Government Heroin and Cocaine Conspiracy

by Sax Allen

"Hey gang, what time is it???"

It's time for another disgustingly radical, and very zen-anarchist-atheist, smutty left-wing propaganda upload from that computer modem maniac:

SAX ALLEN!!!

Today's piece helps answer the question, "Why is there so much heroin (and cocaine) killing my brothers and sisters in the streets of my country... and what is my government doing about it?"

First a lovely little article... and then my commentary:

"EXPERTS EXPECT FLOOD OF HEROIN FROM AFGHANISTAN"

by Mark Fineman, Los Angeles Times, reprinted in the SF Chronicle, July 18, 1988, on page A-13

Peshawar, Pakistan

The withdrawal of Soviet troop from Afghanistan is likely to produce an explosion in the production of heroin ear-marked for the United States, according to narcotics experts, diplomats and government officials in Pakistan.

The border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which together with Iran forms what is known as the Golden Crescent, already supplies half the heroin consumed in the United States.

Officials here say that after the Soviets complete the withdrawal of their 115,000 troops at the end of this year or early next, the U.S. market may be glutted with heroin.

"I see a horror story coming out of Afghanistan after the Soviet pull-out," said one official who has been watching the Southwest Asian heroin pipeline since it was opened in 1980.

The concern focuses on the 3 million Afghban refugees who have been living in camps along the border in Pakistan since the Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan in 1979.

"As these refugees go back, they'll be desperate," the official said. "They will have no capital to start businesses. Their country has been destroyed by war, and there's going to be a great temptation to make money fast. Unfortunately, that means opium and heroin."

"We already have reports of one group of refugees going back to a village in Nangarhar province (n eastern Afghanistan), and ... their current crop is 60 percent wheat, 40 percent opium."

Officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration have expressed deep concern about increased heroin production and trafficking in Pakistan itself, which inherited much of the drug trade from its western neighbor after the Soviet intervention there and the revolution in Iran severed heroin land routes to the west.

When the heroin boom began here, the government of Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq responded with an aggressive program of enforcement and eradication of the opium poppy.

It was regarded as one of the world's most successful actions of its kind. Production declined in the border area around Peshawar, from an estimated 800 tons in 1979 to only about 40 tons in 1985, according to DEA estimates.

Then suddenly Pakistan's production of opium, from which heroin is refined, "increased significantly in 1986, to about 140 to 160 metric tons," according to testimony given last year by DEA Administrator John Lawn before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Lawn noted that scores of heroin refineries were springing up again in Pakistan's semi-autonomous triblal areas near the border, and he attributed this to "improved weather conditions, resistance by growers and traffickers and weak enforcement."

For the past two years, visiting State Department officials, international narcotics enforcement agencies and the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad have strongly urged Zia to renew his anti-heroin crackdown. They said that policy had become lenient in 1985, when Pakistan elected its first civilian government since Zia overthrew former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a 1979 coup.

Adding to the pressure, the House Foreign Affairs Committee warned Pakistan last month to get tough on narcotics control or risk seeing U.S. aid reduced.

Zia apparently agreed that Pakistan was not doing enough. Last month, at a meeting with most of the ambassadors stationed in Islamabad, he said he was particularly angry that official corruption had led to lax enforcement of the narcotics laws.

A survey by the Pakistan Narcotics Control Board disclosed recently that one in nine young men in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, is addicted to heroin. The drug is so cheap here that an addict can satisfy his daily need with the equivalent of less than $1.

Zia and U.S. officials insist that the Afghan resistance fighters, who are fervently Islamic, are not major drug dealers, that many of the commanders forbid drug use as a violation of Islamic law and that they use their troops to fight drugs.

COMMENTARY

Yeah, right, the so-called freedom fighters in Afghanistan are winning the Soviet pull-out too. And it's all just a coincidence that as the side financed and armed by our beloved CIA & Soldier of Fortune crowd comes to power, we may expect a glut of heroin to hit our streets. Yeah, right.

See, they couldn't tell us this before because we'd say "to hell with those opium farmers! If the Soviets are keeping the heroin pushers down, then more power to them!" Naw, they had to tell us all about the impoverished but plucky little patriots with their primitive firearms.

Yeah... kinda like a third world George Washington... with dark skin and a turban. Sure they play polo with a human head once in awhile but, hey, that's just local COLOR! Sure they're gonna have no more freedom under our dictators than they did under Soviet dictators. But what the hell! At least now they'll be OUR dictators, in OUR pockets, bribed with OUR tax dollars!

We put these puppets in power. They tell the press and our ambassadors how hard they're working to eradicate dope production, and meanwhile they're living like kings in palaces paid for by dope and blood money. Gimme a goddamn break!

What should we do now?

I say we get out in the streets and demonstrate and write letters by the truckload, BEGGING the Soviets to go back into Afghanistan and do what we could never achieve: stop the damned production of opium!

We should say, "dear Soviet Union: we're dreadfully sorry. We didn't realize you were so much more effective than we were in eradicating opium production in Afghanistan. We're all glasnost friends now so you don't want our streets filled with heroin any more than we do...right? So please go back into Afghanistan and wipe out those dirty little, dope-growing farmers or else teach them how to grow nice crops. Even California-style sinsemilla marijuana would be a gigantic improvement.

We realize you got some bad press from us and that your young people said, "Hell no, we won't go," and that Afghanistan was your Vietnam. But what the hell...!"

Seriously, the USSR was more effective at eliminating heroin production from this region than the US, CIA & DEA were. Of course the DEA is neutered by the CIA. You see, practically everytime the DEA wants to make a huge bust, they have to call it off because the dealer has friends high up in the CIA.

Simply put, heroin is one of the CIA's international currencies along with gold and guns.

Let's face facts:

When the CIA was smuggling heroin out of Southeast Asia in exchange for favors from the opium-growing Hmong tribespeople, we suddenly had a national heroin problem.

Coincidence, right?

When the CIA was smuggling cocaine out of Central America in exchange for favors to the contras, we suddenly had a national crack and cocaine problem.

Coincidence, right?

Bulllll - shit!!!

Just say no to ALL dope-dealing governments of the world!!!