SHORTLY after the US bombed Japan, they began to conduct a subtle colonialism of the lands of Japan and the territory Japan had colonised.
The US had not bombed the Japanese to assist or liberate Japan’s war victims, but to kill competition with the hope of inheriting Japan’s colonies. The US entered the Philippines, Vietnam and Korea and even made war in China, in an attempt to subjugate these nations under US subtle rule.
1948 is relatively recent and outright colonialism was being fought everywhere and losing its grip on colonies the world over. Thus the US, which had just become the new leading world power, planned to colonise lands not through the outright displacement and disempowerment of indigenous people as did nations like Britain and France in Africa.
The US simply wanted resources to sustain its economy. Diplomatic immunity through embassies, US intelligence (CIA), military, navy and air force bases in target countries would be used to endorse or pick governments that would meet US interests in its subtle colonies. These US subtle colonies are called friendly nations.
In the case of Vietnam, the resource targeted by the US after seeing its profitability was opium. Opium production in Vietnam began in the 1800s, when the British brought the opium plant into East Asia. When the Vietnamese began to resist the US after the fall of Japan, the US sought to take their land militarily.
US propaganda claimed they were fighting for the freedom of the Asians from unfriendly dictators. The East Asians saw through the US plot which was backed up by the media. US military presence and activity was heavy in East Asia until their humiliating defeat in Vietnam and the loss of domestic and international popularity in respect to their war involvement.
During the US – Vietnam War, the US saw a rise of cocaine trade and use of Vietnam grown opium. Cocaine was used by US troops and shortly after, in places like New York and Washington DC, cocaine use became an epidemic, especially in the poor black communities known as projects.
It has long been known among the enlightened black community in the US that the vices in their projects, which include hard drugs like heroin and cocaine, liquor stores, gun stores and strip clubs, are government-run and well beyond the financial capacity of the poor blacks. Malcolm X once said it was not possible to have these vices in the US without a government seal.
Since the 1970s, cocaine and heroin have been used in the poor black projects of the US to subjugate, financially exploit and weaken the black community in the same way Britain used cocaine against China in the 1800s. The drug pushers depend on cocaine’s addictiveness to the user, a thing that earns them the addict’s earnings in trying to procure the drug.
According to black American PhD Historian Chancellor Williams: “What started of course, almost dead in its tracks and not by any accident, was the deliberately organised widespread use of drugs. The fact that a decision was made, to an extent that it was declared in public media through film broadcasts by the Italian American mafia, outlining in great detail, the great plan of how to destroy the black youths of the nation, starting in New York.”
In reality, the decision was made and declared by representatives of the US government to members of the mafia, at a meeting held 32 km out of New York City, to concentrate the distribution of opiates on the black youths of the nation. Starting in New York and beginning in primary school. And to punish, even to the extent of death, any of the distributors who invaded the white community, or predominantly white schools.
New York and other large cities were to be divided up into districts for effective distribution of the drugs. A black district commander was to be given any type of car he wanted; be it a Mercedes Benz or Rolls Royce. This would be a part of the sales pitch because blacks just love buying cars. The district commander and his assistants would then be identified, known and envied by the rest of the black youths.
Dr Williams also highlighted: “One thing was important, that the thing to attract the blacks, more than any other thing, more than the drug itself, was to spread the word through the key young people, that this is the in-thing. Just say it’s the in-thing, and the young blacks will braze the fires of hell, to be part of the in-thing. That’s how it began and spread across the country, and we fell for it.”
Cocaine smugglers who bring the product into the US are essentially white and mostly Italian-American. However, in the 1970s, a certain black man called Frank Lucas became the only known black international opiate smuggler in the US after joining the white dominated trade. Frank was eventually arrested after the war, for smuggling pure heroin from Vietnam into the US solely through US military personnel and equipment, by way of bribery.
After Frank Lucas’ arrest he testified to his arresting officer about the rampant government and police involvement in the heroin and cocaine trade of the US. Indictments by Federal authorities in New York’s Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) led to the arrest of 75 percent of the DEA officers. They were tried in court and found guilty of selling and using opiates and also controlling drug cartels and protecting drug dealers who paid them off regularly.
The US smugglers then began depending on South American grown opium from places like Colombia. The US government has been known to associate with military regimes in South America which operate or tolerate drug cartels. This is known as Elite deviance; when the rulers of a nation act like they are above the law and in turn misuse their powers.
CIA covert (undercover) agent Barry Seal of Louisiana was among the biggest cocaine smugglers in the 1980s. Former US President Bill Clinton was a corrupt governor in Mena, Arkansas at that time. Barry relocated his operation to Mena where his planes dropped South American cocaine regularly at night. In this period, cocaine began to flood into Miami, Los Angeles and more than a 100 other cities that had no previous contact with cocaine.
This operation became exposed after the killing of two teenage boys who had witnessed these drops and were laid on train tracks to be hit by a train, in an attempt to cover up the killings as a double suicide.
Three locomotive operators who witnessed the accident dismissed the claims that it was a double suicide because the boys were unresponsive to the distinctively loud train hooting and were covered in a green covering before they were hit by the train. After they were hit, the blood of the victims was minimal on the site and was described as tar black and clotted, proving that they were killed long before the train hit their bodies. The case was full of government officials’ names.
In that same period, the US was being accused of smuggling drugs out of the Central American nation of Nicaragua and smuggling weapons into Nicaragua. The US denied direct involvement in Nicaragua until a plane containing four US covert agents was gunned down, leaving one survivor. Barry also operated in Nicaragua. It became clear at this time that the US was using drug money to finance its secret CIA missions around the world.