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So what you're saying is I should be investing in private prison firms? I'm only kidding of course. Thanks for the link - I will definitely be
watching.
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Topic started on 7-3-2008 @ 06:03 PM by Icarus Rising
American Drug War
I just caught this movie the other night on Showtime, and it was a real eye opener. There is another thread here on ATS where member Scientist mentions it, CIA Knowingly and Willingly permitted Rick Ross to spread crack cocaine through LA?. Props to him for bringing it up.
Basically, the way it works is the CIA arranges for the drugs to be smuggled into the country and distributed, raking in huge profits that are laundered through Wall Street investment firms. The economy has allegedly become dependent on drug profits to maintain and sustain growth.
On the other end of the deal, law enforcement busts low level dealers and users and cycles them through the now privatized prison system, creating more huge profits at $40-$50k per inmate per year, paid in taxpayer dollars. A slave labor force is also created, farmed out to industry at pennies on the dollar paid to inmate workers with no choice but to work off their time. What a total scam perpetrated on the American people by those entrusted with the nation's security!
I highly recommend everybody with an interest in the future of the US watch this documentary.
I just caught this movie the other night on Showtime, and it was a real eye opener. There is another thread here on ATS where member Scientist mentions it, CIA Knowingly and Willingly permitted Rick Ross to spread crack cocaine through LA?. Props to him for bringing it up.
35 years after Nixon started the war on drugs, we have over one million non-violent drug offenders living behind bars.
The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from "legal drugs" Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making, the film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting the Crack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had been working for the CIA.
AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just drug pushers and dope fiends, but an entire government. More importantly, it shows what can be done about it. This is not some 'pro-drug' stoner film, but a collection of expert testimonials from the ground troops on the front lines of the drug war, the ones who are fighting it and the ones who are living it.
Basically, the way it works is the CIA arranges for the drugs to be smuggled into the country and distributed, raking in huge profits that are laundered through Wall Street investment firms. The economy has allegedly become dependent on drug profits to maintain and sustain growth.
On the other end of the deal, law enforcement busts low level dealers and users and cycles them through the now privatized prison system, creating more huge profits at $40-$50k per inmate per year, paid in taxpayer dollars. A slave labor force is also created, farmed out to industry at pennies on the dollar paid to inmate workers with no choice but to work off their time. What a total scam perpetrated on the American people by those entrusted with the nation's security!
I highly recommend everybody with an interest in the future of the US watch this documentary.
reply posted on 17-3-2008 @ 06:07 PM by Icarus Rising
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Lol! Not to mention investing in all those corporations and municipalities that profit off all that cheap prison labor!
You couple this with the growth of private security forces like Blackwater, and the scenario really starts to look dark, no pun intended. There may even be an underground network of enforcers indoctrinated in prison and set loose to maintain distribution channels, provide security, and deal with troublemakers. The rabbit hole only goes deeper from there.....
Lol! Not to mention investing in all those corporations and municipalities that profit off all that cheap prison labor!
You couple this with the growth of private security forces like Blackwater, and the scenario really starts to look dark, no pun intended. There may even be an underground network of enforcers indoctrinated in prison and set loose to maintain distribution channels, provide security, and deal with troublemakers. The rabbit hole only goes deeper from there.....
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