IN the summer of 1996 LA was a war zone; the city was flooded with cocaine and the street gangs were fighting over drug territory ; the city was very dangerous and the people were tired from living like this for almost ten years .
THAT ‘S when the article appeared in AUGUST 1996 from the newspaper the [ SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS] titled [DARK ALLIANCE] a three part series exposing the CIA’s involvement in the cocaine business that had set LA and in particular SO . CENTRAL LA on fire and had it’s residents living in self imposed curfews.
FINALLY a answer had came to the residents of the besieged city and now they had names and faces to hold responsible for the destruction of what was once one of the most prosperous city in the country as well as the most prosperous black communities in the country.
THE black community was outraged and demanded answers from their representatives and MAXINE WATERS was their first target and she responded and demanded answers and investigations. THE pressure was so intense on the government that the director of the CIA was forced to make a appearance.
ON 11/ 15/ 1996 JOHN DEUTCH appeared at LOCKE HIGH SCHOOL to talk to the residents and explain that the CIA had nothing to do with the drugs in their community ; but the residents were very hostile and didn’t believe him because the newspaper article was so explicit and detailed .
IT also didn’t help the director that a former LAPD captain MIKE RUPERT showed up to further incite the residents with allegation of his personal knowledge of not only the CIA’s involvement in the drug business but LAPD’s as well.
THREE years later GARY WEBB followed up the newspaper series with the book [ DARK ALLIANCE] subtitle [the CIA the contras and the crack cocaine explosion] in 1999; and MAXINE WATERS even wrote the forward to the book.
THE book goes in to great detail of the drug trade originating from the war that the REAGAN administration was conducting against the NICARAGUAN people ; he was having trouble at the time of getting congress to go along with funding the opposition [contras] and so he by passed them by allowing officials in his administration to engage in drug dealing to keep money and weapons flowing to the contras.
THE book bought to light not only high level official’s but all the way down to the street and we first heard the names of OSCAR DANILO BLANDON a federal informant and drug trafficker who was the supplier to the infamous “freeway RICK ROSS ” WHO in turn supplied both sides of a sides of the drug war in LA ; the two largest black street gangs the “crips” and the “bloods”
AT freeway rick’s peak he was selling a half a million dollars worth of crack daily and this is the context in which REP. MAXINE WATERS makes this speech on Tuesday 8/14/00.
THERE is no war on drugs going on in AMERICA today and BARRY Mc CAFFERY needs to resign right now. HE needs to stop pushing policies that send our tax dollars to COLOMBIA supporting these right wing dictator types and move out of the way and allow us to develop some good drug policies that’s going to stop incarcerating the victims of the so- called war on drugs.
I want you to know that you are seated in this building right on the edge of the community that the CIA allowed to be over run with drugs.
THEY turned a blind eye to the dumping of tons of cocaine into this community all the way back down through so . central LA that destroyed the lives and destroyed families and literally destroyed our communities.
ONE young man stupid enough to go along with the okiedoke found himself with a life sentence for cooking up the cocaine that was dumped into the community ; who the profits from which were used to fund the war down in NICARAGUA; the contras vs the sandanistas; I know it happened I worked on it for a couple of years.
GARY WEBB of the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS ; unveiled what was taking place and spent a year investigating it.
OH they tried to quiet him ; to put a muzzle on him but he was correct ; I went all the way to NICARAGUA myself and I met someone in prison who had worked with the cartel[BLANDON] who had been involved at the time drugs were being dumped into our communities ; however they would tell you they’ve had a war on drugs and a lot of those victims are now in prison or dead ; but it’s time for a new drug policy and we are going to lead the way for it right here in CALIFORNIA.
IT’S been 14 years since MAXINE WATERS made that speech and not only has the drug war continued but intensified with our government being in a open alliance with the cartel’s that is far more obvious today than when she made her speech 14 years ago and yet we have heard nothing from her or any of our representatives about the continuation of the destruction of their people and their communities.
OUR government eventually silenced GARY WEBB ; the want us to believe that he committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head which is physically impossible ; but his brother said prior to his death he was in fear for his life and he was being followed and threatened.
MALCOLM X told us to judge our white friends by the sacrifice they were willing to make and he used the abolitionist JOHN BROWN as a example; GARY WEBB was our JOHN BROWN he lost his life trying to tell us something.