At 05:33 PM 4/30/97 -0700, Vladimir wrote:
the crack cocaine situation in LA is a good example of how the truth is buried by the media. a maverick newspaper reports something close to the truth and the cia-manipulated mouthpieces around the country pile on the journalist and the newspaper in a barrage of picks that choke the truth in clouds of smoke.
The main thing that puzzled me about that episode was that everybody made such a big deal over it. I mean, didn't _everybody_ remember that Ollie North's Contra buddies were smuggling coke and occasionally getting caught at it? The whole Yankee-Panamanian War was largely caused by my liberal friends with their "Bush and Noriega in '88" bumper stickers that George "I am not a wimp!" Bush had to distance himself from :-) "Bush and Noriega - A _Crack_ Team!" And then there's "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia", for a more scholarly and thorough treatment; I think the followon book was just named "The Politics of Heroin". # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)