September 5, 2002- What Is Good Or Bad?
In the recent past, I received a report in my e mail talking about something that the American military is doing in the War On Terror. This has nothing to do with military strategy or going after those responsible for terror, etc. Rather, this was something that the Pentagon is doing within its own ranks. It is how they are getting the maximum usage out of their personnel. Apparently, what the military is doing is giving their air fighter pilots pills to "help them perform better." What they mean by thisi is that they are giving the pilots speed before they go out on combat missions, so that they can fly sortie after sortie and drop lots of bombs. When their shift is over, these pilots are then given downers so that they can go to sleep. This is nothing new for the American military. Back in the days of the Korean War, it was routine for the troops to be treated in this way. That was how Elvis got started on his pill habit. He was given speed to perform his duties and then downers to sleep, and he got so firmly addicted to this way of life that he carried it on in his career and that was how he ultimately died. Elvis was by far not the only veteran that ended up this way, but he was surely the most famous one. The problems that this caused in American society when the vets assimilated back into it was large enough that the Pentagon re-though this policy, or so they said. Once America got involved in Vietnam, this policy came back, but it was hushed up pretty well. No one really noticed the effects that it had on the vets in this war., because so many of them came back into society using various other drugs like heroin that nobody could tell if the dude got his habit from what the American military gave him or from what a dealer gave him. So the drug problem that the pentagon caused in that war was not very noticeable because there was so much drug usage in general in America by then. The Persian Gulf War was not long enough for any problem of any kind to develop anyhow. But now in the Terror War, we have this old policy surfacing again. A couple of month ago, there was an incident where an American fighter pilot mistakenly bombed a bunch of Canadian soldiers that were practicing maneuvers. The subsequent investigation by the Pentagon revealed that the American pilot had been given some speed before he went on this mission. He was surely high on the stuff when the incident happened. The extent of the role of being high on speed in what happened has been declared "indeterminate" by the Pentagon. They sat that it was all because of computer glitches and the like. But they admit that the pilot was speeding at that time. There was also the news conference that Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had where he was touting this new shit that the Pentagon labs had cooked up that was something that could keep someone awake for long periods of time, but did not have the side effects of speed and all that. Rumsfeld thought that this shit was the greatest thing since that atomic bomb. He was going on about how the military could not wait to use it in this war to "help the cause" and all that bullshit. So these are the scenes that we have seen from this current war on this subject. Then there's the other side of the military scene too. The same military that proudly proclaims how they are helping the Drug War by patrolling the borders and busting smugglers. The same military that has been instituting new, more stringent drug tests to its personnel. The same military that has been involved in all of these undercover operations going after drug dealers in and around their facilities, busting their own personnel in some cases, and cooperating with the Pigs in others to arrest local dealers that were selling to the military personnel. All of these things are part and parcel of the Pentagon's propaganda machine as well. They will tout how they helped the Pigs bust a methamphetamine lab somewhere and say how they helped the community and the children by ridding the area of the scourge of this horrible drug, etc. The same horrible drug that the military is giving its personnel before they on duty. The Pentagon is spending lots and lots and lots of the taxpayer's monies to invent some kind of new shit that will be the next speed, and they go and help the Pigs bust a local speed factory somewhere in the community. So what is good and what is bad here? The Pentagon says that the drugs are bad, the speed labs are bad, because they are illegal and destroy the community and the very fabric of American society itself.. However, it seems that the product that these labs make is not so bad at all according to the Pentagon. If these meth lab dudes had a contract with the Pentagon to produce the shit, then they'd be alright. After all, Hoffman-La Roche and Sandoz are totally cool with the Pentagon, and they have all sorts of speed labs throughout the country. The difference is that their labs are inside of their factories that are in the nice industrial parks and various business zones of America, cranking out the crank, but in nice, neat looking pills that are packaged in professional packaging and dispensed to pharmacies throughout America by the fine distribution system that these big corporation have. The Pentagon has nice big contracts with these corporation to manufacture and ship them the speed and the downers that the military is going to give its personnel before they go on duty doing shit like flying planes and dropping bombs and driving tanks and the like. But if any of these same personnel are caught trying to get some crystal meth from a dude's house over by the base, they will be busted by their own people and punished by them too. So what theh fuck is good and bad here? Heroin is another example. The military is going all out to arrest heroin dealers that sell to their personnel at or near the various bases, but they are protecting the biggest heroin dealers in the world today in that Northern Alliance that runs Afghanistan now. The american military is intentionally looking the other way about heroin production and opium growing in Afghanistan now, something that the Taliban was tremendously successful in stopping. The heroin dealers have set up their labs to make that shit over in Afghanistan again and are getting ready to crank out a bumper crop of opium into a flood of very pure heroin, much of which is destined for the United States. Once again we see the blurring of the lines between good and bad. On one hand, we have the Northern Alliance, who have sworn "friendship" with America and "total support" for its cause in this current war. Their only reason for saying this total bullshit is so that they can grow opium and refine it into heroin and sell it all around the world, especially in the USA. Without heroin and the monies that it generates, these Northern Alliance dudes are absolutley nothing, like they were before America came to that part of the world and fought on their behalf. Their behalf means heroin, pure and simple. On the other hand, we have heroin dealers that are the ones that ultimately get the shit that the Northern Alliance dudes crank out and sell it on the streets and in the cities and towns and military bases of America. If any of the military personnel on thee bases test positive for heroin when they take their drug tests, they are severely punished and discharged and so forth. The military will then make every effort to go after the dealer that sold the heroin to the military man that tested positive for it and have that dealer arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. For selling on of their personnel the same shit that the military's "friends", the Northern Alliance, grew and manufactured. Once again, it does not seem that the product, the drug itself, is as bad as the Pentagon's press releases say that it is. It is when some poor dude that is just trying to capitalize on the foolishness of the Drug War that the Pentagon says it plays a part in and is trying to make some money off of the heroin by selling it to soldiers at the base and citizens in the town. Then it is as evil as evil gets. But when the Northern Alliance grown the opium that is the base ingredient of the heroin, and the refines that opium into the heroin that they sell to make money and to maintain "power" in Afghanistan, then the shit is not so bad after all. This is a problem not just in the American military, but in American society itself.
All across America, we see this same dichotomy every day. You turn on the TV set and you see advertisement after advertisement for some kind of pill or potion that is going to cure something or another or make quality of life better for everyone. Whether it's Goody's Headache Powder, or Viagra or Zoloft or St. John's Wort or Gingko Biloba, you see testimonial after testimonial about how these substances cure whatever ails you and make you feel good to boot. You get this message blasted at you everywhere in America nowadays. You get e mails touting these prescription pills like Viagra and so forth and how you can get then dirt cheap and without the hassle of a doctor's visit. Everywhere you are told that if you are depressed, take this pill, if you have pain, take this pill, if you want to get it up again, take this pill, if you want to improve your memory and concentration, take this pill or potion, it is fuckin' endless. So the American people are told that taking shit is how you help things in your life. The things that are pushed to them are made by these companies that are fine tax paying businesses that manufacture these things in their professional laboratories and package it all nice and slickly and sell it with a flair and a flourish. This is common practice in today's America. But there's the other side to it, the side that launched the War On Drugs, a miserable failed effort to rid America of ceratin substances. The side of America that uses the Pigs to go and arrest citizens for doing exactly what Mr. Businessman has always told them to do, that is to take something to have a better life, except that the way in which they did that was not the exact way that Mr. Businessman and the Government said to do it. For example, if someone feels that they can help their mind and memory a lot more by smoking marijuana rather than taking Ginkgo Biloba, they are subject to arrest and incarceration. Or if they want to speed out by going to the dealer for some crystal meth instead of going to their doctor and making up some bullshit so that they can get a prescription, they are also subject to arrest and incarceration. Once again, it becomes very obvious that the substances themselves are not considered bad, no matter what the government propagandists might say to the contrary. Rather, it seems to be where and how you get these substances that is considered good or bad. If they are gotten through the accepted channels of Mr. Businessman and the Government, then they are alright. If they are not, they the substances are deemed bad. This is why you have a drug problem in America. You tell the people that taking substances is the way to a better life. You make it clear to them that you are talking about certain substances obtained in certain ways only here. However, all that shows is hypocrisy to the utmost degree. Because what yo create is a society that is looking to substances for better things, and you will then have these people using every substance available in that way, whether you approve of that substance in that manner or not. You get so many American kids that try weed because they think that it will do something great for them, like the substances advertised on TV are supposed to do for you. The kid can't get most of those substances in the "approved" way, so he goes and gets what is available, whether that's weed, or crystal meth, or whatever. The Establishment eventually arrests and incarcerates him for this and then goes and wonders why this drug problem is so bad in America. It is that way because the people can see that drugs themselves are not considered "bad" by American society, because they see them sold by Mr. Businessman everywhere they look, and they are just doing what they have been told to do. The only way to stop the drug problem in America is to admit that the drugs themselves are not bad, but that they are not a solution to everything and not for everyone, etc. That way it does not look so hypocritical to the masses and people might start to look at drugs more rationally. For it is apparent that America does not think that drugs are bad, no matter what they might say to the contrary. The only thing they consider bad is if the proper people are not making the money off of drugs. If they are, then the drugs are OK. If not, then they aren't. This type of attitude is why there is such a drug problem in America, because drugs are something that should never be looked at in this manner, due to what they are. Since they are looked on in this manner in America, that is why the problem exists and as long as they are looked on in this manner, the problem can never be solved.