When asked how Fascism starts, Bertrand Russell once said: “First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent.”
NORMAN J CLEMENT RPH., DDS, NORMAN L. CLEMENT PHARM-TECH, MALACHI F. MACKANDAL PHARMD, BELINDA BROWN-PARKER, IN THE SPIRIT OF JOSEPH SOLVO ESQ., INC.T. SPIRIT OF REV. IN THE SPIRIT OF WALTER R. CLEMENT BS., MS, MBA. HARVEY JENKINS MD, PH.D., IN THE SPIRIT OF C.T. VIVIAN, JELANI ZIMBABWE CLEMENT, BS., MBA., IN THE SPIRIT OF THE HON. PATRICE LUMUMBA, IN THE SPIRIT OF ERLIN CLEMENT SR., WALTER F. WRENN III., MD., JULIE KILLINGSWORTH, RENEE BLARE, RPH, DR. TERENCE SASAKI, MD LESLY POMPY MD., CHRISTOPHER RUSSO, MD., NANCY SEEFELDT, WILLIE GUINYARD BS., JOSEPH WEBSTER MD., MBA, BEVERLY C. PRINCE MD., FACS., NEIL ARNAND, MD., RICHARD KAUL, MD., LEROY BAYLOR, JAY K. JOSHI MD., MBA, ADRIENNE EDMUNDSON, ESTER HYATT PH.D., WALTER L. SMITH BS., IN THE SPIRIT OF BRAHM FISHER ESQ., MICHELE ALEXANDER MD., CUDJOE WILDING BS, MARTIN NJOKU, BS., RPH., IN THE SPIRIT OF DEBRA LYNN SHEPHERD, BERES E. MUSCHETT, STRATEGIC ADVISORS
When asked how Fascism OPIOID PANDEMIC started, PSYCHIATRIST DR. CLARENCE VERDELL, MD, once STATED: “They fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent.”
INTRODUCTION
“Prescriptions have never dominated overdose mortality. NEVER! Not even during the pill mill era of 2000 to 2012.” @lawhern1
According to Ronald T. Libby in his 2005 report “Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA’s War on Prescription Painkillers,”
In both 2000 and 2001, the Department of Justice, the Federal Agency that administers the DEA, gave the agency a highly critical rebuke scolding and asserted that the Drug Enforcement Agency’s goals were not consistent with the President’s Federal National Drug Control Strategy.
DEA DESPERATE NEED TO FIND A NEW FRONT
The DEA would need to find a new front for the War on Drugs, one that could produce tangible, measurable results (1). That new way was to conflate prescription control Narcotic medications with illicit substances heroin, Cocaine, and Methamphedetime.
This was the first time that the DEA had grouped a legal prescription drug with illicit drugs, though it wouldn’t be the last. Government officials like Hutchinson have gone on to make frequent public statements putting OxyContin in close rhetorical proximity to cocaine, heroin, and other drugs with a proven record for generating public fear.
However, this situation has raised ethical and security concerns, prompting calls for increased regulation and oversight in developing and deploying artificial intelligence systems that deprive people of life-saving healthcare.
Most important, through slick marketing and prosecutorial propaganda with phrases like pill mill, drug dealers in white coats, and hillbilly heroin, they were effectively able to fascinate the fools by selling the media, the legislatures, and the public The Opioid Pandemic and it all was a Big Lie.
Russell’s first step the combination under an energetic leader OF A NUMBER OF MEN
SANCTIONED TO MASS LOOTING OF DOCTORS
From the Libby Report, 2002:
” The DEA’s public relations effort linking a pain medication like OxyContin to cocaine, heroin, and other prohibited substances was a marked departure from its traditional mission. The DEA had created a new mission for itself—combating the illegal diversion of otherwise legal medication. Whereas the conventional drug war targeted Blacks.
DEA commissioner Asa Hutchinson described the nonmedical use of OxyContin as a deadly new drug epidemic beginning in Appalachia and spreading to the East Coast and Midwest, infecting suburban, urban, and rural neighborhoods across the country.
The OxyContin Action Plan bore a remarkable resemblance to the Harrison Act in that it enabled the federal government to prosecute physicians who prescribed an otherwise legal narcotic drug due to unfounded fears of a “dope menace” sweeping the country.
Hutchinson announced that the DEA would reallocate many of its resources from illegal drugs in urban areas to illicit prescription drugs in rural areas in order to address the emerging opioid threat. Hutchinson said that the DEA would work with local and state law enforcement agencies in the effort and would use its Asset Forfeiture Fund to help state and local officials finance the new initiative. (see 47)
The new mission offered in practicing physicians a pool of registered, licensed, cooperative targets who kept records, paid taxes, and filled out various forms.
Markets and the unknown, hard-to-quantify entities that come with them, the new mission offered practicing physicians a pool of registered, licensed, cooperative targets who kept records, paid taxes, and filled out a variety of forms.
In an effort to justify its national campaign against OxyContin, the DEA contacted 775 medical examiners from the National Association of Medical Examiners in 2001 and instructed them to report “OxyContin-related deaths” for 2000 and 2001. (see 48) On the basis of those reports, the DEA subsequently announced 464 “OxyContin-related deaths” over those two years. (see 49) “
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46. Statement of Asa Hutchinson, administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration before the United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, Executive Summary, April 11, 2002, http://www.dea.gov/pubs/cngrtest/ct041102p.html.
47. Ibid, pp. 1, 3–4.
48. U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Diversion Control Program, “Summary of Medical Examiner Reports on Oxycodone-Related Deaths,” May 16, 2002, www. deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drugs_concern/oxy codone/oxycotin7.htm.
49. Ibid., p. 4.
BIASED TESTIMONY AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The case of Dr. Timothy King, the self-proclaimed “Rat King,” and Dr. Andrew Kolodny underscores the need to examine the role of expert witnesses in legal proceedings thoroughly.
Questions about bias, conflicts of interest, and adherence to scientific principles demand resolution to ensure that potentially unscrupulous practices do not compromise the pursuit of justice.
The Art Behind Final Solutions;
“…in using statistics, the government now has the road map to switch from knowledge to deeds…”
Reinhardt Khorer, Adolf Hitler’s statistician
DEA MANIPULATED THE MANNER OF DEATH CRITERIA, HOPING NO PERSON(S) WOULD DISCOVERED THEIR FLAW(S)
“…But the conclusions the DEA drew from this data WERE significantly flawed…”
Libby reported in 2005, “…First, the DEA’s criteria for “OxyContin- related deaths” are problematic. There are 58 pain relief drugs that contain oxycodone. OxyContin is simply one of three single-entity, long-acting oxycodone drugs.
There are numerous other less potent, short–acting, oxy- condone drugs, such as Percocet, Percodan, and Roxicet, that also contain non-narcotic pain relievers such as aspirin or Tylenol. OxyContin is Purdue Pharma’s brand name drug. It’s popular because it provides long-acting relief from pain for up to 12 hours, which enables pain sufferers to sleep through the night.
Since there is no chemical test to distinguish OxyContin from the other oxycodone drugs, it is difficult to see how the DEA could definitively assert that a death attributable to oxycodone is due to OxyContin and not other short-acting oxycodone drugs. Nevertheless, the DEA counts as an “OxyContin-related death,” any death in which oxycodone is detected without the presence of aspirin or Tylenol.(50)
Second, if an OxyContin tablet is found in the gastrointestinal tract of a deceased person, the DEA labels it an “OxyContin-verified death,” regardless of other circumstances. Even more problematic, if investigators find
OxyContin pills or prescriptions at a crime scene, or if a family member or witness merely mentions the presence of OxyContin, the death is also confirmed as “OxyContin-verified.”(51)
Obviously, the mere presence of OxyContin in the system of the deceased, or the mere mention of the drug by friends or family members, is far from verification that OxyContin—either alone or in conjunction with other factors—actually caused a premature death.
DEA PADDING DEATH RATES BY ALTERING SIGNIFICANT MANNERS OF DEATH
Third, overdose victims tend to have multiple drugs in their bodies.(52) Approximately 40 percent of the autopsy reports of OxyContin- related deaths showed the presence of Valium- like drugs. Another 40 percent contained a second opiate such as Vicodan, Lortab, or Lorcet, in addition to oxycodone.
Thirty percent showed an antidepressant such as Prozac, 15 percent showed cocaine, and 14 percent indicated the presence of over-the-counter antihistamines or cold medications. Deaths like those could be the result of any of the drugs present, drugs working in combination, or one or more drugs plus the effects of other conditions, such as illness or disease.
Indeed, the March 2003 issue of the Journal of Analytical Toxicology found that of the 919 deaths related to oxycodone in 23 states over three years, only 12 showed confirmed evidence of the presence of oxycodone alone in the system of the deceased.(53) About 70 percent of the deaths were due to “multiple drug poisoning” of other oxycodone-containing drugs in combination with Valium-type tranquiliz- ers, alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and/or other narcotics and anti-depressants. (54)
That is strong evidence that many of the deaths attributed to OxyContin by government officials are not the result of unknowing pain patients who grew addicted and overdosed, but of habitual drug users who may have used the drug with any number of other sub- stances, any one of which could have con- tributed to overdose and death.
In the absence of opioids like OxyContin, habitual users will, in all likelihood, merely switch to more available drugs.
However, pain patients who rely on the drug for relief don’t have that option.
They’re far more likely to suffer from the scarcity caused by the DEA’s crackdown than are the common drug abusers the agency claims it is targeting.
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48. U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Diversion Control Program, “Summary of Medical Examiner Reports on Oxycodone-Related Deaths,” May 16, 2002, www. deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drugs_concern/oxy codone/oxycotin7.htm. 49. Ibid., p. 4.
50. Ibid., pp. 1–2. 51. Ibid., p. 2.
52. Ibid. 53. Cone et al., “Oxycodone Involvement in Drug Abuse Deaths: A DAWN-Based Classification Scheme Applied to an Oxycodone Postmortem Database Containing over 1000 Cases,” Journal of Analytical Toxicology 27, no. 2 (March 2003): 57–67. This study was funded by Purdue Pharma, manu- facturer of OxyContin but was subjected to the normal peer review process. 54. Ibid. 55. Drug Enforcement Administration, May 16, 2002, p.1.
RUSSELL’S THE NEXT STEP “FASCINATE THE FOOLS”
OVERZEALOUS PROSECUTIONS
From the Trial United States vs. Bothra. et al., Detroit, Michigan:
CASE 218-cr-20800
During the trial, the defense showed the jury multiple pictures of Bothra with influential figures, including Pope John Paul II and Mother Theresa.
In United States vs. Bothra, four Interventionalist Anesthisiologits each were facing 30-year prison sentences if found Guilty, a total of 287 counts Over Prescribing Opioids and Healthcare Fraud. On June 22, 2022, they were found “NOT GUILTY.”
” The prosecutors didn’t even understand the elements of the charges they bludgeoned us with. For instance, Patel told them that evaluation and management codes for office visits had face-to-face time requirements with the patient, and if those time requirements weren’t met, then using those codes for billing purposes was a fraud.
This is incorrect, and the prosecutors were dumbfounded when this was actually explained to them by defense expert Sean Weiss, “The Compliance Guy”. Talk about eggs on their faces. Dr. Patel’s nonsense also duped Dr.Patel’s Whistleblower attorneys.
Now, Hersh Patel is essentially a trainee with no formal training or background in billing and coding. Prosecutors did not independently verify anything he said and relied solely on the garbage he was feeding them to prosecute us.”
“FASCINATE THE FOOLS.”
“THE MEDIA”
Where Power leadS to No Action
Most importantly, or tragically for all media, especially Black Media to either ignore the facts of pain- care by muting their broadcast or muzzling out the research medical scientists and medical providers targeted by the expansion of this War on Drugs (False Opioid Pandemic) has been tragic.
Thousands of People being treated for War Injuries, and Chronic Diseases such as Cancer, Sickle Cell, ALS, etc have perished and succumbed, needlessly through suicide, and pain.
Sadly, and unfortunately most of Black Media have chosen too, to, “…perpetuate, fears by reiterating overdose statistics based on questionable science and quoting public officials without a bit of skepticism.”
They, too, have failed to understand the nature of science and facts, their POWER and responsibilities, which have led to No Action (except a few, thank you, Leroy Baylor, Dr.Wilmer Leon, Juandolyn Stokes, Angela Green-Johnson, JohnFuglesang, Anthony Parks Muhammed, Rev. Al, et al.) in reporting these types of targetings of Medical Providers.
TULSAFICATION
These absolute failures to recognize (Tulsafication) the destruction the DEA has inflicted on fundamental medical care and when a small group of Black pharmacists, 750 articles ago, on their BLOG are even more than tragic.
Notwithstanding being dismissed and ridiculed by media calling them drug dealers in white coats and black media accusing them of wanting to be celebrities. This, distain and utter contempt of our research and findings sadly demonstrates Education cannot reduce racial disparities in America.
THE FAILURE OF THE NUBIAN EMPIRE BASED ON INTELLECTUAL INSECURITIES AND COLORISM
According to The Libby Report in 2005,
“…Newspapers and magazines reported on the alleged rising death toll from OxyContin and that the outbreak in opioid abuse posed a greater threat to public health and welfare than cocaine. Soon, arrest and overdose statistics were juxtaposed with OxyContin sales figures, painting the grim picture of an American pharmaceutical company willing to peddle addiction and death for a quick buck.
• Time ran a story in January 2001, reporting that “OxyContin may succeed crack cocaine on the street.”61 In Pulaski, Virginia, OxyContin had overtaken cocaine and marijuana, Time reported, and property crime was up 50 percent.
Police in three states reported robberies of pharmacies, as well as the homes of people known to take OxyContin legitimately (how the burglars knew who was taking the drug isn’t clear).
Both, of course, are means by which OxyContin may have found its way to the street that wouldn’t. Pain patients are far more likely to suffer from the scarcity caused by the DEA’s crackdown than are the common drug abusers the agency claims it is targeting.”
Carl Nelson: THIS IS NOT NEWS”
“FASCINATE THE FOOLS WITH THE MONEY BALL”
Several agencies act in collusion with one another and operate in a web of mutual channels to snare, strategize, sealing arrests, ensuring eventual prosecution and indictments against professional Medical Doctors, Dentists, and Pharmacists.
Similar to the false and overworked narrative on crime, the War on Drugs laws are perpetrated – not against street-level pushers but individuals who have a high standing in the communities, offices with assets, expensive medical equipment, assets cars, offices, and property.
The 2005 Libby report pointed out,
“Narcotics are the most powerful painkillers available, but doctors are afraid to prescribe them out of fear they will be prosecuted by overzealous law enforcers, or that they will turn their patients into addicts . . . .
“We are pharmacological Calvinists,” says Dr. Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health.(70)
The Libby report goes on to state:
“But at the heart of the debate is confusion about what constitutes addiction and what is simply physical dependence. Most people who take morphine for more than a few days become physically dependent, suffering temporary withdrawal symptoms—nausea, muscle cramps, chills—if they stop taking it abruptly, without tapering the dose.
But few exhibit the classic signs of addiction: a compulsive craving for the drug’s euphoric or calming effects and continued abuse of the drug even when to do so is self-destructive. “
“FASCINATE THE FOOLS.”
BLACK DOCTORS, DENTISTS, PHARMACISTS, BLACK MEN BEING SHAKEN DOWN FOR MONEY AT AIRPORTS BY DEA DRUG AGENTS IN PLANE VIEW
CARL NELSON: “THAT’S NOT NEWS”
“THE DEA ABLE TO FASCINATES THE FOOLS BY MOVING THE GOAL POST BACK AND FORTH”
However, according to the 2005 Libby report,
“..To target doctors, investigators look for “red flags” they believe are indicative of potentially criminal behavior. These red flags are generally circumstantial evidence found during standard criminal investigative proce- dures.
“FASCINATE THE FOOLS.”
The problem with red flags is that what may appear to be evidence of criminal behavior to an investigator without medical training is often perfectly consistent with legitimate medical practice, particularly in a dynamic field like pain management.
“FASCINATE THE FOOLS.”
Criminal investigators without medical training simply aren’t qualified to tell the difference. Yet they rou- tinely make such decisions, and such close judgment calls can cause the criminal prose- cution of an otherwise legitimate physician.”
Khawuleza MOMMA
According to the DEA, the prosecution of any given doctor is based on whether there is a “legitimate medical purpose” for a prescription he has written or whether it is “beyond the bounds of medical practice.” But prosecutors concede that there are no specific guidelines or procedures to evaluate either of those standards.
At a Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Funds Recovery Summit in Washington, DC, in 2004, Greg Wood, a federal investigator for the U.S. attorney’s office in Virginia, said the government aims to produce probable cause that a doctor (a) intentionally wrote a narcotics prescription for patients without legitimate medical needs, (b) knew the patients getting the prescriptions were addicts, or (c) knew the patients getting the prescriptions were selling the drugs.126 Any of those is sufficient for an arrest.”
“But even those guidelines are apparently subject to change without notice. The DEA continues to lower its evidentiary standards, making it nearly impossible for many doctors to determine what is and isn’t permitted. In October 2004, the DEA disavowed the contents of a pamphlet.”
When asked how Fascism OPIOD PANDEMIC started, OB-GYN DR. Harold O. Alexander, MD, once STATED: “First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent.”
When asked how the OPIOD PANDEMIC started, Nancy Seefelt, Pain Patent Advocate, once STATED,
THE CLEMENT’S COROLLARY:
“THEY ARE FASCINATED BY FOOLS.”
“First, we are fascinated
By the fools.
sam quinones: “it about the white people”
SAM QUINONES’ STRATEGIC TALKING POINTS
1. IDENTIFIES THE RACIAL ASPECT OF THIS OPIOID ISSUE AS THE DRIVING FORCE
2. DESCRIBES VICODIN, DILAUDID, AS HEROIN
3. CORRUPT DOCTORS WITH PRESCRIPTION PADS
4. SAM QUIONES ,**BEJAMIN BARRON, LISA GIRION, JILL HORWITZ, **LARISSA MOONEY MD
5. JILL HORWITZ DIRECTLY QUOTES “KOLODNY” NARRATIVE RACE DISCRIMINATION SAVES BLACKS AND HISPANICS
6. “FOOTBALL IS THE GATEWAY TO HEROIN ADDICTION”; SAM QUINONES, LISA GIRION SUPPLY STORY
7. BARRON BENJAMIN “TARGETING PHARMACIES” DOCTORS ARE MURDERERS EASY CASES TO PROSECUTE DATA ANALYTICS,
8. THE MINDSET BEHIND THE ORIGINS OF JEFF SESSION OPIOID PROGRAM
9. SAM QUINONES “THIS AFFECTS WHITE PEOPLE” AND REPEATS IT SEVERAL TIMES AT 52: MINUTE MARK” EFFECTS “WHITE PEOPLE.” ALL STEREOTYPES ARE USED IN THIS VIDEO
10. SAM QUINONES: 57: MIN MARK VICODIN 3 TONS 1990 TO 43 TONS 2010 99% THE UNITED STATES, RACIAL /BENJAMIN BARRON DEMOGRAPHICS “HITTING WHITE PEOPLE IN A DIFFERENT WAY”
“Then, WE muzzle the intelligent.”
JUSTICE Potter Stewart: Supreme Court OF THE United States OF AMERICA,
CASE: 74-759
UNITED STATES vs. MOORE
“…And is it not true that historically most, if not all of the great breakthroughs and advances in medical science have been made by people who did not follow the conventional way of doing things.
They followed a new way, their way, and most of the conventional physicians of their day would have disagreed with them because this is not the way it has always been done.
And if that is the new — it bothers me that this kind of evidence can send a person to prison for as long as this has been going, some many, many years, but in any event, that that is the sort of evidence that is the basis for criminal liability.”
This man was a physician, he was not a fraud?
Paul L. Friedman
No question he was a physician, and no question he had —
THE DEA TARGETS HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS BASED ON SKIN COLOR AND NATION OF ORIGIN
Professor Oliva asserts:
” DEA’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) predictive platforms deserve serious scrutiny because they are the only law enforcement-developed digital surveillance systems that health care providers have ever utilized to diagnose and treat patients. Providers may rely on unvalidated PDMP risk scores to make prescribing decisions because they view those scores as clinically useful.
That claim should be viewed with skepticism because there is no evidence that PDMP scores accurately ascertain patient drug misuse risk. It is also questionable whether clinical reliance on PDMP risk scores is truly voluntary, given that the regulatory environment leaves providers with little choice but to take seriously the information generated by proprietary PDMP algorithms.”
MUZZLE THE INTEL, FORMER DEA SPECIAL AGENT MATHEW FOGG: WAR ON DRUGS
BY 2005 THE DOJ- DEA WAS WELL AWARE THAT THE SO CALLED OPIOID CRISIS OR PANDEMIC WAS COMPLETELY FRAUDULENT BUT HAD TO MUCH SKIN IN THE GAME TO ADMITT THE TRUTH
Ronald Libby further pointed out,
“Despite the Sentinel fiasco, media outlets continued to perpetuate OxyContin fears by reiterating overdose statistics based on questionable science and quoting public officials without a bit of skepticism or any effort to elicit rebuttals from drug war critics or pain patient advocates.
DEA Mission of Eradicating the Prescription Painkiller “Threat”
The DEA’s new mission to thwart the diversion of prescription painkillers was a significant undertaking, one that would require extra manpower and resources. As part of its OxyContin Action Plan, the agency carried out more than 400 investigations, resulting in the arrest of 600 individuals from May 2001 to January 2004. Sixty percent of those cases involved medical professionals, most of them doctors and pharmacists (the remaining cases could include manufacturers and wholesalers).98
To implement its new program, the DEA participated in the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and worked cooperatively with state and local drug task forces. OCDETF combines the resources of federal, state, and local law enforcement under the coordination of U.S. attorneys. In 2001 the DEA deputized 1,554 state and local officers from large and small police departments across the country to coordinate prescription drug investigations. In 2002, 1,172 DEA Special Agents worked alongside 1,916 state and local police officers in 207 separate task forces.99
This sharing of resources significantly expanded the OxyContin Plan’s reach. To see how the task force plan gave the DEA more reach, consider drug war statistics from 1999. In that year, the DEA initiated 1,699 investigations on its own but was able to extend its investigative reach by working cooperatively with state and local law enforcement officials.”
“muzzle the intelligent.”
NIA HEARD-GARRIS: “No matter where you look, there are disparities in care for pretty much every racial and ethnic group that’s not white.”
NIA Heard-Garris is a researcher at Northwestern University and a pediatrician at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She and her colleagues reviewed dozens of recent studies examining the quality of care children receive. She says there are lots of examples of inequalities across specialties, whether it’s longer wait times to be seen, getting diagnostic imaging, or getting basic pain management.
DR. CHRISTOPHER RUSS, MD
“To become an interventional pain/anesthesiologist it takes a minimum of 15 years of schooling and training after you graduate from high school.
Fully educated with almost three times the fellowship training than most pain doctors. And the risks that we took not only medically but being everybody’s dumping ground for their opioid patients, they all shifted their risk to us, and we accepted that risk because that was our profession and then to have the government say what they said and do what they did still boggles my mind.
DR. WILMER LEON, ESQ
Nobody knows what it feels like to have your own government come after you with everything they have, including the media, especially when you know you were operating well within the law and the standard practice.
Everybody who knew me knew that this was a scam because they know that I was not a scammer I was not a money grabber.
I was not dishonest and I certainly was not materialistic.”
TARGETED : WOMEN REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ADVOCACY & ENSNAREMENT WITHIN THE MEDICAL REGULATORY THERAPEUTIC COMPLEX: TULSAFICATION OF DR. HAROLD O. ALEXANDER, MD, OB-GYN
I am a 30-year American Board of Ob/Gyn Certified, native-born Washingtonian, and women’s reproductive rights advocate.
My more than 40-year odyssey began rather inauspiciously with my decision to believe and support the idea that a person was entitled to control their life’s destiny. Ethically, this principle is known as autonomy and is foundational to the concept of Ethics. I believed that the physician-patient relationship was sacrosanct and, therefore, not subject to interference. I was naive!
“ The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Administration, the agency that most directly oversees access to opioids, deserves much of the blame for these deaths. Because of its incompetence, the opioid crisis has gone from bad to worse.
The solution: overhauling the agency or even getting rid of it entirely… Despite the investment of hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and the earnest efforts of thousands of employees, the D.E.A.’s track record is abysmal. The agency has been unable to balance legitimate access to and control of prescription drugs. The widespread over-reliance on opioids, along with benzodiazepines, amphetamines, and other scheduled medications, has created a booming black market.
The agency’s enforcement strategies, and the support it has lent to local and state police departments, have also fueled abusive police tactics including dangerous no-knock-raids and ethnic profiling of drivers.
It has eroded civil liberties through the expansion of warrantless surveillance, and overseen arbitrary seizures of billions of dollars of private property without any clear connection to drug-related crimes. These actions have disproportionately targeted people of color, contributing to disparities in mass incarceration, confiscated property, and collective trauma.”
“This woman was a physician; SHE was not a fraud.”
CAN’T ENFORCE MANY DRUG LAWS WHEN YOU UNDER THE COVERS FUCKING THE CARTELS PROSTITUTES AND TAKING THEIR MONEY
According to Laura Williams’s December 2, 2022 article, “DEA Whistleblower Claims Mass Fraud and Corruption. Is Anyone Surprise?”
“José Irizarry, was a former award-winning DEA agent who was convicted of 19 counts of corruption and fraud in 2020. On his way to serve federal time in Puerto Rico in January 2022, Irizarry spoke to the Associated Press, calling out his ex-colleagues and spilling a few agency secrets.
Irizarry told the AP that dozens of other federal agents, prosecutors, smugglers, and snitches on the US payroll (collectively known as “Team America”) engaged in global jetset adventures on the DEA’s dime. Irizarry estimates that 90 percent of his group’s work trips were “bogus” (not related to any drug interdiction work) but that the US government was charged under the vague justification that travel was “case-related.”
You can’t win an unwinnable war. DEA knows this and the agents know this,” Irizarry told reporters, validating decades of criticism. “…We know we’re not making a difference.”
While some money and effort was spent intercepting, or at least tracking, drugs and money between the 69 countries in which DEA has a presence, what were agents up to on the taxpayer dime?
Agents falsified the few reports they did file, skimmed massive amounts of drugs and cash from sting operations, and set up meetings in cities simply to attend elite soccer and tennis matches. As long as Team America could report “stats” that made the DEA look good, no one questioned what they were up to. Another two dozen agents are under related investigations, according to the AP.
Irizarry’s accusations are the subject of ongoing internal investigations, but they are hardly the first concerns raised about corrupt behavior by DEA agents. In 2015, the Justice Department and the Associated Press confirmed agents participated in sexual encounters with prostitutes employed by Columbian drug cartels in their government-leased living quarters, no less.
“DEA is a game. The drug war is a game,” Irizarry told the AP when interviewed. “It was a very fun game that we were playing.”
That game might be fun and lucrative for federal enforcers and other drug-trade insiders. But the DEA’s game makes the rest of humanity its losers.
“What’s good for violent drug cartels is good for the DEA, but bad for the rest of the human race. DEA agents are immersed in a violent and shady world, largely subsidized by US taxpayers and through theft via asset forfeiture. DEA agents have tortured and murdered innocent people who happened to be near drug activity. The DEA’s punitive prohibition of cocaine precipitated the spread of crack. The DEA’s misguided attempts to reduce opiate misuse fueled an overdose epidemic.”
The DEA’s budget of $3 billion is counted among an estimated total cost of enforcement estimated at $100 billion, including $25.7 billion in state and local funds, often from cash-strapped communities whose needs are far more immediate.”
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