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POT CALLING KETTLE BLACK?
MERVIN STODDART
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
MINISTER of National Security Dwight Nelson gave a commendable response to the recently released 2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report from the US government, which damned Jamaica for not doing more to stem the flow of drugs in and through the island. One was wont to laugh at the serious joke wherein Minister Nelson, in response to the low number of drug arrests cited by the US report, gave statistics to prove that the Jamaican government had increased the number of drug-related arrests over the period in question. One wonders if ridding Jamaica of the drug problem should not necessitate that drug use and drug-related arrests be reduced or eliminated. However, expansive reading of materials relevant to the US war on drugs and the abuse of drugs in America shows that the US is the world's worst drug-abuse nation. Hence, for the US government to malign Jamaica for drug abuse is like the pot calling the kettle black.
The Nation Master website that compiles statistics on international use of illicit drugs gives the following report on the US: "World's largest consumer of cocaine (shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean), Colombian heroin, and Mexican heroin and marijuana; major consumer of ecstasy and Mexican methamphetamine; minor consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering centre." (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...illicit-drugs). The entry speaks for itself. What it omits but what is documented elsewhere is that US government agencies have actively aided drug abuse in black communities in the US. In 1996 reporter Gary Webb of San Jose Mercury News proved that point and Congresswoman Maxine Walters called for a federal investigation. The Kerry 1988 report found that "senior US policy makers" supported using drug money to fund US projects in the Iran-Contra scandal. Various sources, including the following Wikipedia reference, note that: "Soon after the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, however, opium production increased markedly." It is no secret that those who gain most from the international illicit drug trade are not the children in Jamaica who are killed or arrested for foolishly using or dealing in drugs. Neither are the drug profiteers the alleged dons and community strongmen like Christopher "Dudus" Coke from Tivoli Gardens or other so-called drug kingpins previously extradited to the US. This writer has deduced from readings that the real profiteers are the US government and its allies, including corporate slave masters, world political leaders, economic agencies, and almost anyone from anywhere willing to be used by the drug masters.
Simply, those who have the power and resources to do so perpetrate the illicit drug trade to enrich the same evil few who use the US military industrial complex to retain control of global socio-political and economic affairs. Their agenda includes the destabilisation and exploitation of so-called Third-World countries like Jamaica. Hence, those same bastards see to it that drugs are shipped through Jamaica. They use certain people to control the drug trade, including security and political personnel who are employed or blackmailed to be party to the drug charade. Most of those who run the drugs for the top masterminds will be jailed or murdered to keep them quiet and to keep the movement going. It is a sad scam run by Washington and some European government centres. This drug game played by the US and other Euro-American governments was responsible for the invasion of Panama and the kidnapping of Manuel Noriega. It was partially responsible for the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and continues to wreak havoc with the economies of Jamaica, Haiti, and other Caribbean and Latin American nations. Apparently, the US government works for the global capitalists who control the military industrial complex and by condemning Jamaica in its Narcotics Control report, Washington is simply being hypocritical.
Jamaica has no cocaine or heroin factories and exposure to those drugs has been forced upon the island's youths. The US government has the resources to eliminate the flow of coke, heroin and guns into and through Jamaica and must share the blame for allowing those deadly products to flood the island. Knowledgeable readers will deduce that the illicit drug trade is related to other parts of the agenda of Euro-Americans who wish to continue their underdevelopment of Jamaica and other developing nations. That agenda includes profit-making by way of the US prison industry; exploitation of those poor nation's resources; and keeping non-white countries suppressed under the political will of white supremacist forces. Is Washington through this narcotics report saying that their loans to Jamaica and other bilateral relationships give them the right to engage in this game of "pot calling kettle black"?
INMerv@hotmail.com
MERVIN STODDART
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
MINISTER of National Security Dwight Nelson gave a commendable response to the recently released 2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report from the US government, which damned Jamaica for not doing more to stem the flow of drugs in and through the island. One was wont to laugh at the serious joke wherein Minister Nelson, in response to the low number of drug arrests cited by the US report, gave statistics to prove that the Jamaican government had increased the number of drug-related arrests over the period in question. One wonders if ridding Jamaica of the drug problem should not necessitate that drug use and drug-related arrests be reduced or eliminated. However, expansive reading of materials relevant to the US war on drugs and the abuse of drugs in America shows that the US is the world's worst drug-abuse nation. Hence, for the US government to malign Jamaica for drug abuse is like the pot calling the kettle black.
The Nation Master website that compiles statistics on international use of illicit drugs gives the following report on the US: "World's largest consumer of cocaine (shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean), Colombian heroin, and Mexican heroin and marijuana; major consumer of ecstasy and Mexican methamphetamine; minor consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering centre." (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...illicit-drugs). The entry speaks for itself. What it omits but what is documented elsewhere is that US government agencies have actively aided drug abuse in black communities in the US. In 1996 reporter Gary Webb of San Jose Mercury News proved that point and Congresswoman Maxine Walters called for a federal investigation. The Kerry 1988 report found that "senior US policy makers" supported using drug money to fund US projects in the Iran-Contra scandal. Various sources, including the following Wikipedia reference, note that: "Soon after the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, however, opium production increased markedly." It is no secret that those who gain most from the international illicit drug trade are not the children in Jamaica who are killed or arrested for foolishly using or dealing in drugs. Neither are the drug profiteers the alleged dons and community strongmen like Christopher "Dudus" Coke from Tivoli Gardens or other so-called drug kingpins previously extradited to the US. This writer has deduced from readings that the real profiteers are the US government and its allies, including corporate slave masters, world political leaders, economic agencies, and almost anyone from anywhere willing to be used by the drug masters.
Simply, those who have the power and resources to do so perpetrate the illicit drug trade to enrich the same evil few who use the US military industrial complex to retain control of global socio-political and economic affairs. Their agenda includes the destabilisation and exploitation of so-called Third-World countries like Jamaica. Hence, those same bastards see to it that drugs are shipped through Jamaica. They use certain people to control the drug trade, including security and political personnel who are employed or blackmailed to be party to the drug charade. Most of those who run the drugs for the top masterminds will be jailed or murdered to keep them quiet and to keep the movement going. It is a sad scam run by Washington and some European government centres. This drug game played by the US and other Euro-American governments was responsible for the invasion of Panama and the kidnapping of Manuel Noriega. It was partially responsible for the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and continues to wreak havoc with the economies of Jamaica, Haiti, and other Caribbean and Latin American nations. Apparently, the US government works for the global capitalists who control the military industrial complex and by condemning Jamaica in its Narcotics Control report, Washington is simply being hypocritical.
Jamaica has no cocaine or heroin factories and exposure to those drugs has been forced upon the island's youths. The US government has the resources to eliminate the flow of coke, heroin and guns into and through Jamaica and must share the blame for allowing those deadly products to flood the island. Knowledgeable readers will deduce that the illicit drug trade is related to other parts of the agenda of Euro-Americans who wish to continue their underdevelopment of Jamaica and other developing nations. That agenda includes profit-making by way of the US prison industry; exploitation of those poor nation's resources; and keeping non-white countries suppressed under the political will of white supremacist forces. Is Washington through this narcotics report saying that their loans to Jamaica and other bilateral relationships give them the right to engage in this game of "pot calling kettle black"?
INMerv@hotmail.com
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