In San Diego, California, the U.S. Coast Guard off-loaded 36-thousand pounds (16-thousand-329 kilos) of ‘suspected’ cocaine. It’s the result of 17 interceptions by five Coast Guard boats from February to early March of this year.
Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security descended upon Dayton, Ohio. It’s part of a major effort to inform local law enforcers about the exploding opioid crisis, and blame crypto-currencies (aka virtual currencies, like Bitcoin) for providing international drug traffickers with a way of financing their operations.
In British empire Canada, the crypto-currency exchange known as Einstein announced it would join the New War on Drugs by blocking ‘wallets’ connected to individuals arrested/convicted of drug trafficking. Einstein will also work with other crypto-currency exchanges which are now trying to create lists of suspected drug dealing virtual money traders.
Over a three days period, ending on 15MAR2018, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 114 people in California’s San Diego and Imperial counties, for deportation. ICE reports that 43% of those arrested have criminal records.
“Airmen must carefully consider the consequences of their actions. A decision to misuse prescription drugs may result in adverse actions including, but not limited to, a reduction in rank, an administrative discharge from the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, and full or partial recoupment of education benefits or bonuses.”-Lieutenant Colonel Amy Bryan, Pennsylvania Air National Guard
Pennsylvania Air National Guard bosses are warning personnel they better not misuse prescription drugs. Believe it or not, using expired drugs is considered misuse/abuse, even if it’s your prescription!
“I think all Airmen in the Pennsylvania Air Guard need to know how serious of a matter prescription abuse and sharing is. An old prescription or your friend’s prescription for the same issue you are facing isn’t a valid prescription. The health and welfare of our Airmen – our most important asset – is of utmost importance to our force, but they need to make sure they are taking care of themselves and their medical issues in acceptable ways.”-Brigadier General Mike Regan, Pennsylvania Air National Guard
If you have expired prescription drugs don’t throw them away, take them to a pharmacy or local police for proper disposal.
“The threat environment has changed.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Bowling, explaining that the new ‘threat’ is not terrorists using guns or bombs, or even vehicles, but using drugs
South Carolina Army National Guard’s 43rd Civil Support Team took part in a ‘multi-agency’ drug lab training session. It also involved the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Lexington Fire Department, Cayce Department of Public Safety and the Pine Ridge Police Department.
South Carolina Army National Guard photo by Specialist Chelsea Baker, 22FEB2022.
“One of the biggest concerns we have right now is dealing with fentanyl exposure. Fentanyl is not just a police problem, or a CST problem. It’s everyone’s problem. We are seeing more and more fatalities from fentanyl exposure. The goal of this training is safety. We want to make sure that when these guys enter a situation and see evidence of fentanyl, they know what to do.”-Michael Cashman, retired DEA
Fentanyl can be ingested orally, inhaled through the nose or mouth, or absorbed through the skin or eyes, any substance suspected to contain fentanyl must be treated with extreme caution as exposure to even a small amount can lead to significant health-related complications, respiratory depression, or death.
Associated Press: “…some large law enforcement agencies have recently abandoned the routine tests out of concern that officers could be exposed to opioids that can be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. Even a minute amount of the most potent drugs, such as fentanyl, can cause violent illness or death.”
Iowa: Is the state Department of Human Services accusing parents of doing drugs in order to ‘legally kidnap’ children? In the latest case a woman who swears she’s never done illegal drugs, and also tested negative for illegal drugs, is still fighting to get her child back (and have her name removed from child abuse records) after a DHS employee burst into her home, without a warrant, and stole her child!
“Savers has made it quite clear to us that they do not want these items. So in the spirit of good gift giving and charity, please remove your drugs before donating your clothing.”-Crestwood Police Department
In Crestwood, Missouri, the for-profit Savers Donation Center got something it didn’t want (at least officially), a donation of illegal drugs!
“Since you obviously do not want your drugs anymore, we applaud that you have chosen to no longer be an illegal drug user. While we fully appreciate the spirit of giving, we kindly ask that you destroy your unused drugs instead of trying to give them away.”-Crestwood Police Department
“Every year, since we’ve been doing the National Take Back, the DEA and the National Guard have worked side-by-side with collection and transportation of the prescriptions. The National Guard is a huge help in collecting a lot of pills in a short amount of time and then getting them to the destruction point.”– Timothy McMahon, DEA
Ever notice that local police, and now National Guard, conduct “drug take back” days? The problem with this phrase, Prescription Drug Take Back Day, and the fact that it is conducted by government law enforcers, implies your doctor issued prescription drugs came from the government.
Prescription Drug Take Back Day is an operation of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). As an example of how much prescription drugs are out there, in October 2017, under the guidance of the DEA the New Jersey National Guard Counterdrug Task Force incinerated seven tons of prescription drugs during a Drug Take Back op!
Ohio National Guard conducts Drug Take Back Day, 01May2017
You don’t have to take my word that government and corporations (employees of at least) are involved in drugs dealing, read the following Real News sources from the past month.
In December 2017 Hanscom Air Force Base, in Massachusetts, became the first U.S. Air Force installation to arm its police with naloxone, in an attempt to prevent opioid overdoses.
Also towards the end of 2017, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department began research on a new, potentially weaponized, opioid drug threat called carfentanil. One poppy seed sized amount of carfentanil (aka Elephant Tranquilizer) can potentially kill you. The U.S. Department of Defense is so sure that carfentanil is being weaponized (they didn’t say by whom) that efforts are being made to find antidotes for military personnel, and eventually silly-vilians.
Official video attempting to explain why Nevada National Guard Counterdrug Task Force was sent to Kingdom of Tonga:
Another sign of the growing prescription drug problem is that the military health insurance TriCare just jacked up the out-of-pocket cost of drugs for military families. USAF Lieutenant t. Colonel Ann McManis, of the Defense Health Agency Pharmacy Operations Division, revealed it’s part of a plan to force military families to do their drugs shopping solely on military based: “Military pharmacies and TriCare Pharmacy Home Delivery will remain the lowest cost pharmacy option for TriCare beneficiaries.”
02FEB2018, signing a pledge not to drink booze while watching the Super Bowl
Even drinking booze has apparently become a major problem for the military (despite decades of taxpayer funded anti-booze policies) as before Super Bowl weekend the Naval Medical Center San Diego intimidated personnel to sign a pledge promising they wouldn’t drink booze on Super Bowl Sunday!
Last month Cristina Howe, with the Marine Corps’ Substance Abuse Counseling Center, intimated an increase in cases saying “We have a lot of command referrals that come in, but we also have a lot of self-referrals….”
It was also revealed, at the end of January, that the Defense Logistics Agency has connections with about 1-thousand manufacturers/distributors of more than 25-thousand types of drugs: “If we can’t get drugs to our overseas bases, then it affects our ability to project air power, deploy forces….The fact that they have the ability to push our vendors to make things happen is critical to the warfighting mission….”-Major Rohin Kasudia, USAF Misawa Air Base, Nippon
Militarizing the Police; official National Guard Counterdrug Schools for cops video which claims that drugs cause violence (not people, kinda like the anti-gun argument that guns, and not people, kill people) and that drug dealers are better armed than local cops (after decades of hearing that claim I have yet to see evidence of that, I remember in Junior High in late 1970s southern California we got a visit from a San Bernardino County Sheriff deputy who opened the trunk of his cop-car to reveal a footlocker type box filled with shotguns, M16s, ammo, and various types of grenades, for a short time in the 1980s my father was a San Bernardino County Reserve Sheriff deputy and confirmed that the cops, at least in San Bernardino County, out-gun any criminals or silly-vilians), where even cops from Boise, Idaho, learn how to bash in your door:
Counterdrugs schools operators (usually a local college, with counterdrugs program names varying from region to region) claims to offer free counterdrugs training to local law enforcers across the country. Specifically it is ‘free’ to local law enforcement agencies because it is 100% funded by your taxes paid to the federal government. Such counterdrugs schools are overwatched by the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Guard Bureau.
“People are addicted to this idea that you have to use tough love, let people hit rock bottom, kick it cold turkey. That works for some people. It kills others.”-Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance
25JAN2018, U.S. Coast Guard & Royal Canadian Navy proudly displays more than 47,000 pounds of cocaine in California!
U.S. Department of Transportation revealed a 77% increase in drug use by people working in the transportation industry, since 2006! USDoT administrators admitted the numbers could be higher because their drug testing requirements have “significant gaps . . . that should be addressed.”
02FEB2018, U.S. Coast Guard offloads two tons of cocaine captured off Florida!
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revealed that ‘offshored’ U.S. airlines maintenance facilities are exempt from drug testing for their U.S. employees.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) reported that random drug testing revealed that the number of railroad employees addicted to drugs jumped by 43% from 2015 to 2016! Since 2014 there’s been a sudden increase of railroad accidents involving railroad workers whacked on drugs.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that at least 10.9-million people in the United States were addicted to opioids in 2016!
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the number of opioid deaths in 2016 at a record 42-thousand!
In California, a National Guard sergeant blames the capitalist system for the growing number of homeless people whacked on smack: “…these people are being pushed out not because of laziness, not because they couldn’t try hard enough, but because the system is stacked against them.”-Jason Carney, Vets for the 99%
Last month the New York National Guard Counterdrug Task Force hosted a forum to come up with ideas about how to end the opioid crisis in The Empire State. Even representatives of the New York Police Department blamed the current situation on the decades old War on Drugs: “I’m the living history of the failure of the drug war. The fact that I’m here dealing with the same problems that I’ve been dealing with for the past 35 years is no accident. If we attack this in a more policy-oriented way, to prevent the involvement of the criminal justice system, not only would more treatments be available…”-Jeff Kauffman, former police officer and attorney with the New York Police Department