La Reina Blanca


According to Levine, this shocking exchange is not the product of an imagination fed by alarmist myths... That scenario -- an 'epidemic' of drug abuse leading to a war on drugs, and eventually to a police state -- came from a specific conversation I had with a CIA officer in Argentina in 1979,"

Over at the X Spot Blog I came across this short story, an excerpt from his upcoming novel which starts here. It's a game to challenge readers to separate truth from exaggeration. At the closing one poster asks "Have you ever heard of La Reina Blanca?" I hadn't. A search engine pulls up this:

"Make La Reina Blanca available in a country and within weeks a significant and predictable portion of the population is turned into murderous, uncontrollable zombies doomed to a slow, expensive death," the CIA official muses. "You destroy that nation's economy, its faith in its government. The nation implodes on itself. You win a war and you never fire a shot. Look what heroin and cocaine have already done -- La Reina makes those drugs look like powdered sugar."

"You're not telling me anything I don't know," the DEA undercover agent angrily responds. "What I don't understand is how ... you, a so-called American, can put that [drug] on our streets."

"How can you be so good at what you do and have so little understanding of what really pulls your strings?" the CIA officer wearily responds. "Don't you realize that there are factions in your government that want this to happen -- an emergency situation too hot for a constitutional government to handle."

"To what end?" asks the shocked drug agent.

"A suspension of the Constitution, of course. The legislation is already in place. All perfectly legal. Check it out yourself. It's called FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency. 'Turn in your guns ... from here on out, we're watching you, you antigovernment rabble rousers.'"


You think the recent spate of shootings are purely random? I don't.

The article continues:

... Asset forfeiture is not the only imposition on individual rights begotten by the drug war.

... Passengers had been detained for "walking slowly, walking quickly, being very tense, [having a] calm demeanor ... carrying no luggage, carrying [a] medium-sized bag ... [being] sloppily dressed, casually dressed, [or] smartly dressed ... first to deplane, last to deplane, deplaning from the middle" -- in short, for any and every conceivable reason.

More Here.


Exaggeration? Though it's not quite in the same league as Levine's story, check out Mack White's article on what happened to Cowboy Ron and the Goon Squad :

Posted: Thu - February 15, 2007 at 02:57 AM            

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