First, a little background. Then I'll get to the Congress. And Obama.
Severe addiction, mental dislocation, death. Millions of people are
facing the devastating effects of the pharma drugs called opioids, on
the streets of America---illegally trafficked.
2 MILLION OPIOID ADDICTS IN THE US.
300,000 DEATHS SINCE THE YEAR 2000 IN THE US.
Those are the official estimates, as of about 2 years ago. The numbers are rising.
We need to understand that people with deep physical pain should be able
to obtain sufficient painkillers from doctors. Shortages being
experienced are coming from drug over-enforcement in the wrong
direction.
The situation is made more complex by the fact that traditional
morphine, plus another few synthetic opioids, would be sufficient to
handle all patients' needs. BUT, when I started counting the
pharmaceutical opioids in the marketplace, I stopped at 50. This
is insane. There is absolutely no need for all these derivatives. And
they make regulation and enforcement far more difficult. But the drug
companies don't care. They pursue profit.
Where are all the opioids that are maiming and killing people coming
from? Who is launching these drugs on to the streets of nations?
Three main criminal sources of US opioids: pharmaceutical companies,
like Purdue, who've filled gargantuan orders they KNOW are going to
traffickers; Chinese labs; and Mexican processors and smugglers.
The rush of immigrants coming across the US southern border has diverted
so many US agents, they can't possibly stem the tide of opioids being
smuggled through those borders. That's just one effect of massive
immigration that so-called "liberals" don't think
about. Millions of lives destroyed by the drugs are essentially being
traded for open borders.
As ABC News reported on July 19, 2019, "U.S. Customs and Border
Protection has stored enough fentanyl in the past year to kill an
estimated 794 MILLION people..." That would be seized opioids at the US
border. Fentanyl is 100 TIMES MORE POTENT than morphine.
Mexico is a major pipeline. A significant percentage of the smuggled
drugs comes to Mexico out of China. If that much fentanyl has been
seized, how much of the drug has gotten through?
CBS News, August 30, 2019: "Law enforcement officers in Virginia have
seized enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people, busting a massive
three-state drug ring...one of the 39 people charged ordered fentanyl
from Shanghai and had it delivered to Virginia through
the mail." So there is that route as well---China direct to the US
through the US Postal Service.
If you're getting the idea that this is a kind of chemical warfare against the population, you're correct.
For the moment, let's focus on pharmaceutical companies who are
basically trafficking opioids on to the streets of America. Why can't
federal law enforcement stop that murderous flow in the blink of an eye?
Is there some secret we don't know about? No. In fact, the answers are
right out in the open. I had them confirmed over a year ago, from a
source inside the DEA. But talk about "open---" the Washington Post
laid out the sordid story in detail. AND AS USUAL,
THERE WAS NO FOLLOW-UP. That's how major media work. They have a
piece of very ugly truth. They expose it. But then it mysteriously
dies and is forgotten. In this case (opioid trafficking), a real
follow-up would have led the public down into a Hell of
evil influence, exerted by Pharma, on the US Congress.
Buckle up.
A 2016 LAW SIGNED BY OBAMA SHACKLED THE DEA (DRUG ENFORCEMENT
ADMINISTRATION) IN ITS EFFORTS TO CRACK DOWN ON BIG PHARMA OPIOID
TRAFFICKERS.
That law is the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016, passed by Congress and signed by President Obama on 4/9/16.
And that is the federal government's role in perpetuating and expanding the opioid crisis.
Honest agents inside the complacent DEA want to have the right to march
into a pharmaceutical company headquarters and say, "We know you're
shipping millions of opioid pills to little pharmacies and clinics that,
in turn, are selling the pills to street dealers.
We're going to freeze those shipments now, and we're going to arrest
your key executives."
But that 2016 law raises the bar so high, the whole law-enforcement
effort is hamstrung, throttled, and loaded down with legal
complications.
In essence, the US Congress gave drug companies a free pass.
And no one in the Congress is admitting it or talking about it.
The Washington Post, on October 15, 2017, talked about it. The article
was headlined, "The Drug Industry's Triumph Over the DEA":
"In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S.
history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement
Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies
suspected of spilling prescription [opioid] narcotics onto
the nation's streets."
"A handful of members of Congress, allied with the nation's major drug
distributors, prevailed upon the DEA and the Justice Department to agree
to a more industry-friendly law, undermining efforts to stanch the flow
of pain pills, according to an investigation
by The Washington Post and '60 Minutes'..."
"The law [which was passed with an overwhelming YES count by both house
of Congress] was the crowning achievement of a multifaceted campaign by
the drug industry to weaken aggressive DEA enforcement efforts against
drug distribution [pharma] companies that
were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled [opioid]
narcotics to the black market. The [drug] industry worked behind the
scenes with lobbyists and key members of Congress [to pass the 2016
law], pouring more than a million dollars into their
election campaigns."
"The new [2016] law makes it virtually impossible for the DEA to freeze
suspicious narcotic shipments from the companies, according to internal
agency and Justice Department documents and an independent assessment by
the DEA's chief administrative law judge
in a soon-to-be-published law review article. That powerful tool
[freezing opioid shipments] had allowed the agency to immediately
prevent drugs from reaching the street."
The Washington Post article mentioned there was an attempt to reach
Obama (who had signed the law) and obtain his comments. The effort
failed. Obama kept his mouth shut.
EVERYONE IS NOW AWARE OF THE LAW'S HORRENDOUS IMPACT. WHY DOESN'T THE CONGRESS REPEAL IT?
The fact that no one is stepping up to the plate with a fast repeal is
proof that multiple parts of the federal government are, in fact,
tacitly supporting the opioid crisis and its devastating impacts on
human life.
Failure to act swiftly amounts to collusion in Death by Opioids.
President Obama, the Congress, and key officials within the Justice Department and the DEA are all guilty.
My article is not about current efforts to impeach Trump. But, having
read this piece, you should weigh the proposed charges against Trump,
versus the potential charges against Obama and the whole Congress,
Democrat and Republican, for the opioid crisis.
I don't care what you think of Trump or Obama, the leaders of both
Parties, the Congress, liberals, conservatives, Communists, racists,
socialists, Biden, Warren, Sanders. The facts about opioid crimes are
clear. The corruption is deep. The human damage
and loss of life are terrible.
If you speak to people who have a naïve and lasting faith in the good
will of political leaders, they will probably tell you that the heinous
2016 law I detailed above was "an unfortunate mistake." The members of
Congress "didn't know what they were voting
for." And somehow, that lets everyone off the hook. Really? Congress
has known what they voted for (if indeed they were all ignorant back in
2016) for the past two years. SO WHY HAVEN'T THEY REPEALED THE LAW?
Why haven't they remedied their "error?"
Why have they let untold numbers of people die for those two years
while staying silent? Why hasn't the whole Congress risen up to squash
the "mistake?" They could do it in an hour. Obviously, they don't want
to admit their prior guilt. They don't want
an investigation which, if done with even a vague imitation of honesty,
would expose some of their members as WILLING AND KNOWING COLLABORATORS
IN DEATH. They don't want to admit that the pharma campaign money they
take is sufficient inducement to fake a
blindness to the death they're assigning to their own constituents and
people all over America.
Still assigning. Now.
You Congressional representatives running for the Presidency on the
Democratic side, and you Republican Congressional representatives who
are thinking of challenging Trump for the Presidency, and you
Congressional leaders from both Parties, (and you, Trump),
get back into session and repeal the murder law you passed. Don't wait
for the stupid and mindless Health and Human Services "public comment
period" on the law to be digested. For one real moment in your lives,
stop lying and covering up and selling yourself
and submitting to blackmail and do the right thing---not for
forgiveness---but because you have to do it. Just take a collective
breath and get back in that room and repeal the law. At least for the
hour or so you'll need to do the job, prove to the majority
of the American people, who believe you're incorrigible frauds, that
you can do one thing once. One necessary thing once.
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