The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy (28 page)

Observers of the modern drug scene are amazed at how it only took fourteen years for our great-grandparents to realize that alcohol prohibition not only was not working but, in fact, was creating a worse problem than the alcohol (police and judicial corruption, the rise of bootleggers and crime syndicates, and the large number of otherwise innocents caught up in the criminal justice system). In 1933, both the Prohibition laws and the constitutional amendment were amended and alcohol became controlled and taxed, but legal. It is interesting to note that laws against marijuana came into being just as Prohibition was on the way out. Perhaps this changeover is explained by the fact that Harry Anslinger, assistant Prohibition commissioner in the Bureau of Prohibition, was about to lose his job. Fortunately, he successfully lobbied Congress to pass antimarijuana laws just before being appointed as the first commissioner of the Treasury Department’s newly formed Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

Conspiracy researchers have long suspected that the disparity between pot arrests and those for cocaine and heroin may be explained by allegations that the harder drugs, such as cocaine and heroin, cannot be easily produced at home and are imported by people working within the U.S. government to fund off-the-books operations. Such allegations stretch all the way back past the Vietnam War, but this is a story for another day.

NaturalNews
editor Mike Adams has pointed out that all commercial hemp used by Americans for textiles, nutritional supplements, soaps, and ropes is imported from China, Canada, India, Chile, and many other countries. “Meanwhile, Americans farmers suffer under increasing debt and decreasing revenues from stalled crop prices…. The DEA makes no differentiation between industrial hemp and marijuana. To the DEA, it’s all the same crop (never mind that smoking industrial hemp will only make you vomit, not high) and anyone caught planting hemp will be arrested and prosecuted using the same laws that were really only intended to halt hard-core street drug pushers. As anyone who isn’t smoking crack has already figured out (and even a few who are), America’s drug policy is a scandalous failure. Not only has the so-called ‘War on Drugs’ utterly failed to stop the flow of recreational drugs in America, it has criminalized struggling farmers who seek to grow industrial hemp as a profitable, renewable crop that’s in high demand across multiple industries. The War on Drugs has accomplished one thing, though: It has filled the nation’s prisons with small-time ‘offenders’ who got caught with an ounce or two of weed in their pockets. America’s drug policy, it seems, is a boon for the prison industry, but a curse upon our nation’s farmers,” wrote Adams. The arrests for marijuana and the fines that come with the arrests are a boon for the global socialist fascists intent on tagging every citizen with a computer number.

Jeffrey A. Tucker, editor of the website for the Ludwig von Mises Institute (a research and educational center of classical liberalism and libertarian political theory), was taken aback in late 2009 when he read in his local Alabama newspaper about the arrest of twenty-five persons on methamphetamine-related charges. He thought it was amazing that all these people had meth labs in his hometown. But what caught his attention more were the published photos of the accused—old people, young people, long-haired and short-haired people, and every other type. “A cross section of rural America,” thought Tucker. He noticed that “The arrests stem[med] from a three-month-long drug investigation that targeted individuals who were purchasing over the legal amount of pseudoephedrine [Sudafed], according to a release from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.”

Only one of those arrested was charged with the unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance. “This, we might presume, is the man with the meth lab; though we don’t know for sure,” said Tucker, noting that prior to 2005, “one could buy as many Sudafed packages as you did Big Mac sandwiches, and the police didn’t care. Now, your 30-day allotment is nine grams. So this seems like it would be enough, but what if you are buying for two people or an entire family, or lose some, or give them away to a friend, or they fall to the back of the cabinet, or you’re out of town?

“To me, this illustrates how regulations and rationing have a way of changing the subject from principles to practicalities,” mused Tucker.

“What if there were a rule that said that you can only purchase 30 Triple Whoppers from Burger King per person per month? Would we say, ‘Oh, no one needs more than that?’ Perhaps we would, but that is not the point. The point is that this is a violation of rights. Rationing of all types represents an egregious imposition on our right to choose. It weighs down daily life with arbitrary threats and increases the role of coercion in society—and this is true whether or not we actually bump up against the limits.”

Tucker pointed out that even despite the legislated banning of certain substances, the black market always found ways of proliferating and selling drugs. “Whereas hundreds or thousands of pills used to be required to make meth, Bush’s tough drug laws have led to new innovations: like the shake-and-bake method, which uses a legal number of pills and allows the user to make the stuff while driving. Yikes. That seems much more dangerous than texting while driving,” he observed. “Keep in mind that all this insanity is a result of the laws themselves. People are still using the drug, but they are now risking their lives to do so. In other words, the laws are not working, except to make meth production and use even more dangerous.”

The real horror, to Tucker, is the prohibition, “which has brought about a dark despotism that everyone pretends not to notice.” He says, “To put it simply, this is an outrage, and it is even more disgusting that the local press is glad to play along with it. Here we have a nice illustration of how the police are used in an age of arbitrary law and despotic consumption controls. You become a criminal merely for buying today what was legal yesterday. And then society avoids you. You might be a druggie, and the suspicion alone is enough justification for you to be robbed of all rights and utterly smashed as a human being.”

Tucker was merely voicing what many Americans feel but are afraid to speak out about in the growing police state that is the modern United States. But slowly and with great resistance at the federal level (the level controlled by globalist fascists who profit from the flowing of drug money through their banking system), the people are reaching for a new vision of their country. By 2010, fourteen states had legalized the use of marijuana for medical use and more were moving in that direction. Of course, this will eventually beg the question, “Hey, if my neighbor can smoke pot legally because he has glaucoma, how come I get busted if I smoke some?” The times they are a-changing.

But elsewhere, the screws are tightening. Suppression of citizens’ rights through mandatory vaccinations of uncertain safety, unjust laws, unhealthy food and water, militarized law enforcement, unprovoked foreign wars, and crippling debt, both private and public, are only a part of the globalist fascists’ long-term agenda to turn once-free Americans into subservient and controlled zombies.

DUMBED-DOWN EDUCATION

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DUCATION CAN SHAPE THE
brain of any person, even a zombie. Despite public claims to the contrary, education in America is, by almost every criterion, turning younger generations into dumbed-down and ignorant zombies.

OKLAHOMA SCHOOL STUDY

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Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) enlisted a national research firm, Strategic Vision, to study student knowledge of civics. The test was taken from ten questions used by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Candidates for U.S. citizenship must answer six questions correctly in order to become citizens. According to immigration service data, approximately 92 percent of those who take the citizenship test pass on their first try. The Oklahoma students did not do as well. The results indicated that only one in four Oklahoma public high school students could name the first president of the United States. Only about 3 percent of the thousand students surveyed would have passed the citizenship test. OCPA spokesman Brandon Dutcher said this is not just a problem in Oklahoma. According to Dutcher, Arizona students exhibited similar results.

Matthew Ladner, vice president of research at the Goldwater Institute, commented that “The results of this survey are deeply troubling. Despite billions of taxpayer dollars and a set of academic standards that cover all of the material, Oklahoma high school students display an overwhelming ignorance of the institutions that undergird political freedom.”

Those surveyed were high school students who already had completed multiple classes in social studies and history. Theoretically, if they had failed those classes, they would not have been moved into high school. But the current educational philosophy dictates that self-esteem is more necessary than knowledge, and therefore these students were simply passed on to the next grade regardless of their aptitude for the material.

Here are the ten questions used in the Oklahoma study:

Recently, at least twenty-six states adopted stringent high school exit exams in an effort to promote increased learning. However, according to the
New York Times,
“As deadlines approached for schools to start making passage of the exams a requirement for graduation, and practice tests indicated that large numbers of students would fail, many states softened standards, delayed the requirement or added alternative paths to a diploma.”

The dumbed-down condition of the schools is puzzling to many people since never before in history has a student population had access to such a wide variety and depth of educational resources. Yet, at the same time, never in the history of the world have students as a whole been less informed about the world largely due to a fixation on technology and self-interest. Those citizens who grew up between the 1950s and 1970s may recall that resources for knowledge were radios and TV sets, the daily newspaper, some magazines, the library, and an occasional visit to a museum.

Students now have the Internet, which places at their disposal the contents of nearly ten thousand American public libraries; TV screens everywhere (in airports, restaurants, clubs, and waiting rooms); and bookstores, both chains and individually owned. Yet despite this glut of resources, when the National Association of Scholars compared a test of current college seniors to a 1955 Gallup survey of high school students, the researchers who conducted the survey found no improvement in knowledge.

“Why is it that the older American students get, the worse they perform?” asked Mark Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University and a director of research and analysis for the National Endowment for the Arts. Bauerlein is the author of the national bestseller
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.
“[T]hat a nation as prosperous and powerful as the United States allows young citizens to understand so little about its past and present conditions, to regard its operative laws and values so carelessly, and to patronize the best of its culture so rarely is a sad and ominous condition.”

Because students are actually studying only a small percentage of their total weekly time, Bauerlein posited that the debasement of education cannot be blamed on schooling alone, but instead on the surrounding culture—socializing, games, even spending habits. Bauerlein argued that the education of the young has been subverted by a culture of conformity, peer pressure, and popular culture enhanced by burgeoning technology. “Once youths enter the digital realm, the race for [their] attention begins, and it doesn’t like to stop for a half-hour with a novel or a trip to the museum,” Bauerlein wrote. “Digital offerings don’t like to share, and tales of Founding Fathers and ancient battles and Gothic churches can’t compete with a message from a boyfriend, photos from the party, and a new device in the Apple Store window.”

THE VIDEO GENERATION

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Family Foundation sponsored a report entitled
Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8–18 Year-Olds,
which theorizes that various media distract kids from serious study. Using a national representative sample of more than two thousand third through twelfth graders who completed detailed questionnaires, the report found students spending more time with “new media” such as computers, the Internet, and video games, without cutting time on “old media,” like TV, print, and music. Often, students “multitasked” by using more than one medium at a time: for example, working on the computer while watching TV and texting via cell phones.