Editorial: Here’s What We Should Teach Our Kids on Ronald Reagan Day

The father of the crack epidemic was not Ronald Reagan — a well meaning but slightly senile old neo liberal — but Carlos Lehder. Lehder was the first to see cocaine as something that could be sold to the masses in the United States, rather than just the elite, seizing control of Norman Cay off the coast of Florida to do it. Lehder, you see, was a Marxist, and saw cocaine as a way to bring the United States to its knees… Freeway Ricky Ross was a small time chump compared to Lehder, who was in deep with FARC and the 19th Of April Movement. Lehder would later point to Cuba’s involvement in all this as well, claiming he personally met with Castro. All of this, by the way, is quite well documented.

Jose says:
February 6, 2011 at 9:53 pm

So what should we teach our kids about Obama, just curious…

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If he presides over a scandal as big as Iran-Contra, we should teach our kids the same things about him that we do of Reagan. As it stands, Obama’s yet to demonstrate he’s that inept, incompetent, and haphazardly out of touch with his own administration.

Rob, do you read newspapers? Lehder is the founder of the Medellin cartel. He is in a U.S. prison now. He has been tried. He has been convicted. He has been written about, extensively. You are simply ignorant. Do your homework.

In fact, if you study history, you can find insurgents from underdeveloped countries outmaneuvering larger, better equipped, more technologically sophisticated American forces all the time.

Take Pershing’s Pancho Villa expedition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition), the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition), The Battle Of Mogadishu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993), or the Battle of Little Big Horn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn).

Now let’s step outside of military arena and look at history of smuggling. Smuggling is a classic example of a place where governments always fail. Whenever it’s profitable to smuggle something, smugglers will find a way. That’s because while resources and technology are unevenly distributed, street smarts can be found anywhere in the world. That means if there is a market for an illegal good, smugglers will find a way. Always have, always will.

Truth.

Where there is demand, there will be a Supplier.

War on Drugs theory- Cut off Supplier. How has that worked?

Cut-off demand then there won’t be a supplier. How do we cut off demand? Or is that possible?

It’s very simple. However solution maybe complex.

I know this deviates from the main discussion. Have much to say, but won’t.
The discussion is nonsense Who is the father of crack ? Because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. All I will say; when there is big time $; there is big time corruption.
The real question is; Do the powers to be make certain segmants of our society expendable to achieve there means? I think we know the answer.

@Davey

Why entertain this fool?

You have facts, he has an opinion!

@whoever cares

This country has gone down the drain since the so-called great communicator took office. The economy crash can be traced to him. All of this deregulation bullshit hurt industries more than it helped them. Corporations with the help of the great one, sold out the American people.

Shortsightedness is the curse of fucking congress, I’m so tired of this shit. Then when you want to clean things up and make a difference, you got bitches like Sarah Palin, Huckabee and brian crying communism. i’m all for commensenscism. I grew up in DC, and like five feet from the white house, there was a war zone. Regain, Bush and the rest of them didn’t do shit to stop it. They just threw brothas in jail and that was supposed to end the problem. But what I noticed is that 75 of the people who come to the neighborhood were white, yet they weren’t prosecuted.

Don’t get me wrong, I know that he helped fuel the drug trade, however, the people that used the drugs helped fuel the trade as well. Most likely because life is so hard and fucked up that they needed a lift.

HUMANITY MUST COME FIRST.

FORGET:

PARTY AFFLICTION
FORM OF GOVERNMENT
MISGUIDED RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
AND THE REST OF THE BULLLSHIT!

What’s wrong with this guy Brian, Dave? Doesn’t he know what the word “revision” means? Everything you said IS FACT! Tell these naysayers to google the name Eugene Hassenfus. He was shot down in a CIA plane filled with guns on the way into Nicaragua. The cocaine base resin in the bottom of the plane was three inches deep. It was “Guns in, drugs out”. Ronald Reagan fired his C. Everette Koop who was his Surgeon General at the time, the top medical guy with the cabinet. He was the only cabinet head at the time who wore a general’s uniform because he was leading a war and the war was against AIDS/HIV. Ronald Reagan fired him because HE REFUSED TO LIE and say that HIV/AIDS was a disease that was the result of being gay or being a substance abuser. They wanted him to say also, that AIDS was a Black Gay Disease. Although Koop also was and is a reactionary mother fucker, to his credit he refused to lie stating his mandated adherence to the Hippocratic oath. He cared more about his standing with the medical community at some point down the road than he did the people effected but he still didn’t cross that line. And here you had that bitch Nancy talking about “Just say no” which is the proven LEAST effective way to deal with drug abuse in progress. This man was a truly evil, fully controlled automaton for corporate interests. He should have been impeached. He was to Nixon what Mussolini was to Hitler. Fuck him. I’d shit on his grave if I knew where it was.

The question of who to blame for crack is the same as who to praise for the fall of the iron curtain. Ronnie and his admirers like to point out it was his epic plea to Gorbachev that made the wall tumble. In fact, the Soviets were broke and inefficient and their satellite states had been rebelling (getting stomped on by Soviet army) years before Reagan took office. The arms race helped a great deal to flush Russia down the drain along with their wasted money, btw. The Soviet Union was going to fall apart one way or another. It was merely a question of which year precisely. And it was actually Gorbachev who managed to open up from the inside (Glasnost and Perestroika). So if we’re going to give credit to Ronnie for bringing down the evil Soviet empire, we might as well blame him for spreading crack in the hoods, both for the same reason. He was probably not in full control in either cases, but he happened to be in office as the USA’s highest leader when it went down. So it’s his job to take both praise and blame. It comes with the prestige of ruling the most powerful nation on earth. And he did a shit job at that.

Don’t forget Reagan’s “vice” president was George H. W. Bush, former head of the CIA. Years later his son George W. Bush stole an election utilizing the help of his brother Jeb Bush whose minions rigged the election. Everywhere these people wage war, drugs are being produced and shipped to America from Heroin in Viet Nam to Cocaine in Central America and Heroin again in North Africa (the Middle East). These are not coincidental actions. These people are desperate, evil and diligent.

Brian, you don’t know anything about neo-liberalism, Reagan, or Obama.

Craig 17x – The fact you don’t know where the grave is tells me you’re ignorant, the fact you haven’t looked it up yet tells me you’re lazy, and the fact you’re threatening to poop on someone’s grave tells me you’re an uncouth primitive. But hey, seriously, go for it — I could use a good laugh.

Score: Rational People: 19 — Brian: 0 — FBI: Also 0.

Amen @ Brian. Everyone knows that Reagan was a gnats pee pee from being indicted and impeached. It is obvious who a defender of 666/Ronald Wilson Reagan must be: An agent provocateur or one of those historical revisionists.

I love this guy! Isn’t he a card? Random? I put my picture up here as does Davey. We don’t know who you are except that you don’t know that it’s impossible for a Black man to be racist. Racism is the sole province of the white supremacists which as we all know, is a form of insanity.

Yes, because former members of the Reagan administration care deeply about his reputation in the Bay Area hip hop community. That’s because in addition to overseeing the invention of crack cocaine and AIDS, Reagan DJ’d house parties in Oakland during his first term as California’s governor. He could have been eminem before Eminem, but he needed high political office to cover up his role in the assassinations of both JFK and William McKinley.

I think the US’ drug habits are in direct connection with Mexico’s current drug war.

DAVEY IS 100 PERCENT RIGHT! You know that saying “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink it”? I think people take that the wrong way. If you lead a horse to water and he does not drink it, it’s because his instincts tell him the water will make him sick or kill him…he knows better than the person leading him. As such they try to get us to drink their foul water of lies and we get beat up for pointing out to the Sheeple that “Hey, these are lies, distortions and deceptions”. Chill, be silent, relax, calm down about spreading the truth? Never!

This is real Reagon was a evil bastard who killed blacks dreams. Coporate people loved him because they want to keep us dumb. Its sad I hope he rots in hell with the devil and all his followers.

This article hits a lot of major points dead on.

Reagan was just straight up wrong on so many of his policies. It’s great to note that he was a corporate shill from the start, and that he managed to sell people the idea of “if we give the rich more money, some of it will come down!” as the surefire way to create a better society was his ultimate pitch. Though it’s been shown in theory and in practice and in history itself not to work, people still cling to the idea.

I think a lot of it comes from people seeing how well America treats those who have a large amount of money, and combined with the idea that “if you work hard you can be there too!”, creates a horrible mixture of envy and hope. By placing a decent life up on a pedestal and faking the idea that America’s a meritocracy where hard work is rewarded, people completely ignore that they should have a shot at a decent life without having to luck out and join the upper class.

@ Brian just the fact that you referenced wikipedia(non-academic web site that anyone can post their personal opinions proves your ignorance) says a whole lot about your line of fallicies. Please explain why Ronald Reagan came up with the crack cocaine law that placed powder and rock in two different realms ( For every 1 gram of crack cocaine=1 year in jail vs. 5 grams of powder= 5 years in prison)? Who do you think benefited from this law since the crack cocaine was planted by the CIA into inner city black neighborhoods from their deal with the Contras during the 80’s?
F.Y.I:
Look up Rayful Edmond and see how he supplied Frewway Rick Ross becasue this man at his peak, made about $300 million a week as a Washighton D.C resident during those times, way bigger on larger scale than Freeway Rick. Although, they both had somethoing in common from their documentaries…our U.S government!!

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/news/beast2.htm#IV

Reagan reigned over the introduction of “crack” as a tool, similar to “smack” as a tool for black ops funding during the Vietnam war. Reagan’s VP was the once the Southeast Asian theater-of-operations chief during AirAmerica and also South American desk assistant when the Guatemalan elections were disrupted and overthrown in the 50’s and early 60’s. Some say Bush’s connections to arms/drugs/assassination efforts for the CIA were his political leverage that got him involved in mid-east oil policy so deeply in the 70’s. Bush was actually the contact point for Oliver North. Carlos Lehder was no marxist. He saw himself as a Spanish colonialist, same as Pablo, Blandon and Ochoa. They were died in the wool Catholic Royalists that saw the indigenous “coca” as an exploitable resource that had been sold to US interests in large profitable amounts since the 1850’s. It was not a new business venture for wealthy Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian landowners who identified heavily with Spanish colonialism. There has been cocaine infused wine served in the White House from the 1850’s until Harding was president. Bush was a major strategist when it came to using black market profits and control of supply to manipulate underworld agents into service for the CIA as everything from agent provocateurs to assassins to money launderers to arms dealers, often with horrible localized insurgency results that co-opted splinter organizations that would outwardly imply adversarial iconography to US interests, FARC being a final amalgamation of those groups that were actually controlled by CIA moles and used to divide what would come to be known as the Medillin cartel, so that CIA money laundering businesses could overtake the coca business and the cartels could be pushed out, also giving a violent, narcoterrorist face to the political landscape in south America and neutralizing other left leaning causes in the process. Bush was never asked or questioned about his connections to the CIA in a way that would have interfered with or exposed his connectivity to field operators. Reagan was an actor playing a role for corporate interests. He had demonstrated he was willing to do it effectively in his role as California governor, but he had never materialized support enough in the republican party to become president until his California cadre of wealthy anti-tax activist and the skull&bones Bush shadow government forces came into alliance. “Crack” is just a base of mucus/sero uptake derivative of the coca leaf that had been popular in America for over a century, cocaine hydrochloride. This product had made Sears & Roebuck what it was, one of the first mercantile corporations that used government support and agencies for expanding its interest. It had also launched a new type of beverage industry that was initially invented by southern Dr.’s after the civil war to cope the widespread morphine addiction. Today we have Wal-Mart, Target, Coca-Cola as the ultimate expressions of these endeavors. They are the “crack” version of a corporation. The derivative base concentrated into the effort of profit making at all costs with the support of the government because they are to insidiously large to fail or the markets will collapse. The same as the banking conglomerates that run the world monetary transactions, all “crack” like financial institutions that have been congealed and cooked together in a world financial money laundering expedition that is now laundering the illegally obtained “hedge” (crack money) of resource money that is purely based on speculation. Reagan was the figurehead and the constant go-to memorial figure for those that would perpetuate these soulless, heartless indulgences on the human spirit and experience in excess for the few at the horrible cost of the many who suffer without being able to extricate themselves from the entanglements of the powerful tentacles of corruption that worship Reagan as the turning point for this anti-cultural phenomenon that permeates our lives, the lives of every single person on this planet today, whether they embrace the philosophy of it or not. Reagan is the doom of us all unless we fight against that part of ourselves that would give in or be fooled into thinking that we can exist without being manipulated into being believers at some point similar to this Brian here. Being rich and politically powerful does not make you right or positive or necessary. It just makes you part of the problem until you forsake material in favor of the real human experience and live without the corporate umbilical to keep you comforted.