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Mexico's Catholic Church and President Felipe Calderon Charge U.S. with Corruption

by Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Rep Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2009 at 8:27 PM
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After describing the US military as vain and bewildered, the hierarchy of the Church indicated in its weekly publication that Mexico has recognized the serious problem of corruption among its authorities and public servants and demanded that the U.S. do the same


BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. March 10, 2009 at 12:01 AM PDT


Roman Catholic Church

The Catholic Church in Mexico today chimed in and sided with Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon on the controversial subject of U.S. government corruption and demanded that the U.S. government have a “change of attitude” that involves a “serious anti-corruption program to eliminate the protection that — from the highest levels of power to the businessmen and public servants — is provided the traffickers, whose impunity makes possible the commerce and consumption of drugs.”[SIC]
 
Last week we reported that Mexican President Calderon said that he blames U.S. "corruption" for hampering his nation's efforts to combat violent drug cartels.
 
"Drug trafficking in the United States is fueled by the phenomenon of corruption on the part of the American authorities," he said.
President Calderon also told the media that the main cause of Mexico's drug gang problems was "having the world's biggest consumer (of drugs) next to us."
Corruption on both sides of the U.S. Mexican border runs deep and can be found in the highest levels of both the Mexican government as well as the U.S.

President Calderon also told reporters that "Drug trafficking in the United States is fuelled by the phenomenon of corruption on the part of the American authorities," he said.
"It is not an exclusively Mexican problem, it is a common problem between Mexico and the United States," he said.
The Mexican President said, "I want to know how many American officials have been prosecuted for this [corruption]."

The Mexican Government since the Calderon administration says there have been many high ranking Federal, State and City Officials arrested and openly exposed to the world and many Mexicans agree with their President and are asking why is the U.S. not doing the same?
It is rumored that the Mexican Government is close to naming names of American officials who profit and or benefit from the huge amounts of cash generated in their country and in the U.S. by Mexican Drug Cartels.

There seems to be no U.S. Government Agency immune from corruption, the FBI, DEA, CIA, IRS, DOD, National Guard, Federal Air Marshals, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs, U.S. Marshalls, ICE, Dept of Commerce, U.S. Justice, U.S. State, and even our state and federal Judiciary and others, many of which are answerable to the top U.S. Agency “Homeland Security” This powerful organization was created during the Bush administration and its power reaches around the world.
 
After describing the US military as vain and bewildered, the hierarchy of the Church indicated in its weekly publication that Mexico has recognized the serious problem of corruption among its authorities and public servants and demanded that the U.S. do the same and initiate actions to keep watchful and clean out the public institutions that contribute to narcotraffic.  
 
The periodical characterized the attitude of the U.S. as hypocritical and having double standards for offering Mexico assistance in the drug war, but on the other hand, demonstrating that it has little ability to control the traffic of drugs and flow of money in its own country.
 
The publication, which reflects the Church’s position in Mexico, accused the U.S. of “having no intention of confronting the ‘addict culture’ in its own country or stopping the traffic of arms inside and outside its borders…”  
 
The popular Catholic weekly publication asked the question, what is the U.S. doing at home in order to put an end to their own drug distribution networks and drug addict's (which includes Mexican Drug Cartels and both Mexican and American gangs) and what are they going to do about the protection provided for highly placed drug traffickers and those who make a lot of money directly and indirectly from the trade besides just delivering puritanical and hypocritical speeches so characteristic of the U.S.

Information provided to the public by this and other reporters showed following a crash of a Gulfstream jet operated by the CIA allegedly for torture flights to Guantanamo and to other countries with loose torture laws. That particular aircraft it was found by rescue workers in Mexico to have contained 4 tons of high-grade Columbian cocaine.

With the raging war on drugs and terror authorities on both sides of the border are on the take. In a war that has cost billions of American tax dollars and a business that is believed by many to profit in the hundreds of billions, it is no wonder that officials from American street cops in the borders cities to the highest levels of both governments are benefiting financially from the illegal trade of smuggling drugs, humans, and terrorist into the U.S. via Mexican drug cartel smuggling routes that don't end at the border but continue North, East and West throughout the U.S.A.

More U.S. officials and cops have been caught in criminal activities then ever before.

Customs supervisor Walter Golembiowski and Officer John Ajello face narcotics, bribery and conspiracy charges after they were arrested for helping smuggle drugs and contraband through New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

According to a CNN report the investigation has led to the indictment and prosecution of more than 20 people from distributors to overseas sources of supply and the seizure of more than 600 pounds of imported hashish and other drugs from the United States and France.

Some Mexican legislators claim there is already covert action taking place in Mexico by the Americans and has taken many different forms reflecting the diverse circumstances in which it is being used.

According to Mexican authorities the U.S. military is covertly operating in Mexico and “ have boots on the ground.” They are also accelerating training using U.S. Military, CIA, DEA, FBI and U.S. Police advisers.

According to a high-ranking Mexican official, who wants to remain anonymous, the U.S.- Mexican border is the primary focal point for military operations. There are U.S. Army Special Forces secret operation bases in Mexico.

Reports of federal agents and cops being involved in drug and other crimes like smuggling humans, drugs, guns and cash are becoming more routine.

Still many more believe the estimates of corruption among our own officials are much higher then are currently being reported. This situation is seriously hurting America.

According to Paul Joseph Watson of Prison Planet, the corporate media will report on lesser drug smuggling scandals involving cops and customs agents, but when it comes to gargantuan sprawling U.S. Government agencies like the CIA, the silence is deafening.

Still the Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA which was forced to crash land in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula after it ran out of fuel was reported to have been used in at least three CIA "rendition" trips to Guantanamo Bay between 2003 and 2005.

Many Americans believe that the CIA run illegal arms to Central America and smuggled drugs back into the states during the Reagan Bush years.

Kevin Booth's underground hit documentary “American Drug War” features footage of former DEA head Robert Bonner admitting that the CIA was involved in cocaine smuggling operations.

Former DEA agent Celle Castillo, says he personally witnessed CIA drug smuggling operations funneled through terrorists that were also involved in kidnappings and the training of death squads on behalf of the U.S. government.

Investigative reporter Gary Webb was instrumental in exposing CIA cocaine trafficking operations before his alleged suicide in 2004. In the YouTube clip below, Webb traces the history of Agency involvement in drug smuggling and its links to financing wars in Central America.

Judicial Watch reports that corruption among federal officers guarding the U.S.-Mexico border is so rampant that the U.S. Government created an internal web site devoted to recently convicted border agents and lie detector tests will be administered to ensure future applicants don't already work for smuggling organizations.

The report further points out that the alarming growing number of agents with the Homeland Security agency in charge of protecting the U.S. from terrorists, drugs and illegal immigrants are collaborating with Mexican Drug Cartel operations allowing those same illegal immigrants, drugs, weapons and possibly terrorists into the country.

Mexican Drug Cartels use some of the same methods they use to attract Mexican officials to attract U.S. officials some of those tactics are used to also lure the American officials with women, sex and cash. In return, those hired to guard the border assure the safe passage of truckloads of illegal immigrants, drugs and other contraband into the United States. Some have even used their government-issued vehicles to shuttle illegal aliens from Mexico to safe houses north of the border.

Numerous low level border agents have been convicted for accepting bribes from Mexican smugglers in the last few years alone and investigations are pending against hundreds of others. One of the things that concerns the Mexicans is why are not the higher ups in the U.S. Government are not being exposed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oszATUJ4IRE


Sources:

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS (NAFBPO )
Mexico’s President Calderon
M-3 Report
Mexican Catholic Church publication
El Universal Newspaper
The Mexican National Defense Department (Sedena)
The Mexican Federal Attorney General
Carlos Rico, Mexico’s under-secretary of foreign affairs for North America
Youtube

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look here

by War on Spooknews Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2009 at 5:33 AM

Finally this agency is pulling aside the curtain on the true situation of corruption in the " war on drugs and terror" which, although trure, is not the entire picture painted by this agency editorial.
There are subtile inferences that the War on Drugs & the War on Terror are seperate creations of the very forces that promoted and manufactured these money making criminal enterprises.
You want to go to a source of the problem?
Try looking at the role of Chase Banks, Rockefeller Drug Laws, and the CIA; in the War on Drugs.
Then follow the tree into the terror of its fruits.
The real war is on the people by these agencies.
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Child raping pedophiles

by Yes Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2009 at 8:43 AM

Oh come on, a death cult that is a virtual pedophile dating services has *zero right* to speak out about anything wrong that others are doing.

Any time a pedophile cult climbs off a kid and stands up long enough to denounce something others are doing, it's an outrageous absurdity.

Christanic death cults should clean up their own house before pointing fingers.
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War on Drugs is a Myth! CIA Lies!

by Legalization Would End Drug Cartels Saturday, Mar. 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM

If cannabis were ever legalized, this would take a great source of income away from the drug cartels on both sides of the border and their CIA handlers, who of course would not allow it!!

Most of the propaganda coming out against legalization of cannabis comes indirectly from the CIA and their crony business partners who head up the drug cartels. Legalization of cannabis would pull the rug out from under the feet of the cartels by taking away their profit margin..

The governments of the U.S. and Mexico are BOTH corrupt and rely on the staged firefight between police and drug gangs to maintain the illusion that they are "doing something" to fight the cartels. They are "doing something" alright, what they are doing is causing more deaths of innocent civilians caught in the middle of the so-called drug war..

One cannot fight fire with fire, and this is what the escalation against the drug cartels is causing. The way out of mutual retaliations and gunfights is to finally end the prohibition of cannabis (and maybe other drugs also), begin treating pathological drug abuse (as opposed to recreational and/or medicinal drug use) as a medical condition instead of incarceration, regulate and tax cannabis similar to tobacco and alcohol. Legalization is the most logical and definite method of removing the power currently held by the drug cartels..

Instead of allowing the Catholic Church and current Pres. Felipe "Lapdog" Calderon to blame the U.S. public for being a "nation of addicts", we should listen to other Mexican voices who understand the path to ending the power of the cartels lies with legalization, not starting another culture war between the U.S. and Mexico;

"Ex-presidents Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico, Cesar Gaviria of Colombia and Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil made their announcement at a meeting in Brazil of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, the EFE news agency said.

“The problem is that current policies are based on prejudices and fears and not on results,” Gaviria said at a news conference in which the commission’s recommendations were presented.

The 17-member panel worked on the report for a year and will forward it to all Latin American governments as well as the United States and the European Union, EFE said. Gaviria said the time is right to start a debate on the subject, particularly with the pragmatic openings provided by the election of President Barack Obama in the United States.

“In many states in the United States, as is the case in California, they have begun to change federal policies with regard to tolerating marijuana for therapeutic purposes. And in Washington there’s some consensus that the current policy is failing,” EFE quotes Gaviria as saying."

article found @;
http://waronyou.com/topics/ex-presidents-of-latin-america-urge-legal-marijuana/

Resistance to legalization of cannabis will most likely come from so-called moralists scapegoating drug users, though the actual source of resistance to legalization comes from the upper echelons of the cartels themselves, their CIA benefactors and the myriad of banks and other institutions that depend on the money laundering of the cartels for their excessive profits..

We certainly do not need the Catholic Church adding their input in the form of scapegoating drug users in the U.S. as being responsible for the violence of the cartels. We need to remind ourselves the history of scapegoating and even the role played by the Catholic Church in earlier forms of scapegoating;

Review of "Drug Warriors";

"The chapters in Drug Warriors are named for the stages of "The Chain of Destruction" mentioned above, which, as Mr. Miller points out, derives from Raul Hilberg's monumental study of the destruction process as applied to the holocaust. From the very first page of chapter 1, "Identification," we see in vivid detail how the modern drug-user is fulfilling the same function as did the Jew during National Socialism. He is the perfect scapegoat, the perfect distraction, the ideal "other" and alien, the perfect tool "for maintaining the social turmoil needed by authoritarians" in their rise to power. Miller quotes Karl A. Schleunes, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz:

It was the Jews who helped hold Hitler's system together-on the practical as well as the ideological level. The Jew allowed Hitler to ignore the long list of economic and social promises he had made to the SA, the lower party apparatus, and the lower middle classes. By steering the attention of these groups away from their more genuine grievances and toward the Jew, Hitler succeeded in blunting the edge of their revolutionary wrath, leaving him freer to pursue his own nonideological goals of power in cooperation with groups whose influence he had once promised to weaken or even destroy. An ideological retreat on the Jewish issue in these circumstances was impossible.... The continued search for a solution to the Jewish problem allowed Hitler to maintain ideological contact with elements of his movement for whom National Socialism had done very little.

Just as it was difficult for people in the US or England of the 1930's to get worked up about a "few incidents" of the breaking of windows of Jewish shops, or the "excesses" of burning the contents of a library or two, it is today difficult perhaps to get worked up over some of the documented "excesses" of the Drug War, hundreds of which are described and referenced in Drug Warriors. "A few" such incidents can always be blamed on individual human error and frailty, as when an over-zealous cop assassinates a purported marijuana dealer. But what of the evidence so well presented in Drug Warriors of actual drug warrior "death squads" instituted by US government agencies to "assassinate narcotics leaders?"

What are we to make of the statement of former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates (also the founder and designer of the DARE program, "Drug Abuse Resistance Education"): In 1990 he advised the U.S. Senate about the "'casual user' and what you do with the whole group. The casual user ought to be taken out and shot, because he or she has no reason for using drugs." Gates later emphasized that he was not being facetious and declared marijuana users to be guilty of treason. Such sentiment in the US today is not unusual. William Bennett, the former "Drug Czar" and therefore top drug police officer declared that ethically no trial is required before killing citizens suspected of drug dealing. The next day Bennett said of drug dealers, "You deserve to die." (These passages quoted or paraphrased from Drug Warriors, where they are referenced.) Comparisons to the Gestapo are unavoidable."

entire article @;
http://www.serendipity.li/wod/rlmiller.htm

Then there's the banks and the money laundering, what would those poor wittle stockbrokers on Wall Street say if their precious banks no longer had the illegal capital coming from the drug cartels from money laundering schemes??

Why else would the CIA disappear any info on the money laundering operations practiced by the cartel's leadership;

"c) According to a legal motion filed in a 1990 police corruption trial: In the 1986 raid on Blandon's money-launderer, the police carted away numerous documents purportedly linking the U.S. government to cocaine trafficking and money-laundering on behalf of the Contras. CIA personnel appeared at the sheriff's department within 48 hours of the raid and removed the seized files from the evidence room. This motion drew media coverage in 1990 but, at the request of the Justice Department, a federal judge issued a gag order barring any discussion of the matter."

full article @;
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/13035


Why the media silence on money laundering??

"A key money-launderer for the Medellin cocaine cartel told Congress in February that he worked with the Central Intelligence Agency, but this information was not reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the three major networks, even though all covered the hearings.

In testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations, Ramon Milian Rodriguez acknowledged that he laundered more than $3 million for the CIA after his indictment on drug charges in 1983. New York Times correspondent Elaine Sciolino failed to mention this in her coverage of Rodriguez's testimony, which was broadcast live on CNN (2/11/88).

Sciolino's page 6 article ("Accountant Says Noriega Laundered Billions," 2-12-88) did not contain the letters CIA or the words "Central Intelligence Agency," even though Rodriguez had described his participation in CIA anti-Castro operations. He said he was trained in money laundering by men whose names he never learned, and later he delivered cash to the families of Watergate burglars. This did not interest The Times, which focused primarily on Rodriguez's account of Noriega's dealings with the Medellin cartel.

As chief accountant for the Colombian drug cartel, Rodriguez laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in cocaine profits through US banks in Panama. Although Sciolino noted that the cartel had $11 billion in assets in the US in 1983, she did not mention Rodriguez's testimony about meeting secretly with people who worked for US banks but were not on the official employment roll. Rodriguez named Citicorp and the Bank of America as two banks he dealt with this way."

article @;
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1190

Given the current situation with the cartels, the process of money laundering still continues and the media and government remains silent and complicit. It is doubtful that Obama will do very much to expose the reality of what is happening, he will most likely remain silent and follow on the footsteps of GW Bush by maintaining federal prohibition and keeping the drug cartels powerful and unhindered, occasionally spraying some low level gangsters with police bullets so everyone thinks we're winning the "war on drugs"..

Wall Street wouldn't have it any other way!!

According to Mike Ruppert;

"But one guy I talked to was a guy named Rex Nutting, who was the bureau chief of CBS Market Watch--he is the head guy for CBS for the stock market. And we're sitting back in the room--I'm waiting for Huffington to get free--and I'm talking to this guy about the fact that Richard Grasso, the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, last July went to Colombia and cold-called on the FARC guerrillas and asked them to invest their drug money in Wall Street. And Rex Nutting says: "Well, of course they always go where the money is. It's obvious."

The drug money is always going through Wall Street. Wall Street smells money and doesn't care where the money comes from; they'll go for the drug money.

And we jokingly laughed that the National Security Act that created the CIA in '47 was written by a guy called Clark Clifford, who was a Wall Street banker and lawyer. He's the guy that brought us BCCI. The job of writing the outline for CIA, the design for the Agency, was given to Clark Clifford by John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles--both law partners in the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell. In '69 after Nixon came in, the Chairman of SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] was William Casey--the same guy who was Ronald Reagan's Director of Central Intelligence. And the current Vice President in charge of enforcement for the New York Stock Exchange, Dave Dougherty, is a retired CIA General Counsel. The CIA is Wall Street, and vice versa. When you understand that, and that money is the primary objective, everything else just falls into place."

full article @;
http://www.whale.to/b/ruppert1.html

other article by Ruppert found @;
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/politics/dontblink.html





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