BETRAYAL

Highest Order

U.S. Government Financing of Inner City Drug/Gang Wars

There's an old joke about how Blacks would buy ice from whites instead of Blacks because "the white man's ice is colder." Ice is ice and cold is cold. Still, it is a consistent reference to the historical demonstration that Blacks will buy anything put out ther by white folks, regardless if it's the same quality, because it appears more credible or more legitimate if the other man is saying it or selling it.

The recent investigative story broke by the San Jose Mercury News that the government financed Nicaraguan rebels from inner city drug profits is a stunning revelation, but its not new news. In December of 1988, as president of the L.A. NAACP, while investigating abuses in the L.A. County Jail, I interviewed gang members who told us from their own mouths that the government was giving them drugs and guns to sell, only they said it was "the police" (because that�s who they interfaced with most).

The real news break here was that it was a contrived plot to solely use youth organizations in Los Angeles, by the CIA and the highest levels of government, to waste the lives of inner city youth to finance the overthrow of the legitimate Nicaraguan government. Black lives became expendable to risky foreign missions. It�s government betrayal of the highest order.

We broke that news in January, 1989, and the community was so quiet you could hear rates pee on cotton (as the old folks used to say). "Who�s going to believe what gang members say," they all said (but they�re credible now because white folks say they are). Nobody said nothin� or tried to do anything (other than cove and come after me). Now to hear most of the post-story commentary from many (including negro leaders) that "we�ve known this has been going all along" implicates all who knew. If you know and don�t do anything about it, you�re just as guilty as those who are carrying out the wrong.

But do we really understand what the residual effect of this activity has been. It�s beyond one dealer�s three strikes case. Literally, thousands of lives have been lost from 1986 to 1991 to gang and drug conflicts.

Literally, thousands of Black men (and women) have been swept form the street on federal drug prosecutions with mandatory federal sentences (five to 15 years a pop) because of this government plot.

Now you know why only Blacks have been prosecuted in crack cases during this period. The government Drug Enforcement Agency knew right where to catch �em because government (CIA and others) supplied them. Once they used Blacks to sell the drugs and made their profits (to buy weapons form Iran to ship to Contra rebels, and South Central Los Angeles gangs); they would pick �em up, charge �em and jail �em.

Every Black family that was affected by this plot, now has a claim against the United States government for cases of wrongful death, violation of civil rights, selective prosecution and other emotional torts associated with this behavior.

I heard one person say (on a public affairs show questions, what should we do now?) that the government is not going to let all the drug arrests go. Why not? That�s the technicality and it should be pursued, anyone busted for selling in South Central has a claim. I�m sure if this issue (of government participation) had come in anybody�s trial, it would have brought on a mistrial (like it will in Ricky Ross� case).

I don�t condone the selling of drugs, and would vehemently advocate against the release of anyone who would continue in that destructive line, but the law is the law. The government can�t enforce the law and violate it (by working outside of it) at the same time. The wicked way Blacks were (and are) being swept into jails, God was bound to intervene. Now they got 10,000 appeals and another 10,000 mistrials on their hands.

The infusion of drugs into South Central, Miami and other urban cities created a drug epidemic that literally destroyed men, women, children and babies (unborn and newborn). Crack was the first totally distributed synthetic drug that was considered irreversible and non-recoverable, meaning once you used it and became addicted--you (were supposed to) lose you right mind forever.

Crack and AIDS were the germ warfare strategies, published in 1969, that were to facilitate Black genocide. It was bigger than the Tuskegee experiments (injecting Black men with syphilis) and the Native American small pox project (put small pox in the blankets of certain tribes that wiped out two-thirds of their populations). The distribution vehicle for this project was our own people, and it was doing what it was supposed to do (kill off or permanently enslave our people).

This is a case for every civil rights group in America (if they are not scared, brainwashed or CIA infiltrated)--all are possible, particularly ours (they need something to do besides trip over each other for the other man�s money or in-fight). Federal inquiries into their own wrongdoing won�t work (that�s just cover-up time to justify or deny the allegation). Federal lawsuits putting the country�s judicial fairness to the test is the proper recourse.

Most of our people think of Black genocide theories as "crazy talk." I wonder what they think now that the "betrayal" and its paper trail has been laid out there in clear view (but just as plain) as it was seven and a half years ago. Do we have a real reason to believe "something�s wrong?" Now that the other man�s paper says it�s so. Is the white man�s ice still colder?
(Anthony Samad is a writer and columnist based in Los Angeles , Calif.)