Bush/CIA/DEA Drug Smuggling by Mike Ruppert
Nov 30 '00 mruppert@copvcia.com
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Government involvement in Cocaine/Heroin business finally being heard by the public
"There's something happening here. What it is, ain't exactly clear.
There's a man with a gun over there.
Tellin' me, I got to beware" - Buffalo Springfield, 1966
SAN DIEGO (FTW) - A standing room only crowd of over 300 (on official recount) turned out last night at San Diego State University to attend a four hour presentation by retired DEA Agent Celerino Castillo and former LAPD narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert, publisher of the internationally recognized newsletter, "From The Wilderness." The theme for the presentation was CIA/US Government complicity in the drug trade as it has evolved into a major component in the current economy and what appears to be a headlong race toward a U.S. led war in Colombia.
Reporters from San Diego newspapers and the FOX News TV affiliate attended the lecture and FOX aired a three minute segment after the event which was, according to former Senior U.S. Customs Inspector John Carman, "Unbelievably positive. I've never seen anything like it."
Event organizers who worked very hard to promote the event were also surprised by the strength and interest in the turnout. In spite of the continuing distraction of the unresolved Presidential election, a crowd of people extremely concerned about both the economy and the growing imminence of direct US involvement in the decades long Colombian civil war stayed an hour after the end of the event to question Castillo and Ruppert in depth.
"There was a noticeable change in the energy and attitude from previous events we have done," said Castillo who has been an outspoken critic of CIA and DEA corruption for more than ten years. "I think it's because of the election, the realization that this all has to do with the economy and the near certainty that Colombia is going to be another Vietnam." Castillo's experience as a decorated Vietnam combat veteran carried weight with the crowd whose ages ranged from late teens to mid-fifties.
During his portion of the presentation FTW Editor Ruppert displayed news stories only days old emanating the outgoing Clinton Drug Czar. "The pronouncements, this week, from Barry McCaffrey that Colombia is going to become a bloody and prolonged, regional conflict have given greater credibility to what we have been saying at FTW for nearly a year. The Fox news crew arrived with an understanding already in their minds that there is a relationship between Wall Street, war, the failed War on Drugs and 'coming attractions' in Colombia. I have not experienced this energy or this awareness before."
Whether this one event is a true indicator of a shifting consciousness remains to be seen. What is certain, however, is that the emotional and financial needs of the American political and economic system in the wake of the election crisis point to a beating of the military drum within weeks, if not days after the inauguration of a new President. As UC Professor Peter Dale Scott, author of the CIA suppressed 1972 book "The War Conspiracy" noted recently, "Things do change. This is the first case I know of where we have an anti-war movement before we actually have a war."
FTW plans on re-publishing Scott's book, never before sold in America, in the first quarter of 2001 and is currently moving ahead with that project at "best possible speed" after delays last Fall. Said Ruppert, "There was a reason why the CIA bought all 50,000 copies of Scott's book in 1972. Even though it is a detailed behind-the-scenes examination of how the CIA and the US Government "manufactured" a war in Vietnam, it is frightening how accurately the book describes what is happening in Colombia at this very moment." end
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Nov 30 '00 mruppert@copvcia.com
www.copvcia.com
makeashorterlink.com/?F503326B6
Government involvement in Cocaine/Heroin business finally being heard by the public
"There's something happening here. What it is, ain't exactly clear.
There's a man with a gun over there.
Tellin' me, I got to beware" - Buffalo Springfield, 1966
SAN DIEGO (FTW) - A standing room only crowd of over 300 (on official recount) turned out last night at San Diego State University to attend a four hour presentation by retired DEA Agent Celerino Castillo and former LAPD narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert, publisher of the internationally recognized newsletter, "From The Wilderness." The theme for the presentation was CIA/US Government complicity in the drug trade as it has evolved into a major component in the current economy and what appears to be a headlong race toward a U.S. led war in Colombia.
Reporters from San Diego newspapers and the FOX News TV affiliate attended the lecture and FOX aired a three minute segment after the event which was, according to former Senior U.S. Customs Inspector John Carman, "Unbelievably positive. I've never seen anything like it."
Event organizers who worked very hard to promote the event were also surprised by the strength and interest in the turnout. In spite of the continuing distraction of the unresolved Presidential election, a crowd of people extremely concerned about both the economy and the growing imminence of direct US involvement in the decades long Colombian civil war stayed an hour after the end of the event to question Castillo and Ruppert in depth.
"There was a noticeable change in the energy and attitude from previous events we have done," said Castillo who has been an outspoken critic of CIA and DEA corruption for more than ten years. "I think it's because of the election, the realization that this all has to do with the economy and the near certainty that Colombia is going to be another Vietnam." Castillo's experience as a decorated Vietnam combat veteran carried weight with the crowd whose ages ranged from late teens to mid-fifties.
During his portion of the presentation FTW Editor Ruppert displayed news stories only days old emanating the outgoing Clinton Drug Czar. "The pronouncements, this week, from Barry McCaffrey that Colombia is going to become a bloody and prolonged, regional conflict have given greater credibility to what we have been saying at FTW for nearly a year. The Fox news crew arrived with an understanding already in their minds that there is a relationship between Wall Street, war, the failed War on Drugs and 'coming attractions' in Colombia. I have not experienced this energy or this awareness before."
Whether this one event is a true indicator of a shifting consciousness remains to be seen. What is certain, however, is that the emotional and financial needs of the American political and economic system in the wake of the election crisis point to a beating of the military drum within weeks, if not days after the inauguration of a new President. As UC Professor Peter Dale Scott, author of the CIA suppressed 1972 book "The War Conspiracy" noted recently, "Things do change. This is the first case I know of where we have an anti-war movement before we actually have a war."
FTW plans on re-publishing Scott's book, never before sold in America, in the first quarter of 2001 and is currently moving ahead with that project at "best possible speed" after delays last Fall. Said Ruppert, "There was a reason why the CIA bought all 50,000 copies of Scott's book in 1972. Even though it is a detailed behind-the-scenes examination of how the CIA and the US Government "manufactured" a war in Vietnam, it is frightening how accurately the book describes what is happening in Colombia at this very moment." end
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