Across working class Los Angeles, we're plagued with gangs. Some may be relatively benign local gangs, while others are local, interstate, and international crime syndicates. Among the most pernicious: 18th St, Mara Salvatrucha, the Crips, as well as business oriented motorcycle, Armenian and Asian gangs.

Police departments have "gang task forces" that are supposed to help reduce the influence, power, and effect of gangs. They sell themselves as ways to stop and even eliminate gangs.

Residents have always been skeptical -- after all, all the locals know the gangs have been around for decades. The police haven't done anything.

The recent release of the Antisec "Chinga La Migra" files include a file that serves to help explicate why the police seem to be doing nothing.

The file is named "Gangs and LE Targets.pdf" and will not be posted here because it's considered secret. The file can be obtained by downloading the Antisec release via Bittorrent.

In Queens County NY, the Crips and Bloods formed an alliance to take over the drug trade. As NYPD presence increased, the gangs had a sniper kill a cop. In rapid response, the NYPD took down 100+ Bloods and Crips, basically undoing a 2.5 year effort to gather evidence about the gangs.

Likewise, Varrio Hawaiian Gardens was taken down only after a member killed a cop. Until then, the gang had been allowed to exist.

Cops are afraid, because gangsters are now joining the military and attain the skills to kill effectively, and that includes cops. Some gangs are intent on ambushing cops to acquire better arms and armor.

The newsletter, read from the perspective of a community member and not a police officer, is quite clear: the police will only to the minimum to protect residents. They are more concerned with protecting themselves. Thus, the strategy for law enforcement remains "containment" to contain the crimes in the poor and working class areas of Los Angeles.

For these residents, there's little hope except to escape via schools or the military. The latter, of course, trains you to kill, but not necessarily to find a job while living within these numerous poor communities.

Haven't You figured out why America lost The War on Drugs back in the 70's? Because The CIA Drug Cartels, LA Gangs, and LAPD are all on the same Team aka Drug Army. Of course you know about The CIA and Afghanistan, and how Opium is being grown in PLAIN SIGHT, while The US Army Protects The Opium Growers. And of course The CIA, Contra Crack Cocaine Epidemic is Yesterday's News as well. So while these CIA backed Sawed Off Gang Bangers turn Neighborhoods into Demiltarized Zones, keep in mind that The Global Apostates of Hell (The CIA) aka The CIA Drug Cartels are the Ones Supply the LA Gangs with their Drugs, while The Cops (Criminals On Patrol) look the oher way, or are to busy with Traffic Tickets to be bothered. What Part about Cops (Criminals On Patrol) don't you understand.

The organized drug cartels and lesser gangs have members to be used as disposable puppets for their leaders. Gangs and drug cartels are hierarchal (top down) organizations that thrive on the disposability of their lower ranking members. Above the heads of the drug cartel leaders are the bankers and globalists, and all major decisions (which cartel fails, which cartel wins, etc...) are then orchestrated by the CIA. This in effect makes the lower ranking gang members effective employees of the CIA.

The CIA arms the gangs (as researched by Gary Webb) with guns for battle with one another to ensure the need for a prison-industrial complex (includes cops, prison guards, etc...) to better control the rank and file of gang members. If the lower ranking gangsters are kept busy killing each other, they will never look up towards their leaders that profit from their blood, sweat and tears.

The upper echelon of the drug cartels funnels the excess profits into offshore bank accounts, thus benefitting Wall St. and major U.S. corporate banks that profit from drug money laundering.

BTW - Any wonder why cannabis is not yet legal, and why Obama is trying to shut down medical cannabis dispensaries? Because growing and selling cannabis legally takes money AWAY from the Mexican drug cartels! Without the drug cartel's illegal money going into the banks, the banks are also losing money themselves! So no legalization for cannabis anytime soon, thank the banks!!




"The United Nation´s Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa recently told the Austrian magazine Profil that drug money has been the only thing that has kept many major banks in business.

Costa said: "In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital. In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system´s main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor."

Costa went on to say that UNODC has discovered that "interbank loans were funded by money that originated from drug trade and other illegal activities." Incredibly, he said there were "signs that some banks were rescued in that way."

In the last few years, large banks have been getting into the remittance industry, which sends over $50 billion annually from the U.S. to Latin America. While much of the money is sent from laborers in this country back home to their families, drug traffickers heavily use remittances as a way to send their profits south of the border.

The banks charge very high fees for the service.

In 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into money transfers conducted by Wachovia bank. It is alleged that Wachovia transferred funds from drug deals in the United States to Mexican and Columbian money-exchange houses, or casas de cambio.

There are countless casas de cambio just inside the Mexican border.

The following is a portion of the report which appeared in the Wall Street Journal on April 26, 2008:

"Wachovia built up its ties to casas de cambio as a way to tap the Hispanic market, which doesn´t always bank through traditional Main Street outlets. Wachovia served as a larger partner, holding the foreign-exchange houses´ deposits and providing back-office services. In 2005, it introduced the Dinero Directo card to facilitate cross-border remittances."

"The bank pushed into the business despite concerns from U.S. law enforcement that such firms were sometimes used to launder drug money. Wachovia declined to discuss why it pursued this business despite the warnings."

"Internal emails and documents filed in federal courts in Miami, Chicago and New York describe former ties between Wachovia and money-changing firms. In a case in U.S. court in Miami, federal agents seized more than $11 million in 23 Wachovia accounts belonging to Casa de Cambio Puebla…Mexican police raided Puebla offices last fall, alleging relationships with a major drug cartel."

However, Wachovia is only one of many U.S. banks to come under investigation for laundering drug cartel profits.

The following is a short list of banks which have resolved cases of money laundering, to avoid federal prosecution (Source: U.S. Justice Dept.):

-2008, Sigue Corp. was alleged to be part of $24.7 million in suspicious funds in processed remittances. They forfeited $15 million and avoided prosecution.

-2007, Union Bank of California was discovered to be laundering drug cartel profits through casas de cambio. The bank forfeited $21.6 million and avoided prosecution.

-2007, American Express International Bank failed to report $55 million passing through the accounts of known drug traffickers. They paid $65 million in fines and avoided prosecution.

-2006, Bank Atlantic paid a $10 million fine to avoid prosecution, when an undercover investigation discovered that drug profits were being laundered through one of their branch locations.

As part of their deferred prosecution, the banks agreed to reform their practices as well as submit to federal oversight.

Of course, this practice involves very large banks and very large amounts of money.

After an investigation of Union Bank of California, the Justice Department claimed that the bank failed "to maintain an effective anti-money-laundering program."

One case involved two drug traffickers using accounts from Ribadeo Casa de Cambio in order to transfer millions of dollars in drug proceeds. Federal prosecutors discovered $295 million in transfers from several Union Bank accounts back to their account, with only $29 million ever being repaid.

Prosecutors faulted Union Bank not only for failing to corroborate the legitimacy of the transfers, but prosecutors allege, the bank ignored the large volumes of traveler's checks with sequential numbers, large cash deposits and wire transfers strategically structured below federal reporting limits.

While ignorance may be bliss, it would be difficult for the banks to declare it as a defense. Since the mid-1990s, U.S. bank regulators and drug enforcement investigators have been warning U.S. banks that Mexican casas de cambio pose a great money-laundering risk.

Recently, both U.S. and Mexican authorities have taken a much tougher approach in policing the operations of the foreign-exchange firms. The Mexican Attorney General's office says some of the casas de cambio are part of an elaborate system which funnels drug money through U.S. banks, on to European banks and then back to the U.S. and Latin America.

This new and vigorous effort is undoubtedly in response to not only the extreme violence taking place in Mexico, as that nation´s powerful drug cartels threaten to topple the government, but to the growing presence the cartels now have in the U.S. as well.

Of course, it is not only the drug traffickers and low-level operatives who transfer drug profits through U.S. banks.

In 1998, the brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas, Raul Salinas was caught transferring hundreds of millions of dollars out of Mexico to Citibank in New York. Citibank was then sending the money to banks in Switzerland.

The Salinas family is believed by both U.S. and Mexican law enforcement to have received nearly a billion dollars from Mexican and Columbian drug cartels. Raul Salinas was released from prison in 2005, after serving ten years for the murder of his brother-in-law.

Upon consideration of the fact that many U.S. banks have engaged in laundering drug profits for the powerful and violent cartels, the $700 billion bank bailout engineered by Bush administration Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, seems even more questionable.

The fact that none of that bailout money actually went to help homeowners facing foreclosure, combined with the Treasury´s refusal to specifically tell Congress where large amounts of it went...makes you wonder if the relationship between the banks and the drug cartels goes far beyond what we are being told by the Justice Department."

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