<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=940173512-10042000><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2>Also, Dan, if my intuition is right, they are making money by issuing mortgages supposedly secured by properties in these areas, for which no properties exist. It is just another S&L type scam. The due dilligence contractors used to tell me that on RTC auctions..that they would go to look at the property and there was none there....</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>-----Original Message-----<SPAN class=940173512-10042000><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2> </FONT></SPAN><BR><B>From:</B> Catherine Austin Fitts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 10, 2000 8:29 AM<BR><B>To:</B> [EMAIL PROTECTED]<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [CIA-DRUGS] Whiteout, the press, mind control and the role of cia-drugs list <BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV><FONT face=Palatino size=3> <P align=justify><SPAN class=340212512-10042000><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2>Dan:<BR><BR>There was a little blurb in the Wall Street Journal last week about a recent study that showed that pain killers were less available in Afro-American or minority neighborhoods.Fit right into what you have been saying and another reminder of the opportunity behind locally controlled place based data colllection and feedback loops around the Popsicle Index.....</FONT></SPAN></P> <P align=justify><SPAN class=340212512-10042000><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P align=justify><SPAN class=340212512-10042000><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2> </FONT></SPAN>One of the obvious things Catherine Fitts' ‘geo-coded’ data base was able to demonstrate was that defaulted HUD mortgages were concentrated in areas of structural poverty, and that those were precisely the "drug areas" the Prohibitionists were most up in arms about. "Freeway" Ricky Ross’ Harbor Freeway, running right through the center of South Central L.A., was a concentrated mass of defaulted HUD/FHA single family loans. Fitts’ map of defaults looks quite like a pollution-induced disease cluster centered around the Harbor Freeway. </P> <P align=justify>Failure to address neighborhood structural poverty results in a pain-filled neighborhood dependent on the default painkiller economy. The resultant anarchic poverty and violence collapses neighborhood property values. Why pay off an apparently worthless mortgage when it makes more sense to move? Prime urban real estate can then be bought for pennies on the dollar. </P> <P>And who was buying this prime real estate? The HUD contractors -indistinguishable from the intelligence community and the Republican establishment. The same "liquidators" that had made the neighborhood ripe for a "drug epidemic" in the first place, the same military intelligence operatives dealing the drugs, were using their drug money to buy the now devalued neighborhoods for a pittance - <FONT face=Palatino size=3>for cheap conversion into condos, malls and industrial parks. These were the very same radical Prohibitionists demonizing those using the pain killers and then vying for the resultant prison contracts.</P></FONT><FONT face=Palatino size=3> <P align=justify>Sure, the drug profiteering is there, but "Crack" is a fascist red herring, a way of demonizing the symptom rather than the disease. The problem is structural poverty, not too few incarcerated poor. Crack is nothing but a symptom of massive systemic pain. Given the criminalization of the safe herbal painkillers and euphoriants, and the Prohibition-created default economy, crack may have become the euphoriant/painkiller of choice, but the problem is the pain, not the painkiller. </P> <P align=justify>"Crack pandemic" is an updated George Creel concept ("The Cocaine Nigger of Asheville"). Let's throw them all in jail, for their own good. The Bloods, the Crips, the Cobra Stones, and especially the Gangster Disciples, repeatedly stress that they have the inalienable right to participate in the only economy open to them, rather than rotting in abject poverty in the concrete jungle. The Disciples call themselves "Brothers of the Struggle," but their political message is uniformly ignored, even by those supposedly sympathetic to their plight. They’re just "drug dealers." These African pistoleros are perfectly well aware that "drug dealer" is just another word for "nigger," just as the assassinated Fred Hampton said, and just as it was in George Creel's old yellow press. The most important point about the Drug War, for me, is the point that never gets mentioned - it is an <I>armed rebellion</I>. Most prisoners of the Drug War are <I>political</I> prisoners. <FONT face=Palatino size=3></P> <P>The racist hammering young Black men take behind the drug laws is intense and constant, driving many of them nuts with hostility. The schizophrenic Nation of Islam, of course, out-platitudes the platitudinous - and calls it prophesy. It supports escalation of the Drug <FONT face=Palatino size=3>War, consistent with Islam’s imperial hostility to tribal culture, while at the same time decrying the obviously racist enforcement. If the enforcement is incurably racist, as the Nation of Islam has always accurately insisted, why support escalation of the Drug War? Because racists, Black or White, thrive on hostility. </FONT></P><FONT face=Palatino size=3><FONT face=Palatino size=3> <P align=justify>In Africa the European and American slavers had to deal through their military equals, the Moslem conquerors of North and Central Africa. The great Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene’s film <I>The Cedo</I> is a good look at invading Islam from an African perspective. As Kenya’s Gikuyu shaman Ngugi wa Thiong’o points out (<I>Decolonising the Mind</I>), Islam is no more a Native African religion than Christianity is a Native American religion. Nigeria’s great Yoruba shaman Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, makes the same point. In Zimbabwe, Islam is virtually unknown; the predominant religions are those of the native Shona, Ndebele, and Tonga.<FONT face=Palatino size=3></P> <P align=justify>And the Sufis of Islam, who preached against slavery and social injustice, often achieved their mystical communion, their detachment from the hypnosis of the official symbolism, through shamanism. They are remembered as the greatest poets Islam ever produced. <FONT face=Palatino size=3>In Mecca, in 1511, all the Sufi coffee houses were closed. Istanbul’s Murad IV, in 1625, put Sufis to death, as did the Ottoman Grand Vizir Koprili in the 1650's.</P></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT> <P align=justify><FONT face=Arial>Dan Russell<BR></FONT><A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"><FONT face=Arial>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT></A><BR><A href="http://www.kalyx.com"><FONT face=Arial>www.kalyx.com</FONT></A></P></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <HR> <!-- begin banner runid: 2380 crid: 1165 --><A href="http://click.egroups.com/1/2380/3/_/475667/_/955334274/" target=_blank> <CENTER><IMG alt="" border=0 height=60 src="http://adimg.egroups.com/img/2380/3/_/475667/_/955334274/" width=468 NOSEND = 1></CENTER> <CENTER><FONT color=white></FONT></CENTER></A><!-- end banner --> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> <!-- begin banner runid: 2380 crid: 1165 --><A href="http://click.egroups.com/1/2380/3/_/475667/_/955369307/" target=_blank> <CENTER><IMG alt="" border=0 height=60 src="http://adimg.egroups.com/img/2380/3/_/475667/_/955369307/" width=468 NOSEND = 1></CENTER> <CENTER><FONT color=white></FONT></CENTER></A><!-- end banner --> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <hr> <!-- begin banner runid: 1631 crid: 774 --> <a target="_blank" href="http://click.egroups.com/1/1631/3/_/475667/_/955369923/"><center> <img width="468" height="60" border="0" alt="" src="http://adimg.egroups.com/img/1631/3/_/475667/_/955369923/"></center><center><font color="white"></font></center></a> <!-- end banner --> <hr> </BODY></HTML>
