Tax and Spend

Abolish the DEA to cut the budget.

To reduce overdoses, Seattle creates safe zones for addicts to inject drugs.

War on Drugs

The DEA wants you addicted to opiates. And we wonder why heroin deaths have spiked.

War on Drugs

Positive media attention about marijuana makes it harder for DEA enforcers to arrest people for marijuana. Finally something positive from the media.

Prohibition quadrupled deaths from alcohol.

"Prohibition may actually have increased drinking and intemperance by increasing the availability of alcohol. One New

Jersey businessman claimed that there were 10 times more places one could get a drink during Prohibition than there

had been before.

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It is not surprising that, given their hidden locations and small size, speakeasies outnumbered

saloons. Lee found that there were twice as many speak easies in Rochester, New York, as saloons closed by

Prohibition. That was more or less true throughout the country." 

That's because of the money that could be made.

War on Drugs

DEA paid TSA agents to search bags.

War on Drugs

DEA bans opioid alternatives during opioid epidemic. I thought Congress had to write laws.

War on Drugs

More on DEA stealing $200 million from travelers under asset forfeiture laws.

Marijuana kills cancer cells.

War on Drugs

DEA seizes cash from travelers just like cops.

Police State

For the first time, a judge threw out Stingray evidence.

FBI collecting iris scans.

War on Drugs

Obama order the Department of Agriculture to join the DEA in the war on drugs.

Police State

Some unnamed entity is investigating FBI and DEA for misuse of NSA data, as is if any if use of NSA data isn't misuse.

How the lying, cheating FBI gets around encryption.

"In the rare cases in which an investigation may initially appear to be blocked by encryption — and so far, the FBI has yet to identify a single one — the government has a Plan B: it's called hacking."

They got you going, but they want the law to make so they can get you coming.

War on Drugs

DEA electronic intercepts tripled in the last decade, but drugs are more prevalent than ever.

War on Drugs

More on the DEA as a tool for empire.

IRS grants marijuana church tax-exempt status.

War

Tiny, personal drones for special forces.

Iraqis bombard ISIS in Fallujah.

"At least three offensives -- two of the ugliest battles for U.S. troops during the Iraq War, and an Iraqi offensive last year -- appear to have changed little in the long run. "

No kidding.

Our Muslim allies won't fight for the US empire, but they'll fight against it.

More on Jade Helm.

"The massive exercise, led by the US Army’s Special Operations Command (USASOC) under Lt. General Charles T. Cleveland, will include unconventional warfare units from all service branches, including US Army Special Forces, US Navy SEALS, US Air Force Special Operations, and USMC Marine Special Operations Command.
According to Jade Helm’s official PowerPoint presentation, other participating units are USMC Marine Expeditionary Units, the Army’s 82nd Airborne, and last but not necessarily least, civilian “Interagency Partners.” The latter refers to a range of domestic law enforcement agencies including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Department of Homeland Security."

The FBI and DHS have nothing to do with foreign military operations. This shows this is targeted at Americans, but the military is forbidden to operate in American.

"Jade Helm presenters have stated that troops will “infiltrate” towns and cities, and rove among the civilian population, both in uniform and in civilian clothes. Roy Boyd, chief deputy of the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office, told the Houston Chronicle: “They’re going to set up cells of people and test how well they’re able to move around without getting too noticed in the community… They’re testing their abilities basically [to] blend in with the local environment and not stand out and blow their cover.”"

Why are they testing their ability to blend in here instead of in Afghanistan or Syria? This is obviously training for war on Americans.

"It is these kinds of activities, resembling counter-insurgency, that set Jade Helm apart from the previous exercises that the Army cites as similar to Jade Helm. This argument hinges on what is meant by “similar.” The scripts in those previous exercises called for Special Ops “operators” to assist local insurgents or “freedom fighters” in resisting tyrannical authorities. In Jade Helm, the US operators will apparently be working to suppress an insurgency. This will involve activities more in keeping with law enforcement, such as information-gathering from locals, moving about undercover in communities, and assaults on selected “targets.” Residents have been told to expect “increased aircraft in the area at night.”
Critics of Jade Helm note that the military is not intended nor designed to function as a law enforcement body, and that soldiers are not trained to evaluate  the legal nuances of probable cause or to safeguard the rights of civilian detainees."

Exactly.

"Given that the South Carolina exercise passed virtually unnoticed, why is Jade Helm setting off so many alarm bells? Is this business as usual—or practice for martial law, as Jade Helm critics contend? What makes Jade Helm different from previous military exercises carried out on US civilian soil?
This is where the misinformation is flying fast and furious. In his presentation in Big Springs, USASOC contractor Mead acknowledged that the exercise is actually the first of its kind. He told the audience that the closest he could come to identifying an operation somewhat resembling Jade Helm is the Army’s much smaller, annual exercise known as Robin Sage.
In Robin Sage, “The People’s Republic of Pineland” is a fictitious country spanning 15 counties in North Carolina, where US Special Forces soldiers seek out “insurgents” (played by actors) who, for the purposes of the exercise, are treated as US-backed freedom fighters. Special Forces set up “base camps” for these  fighters, with the goal of “liberating” Pineland. As such, Robin Sage is a proactive insurgency exercise. Jade Helm seems to be precisely the opposite: a counter-insurgency exercise."

That's what it's sounded like from the beginning.

"Despite this difference, Robin Sage does offer a stark illustration of what can go wrong when armies are set loose in a civilian countryside. In 2002, one soldier was killed and another wounded when a local police officer opened fire on them, not knowing they were part of the Robin Sage exercise."

I hate to say it, but that's a minor problem in comparison to an exercise designed to train the military to stalk and kill Americans. Our rulers are scared.

"But what might the military mean by “realistic environment” in the context of Jade Helm? In terms of culture and physical setting, only English-speaking America resembles English-speaking America. As a concerned resident of one of the affected small towns in Texas told a newspaper: “What place looks like this—except this?” Put another way, if Special Ops were to prowl the coffee shops of North Korea, Ukraine, or Tehran questioning locals for information, they would be rounded up within an hour. So, as Jon Stewart might have asked if he had looked a little deeper into the Jade Helm scenario, whom is America fixing to invade? Canada?"

Exactly.

"But the very definition of tyranny is the deployment of the army, intended only for foreign wars, against its own people. And if Jade Helm is not a deployment but an exercise, then, critics legitimately ask, what is an exercise for, except to prepare for some “realistic” eventuality?"

Exactly.

War on Drugs

More than fighting the war on drugs, the DEA is a powerful US tool for empire.

War on Drugs

More on DEA orgy scandal.

War on Drugs

DEA chief resigns after sex party allegations.

War on Drugs

The DEA gets courts to hide its unconstitutional mass surveillance programs and it leaks disinformation to keep them hidden.

War on Drugs

DEA and DOJ recorded Americans' phone calls long before 9/11.

War on Drugs

Former feds charged with stealing bitcoins.

"A Secret Service agent and a DEA agent are charged with stealing bitcoin during their investigation of Silk Road, an underground internet black market that required buyers and sellers to do business with the digital currency."

I'm surprised they were charged.

War on Drugs

DEA agents hosted sex parties with prostitutes funded by drug cartel money.