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"We were jumping on guys in the middle of the night, all of that. Swooping down on folks all across the country, using these sorts of attack tactics that we went out on, that you would use in Vietnam, or some kind of war-torn zone. And there wasn't very many black guys in my position," says Matthew Fogg in an interview with Brave New Films for a documentary about racial disparities in drug enforcement.
"So when I would go into the war room, where we were setting up all of our drug and gun and addiction task force determining what cities we were going to hit, I would notice that most of the time it always appeared to be urban areas."
Fogg says that when he would ask why weren't they investigating in more affluent areas, he would get brushed off.
"Maybe you all think they don't, but statistics show they use more drugs out in those areas than anywhere. The special agent in charge, he says 'You know, if we go out there and start messing with those folks, they know judges, they know lawyers, they know politicians. You start locking their kids up; somebody's going to jerk our chain.' He said, 'they're going to call us on it, and before you know it, they're going to shut us down, and there goes your overtime.'"
Fogg, who is also a former US Marshal, says "racism drives the war on drugs." Since retiring from federal law enforcement after more than 30 years on the job, Fogg has been speaking out against drug policy, police brutality and racial profiling.
"If we were locking up everybody, white and black, for doing the same drugs, they would have done the same thing they did with prohibition.
They would have outlawed it. They would have said, 'Let's stop this craziness. You're not putting my son in jail. My daughter isn't going to jail.'
If it was an equal enforcement opportunity operation, we wouldn't be sitting here anyway. It's all about fairness, man."
and avoiding such truths haven't changed much over the decades in this so-called 'drug war'... anyone remember how during the Carter administration, the group in charge of this 'war' at the time was closing in on the top bosses in the global drug trade, only to be shut down and have a totally new group setup and start from scratch once Reagan took office. Gotta stay out of certain areas, and stay in others.... 'divide and conquer' and never leave a trail behind that you can't easily erase, like the one we left in Panama... thus that 'invasion' to get Noreiga, who had the audacity to send drugs up to the States on the empty planes we flew down carrying arms for our locals wars in the Central Americas.... Hmmm, if I remember, those flights went through Akansas where a Rhodes Scholar was governor... Bill Clinton was his name, and he was 'rewarded' for his services at the time and later by being allowed to join the big boys up in DC.
Funny little farce, sadistic, but funny in its own way, which reminds me of that line from Harry Potter when the wand maker mentions the Dark Lord as one who did 'great' things, 'terrible' but great. Wouldn't this apply to most empires throughout history? Great being a matter of scope of an action and not its character of 'good' or 'bad', so that all of our wars are 'great' but terrible and usually a lie as any false flag op ever is.