Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November December 5, 2011

From the Afghan opium fields that are guarded by U.S. troops, to the street-level drug retail networks that are honeycombed with informants and undercover police officers, the narcotics trade is a vertically integrated joint venture between international organized crime and the government agencies supposedly fighting it.

The most recent illustration of this evil symbiosis was provided by the December 3 New York Times, which describes how the federal Drug Enforcement Administration has ?laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds? on behalf of Mexican narcotics cartels.

?American agents transport the cash on government flights to the United States, where it is deposited into traffickers? accounts, and then wired to companies that provide goods and services to the cartel,? recounts the Times.

It?s quite likely that at least some of that money was used to purchase firearms from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Through a project called Operation Fast and Furious, the ATF allowed known cartel members to purchase firearms and convey them to Mexico. Predictably, the agency lost track of the weapons, which ended up being used to kill innocent people.

Things of this sort make perfect sense -- once it?s understood that governments and criminal syndicates are in the same business.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.