snip<< It also rained cocaine in Tennessee in the '80s, but the authorities never seemed to notice. Ask the Knoxville _News-Sentinel_ how many stories it can find in its archives relating to planes loaded with cocaine crash-landing on remote airstrips, airdrops being found in citizens' yards, etc. Then ask the DEA what it did about those events.
The DEA probably didn't do shit, if you were (are) paying attention, the DEA has had its hands tied by the state department and the CIA for years. As they are now an arm of the FBI, they have been almost totally deballed. When Klaus Barbie and his mercenaries from Argentina overthrough the Government of Bolivia back in '80, it was blessed by the CIA and the State department, cause the Bolivians were defineatly going "left". Bolivia is now and was at the time, a coca country, that is their principal export. Nearly 1/2 of all our cocaine comes from there. It is transported through the Honduras and Coloumbia, Both CIA "Friendly" countries. The biggest dope exporters are always up to their necks in CIA and US state department. Pay attention. The DEA has attempted to deal with this, and many of their operatives end up fired or dead, this is why so many of them resigned back in the late 80's after DEA operative Enrique (Kiki) Camerara was tortured to death by the Mexican Government. The State department had the white house (Ronald) get the DEA to back off the investigation after they implicated top government and military people in Mexico as being involved in the torture. The DEA may not actually be the "Good" Guys, but there are some much worse out there
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p.s. Donna Rice has lately been running point for a regulate-the-internet front group. I wouldn't put anything past her.