create false memories and wipe old memories clean. Realizing this was a forecast and not necessarily the current
   state of technology should not cause one to believe that it is not a current issue. These systems are far from
   speculative. In fact, a great deal of work has already been done in this area with many systems being developed.
   
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