Peru: Women police officers to command 3 police stations

LivinginPeru.com
Isabel Guerra

Celebrating the 53th anniversary of the Peru National Police (PNP), three women police officers were designated by the Minister of Interior Mercedes Cabanillas to command three police stations in Lima.

It's the first time that women police officers are nominated for such positions in Peru.

They are the PNP Majors Betty Calderón Castañeda, Carmen Elena Muñoz Vásquez and July Hidalgo Serna, who will command the police stations of Palomino (Lima Centre), Salamanca (Ate Vitarte) and Maranga (San Miguel), respectively.

PNP Major July Hidalgo knows her first great challenge in her district will be car theft, which she plans to combat with “by sending more patrols to the strategic areas of the district”.

Major Calderon expects to dismantle the youngster gangs (and to keep all the other teens away from gangs) by means of sport activities.

Major Elena Muñoz is seeking to end with the drugs dealing, armed robbery and the gangs in the area of Salamanca, in Ate.

It is estimated that 1,728 police women officers are in serving in the Peru Police since 2008.

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# Brigitte says :
7 May, 2009 [ 15:30 ]

It took 53 years to qualified police women to get here.  53 years.  I am thrilled for them.  Wish them the best of lucks in their responsibilities, because it will not be easy for them, especially in the "macho" oriented environment they swim.  As happy as it makes me to read that changes like this are happening in my wonderful country, I can't avoid feeling sad for taking us so long to get here.  But things are finally changing for good.  :) :) :) 

# David N says :
7 May, 2009 [ 22:29 ]

"Qualified" and "police" do not belong in the same sentence when discussing the PNP.  They're poorly trained and corrupt, among the worst in the world.

# Brigitte says :
8 May, 2009 [ 10:03 ]

I can't imagine all members of PNP being corrupt.  As I don't imagine all Americans being arrogant or all Peruvians being ignorant.  Chill out David!   

# David N says :
8 May, 2009 [ 15:12 ]

Let me put it to you this way, Brigitte -- if they aren't corrupt and taking bribes, they will not eat and neither will their children.  Why?  Because the powers that be in government are too busy lining their own pockets with ill-gotten gains to bother paying a decent, on time living wage to the police officers serving this country.  Same goes with providing them with modern training and proper equipment. 

I'm sure most don't enter service with the intention of being corrupt.  They are FORCED into it by an incompetent and corrupt government and system.

# Brigitte says :
8 May, 2009 [ 17:31 ]

Now we're almost in the same page, David.  I can't point my finger to a police that takes a bribe because he needs to feed his children.  We do know that change needs to come from within and from up down.  "El pescado se pudre por la cabeza", don't know how to say that in English.  Though things are  changing in Peru for the good, I still don't see the structural revolution we need:  education, values, ethics, integrity...  In the meantime, it's great news to finally see women in charge in the PNP...  ;)

# The Truth says :
14 May, 2009 [ 12:08 ]

we dont see vids like this from Peru b/c the police would kill anybody who tried to record it....and get away with it.

# Rodrigo says :
15 May, 2009 [ 00:34 ]

LOUISVILLE (FinalCall.com) - Michael Newby, 19, was shot dead—in the back three times— by a Metro-Louisville undercover detective on January 3. According to the police, it was a drug bust, Mr. Newby had a gun, and there was a struggle.

On January 8, approximately 450 people attended a rally and march in downtown Louisville, after which, windows were broken at police headquarters. Four people were arrested, all of them White, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Rev. Louis Coleman of the Justice Resource Center told The Final Call that the young people wanted to talk to Police Chief Robert White, a Black man, because they are angry.

(L-R) Natasha Mitchell (sister), Angela & Jerry Bouggers (mother & stepfather), LaTonya Mitchell (sister) and Min. Jerald Muhammad.

"I have been in the struggle for 30 years; and I appreciate the stand those young people took," Rev. Coleman said. He explained that 13 months ago, James Taylor was shot by police while handcuffed. The police said he had a box cutter and lunged at them. The police were exonerated in that case. "There were demonstrations over the James Taylor case, but nothing like what is happening now," Rev. Coleman said.

Mayor Jerry Abramson and the police chief said at a news conference that there would be "zero tolerance" for violence. Police Chief White, according to Rev. Coleman, did visit with area youth to discuss their concerns.

A 19-year-old University of Louisville student told The Final Call, which was not allowed in the meeting, that "this sends a message to the city that young people cannot be ignored and we are paying attention to what’s happening."

However, there are some local activists who are looking for some long-term solutions to the problems of the city’s Black population.

"We failed Michael Newby, he did not fail us"—that is what I said at the forum the Louisville Study Group of the Nation of Islam sponsored at the local Urban League headquarters on January 9," explained Minister Jerald Muhammad.

University of Louisville Professor, Dr. Ricky Jones, attended the forum and asked people to consider a more proactive approach than protests to bring about change, since strategies that have been used thus far have not worked. "There has been an increase in drug violence in some of our neighborhoods and the police have stepped up their street crime activity," Min. Jerald told The Final Call.

But Yvonne Woods, president of the Norfolk Community Resource Center, called city police solutions "short-sighted." Ms. Woods continued: "Residents need opportunities and alternatives. We appreciate the police, but we need to stabilize ourselves. Crime won’t go away until people have access to education and services. Talk to the drug dealers—they want jobs."

Michael Newby’s mother and father, Angela Bouggess and Jerry Bouggess, attended the forum, along with many residents who said that after the march and rally they felt they had nothing else to do.

Prof. Jones said that religious organization, civic groups, business and political leaders can now write the plan that would empower Black people.

In his remarks to the audience, Min. Jerald referred to Min. Farrakhan’s guidance in his book, "A Torchlight for America," where he states: "Black organizations and leadership must focus on self help. We should create a forum in which we can convene regularly to discuss the troubles of our people and develop solutions that we can execute on our own.

"Each Black organization and every Black leader has a role in the upliftment of our people. We must recognize and respect each other’s role and learn to work with those with whom we may be at variance ideologically. We should consider establishing a united front for the purpose of converging our efforts to meet common objectives over one, three, five and ten years."

"Black leadership must champion the strategy of turning within to do for self," he concluded in his quote from the book.

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1240.shtml

# Rodrigo says :
15 May, 2009 [ 00:36 ]

A former police officer has been charged with the murder of an unarmed black man on New Year's Day in America.

Johannes Mehserle (right) charged with the murder of Oscar Grant (left)

Johannes Mehserle allegedly shot Oscar Grant while the 22-year-old had his hands behind his back and another officer knelt on the young man's neck.

A mobile phone video recorded the incident which happened at a local train station in Oakland, California.

"At this point, what I feel the evidence indicates is an unlawful killing done by an intentional act and from the evidence we have there's nothing that would mitigate that to something lower than a murder," state prosecutor Tom Orloff said.

The shooting happened in the early hours of the morning as Mr Grant and his friends made their way home on the local Bart train after celebrating New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

A fight broke out between two groups and Bart police met the train at Oakland's Fruitvale station and ordered the passengers to disembark.

The video recordings of what appeared to happen have been broadcast in the US.

Although six of the officers involved in the incident gave statements shortly afterward, Mehserle contacted a lawyer and refused to comment.

He resigned nearly a week after the shooting.

The racially charged case has outraged people in the area and community leaders and set off violent protests - riots have caused thousands of pounds' worth of damage.

Meanwhile, the Napa County Sheriff's department said about 50 people were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday evening after the former policeman's parents found two suspicious packages on their porch.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oscar-Grant-Shooting-Ex-Cop-Charged/Article/200901315203972?f=rss

# Rodrigo says :
15 May, 2009 [ 00:38 ]

police brutality archives
http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Links/police_brutality_archives.html

# Rodrigo says :
15 May, 2009 [ 00:40 ]

Celebrating a Golden Anniversary:                  50 Years of Drug Dealing by the CIA


It's generally agreed that 1996's biggest news story was
       Gary Webb's San Jose Mercury scoop that ghetto drug dealers
       claim none other than the American CIA to be their supplier!
 
       But Spooks dealing drugs isn't a 90's thing. Our beloved
       agency busily flew heroin around Asia on the CIA proprietary
       airline AIR AMERICA during Viet Nam, and refined Hmong and
       Burmese poppy in Asian soft drink bottling factories, used the
       U.S. Mafioso MOB to distribute the drugs and banked millions
       in their own Bank which they later collapsed, stealing the
       receipts.
 
       Just revealed: the sixties weren't the start of the CIA
       dealing poppy to ghettos. Colonel Paul Hellwell of the OSS
       brought heroin from Burma and sold it in U.S. ghettos as far
       back as the 40's, so Gary Webb is five decades late with his
       scoop! We are in a 50 year anniversary of something other than
       just Roswell aliens! The Hellwell Aliens also were gray men,
       that being the exact shade of their MORALS!
 
       The heroin that the OSS dealt was grown in Burma, and refined
       in Shanghai. The OSS stumbled upon this import when they were
       in Asia with the Flying Tigers to stop MAO TSE TUNG from
       getting into power. Tigers were supposedly heroic civilian
       volunteers --John Wayne even played one in a movie, but this
       was just a lacquer job. The Tigers were OSS mercenaries paid
       for with OSS SECRET funds (at first, OLIGARCH money, later
       drug receipts). ALLEN DULLES was the brains behind the Tigers
       and the entire agency then. Dulles ran an inner clique at the
       OSS, what was to become Directorate of Covert Actions. Dulles
       was also very tight with the super-rich Eastern billionaire
       families, (read Dulles' biography and read BITTER FRUIT by S.
       Kinzer which indicates oligarchs paid for dirty tricks). If
       you read up on it, you'll discover that Dulles ran secret wars
       out of the White House (not unlike Ollie North) and had a
       repressive agenda related to every banana republic that had
       nationalistic or socialist tendencies, which might get in the
       way of transnationalist corporative agendas.
 
         The Flying Tigers were in China helping a General named
       Chiang Kai-Shek (nicknamed 'CASH MY CHECK' as behind our
       backs, he sold our guns to the Japs). Chiang was used in an
       attempt to destroy Mao. Of course, it couldn't be done and in
       1949 they had to beat a fast retreat to Taiwan. Mao later
       stopped all poppy-dealing by making death a penalty for it.
       But before the end, Colonel Paul Hellwell, an Ivy leaguer,
       rich kid, observed how Chiang sold opium to Chinese addicts to
       earn revenues for guns and troops. The French saw the same
       thing going on in Vietnam when it was their colony. Dope and
       spooks kind of made terrific sense to Dulles. An intelligence
       service can't pay for underhanded illegal covert ops. Tax
       payers can't, Congress WON'T. Why should it be left to poor
       oligarchs to fund the secret fight? You have to think like the
       OSS. In their heads, the fight was patriotic...it was against
       nasty nationalists or dirty communists seeking to get nice
       YANKEE traders out so they could have their OWN industries.
       Actually nationalists called us Yankee IMPERIALISTS and felt
       we were out to exploit their banana republics and acted so
       much like Commies that we felt it was patriotic to rub them
       out. Why should oligarchs pay for their murder when blacks in
       U.S. ghettos would empty their pockets for drugs? And boy, did
       those nickles add up!
 
         Industriously, Colonel Hellwell created SEA SUPPLY, an OSS
       proprietary company, out of Miami and used it to carry guns
       across the ocean to China. The opium was grown in Burma, so
       Hellwell went to Burma and made friends with the royal family.
       After WWII, Hellwell became the Burmeese Consulate in Miami so
       up to his chin was he with the Burmeese. In Burma, Hellwell
       secured all the poppy franchises he needed and sent the basic
       black poppy tar to CHINA to be processed into China White then
       brought it back to America on Sea Supply boats, totally immune
       to snoopy customs inspectors. Then, he shipped guns back to
       China, a classic 'boats go both ways full' profitable shipping
       Modus Operandi. Next, he used the CIA's old pals in the
       American 'mob' to distribute drugs in the ghetto.
 
       Parenthetically, the OSS had befriended Lucky Luciano, at the
       height of WWII, when they'd sprung him from the pen 'early,'
       --considering he was a lifer---as the OSS needed his help
       winning the war. The Mafia-controlled dockworkers on the
       Atlantic coast were unruly, always striking for more pay,
       which wasn't very patriotic of them. Also, the OSS needed
       spies in Sicily for the planned invasion.
 
       In Lucky Luciano they found a kind of all-purpose Swiss Army
       knife. Charlie Lucky became the Agency Poster boy for Civilian
       volunteerism. In all his career, Luciano had resisted dealing
       drugs, so his services had a price. (There's a Chris Reeves
       movie 'MONISGNEUR' about the toehold U.S. Mafia got in Italy
       during the war. Rent it. A huge CIA network mushroomed in
       Italy with Vatican bankers tied to the Mob.)
 
       After the war, the OSS needed the mob to distribute heroin in
       the ghettos. Luciano, relocated to Italy, said 'use my main
       man in The Big Apple, my accountant, Meyer Lansky. He'll set
       you up.' The Agency did, and Meyer gave them his Tampa,
       Florida lieutenant, Santo Trafficante. When he got old, they
       used his son Santo Trafficante Jr. So when people say the CIA
       first used the Mob to assassinate JFK & FIDEL in the early
       60's, they're off by a few decades, but who's counting?
 
         Parenthetically, another scumbag friend of the OSS (after
       '47, when they had so many Nazis on board, they decided to
       ditch the double S's and called it THE CIA) was the German
       GESTAPO. The military actually brought dozens of top echelon
       Gestapo and SS spies out of Germany when these men approached
       them with a valuable bargaining chip: their spy networks and
       personal war records could be used to survey and CONTROL the
       Russians. These Nazis made it to Georgetown and eventually
       their philosophy and tactics were grafted on to the Allen
       Dulles --oligarch funded, drug-running SPY MACHINE which began
       to use racist, gestapo tactics designed to eradicate dissent
       just as Hitler had done.. They murdered intellectuals,
       constitutionalists, nationalists, socialists and Utopians with
       death squad tactics ---which were taught at Fort Benning to
       foreign officers and began to be used extensively in Latin
       America by local militaries. Our own soldiers did it too, as
       the Phoenix Program in Viet Nam, which killed thousands of
       teachers, civilians, village leaders suspected of sympathizing
       with Hanoi. Nazi genocide continues to be used up to the
       present day. Nazi-invented methods are still used for the
       murdering of intellectuals, university teachers, heroic
       politicians or snoopy reporters to quiet them and frighten
       others. Ask Danny Casolero, or Vince Foster.
 
       And where do they get the money for hitmen and killers? The
       Poppy trail is alive and well with Burmese heroin exported to
       China for refining, then to Long Beach Crips and Bloods gangs.
       Addicts, in the ghettos, the Nazis in the CIA, their
       Cuban-exiles who worked in Latin America, who murdered Che,
       all of it sprang from the Hellwell Dynasty. Paul Hellwell was
       the magnificent, sick tap-root of an ancient, tall, poisonous
       tree. Hellwell (well named when you think of it) devised a way
       around the U.S. Constitution just when spooks needed millions
       of dollars in discretionary funds far from Congressional
       purview. Dope did the job. BURMA did the job. Lansky kept
       moving the stuff to the barrio in the late 40's and through
       out the 50's. No one cared as long as only blacks were
       addicted.
 
       PART II. THE DRUG DEALERS HMONG US
 
        The 50's were the years of CIA covert operations in Latin
       America, designed to keep our colonial hegemony over our
       nearest neighbors. The heroin profits rolled in via addicted
       blacks in the big cities. U.S. police kept busting the French
       Corsican traffickers, the FRENCH CONNECTION, trying to keep
       UNCLE SAM's BURMA CIA drug cartel #1.
 
         In the sixties, the Saigon office of the CIA (Ted Shackley
       of IranContragate fame) ran both the genocidal Phoenix program
       and infamous AIR AMERICA and still found time to sell heroin
       to G.I's. (No wonder we lost!) And they found time to run a
       bank into the ground, too. Cash drug receipts went to their
       OWN, BOLDLY incorporated Nugan Hand bank, with CIA officials
       actually ON THE BOARD. Guess who the bagmen were? Colonel
       Ollie North and Lieutenant Richard Secord showed up as the two
       madcap PILOTS who ferried bags of cash that poured in both
       from Asian earned receipts from Nam /G.I. addicts and from the
       U.S. where Santos Trafficante pere et fils, (Meyer Lansky's
       lieutenants) were distributors. All these receipts were
       deposited in Australia where they could lend them out 9 times
       to the dollar when they weren't being used and see a tidy
       growth rate.
 
       To keep the Burmeese Generals in check, --by the 60's they
       were a bunch of very uppity millionaires,-- the CIA expanded
       to buying poppy from Hmong villagers in Laos which they
       refined right there in VietNam in Pepsi factories. (You saw it
       in the Mel Gibson movie, Air America. I know you didn't
       believe it. It was beyond imagination but it happened.)
       Parenthetically, today, "Free Burma" activists at American
       colleges wonder why Pepsi keeps doing biz in such a nasty
       country. They want a trade blocade and Pepsi won't cooperate.
       Heck, Pepsi RUNS the drug machine in Asia. During the Nixon
       years, Pepsi bottling companies were used for refining the tar
       into powder. Go see AIR AMERICA. It's all there. PEPSI, bold
       as brass.
 
         A Pepsi Co. chairman was Nixon's most excellent pal ever
       since days when Nixon was White House Case Officer on Cuba
       during the Eisenhower administration. Nixon broke champagne
       bottles at Pepsi plant openings regularly after he and Ike
       left Washington until he returned to DC as president, with a
       decade between posts giving him time to do some serious
       bonding with Pepsi. In that time, Dick also ran around with
       his Cuban-exile crew who worked for the CIA, doing the worst
       kinds of mischief: murdering Che Guevara, downing commercial
       Cuban planes and killing JFK.
 
       Where was Nixon the day JFK got hit? At a Pepsi convention in
       Dallas. The truth is, Nixon loved spywork as much as he hated
       the handsome liberal who ran against him and won in the 1960
       election, hated him as much as he hated Fidel, which is A LOT
       as best buddy Cuban exile Bebe Rebozo had taught him all about
       Cuba. Nixon was on a first name basis with all the Cuban
       exiles and spooks in that infamous Miami proprietary "ZENITH
       CORP" on the Miami University grounds. A team of them went
       after both Fidel and JFK simultaneously: David Atlee Phillips,
       E. Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis, and actually, to the very last
       Cuban, were the Cast of Watergate. Last but not least, Howard
       Hughes was Dick's Daddy War Bucks or 'Deep Purse.'
 
       Dick Nixon was an integral link in the Hellwell Lineage. When
       he fell, Reagan, Casey and George Bush carried the torch
       through an interesting period. After the Viet Nam heroin
       years, there was a new drug trend: peppier LATIN-produced
       drugs, cocaine...and new suppliers -- Columbian cartels -- but
       the same old U.S. barrio black customers as in the late 40s
       when Hellwell and company began.
 
         The truth about the Cocaine years (which we still are in)
       has much to do with IranContragate, a three way tie between
       the CIA/ the Shah and Nicaragua. This White House operation
       emerged from the White House, it's true, but not from dim-bulb
       Ronald Reagan but from his industrious V.P. George Bush, a
       career CIA officer. Bush started the Contras to harass
       Nicaragua and prevent Danny Ortega's Marxist Leninist
       socialists from creating a New Cuba. You know, the kind of
       Republic that sends more teachers, doctors and food growing
       techs to the third world than God himself? Bush funded the
       Contras with cocaine receipts.
 
       The star gambit of the period was that triangle between the
       Shah, the Contras and Bush. The CIA had supported the Shah
       from way back. They couldn't always give him cash so they did
       the next best thing. They gave him a money-printing set -- a
       U.S. intaglio press, silk paper, mint Green #1 ink, and
       genuine U.S. printing plates. Mini-treasuries were apparently
       a perk of tyrants who chummed with the Agency. This printing
       press was known to Bush so next, Bush offered a favor to
       cocaine king Pablo Escobar (his prime supplier) -- to LAUNDER
       8 billion dollars of coke receipts, i.e. make them into legal,
       spendable, investable money. How? Well, it was imaginative.
       Bush took 8 billion from Escobar, which was deposited into a
       Panama bank in Escobar's name. But Bush did a fast one. He
       took 4 billion in GOOD coke -- dusted hundred dollar bills to
       Iran and told the Shah he could have real dollars if he'd give
       him back 8 billion of the Shah's freshly printed, funny money.
       The Shah had presses going day and night for a few weeks, then
       Bush brought 8 billion back to Escobar's vault, in their U.S.
       Panama bank. Then, Bush purloined the other half of Escobar's
       good money and gave it to a Latin American politician, Nana
       DeBusia of Guyana where it was laundered in accounts under the
       signatures of Bush and Casey earmarked for use by the Contras.
       This was the real Iran Contragate -- the story that never
       surfaced.
 
       Well, whaddya want? Drugs for guns is a fifty year old
       American tradition. Life goes better with coke, Pepsi AND
       heroin too, it would seem. Drugs produced untraceable cash for
       spies to do the things they love best: run armed mercenaries,
       kill University professors, anti-colonials, anti-imperialists,
       anti-fascists, journalists, all of which are the standard
       Hitlerian Dirty Tricks, along with turning elections with paid
       staged dramatics. Michael Manley got chased out of a second
       term in Jamaica, with great bloodshed during election. Manley
       had anti-colonial smarts that rivaled Karl Marx, a Fidel with
       no trigger finger, no rough edges, an urbane gentle, English
       Abe Lincoln type. Mobs were hired. That debacle cost a pretty
       penny. Same thing getting ALLENDE out in Chile. The people had
       to be roused, anti-Allende propaganda achieved by buying
       Chilean journalists. Go see film MISSING with Lemmon/Spacek.
       From the book The Kidnapping of Charles Horman written by the
       boy's father, who was played by Lemmon, and see our
       battleships parked off shore during the week long
       'revolution.'
 
         Costa Gavras movies really trace agency history---in "Z",
       see U.S. installed GENERALS IN GREECE murdering every
       dissident. A later film with Yves Montand, "State of Siege"
       about a CIA torture expert, of the DESAPARECIDO period,
       kidnapped by leftists in Uruguay. WE DID THAT. OUR CIA.
       Killing activist students, angling for MEN SYMPATHETIC TO THE
       multi-nationals to WIN ELECTIONS, changing the monkey, they
       call it all of which costs big bucks.
 
       The Agency has been 'fixing things' that way ever since Italy
       in the late 40s when Commies first began running for office.
       It's very costly to swing a vote. But the CIA has its little
       coffers, filled by its little importing businesses, cheap
       merchandise from the orient. This is how the CIA built the
       Burmese generals into what they are today: repressive
       genoicidal murderers. It built Saddam Hussein and Idi Amin and
       Marcos, Noriega, and the Shah and Somoza and all those African
       and Latin despots who sold out, allowed the multi-nationals to
       come in and enslave peasants, take the land, control industry,
       and who exploited and plundered their own people, wrecked
       their countries, stole all the money and banked it in
       Switzerland and who have caused plagues and famines and civil
       wars and genocide in their home towns. The usual Suspects.
       Pals of the Agency, all the way. Conversely, the same CIA
       murdered all the good presidents like Arbenz of Guatemala,
       Allende in Chile for daring to speak out. And now the CIA is
       being forced to look at the monsters they created in Burma.
       You probably didn't see that Patricia Arquette film about
       Burma, it showed us what Hell looks like.
 
       Burma, Africa, Latin America, Central America, South East Asia
       was the same carnage that was in Chile when the Agency tryed
       to stop Allende. The CIA batter fried that country to make it
       look so chaotic they had to park battleships offshore, and
       send people in to stop non-existent riots so they could
       machine gun Allende to death and say he committed suicide.
       Stupid locals to this day think Allende ruined their country.
       It was Henry Kissinger who told Nixon, 'we will make their
       economy scream.' He used American trojan horse agencies like
       A.I.D. to put the forceps to the economy to make the Chileans
       think their ruler was a Commie rat. Since the 40's, Henry and
       his bosses and their hireling intelligence agents have made
       the entire planet scream to prevent ONE THING happening, the
       HOLD of the world bankers and transnationals they own, the
       Rothschilds, Morgans, Lehmans, Warburgs in Europe, the
       ROCKEFELLERS in NYC and their FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, and the
       rest of the 13 families ---to prevent that oligarch hold
       loosening on all the trade, banks and gold on the planet.
 
       And it isn't over. Let us move to current events. CLINTON just
       opened Long Beach Harbor to the RED ARMY, the processor and
       distributor for Burma-grown poppy. Why did John Huang raise
       all that Chinese money for Bill? Clinton and the CIA have
       allowed RED CHINA to bring heroin in in exchange for it. This
       was not Bill's idea, of course. Clinton has been the CIA's
       go-fer-& facilitator for two decades. Remember MENA airport in
       Arkansas? That's where all the IranContragate coke got into
       the U.S. You've read COMPROMISE by TERRY REED? Mort Sahl has
       been heard telling people to read it. You find it at better
       bookshops. It tells how Clinton was paid for his long years of
       CIA work.
 
         LONG BEACH HARBOR did not want these Chinese in there,
       fought it. The Prez got them in. Now, COSCO (People's
       Liberation Army's shipping company) containers come in by the
       thousand FULL of the most sophisticated guns in the world, AK-
       47's, GIVEN to CRIPS AND BLOODS who are the distributors of
       the heroin to American schoolkids.
 
         Groups that want to get the Generals out of Burma have to
       step on the snake's head, locate that long, thin supply line
       from Burma to the USA. You people who are on the Net reading
       this, do your research. It's all in books. Then, join the FREE
       BURMA coalitions at local colleges or the Black Outrage
       groups. Next, stir up a media ruckus. Find the authors, get
       them on your favorite, local radio shows where the NAACP can
       hear them. Keep the Gary Webb story CIA DEALING DRUGS TO
       GHETTOS alive. Contact author researchers Fred Landis, Donald
       Freed, and ex CIA guys, Victor Marchetti, Ralph McGehee,
       Phillip Agee, John Stockwell, and ex-DEA agent Michael Levine.
       And Danny Sheehan, Father Bill Davis. Their websites and
       lecture agents are easy to find with a search engine like
       <alta vista.digital.com Just appoint yourself a booking
       agent, and get them on radio shows you enjoy, preferably
       nationally syndicated. You can even look for British authors
       as it's all done by telephone interview these days. Black
       Outrage groups, FREE BURMA groups are taken very seriously but
       they don't do their homework. They have to research, write and
       footnote, publish and broacast. They have to use this
       information in their demonstrations, mounted as street
       theatre. CIA spooks with big needles, Burmese Generals dancing
       with American Generals.
 
         The Hellwell dynasty IS A LINEAGE of spies, funding guns for
       dirty trix, fixed elections, tumbling the monkeys in third
       world republics, and all of it paid for by US barrios. THIS
       ARMY crawls on its stomach because it's a SNAKE! It should be
       sued out of business by MOTHERS of addicts who have been
       jailed, wives of fathers jailed, and last of all, all the
       crippled crack babies born to addict mothers. VICTIMS SHOULD
       seek pro-bono lawyers and SUE these spymasters and the
       oligarchs who run them---as INDIVIDUALS ---for multi-million
       dollar damages under federal racketeering laws. Judges often
       cannot be bought. Law suits might be profitable for such
       citizen activist groups.
 
       The opportunity for ending the CIA's reign of terror may fall
       ironically and finally to the blacks who were spoon fed drugs
       for so long. Gary Webb's getting the Black Caucus and NAACP
       mad as Hell was part miracle, part good move. Burma activists
       and black activist groups should make a rainbow coalition and
       get in touch with Webb ( gwebb@sjmercury.com ). More than any
       other journalist, Webb can help expose this genocidal phalange
       of the CIA.
 
       We may also end up proving their part in killing JFK. The oil
       men that researcher/author Donald FREED thinks murdered JFK
       were Rockefeller oil pals in Texas. Kissinger, stuck like a
       PIN in Nixon's administration as Secretary of State, was a
       one-man think-tank for the Rocks. The Rockefellers are the
       main stockholders of all U.S. oil companies and controlled oil
       in the USA from its turn-of-the-century discovery. Kennedy had
       reduced the oil depletion allowance, and was about to end the
       war that the Rocks created. Rocks were after the biggest oil
       field on the planet in the South China sea. The Rocks are not
       lilly white. They lured the Saudis into depositing all
       petrodollars from 30 years of drilling into western banks,
       new, little offshore' banking SUBSIDIARIES which couldn't be
       linked to them. They lent the petrodollars to third world
       countries, who couldn't pay it back, so they on paper 'lost
       it', then they bankrupted/collapsed all the banks so the
       Saudis lost all their money. Jed Bush got to collapse one,
       Keating another. Rocks blatently stole the petrodollars of the
       poor towel heads!
 
       It's odd but anywhere the Hellwell Heritage is, Rockefellers
       turn up. Winthrop Rockefeller was governor of Arkansas when
       Clinton needed signatures to become a Rhodes Scholar. Clinton
       was from camp Rockefeller from day one. And why not?
       Rothchilds and Rocks are all there is on this planet. They
       HAVE all the marbles. The other 5 billion of us can go starve.
 
 
       Is that a dumb greedy game or what? Who's going to buy their
       Lincoln towncars or even a bottle of aspirin at current costs?
       Today, no matter what kind of Ollie North right winger you
       are, there is no justification for dealing drugs to fight
       Commies. There simply IS no more cold war. Ruskis and Red
       Chinese now appear to play ball with us. (Many have their
       doubts, knowing that a well trained Leninist does not turn
       coat on that knowledge that the transnationals are
       blood-suckers and there is no real trckledown no matter what
       the glad rap.) But, seeing that Commies seem to want to get
       into mutual funds, what has the CIA got left to fight or
       control? But this agency has control on the brain, control the
       target country to lie down and accept the pronged teeth in the
       neck. The big trading powers espouse 'free trade' but in truth
       can't let anything be free or organic. Everything is by
       control, implemented by conspiracy.
 
       Don't kid yourself. The CIA FUND raisers are raising money for
       something these days. The drugs are flowing through the ghetto
       faster than ever, and rival dealers are being arrested all the
       time so the Agency is up to something, implementing some
       hidden agenda with the money.
 
       But suddenly, out of nowhere, we can celebrate. Journalist
       Gary Webb, the Free Burma groups and the NAACP NIMBYs are
       right on the JUGULAR of the BIG GUY like a chupacabra. The big
       guy knows it, even if he doesn't let you KNOW that he knows
       and even if you don't know that he knows that you're right.
       He's sweating that you're going to find eveything out and come
       after him. Will you? What do you mean? If you read this far,
       YOU JUST DID!

# Rodrigo says :
15 May, 2009 [ 00:42 ]

The amount of evidence proving that the CIA is running drugs is overwhelming. The notion of it being ignored, like all the evidence presented in this section further overwhelming.

Some of the most creditable evidence of the CIA running drugs is contained in the disclosures by Mike Ruppert. Mikes evidence is relative for the public to incite further action at the federal level.

Taken from Mike Rupperts site

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This Introduction is taken from his site in the about column.

Quote: WHO IS MICHAEL C. RUPPERT?

"This is the man who cost CIA Director Deutch his guaranteed appointment as Secretary of Defense after confronting him at Locke High School with hard facts about CIA dealing drugs." - Dick Gregory

" ...in the course of investigations in the mid 70's he came across information that the CIA was trading drugs in order to fund covert operations in the Middle East...Perot called him back to offer encouragement... Ruppert says that his main objective is to see that the country gets a leader worthy of its people. Even for Ross Perot those will be tough shoes to fill." - PEOPLE MAGAZINE 6/22/92

The Record is Here

Learn More: OPENING REMARKS OF MICHAEL C. RUPPERT for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (WRITTEN STATEMENT WITH EXHIBITS)

Full Disclosure Part I – Michael Ruppert's LAPD records
Full Disclosure Part II – The Legal Record Around His 1978 LAPD Resignation 

The 1981 Herald Examiner Stories – Two consecutive front page stories got it mostly right but confirmed that Ruppert had stumbled on illegal covert operations: available on the site "Mike Ruppert is a one man crusade trying to expose America's bogus war on drugs. From the time we met on the campaign trail in 1992 while filming THE LAST PARTY, through his challenge to John Deutch, Mike Ruppert has been on the front line trying to get the story out." - Marc Levin, - Emmy award winning Director of PBS's The Secret Government, THE LAST PARTY and Producer of Bill Moyers' 1998 series on Addiction.

Michael Ruppert is the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Published in September 2004 and is one of the three best-selling books globally and in the US about the attacks of 9/11. Rubicon is the only book to show that Vice President Richard Cheney, the US government and Wall Street had a well-developed awareness of Peak Oil before the 9/11 attacks and that US policy since then has been consistent with Peak Oil imperatives. In May, 2006 Crossing the Rubicon was added to the Harvard School of Business library and released in a French version with distribution throughout all major book stores in France.

Mike is also the publisher/editor of From The Wilderness, a newsletter read in more than 50 countries around the world. Its subscribers include 60-plus members of the US congress, professors at more than 40 universities around the world, and major business and economic leaders. Since 9/11 Mike has been in demand as a university lecturer and has spoken on Peak Oil and 9/11 in nine countries. Recently, at the request of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, he served as an official questioner during a Congressional briefing looking into unanswered questions and the unaddressed flaws of the Keane Commission report. 

Having concluded that the US government and markets will be useless in preparing American citizens for the coming crisis, Mike's current focus is on individual and community preparedness for the coming challenges and the development of a reliable news service to quickly identify and track breaking developments around the world.

Mike is a former LAPD narcotics investigator, whistleblower and a 1973 Honors Graduate of UCLA in Political Science. After attempting to expose this he was forced out of LAPD in 1978 while earning the highest rating reports possible and having no pending disciplinary actions. In 1996, after 18 years of struggle, he finally achieved one of his deepest wishes in a face to face public encounter with then CIA Director John Deutch on national television. Washington sources later told Mike that Deutch's mishandling of the encounter cost him a guaranteed appointment as Secretary of Defense.

On November 28, 2001 Mike gave his first post 9-11 lecture at Portland State University, which was attended by more than 1,000 and resulted in a standing ovation. FTW's video, The Truth and Lies About 9-11, has sold more than 15,000 copies. It includes special exclusive interviews with Representatives Ron Paul (R-TX), Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Professor Peter Dale Scott, (UC, Berkeley), Professor John Metzger (Michigan State) and Catherine Austin Fitts (former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Managing Director, Dillon Read).

FTW's stories, including economic and military analysis, detailed exposés of the CIA and the American political and economic system, have been reprinted all over the world. A popular lecturer who has spoken in eight countries, Mike is beginning a new direction for FTW in 2005 focusing on breaking news in a world that is moving steadily toward global warfare, the draft and economic collapse. Mike's future plans include relocating to semi-rural areas of the Pacific Northwest to begin a detailed study of post-petroleum living strategies with a view towards saving as many lives as possible after 2007.-End quote

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# Rodrigo says :
15 May, 2009 [ 00:45 ]

CIA pushes drugs

Government created crack epidemic to fund contras

Anger rises in Black community

By John Parker

Despite joint efforts of the government and media to keep it quiet, people around the country are finally hearing the story-documented with names, dates and places-of how the CIA pumped drugs into the Black community of Los Angeles.

As outrage mounts, officials are scrambling to keep the lid from blowing on the decade-long coverup of this government program of genocide-for-profit, which was carried out to fund counter-revolutionary terror in Central America.

The evidence shows that for nearly 10 years a Central Intelligence Agency operation sold crack cocaine by the ton along with sophisticated assault weapons to two Los Angeles youth gangs, the Crips and the Bloods.

The CIA then funneled millions of dollars in drug profits to U.S.-trained terrorists in an effort to oust the Sandinista government in Nicaragua during the 1980s. The Sandinistas had overthrown the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979 in a mass-based revolution.

Under President Ronald Reagan the contras were responsible for killing thousand of civilians, including children. This new admission, however, sheds light on how the war against Nicaragua also took innocent lives here in the United States, through poisoning the African American community by the proliferation of drugs and high-powered, sophisticated weaponry.

Corporate media sat on it

Activists and writers in the Black community and progressive groups have long tried to expose the CIA-drug connection. But the events became widely known from a series of articles by the San Jose, Calif., Mercury News in August.

While the authorities are still trying to keep things quiet, anger is bubbling over. In mid-September, when the Congressional Black Caucus held its Legislative Conference in the Washington convention center, over 2,000 people showed up, filling the hall to overflowing.

Responding to all the demonstrations of outrage from the Black community, Rep. Maxine Waters of South Central Los Angeles called for an investigation into the government's involvement in the crack epidemic.

"The Black community has been used by one of these elements inside the CIA for the unconscionable purpose of making money for war off the blood of our children," said civil-rights activist Dick Gregory before he was arrested outside CIA headquarters in McLean, Va., for giving a security guard the San Jose newspaper articles.

Also in mid-September, one of the key CIA drug operatives--employed to this day as an informer of the Drug Enforcement Administration-admitted under oath that he began selling cocaine in Los Angeles in 1982 to raise money for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. The NDF was the biggest component of the anti-Sandinista thugs who came to be known as contras.

The two Nicaraguan cocaine dealers involved, Oscar Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses, were leaders of a CIA-created army whose mission was to terrorize the Nicaraguan people into accepting a government concerned more with the interests of the U.S. ruling class than the Nicaraguan people.

Naming names and kilos

"These people have been working with me 10 years," Blandon said. "I've sold them about 2,000 or 4,000 [kilos]. I don't know. I don't remember how many," said Blandon in federal court, referring to his distributors in the African American community.

Testifying against his main distributor, Rick Ross, Blandon said his biggest customer was a crack dealer in South Central Los Angeles who turned Blandon's cocaine into crack and distributed it to the Crips and Bloods. In 1995 he told the DEA he was providing 100 kilos of cocaine a week to the gangs.

According to Ross, crack was not the only death-dealing substance in the Blandon/CIA bargain store. "We had our own little arsenal. ... Once he tried to sell my partner a grenade launcher. I said, `Man, what ... do we need with a grenade launcher?'" Ross told the Mercury News.

Vaughn Chatman, a representative of the Ministerial Alliance in San Jose who early on urged Jesse Jackson to get involved in this case, said that pushing crack cocaine into African American neighborhoods during the 1980s was "genocide at the same period of time they were trying to get rid of all the social programs, the treatment programs.

"You put in the poison, you eliminate the antidote, and what's left? How many George Washington Carvers have been lost because of this?" Chatman asked.

Reactions in Harlem

In New York, Workers World asked the predominantly African American community in Harlem for their reaction to the CIA-drugs-contras revelations.

"I knew some geniuses who died from overdoses of drugs," 66-year-old Frank Grimes told WW. "Some of these young guys had everything going for them, everything but that habit."

Grimes said the CIA connection proves that blaming the Black community for the drug problem "is a lot of bull. They put drugs here for profit."

Grimes was reminded of how drugs were used to destroy the great jazz singer Billie Holiday. "They have been setting up our communities like that ever since."

Many Harlem residents on Malcolm X Boulevard said they were outraged by the recent findings.

"Crack is a big thing in Harlem, but who's driving all those boats and planes? These kids out here on the corner? No, it's not the Black man bringing the drugs into our community," said Patricia Read.

"And we aren't buying most of the drugs either," she continued. "You go to 181^st Street by the bus terminal and you'll see all whites waiting for drugs.

"We have to look and see that all the politicians want us to sleep with drugs so they can control us and keep us down. That's why they try to take away our chance at getting an education," Read said.

CIA investigates itself

Now CIA Director John Deutch has ordered the agency's inspector general to investigate the drug connection. Once again, the CIA investigating itself.

Agents from the DEA, U.S. Customs, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement have already complained of CIA interference into investigations of the two drug dealers in the case, Blandon and Meneses.

Robert Knight and Dennis Bernstein first aired the story of the CIA involvement on Pacifica radio on their "Undercurrents" series in 1986. The national series interviewed pilots carrying drugs, contras, and drug-enforcement officials.

The facts they presented were recorded in many newspapers and magazines.

Knight says he is happy to see the story come alive again--but that he feels some "deja vu" about the official denials, like Attorney General Janet Reno's. "The real battle," Knight said, "beyond reparations and reconstruction to the victimized communities, is whether or not there will be sufficient public pressure to force out the truth."

Knight told WW it is interesting that Lt. Col. Oliver North, implicated in the illegal weapons deals with the contras, used the word "garbage" about the allegations of CIA drug pushing. "In Spanish the word for garbage is also the term for crack cocaine."

Asked what he expected from Deutch's CIA investigation, Knight responded, "The EPA had better be on the alert for air pollution increases since a lot of documents are going to begin shredding and burning."

Although Blandon admitted to crimes that sent others away for life, the Justice Department recently turned him loose on unsupervised probation after only 28 months behind bars- and the government has paid him over $166,000 thus far, according to court records.

Blandon's boss, Norwin Cantarero, never spent a day in a U.S. prison even though the government has been aware of his cocaine dealings since 1974.

However, Rick Ross, like so many African American alleged street dealers, could face life in prison.

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# Rodrigo says :
15 May, 2009 [ 00:50 ]

73-year-old black man shot and killed by police in Homer, LA.
Howard Witt at the Chicago Tribune is following the HATE crime in Homer, LA.
He reports about how on the last afternoon of his life, Bernard Monroe was hosting a cookout for family and friends in front of his dilapidated home on Adams Street in this small northern Louisiana town. Throat cancer had robbed the 73-year-old retired electric utility worker of his voice years ago, but family members said Monroe was clearly enjoying the commotion of a dozen of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren cavorting around him in the dusty, grassless yard.Then the Homer police showed up, two white officers whose arrival caused the participants at the black family gathering to quickly fall silent. Within moments, Monroe lay dead, shot by one of the officers as his family looked on.



"If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names," said Mills, who is white. "I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested."
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/73-year-old-black-man-shot-and-killed-police-homer-la

# Splaktar says :
10 June, 2009 [ 10:03 ]

They certainly can't do much worse of a job than is already being done.  So it's good to see them given a chance and with any luck they will succeed and clean up at least a part of Lima.  As David N already mentioned, their hands are tied by lack of government funding, support and corruption within the gov't and PNP.

Finally the English in this article is quite poor.

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