I spent nearly a decade helping a retired narcotics undercover detective write his memoirs. In his patrol days occasionally he'd be uniformed back-up in a raid in the war on drugs. Flushing dope down the toilet was a problem in terms of evidence, or lack thereof, and in those days no-knock warrants were harder to get. Now judges hand them out like confetti.
Absent a no-knock warrant, how to achieve surprise on the target? Police would surround the house quietly and then position themselves at all doors. Loud enough for the neighbors to hear the police would bang on the front door screaming "police warrant" and a cop at the back door would instantly scream "come in!" and all doors would then be blown open by invading officers.
When no dope was found, but the target was desired to be arrested by powers that be, in spite of no evidence, the cops would bring along a rookie patrolman in uniform as part of the raid, next time. During the chaotic entry an old cop would toss a kilo of heroin (stolen before the evidence was destroyed at the Weyerhauser burner) into a closet on his way in. The old cops would search everywhere except the closet. The rookie would look in there, find the dope, and get attaboys all around, and "Say, you are good at this." What an adrenalin rush for a rookie! When the defendant denies owning the dope, and claims it was planted, the young officer is obliged to take a polygraph which he passes with flying colors. Even better, in court, the fresh innocent young patrolman makes a naturally persuasive, offended witness when he is asked if he planted the heroin he found. Conviction.
There were always reformers, but they never were able to effect change. They retire on the payroll or resign. What is left? No reform in democracy, not in capitalism, not in hegemonarchy.
When the USA, with a patent on ebola, says "may we invade your country with our soldiers" the USA educated leaders of the country say "come in!" And our soldiers come rolling in. And not a peep from anyone, anywhere in USA about the sheer madness of it all, evil and stupid. The actual citizens of the target country know there is a better way to handle the crisis than invite an invasion by USA troops.
But they have no say in their countries, as it is in USA. In fear and frustration, they kill the advance parties, the aid workers.
We have more important discussions: NFL players family lives.
We need truth commissions to find out what is going on.
By the way, the members of the 9-11 truth commission have all repudiated their work. So maybe there is no hope at all for the USA. As long as we can lend asset-less credit at usury, there is no idea unprofitable to the bankers. There is no rational limit to what can be financed. New frontiers of crazy are constantly crossed, and at some point, with no rational (reason) basis, it all comes tumbling down.
See: history.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Absent a no-knock warrant, how to achieve surprise on the target? Police would surround the house quietly and then position themselves at all doors. Loud enough for the neighbors to hear the police would bang on the front door screaming "police warrant" and a cop at the back door would instantly scream "come in!" and all doors would then be blown open by invading officers.
When no dope was found, but the target was desired to be arrested by powers that be, in spite of no evidence, the cops would bring along a rookie patrolman in uniform as part of the raid, next time. During the chaotic entry an old cop would toss a kilo of heroin (stolen before the evidence was destroyed at the Weyerhauser burner) into a closet on his way in. The old cops would search everywhere except the closet. The rookie would look in there, find the dope, and get attaboys all around, and "Say, you are good at this." What an adrenalin rush for a rookie! When the defendant denies owning the dope, and claims it was planted, the young officer is obliged to take a polygraph which he passes with flying colors. Even better, in court, the fresh innocent young patrolman makes a naturally persuasive, offended witness when he is asked if he planted the heroin he found. Conviction.
There were always reformers, but they never were able to effect change. They retire on the payroll or resign. What is left? No reform in democracy, not in capitalism, not in hegemonarchy.
When the USA, with a patent on ebola, says "may we invade your country with our soldiers" the USA educated leaders of the country say "come in!" And our soldiers come rolling in. And not a peep from anyone, anywhere in USA about the sheer madness of it all, evil and stupid. The actual citizens of the target country know there is a better way to handle the crisis than invite an invasion by USA troops.
But they have no say in their countries, as it is in USA. In fear and frustration, they kill the advance parties, the aid workers.
We have more important discussions: NFL players family lives.
We need truth commissions to find out what is going on.
By the way, the members of the 9-11 truth commission have all repudiated their work. So maybe there is no hope at all for the USA. As long as we can lend asset-less credit at usury, there is no idea unprofitable to the bankers. There is no rational limit to what can be financed. New frontiers of crazy are constantly crossed, and at some point, with no rational (reason) basis, it all comes tumbling down.
See: history.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
4 comments:
Were the memoirs ever published? Is the book on Amazon?
Yes, among his other works...
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bernie+lau
See:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/09/global-hegemon-shifting-sands.html
I think your much too pessimistic about the US. I still think that the US is the "least worst" among nations though.
Is it a question of being the least worst? What happened to exceptionally good, or peace and prosperity? Dumbing down not as fast as others is still underperforming. Happily there are patterns and practices in which one may engage for personal excellence.
John
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