>But like just about every chapter in your book on the Staten Island Project, >I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell the title has to do with >the text that follows. Okay--scroll back to Feb/March 1981. While Howard Lotsof engages in the first library search for ibogaine material, I'm working on "A New Heroin Conspiracy," which substantially contains the same info as the article I just forwarded. But as we publish it (in OVERTHROW), a bomb mysteriously goes off in front of #9 Bleecker--blinding a bombsquad detective--which anonymous callers tell the press "the yippies planted themselves to regain their notoriety." Within days the SOHO WEEKLY NEWS--with which OVERTHROW is feuding over "heroin chic"--runs "Jonestown on Bleecker St," which is intended to send me off to jail for seven years for SETTING OFF A FIRECRACKER 6 mos. earlier, and which the author, Doug Ireland, had not been able to persuade the SOHO to publish prior to the real bomb. The cops, ever eager to discredit the folks who put on the annual cannabis parade by making us out to be organized crime instead of radical activists, insist the bombing was the result of a "drug deal gone bad," which makes us responsible, instead of victims. The other yippies think it was the cops who planted it. I at first believe it was the work of Doug Ireland associate, Secret Service informer and Jewish Defense Organization leader Mordechai Levy, because only Ireland and a handful of associates knew, prior to the bombing on March 17th, that the lab report on my firecracker showed it WASN'T A BOMB, and that I couldn't be convicted unless there was somehow a REAL BOMB. But Mordechai is in L.A. that morning. Who planted the bomb for him? Ireland is not the bomb-planting type. Only two other people are "regulars" in their scene, one of who, Hank Neuslein, has an modus operandi of inserting himself into, and lending advice to, one group after another over the years that somehow gets into a dispute with 9 Bleecker/the yippies. People dismiss him as a humorous crank, but harmless (later he's a regular on Howard Stern as "Hank the Bopp"), never suspecting he has a bomb factory. Wm Kunstler goes on to get me off on the firecracker with 35 days on Rikers, where I write my first book, an anthology which contains "A New Heroin Conspiracy?". But an echo is left, of mistrust between the pot movement and those who claim to speak for the junkies, such that even a decade later, some reject Ibogaine as "poisoned koolaid". Joyce Hartwell, who keeps "Jonestown on Bleecker St" in her dossier on me, coordinates opposition to Ibogaine in ACT UP, eventually stopping the NIDA protocol. Lost in confusion is the salient point of my article--that the old model of direct collaboration between heroin dealing gangsters and fascist politicians is too direct, too susceptible to being found out; that the system has recognized they need a "third pillar" in the so-called "parents' groups," and the Partnership for a Drug Free America, which can vociferously push to maintain the criminalization which is the sine non qua of the system precisely because they are blissfully ignorant of what is really going on. Last year they made the Partnership a government agency, with $175 million budget; last week the Magazine Publishers of America agreed to makes "matching, in-kind" contributions on the editorial side to match their government-sponsored ads. In other words, total censorship of all media in the U.S. But even as early as 1993, according to Howard, the N.Y.Times magazine reporter was told to focus her whole article around the Krebus death, and to leave the impression it was an Ibogaine death, even though Dutch police straight-away ruled it a routine heroin overdose. Poisoned koolaid. Bob Sisco has a videotape in which Deborah Mash says her NIDA handler told her to "slowtrack" Ibogaine. The figure of 10 -11 mgs/kg. for heroin withdrawal is based on letting them cold-turkey for 48 hrs. before administration. The nephew of one of my friends went to St. Kitts, was given an inadequate dose of Ibo, and put on trexan when that didn't work. After 4 mos. he went off the trexan, did heroin, & promptly overdosed and died. Another Ibogaine death! [Mash was already quite aware of the case of Ann Ardolino, currently running around the lower east side with support from Joyce Hartwell and Hank factotum Big Joe claiming "Ibogaine doesn't work" because 10 mgs/kg. is simply insufficient for methadone withdrawal. Ann Ardolino was trained in phone cranking by Hank while he was living at Linda Twigg's prior to his imprisonment (see Linda T., chap. 6, the book), and conducted a three year campaign of harassment leading up to the New York Press article claiming "Ibogaine doesn't work."] Paul DiRienzo says Carlo Contoreggi told him: "I can't do anything. You don't understand. These people really are the Nazis. I have children." Note that Dr. David Smith, a huge medical marijuana opponent, has just gotten almost a million dollars from NIDA to develop a longacting trexan injection, so they won't NEED the implant. Trexan is a DuPont pharmaceutical. The DuPonts supported Franco in 1936, but Roosevelt "turned" them in late 1937 by promising to buy all the nylon they could produce for the war effort. Gatewood Gailbraith (who just took 15 % of the vote for gov. running as Reform in Ky.) and other hempsters think the suppression of hemp was part of the trade-off. Check it out in THE DUPONT DYNASTY. So Hank is an anachronism, even though it was gratifying to have the mystery of the 1981 St. Patrick Day bombing cleared up. Partnership chairman Jim Burke is far more dangerous, as are people who oppose Ibogaine because any beneficial medical use of a "psychedelic" (especially to stop addiction!) undermines the so-called Gateway Theory. Imagine America is being run by Nazis with amnesia. They forgot their swastikas, they forgot their uniforms, but spiritually they're still Nazis! Even though Hank was the only person involved ever nailed with a bomb factory, the NYPD stubbornly refused to consider him a suspect. The Court refused to prosecute him as a hate criminal. The case of the 1981 bombing is still officially "open." There's supposed to be an Ibogaine article in U.S. News & World Report on Monday.
