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To: one_less who wrote (1225)	5/13/2003 2:58:13 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Jewel, Let's run this one by you. As someone who participated in the reckless abandon of a lot of our youth in the early 1970's, you have first hand experience in something that I've been wondering about in a serious way since the series of remarkable articles about the C.I.A. and crack cocaine in the LA ghetto rocked the newspaper world in 1997. You might recall the series, reported by the San Jose Mercury-News' Gary Webb: mega.nu:8080/ampp/webb.html Reading about this, and reflecting on the many reports about the demoralization of the U.S. Army field soldiers in the early 1970's, I started to add things up in my mind. But before I offer my hypothesis, a little more background might be in order. The founding of Hong Kong is a fascination to me. Perhaps you know how that concession came about? If not, here's a history, verified to me by a local, SI's own Jay Chen, who concurs that this remarkable tale is true: biblebelievers.org.au So now as we both know from first hand experience, one of the most brilliant solutions that Tricky Dick Nixon and the War Criminal Henry Kissinger came up with to try to dissipate the student revolt against the war in Viet Nam was to institute the draft lottery. It was a brilliant subterfuge that immediately took over half of the draft age population and gave them a "get out 'serving time' free card". This took a lot of the wind out of the sails of the anti-war protests, as I can attest from being on a very active campus at the time. Even my own anger at the evil scheming of a slimebucket like Nixon was sapped when I got lucky and found I wasn't about to become his pawn upon graduation. Which leads us to my speculation. Could it be that a calculating and devious scoundrel like Richard Nixon could have had it in his black heart to flood the college campuses of the nation with drugs in order to take dedicated anti-war activists and turn them into mush-headed hedonists? Could Nixon have looked at Queen Victoria and said, "the girl's alright"? Could the powers that be, or rather were, secretly have perpetrated "Animal House" on the youth of America while those not in on the scam sanctimoniously preached against such behavior from the pulpits and in the halls of Congress? Is it just a coincidence that the C.I.A. was active in the Laotian heroin trade in a big way in the early 1970's? Is it just a coincidence that an ex-C.I.A man named Richard Secord, indicted for crimes involving drug smuggling in the Iran-Contra affair has been recently spotted in negotiation with war lords in Afghanistan which just grew the largest opium crop in its history? Is this all just coincidence, or is it time for me to re-adjust my tinfoil hat? *********** Further reading: I recently saw Chuck Bowden being interviewed regarding his new book, "Down By the River". It is the result of a seven year itch to get at the reality of the Mexican drug cartels. Bowden is a stitch. He's also pretty blunt. When the interviewer asked him who the scariest dudes were that he'd interviewed for the book (and Bowden had interviewed dozens of cartel honchos and operatives), Bowden unequivocally stated: "The U.S. DEA". amazon.com