On Saturday April 24 we will be running a radio discussion program on the escalating illegal drug business. We have an excellent panel of experts lined up that cover a very wide set of categories.
Award winning journalist and News Director for The Sky 97.3 TJ Hart from Gainesville Florida has been reporting on the alarming increase in prescription drug abuse in the state. Florida seems to have become the South East’s Pharmacy!
Also joining us from Florida will be successful author Armando Aldazabal. He has two very drug oriented books out, What You Are Turning Me Into and most recently Cocaine Memoirs. Although both are works of fiction he pulls heavily from his own experiences with friends and family. He is very concerned about the rapidly escalating situation.
My next panellist is a man who brings a very unique set of skills to the table and I suspect he will have some very interesting comments. He is a pilot and a PMC (Private Military Contractor). David Alan Johnson has been heavily involved in both the War On Drugs and The War On Terror. While he cannot discuss his current operation he can talk about previous drug operations through best rehab center in Central and South America. David has worked for many of the Alphabet organizations (Think government agencies with three letter names).
He is also an author, Asgaard is a novel set in Africa and explores the roles of people much like himself. He also has authored a non-fiction book How To Get A Job In The War On Terror. This is not a ‘how to’ get a job as an airport screening guide! This is a book for the adventurous at heart. Even if you donot plan on risking your neck in some likely hostile part of the world it is worth a read. Davis shares some of his stories, I can honestly say that I don’t think I am cut out for that level of excitement!
Denny Griffin is a well known author and crime writer, he brings his wonderful analytic mind to the subject. When Denny speaks people listen (and if you don’t he knows people that will make you 🙂 ). His most recent book is Cullotta which is a biography of Vegas mobster Frank Cullotta.
My final guest is an ex mobster, Andrew DiDonato, he was part of the New York Gambino crime family, and one of his tasks was to arrange a drug corridor from Mexico, through San Diego, Las Vegas and onto New York. Andrew is currently working on a book with Denny Griffin about his life story. He is also about to release a documentary DVD on the subject. I have seen an early edit and all I can say is ‘chilling’. The final edit has just been completed and I am hoping to get my copy today or tomorrow. It is planned for a May three street date.
I have to admit that I am looking forward to this program. With guests like this who knows what will happen!
To quote that great line by Patrick Swayze in Road House “Expect the unexpected”
To tune into the program point your Web browser to www.blogtalkradio.com at noon pacific, 2pm central, 3pm eastern, or you can use this link.
Simon Barrett
4 users commented in " The Global War On Drugs – A BNN Radio Special "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackOh I’m excited,,My favorite people,,, TJ, Armando and the fabulous Denny,,
The drug traffic from Mexico is now in & going thru the state where my son is an asst.police chief. I don’t want to hear that my son is in trouble for shooting one of them in self defense or is killed by one of them. They go thru there to supply the southern states.My son is someone that everyone likes.He loves his job,but with the way things are getting it scares me to death.
Prohibition is a sickening horror and the ocean of incompetence, corruption and human wreckage it has left in its wake is almost endless.
Prohibition has decimated generations and criminalized millions for a behavior which is entwined in human existence, and for what other purpose than to uphold the defunct and corrupt thinking of a minority of misguided, self-righteous Neo-Puritans and degenerate demagogues who wish nothing but unadulterated destruction on the rest of us.
Based on the unalterable proviso that drug use is essentially an unstoppable and ongoing human behavior which has been with us since the dawn of time, any serious reading on the subject of past attempts at any form of drug prohibition would point most normal thinking people in the direction of sensible regulation.
By its very nature, prohibition cannot fail but create a vast increase in criminal activity, and rather than preventing society from descending into anarchy, it actually fosters an anarchic business model – the international Drug Trade. Any decisions concerning quality, quantity, distribution and availability are then left in the hands of unregulated, anonymous, ruthless drug dealers, who are interested only in the huge profits involved.
Many of us have now, finally, wised up to the fact that the best avenue towards realistically dealing with drug use and addiction is through proper regulation which is what we already do with alcohol & tobacco, clearly two of our most dangerous mood altering substances. But for those of you whose ignorant and irrational minds traverse a fantasy plane of existence, you will no doubt remain sorely upset with any type of solution that does not seem to lead to the absurd and unattainable utopia of a drug free society.
There is an irrefutable connection between drug prohibition and the crime, corruption, disease and death it causes. If you are not capable of understanding this connection then maybe you’re using something far stronger than the rest of us. Anybody ‘halfway bright’, and who’s not psychologically challenged, should be capable of understanding that it is not simply the demand for drugs that creates the mayhem, it is our refusal to allow legal businesses to meet that demand.
No amount of money, police powers, weaponry, diminution of rights and liberties, wishful thinking or pseudo-science will make our streets safer, only an end to prohibition can do that. How much longer are you willing to foolishly risk your own survival by continuing to ignore the obvious, historically confirmed solution?
If you still support the kool aid mass suicide cult of prohibition, and erroneously believe that you can win a war without logic and practical solutions, then prepare yourself for even more death, corruption, terrorism, sickness, imprisonment, unemployment, foreclosed homes, and the complete loss of the rule of law and the Bill of Rights.
“A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
Abraham Lincoln
The only thing prohibition successfully does is prohibit regulation & taxation while turning even our schools and prisons into black markets for drugs. Regulation would mean the opposite!
Malcolm Kyle,,Why didn’t you call in?
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