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HIV and/or crack was invented by the CIA to kill off inner city blacks and homosexuals
Someone hand me a tin foil hat...
There is actually some decent evidence that the CIA was involved in introducing crack into the US. Someone do the research for me, I am going back to sleep. Goodnight.
it's a little more complicated but the cia was implicated in bringing the first crack shipment to oakland. basically reagan wanted to wage a secret war in nicaragua against the communist government but congress denied him the funds. he illegally raised the funds by selling weapons to iran, who had an embargo placed on it at the time, and importing cocaine into US ghettos. it's not really a conspiracy theory since the reagan administration admitted to doing it.
you can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US
You got it close, but here is the (confirmable) truth to the situation. It wasn't Oakland but LA. After congress banned funding the Contras The Reagan administration was doing everything they could to fund them without using the congressional purse strings. They apparently became connected to a Contra and cocaine trafficker named Danilo Blandon. The U.S. didn't actually bring the coke in, and it wasn't crack yet, but they intentionally looked the other way when Blandon's shipments would be flown in. Customs was told to look the other way, and nothing was stopped from being unloaded from the planes.
Blandon made a connection with a man named "Freeway" Ricky Ross. The nickname was given because he grew up in the shadow of the 110 freeway in South central LA, and later would set up a large series of crackhouses along the same highway. It should also be noted that the rapper Rick Ross stole his name from him, and they aren't the same guy.
The thing is, with Blandon's direct connection to producers in South America, and the fact that there was pretty much no risk in terms of the importation, he was able to offer coke for insanely low prices. When Ross got this deal going he was swimming in coke and money. He started experimenting with it. The first crack was made in the laboratories of LA trade tech. community college in South Central during this time. It was very profitable, and Ross started literally throwing huge piles of coke in with whatever the fuck else you make crack out of into microwaves to make it when it took off.
Because he was getting it from Blandon, Ross could undercut any coke dealer in LA, and became the original king of crack. He was undercutting by so much, people were coming as far as from Detroit and Washington DC to buy coke off of him and crack spread from city to city. At his peak, Ross made over $3 million in one day from coke/crack.
Eventually shit caught up with Ross, and police caught him. When he was arrested, he was put in jail for like 20+ years or something. He snitched out on Blandon. Blandon, who obviously was working in bigger numbers only got 1 year in prison, and is, to this day, the only foreign national who was arrested for drug trafficking, and was given a green card rather than deported. After his jail term, he went to work for the cia for a couple years, until disappearing entirely.
The only way this could be a "conspiracy" and not well confirmed history that I could reason out is if Reagan's goal was to destroy the black community, rather than it being a coincidence. I personally thin he knew what he was doing to the black community, and if it wasn't an intentional racist attack, at the very least, he didn't care what happened to an area he referred to as "the jungle" after the Watts riot.
I think the conspiracy is the fact that it is not well known history.
Oh, and the Reagan Administration never admitted responsibility. They admitted it might have happened, but that they knew nothing about what was going on when it happened (obvious lie)
For some sources, check out:
Gary Webb's famous series of articles for the San Jose Mercury Times exposing it in the 90's
The results of The second Kerry Commission
The second episode of the A & E series "American Gangster" about Ricky Ross. It's available on netflix.
Also, just google any source for Danilo Blandon.
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Obama passed the NDAA bill when he said he wasnt going to. Now people think were all fucked.
he disapproves of it though. so were not fucked as long as hes president
So for a couple more months then? I hope what one analyst said Obama should do is right. He suggested that Obama was passing the bill knowing there were unconstitutional parts only to allow the military to continue running and then will bring it up to a courts that there are unconstitutional provisions within it.
Not to start a side argument, but who's going to push him out of office? Rick Santorum? Mitt Romney? Newt Gingrich? He may be getting people pissed, but no chance he loses in November.