Just when you think Jimmy Carter can't get any more outrageous, he turns up this week-end in Bolivia, where he makes nice with Marxist President (and former coca farmer) Evo Morales. He even exchanges invitations with Morales to pick peanuts in Georgia and COCA LEAVES in Bolivia! What will this boob do and say next?
Hopefully, our foolish former president was making a joke because, if not, someone needs to remind him that if those coca leaves are destined to the US, he would technically be in violation of Title 21 USC Code, which our DEA reps in Bolivia could have told him-except Morales has already kicked them out of the country. (Coca is legally chewed by peasants and is used to make tea in Bolivia.)
I thought I had long given up on what Carter might do next against the interests of his country, but this latest escapade and his comment about helping pick coca leaves brings all kinds of thoughts to my mind. For example, he could go to Afghanistan and help bring in the opium harvest while being guarded by the Taliban. Or he could go to South Central LA and work in a crack house-sort of an off-shoot of his Habitat for Humanity project.
You laugh.
Isn't it outrageous
ReplyDeleteImagine Jimmy talking to the democratically elected leader
of Bolivia!
Shouldn't he be talking to US friends like the dictator from Saudi Arabia who was elected by absolutely nobody?.
Skywalker,
ReplyDeleteJimmy does talk to the dictator from Saudi Arabia. In fact, the Carter Center receives millions from him.
Yeah Gary,,,I don't blame you one damned bit.
ReplyDeleteAfter your career with the DEA that has seen ZERO overall gains in the fruitless war on drugs, I can see why you might be against someone with a different mind-set--one that might actually work, for instance.
Regarding Carter, your comment that "Or he could go to South Central LA and work in a crack house-sort of an off-shoot of his Habitat for Humanity project," is the functional definition of outrageous falsity and just the sort I'd expect from you, even while omitting that the LA crack epidemic was started by your brothers-in-crime and in the CIA.
Just two questions:
What have you done in comparison to Pres. Carter, and
how does it feel to have your entire career been a waste of time and resources (excepting your pension of course?
My dear Locojhon,
ReplyDeleteFirst point about my fruitless career at DEA: Perhaps it was fruitless because the drug use situation in this country is probably worse than when I began my career in 1970. That is a big disappointment, but I think primary blame falls on us as a people for our insatiable appetite for drugs-with no thought of the evil business behind the drug traffic.
Who has a better idea? Carter? When he was president, I was in DEA. His drug policy advisor (Peter Bourne) had to resign in disgrace because his secretary was using his prescriptions to get prescription drugs to feed her drug habit. She got busted and the trail went right back to Bourne.
As far as the crack hose comment that infuriated you, it was a joke!!!! But it was a natural reaction to his comment about helping harvest coca leaves.
What have I done in comparison to Carter? A fair question. I could ask you what you have done in comparison to George Bush. No I was never president, but I am old enough to remember quite clearly how much he screwed up as president. (I voted against him twice.) Even Dems will tell you his was a "failed presidency". His work for Habitat is praiseworthy. His meddling in foreign policy is not. If you do the research, you might ask why his center gets so many millions form the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
But I saved the best for last. When you echo that canard about the CIA starting the crack epidemic, you are showing how ignorant you are. That is a story fueled by Maxine Waters-an ignoramus. I had several occasions to interact with the CIA when I was overseas with DEA. I was not one of their biggest fans, but to assume they would do such a thing is ridiculous. It was investigated and found to be false. I have no inside knowledge, but I always suspected that one or some of their contacts in the Nicaraguan contras may have been doing coke traffic on the side. In drug cases, that is entirely possible when you work with informants. One doesn't condone it, participate in it, and if the informant is revealed to be committing crimes, he or she should be prosecuted. Similarly, if a law enforcement official was permitting or facilitating that, they should also be prosecuted. You might keep one fact in mind. In the inner city where crack use was at its highest, most users have been black. Who do you think they get their crack from-some CIA guy? Who makes the crack from cocaine?
To lay the blame on the CIA is quite convenient because it inserts the big white government boogey man into the drug chain. It pretends that there is no such thing as the black drug dealers who control the inner city distribution. It pretends there is no black person producing the crack from powder cocaine and feeding it to the addict on the street.
I worked a total of 9 years in LA including the inner city. We could have ignored the drug epidemic in the inner city, but we didn't. We went after the rings that were bringing cocaine into the US. We went after the inner city dealers-at least at the higher levels where a federal agency was supposed to be directing its resources. For you to bring up that Maxine Waters fairy-tale is not only stupid but it doesn't do anything to alleviate the drug problem in the black-or any other community.