I’ve covered this before. I’m not letting it go.
There
are two routes for killer opioids like fentanyl that are flooding
America, killing upwards of 35,000 people a year and addicting millions
more:
The China route out of Wuhan, and US pharmaceutical companies engaging in trafficking.
There
are several major pharmaceutical companies who’ve faced heavy exposure
for their roles in the opioid criminal trafficking business. For
example, Purdue, and Johnson & Johnson. A third one is
(Mossad-connected) Teva.
Why can’t federal law enforcement stop all the US pharmaceutical companies who have been trafficking opioids?
Is
there some secret we don’t know about? In fact, the answers are right
out in the open. I had them confirmed, from a source inside federal
law-enforcement.
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
[previously] 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 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.
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 six 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 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.
On
the condition of anonymity, an insider with intimate knowledge of the
opioid crime network spoke with me. He is not a participant or a
criminal. He has spent years exposing the network.
My
initial question was: how could a corrupt little pharmacy or medical
clinic in a small town, in the middle of nowhere, sell, as reported, a
MILLION opioid pills a year?
Here
is the answer my source confirmed: a criminal doctor or doctors are
writing 75-100 opioid prescriptions a day like clockwork; “patients” are
flooding in from all over the country (many of them flying in once a
month); they are sold the opioid prescriptions, and either fill them
right there in the clinic, or take them to a friendly pharmacy.
These patients are actually dealers. They return home and sell the pills to addicts.
Where
do the small clinics and pharmacies obtain the huge number of opioid
pills? From distributors. These are legitimate companies. They may
distribute all sorts of medicines. It’s their business. They know they
are committing egregious crimes.
Where do these big distributors obtain their opioid pills? From pharmaceutical companies who manufacture them.
The
manufacturers and the distributors have an ongoing relationship. They
know exactly what they’re doing. They know the bulk of the product is
going into “street sales.”
The distributors and the manufacturers are drug traffickers.
There is no doubt about this. No one is “making a mistake.” No one is in the dark. No one is being fooled.
When
the DEA tries to clamp down on opioid manufacturers, this is not a
sudden action, as some manufacturers try to claim. The DEA has already
made several prior visits and has tried to convince the manufacturers to
stop what they’re doing---to no avail.
I
suggested to my source that the opioid distributors and their
suppliers, the pharma manufacturers, have a “nudge and a wink”
relationship. He quickly told me it was far more than that. He left no
doubt in my mind that these relationships are undertaken and maintained
with full knowledge about the trafficking enterprise these partners are
engaged in.
He
pointed out that the 2016 law referenced above, passed by Congress,
radically changed the conditions under which the DEA could immediately
freeze huge and obviously criminal shipments of opioids.
Before
imposing a freeze, instead of simply showing that the (criminal)
shipment poses an IMMINENT threat of death or grave harm to users, the
DEA now has to demonstrate there is an IMMEDIATE threat.
This
word game means the DEA must establish that people could die, not next
week or next month (imminent), but “right now” (immediate). If this
seems logically absurd and intentionally perverse, it is. Obviously,
“immediate” is designed to give rise to back and forth debate,
legalistic challenges, long court postponements---and ultimately a
straitjacket preventing decisive actions against opioid distributors and
manufacturers.
The
Washington Post reached out to Obama, who signed the 2016 law, and his
then Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, the highest law-enforcement
officer in the nation. The DEA is organized under the Attorney General
and the Dept. of Justice.
Both Obama and Lynch “declined” to discuss the law. Naturally.
Who played a central role in crafting the law and pushing it through Congress?
The
Post: “Deeply involved in the effort to help the [drug] industry was
the DEA’s former associate chief counsel, D. Linden Barber. While at the
DEA, he helped design and carry out the early stages of the agency’s
tough enforcement campaign, which targeted drug companies that were
failing to report suspicious orders of narcotics.”
What??
Barber
worked against the drug industry while employed by the DEA, and then he
left the Agency and turned around and attacked the Agency.
The
Post: “When Barber went to work for the drug industry [he now works for
Cardinal Health], in 2011, he brought an intimate knowledge of the
DEA’s strategy and how it could be attacked to protect the [drug]
companies. He was one of dozens of DEA officials recruited by the drug
industry during the past decade.”
“Barber
played a key role in crafting an early version of the legislation [the
2016 law] that would eventually curtail the DEA’s power, according to an
internal email written by a Justice Department official to a colleague.
‘He [Barber] wrote the…bill,” the official wrote in 2014.”
The
opioid crime network extends to Congress, former (if not present) DEA
employees, medical-drug distribution companies, pharmaceutical
manufacturers, and Obama, who signed the horrendous 2016 law.
It then includes medical clinics and pharmacies and prescription-writing doctors.
The murderous network is addicting, maiming, and killing Americans in huge numbers.
---This
is war against life. Launched from China and Mexico; launched from
major pharmaceutical companies and their distributors.
And
of course, given the policy of open borders, the US government has been
inviting the enemy to float right into America with so much tonnage of
fentanyl that, despite drug seizures, no one can stop the flow.
~~~
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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