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Police
stopped 49-year-old Ethel Hylton at Houston's Hobby Airport and
told her she was under arrest because a drug dog had scratched at
her luggage. Agents searched her bags and strip-searched her, but
they found no drugs. They did find $39,110 in cash, money she had
received from an insurance settlement and her life savings; accumulated
through over 20 years of work as a hotel housekeeper and hospital
janitor. Ethel Hylton completely documented where she got the money
and was never charged with a crime. But the police kept her money
anyway. Ethel Hylton is just one of a large and growing list of
Americans – now numbering in the hundreds of thousands –
who have been victimized by civil asset forfeiture. Under civil
asset forfeiture, everything you own can be legally taken away even
if you are never convicted of a crime. (Jarret
B. Wollstein - The Looting Of America)
Asset
forfeiture is a growth industry. Seizures have increased from $27
million in 1986, to over $644 million in 1991 to over $2 billion
today. Civil asset forfeiture defines a new standard of justice
in America; or more precisely, a new standard of injustice. Even
if you are a totally innocent owner, the government can still confiscate
your "guilty" property. Why do our courts tolerate these
outrageous legalized thefts? Because they get their cut. Some police
will kill you for your property. In Malibu, California, park police
tried repeatedly to buy the home and land of 61-year-old, retired
rancher Don Scott, which was next to national park land. Scott refused.
On the morning of October 2, 1992, a task force of 26 LA county
sheriffs, DEA agents and other cops broke into Scott's living room
unannounced. When he heard his wife, Frances, scream, he came out
of his upstairs bedroom with a gun over his head. Police yelled
at him to lower his gun. He did, and they shot him dead. (Jarret
B. Wollstein - The Looting Of America)
Many
local police departments became hooked on drug money, using asset
forfeiture laws to replace their lost tax revenues. Cash seized
from traffickers and money launderers began being used to pay officers'
salaries, for overtime, new patrol cars, uniforms, guns, and even
helicopters. (Gary
Webb - Dark Alliance, pg 263)
Federal
agents can now seize private property under more than 200 federal
statutes. Since 1984, federal agencies have confiscated $4 billion
in cash and property from American citizens. The vast majority of
people whose property is seized by federal, state, and local officials
are never formally charged with a crime. (James
Bovard - Shakedown, pg 8)
At
the Justice Department, memos encourage U.S. Attorneys to direct
their efforts to forfeiture production so as to avoid budget overruns.
A study the Justice Department did on forfeiture task forces suggested,
in no uncertain terms, that units select targets based on the funding
(read: seizures) they are expected to produce. The net effect of
all of this ranges from the borderline unethical to the violently
criminal. In Huachuca City, AZ it was revealed that the city had
hired an officer whose sole purpose was to increase revenue through
forfeitures. In Los Angeles, a Sheriffs Deputy reported that officers
often planted drugs and lied on reports to establish probable cause
for cash seizures. In Louisiana, police illegally (on the basis
of profiles) and routinely stopped and searched vast numbers of
vehicles seizing large amounts of cash and assets. It was later
learned that the proceeds from the seizures had been diverted to
unauthorized uses. Our government has become the criminal element.
(Darryl Fruchter - Uncivil
Forfeiture)
When
can police pick the pockets of Americans and keep the proceeds -
legally? When they take advantage of the broad asset forfeiture
provisions of federal law, that's when, and law enforcement agencies
from coast to coast have been fattening their budgets with this
seized property for over a decade. (Winds
- Department of Justice Thwarts Forfeiture Reform - Seeks Broader
Powers to Steal)
Once
your home, car and bank accounts are seized under civil asset forfeiture
laws, you can pretty much forget about ever getting them back. It’s
you versus the police and the courts, who divide up the proceeds
from your property according to formulas such as “80 percent
for police, 20 percent for the court”, say informed sources.
(Jarret
B. Wollstein - The Looting Of America)
"We
must significantly increase forfeiture production to reach our budget
target. Failure to achieve the $470 million projection would expose
the Department's forfeiture program to criticism and undermine confidence
in our budget predictions. Every effort must be made to increase
forfeiture income in the three remaining months of 1990." (38
U.S. Attorneys Bulletin 180, 1990) in (Henry
Hyde - Forfeiting Our Property Rights: Is Your Property Safe from
Seizure?)
80
percent of Department of Justice seizures were from people who were
never charged with a crime. (Alexander
Cockburn - Whiteout, pg 74)
The
Institute for Justice found over 10,000 cases between 1998 and 2002
where the government abused its power of eminent domain, condemning
property of citizens in order to resell it to corporations for a
private gain. (Russ
Kick - 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, pg 63-64) |
Whoever creates the money gets the profit from its creation. The legal tender law forces people to accept something worth only 1/18,000,000th of the value printed or stamped on it. A $5,000 paper bill equals an embezzlement of $4,999.99 of wealth (Merrill
Jenkins - Money, the greatest hoax on earth, pgs 22, 30)
With
the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically
all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue
money to defraud and plunder the people. (Friedrich
A. Hayek - Choice in Currency, pg 16)
Our
monetary system constitutes institutional stealing. And, just as
the Nazis passed laws to make their actions legal, the financial
sector has, in a similar, but in a much more sophisticated way,
perverted our political system... Since the 8th century in China,
every experiment with fiat money has ended in disaster. (Lawrence
Parks - The American Empire is Disintegrating)
Banking
is the most profitable and most destructive criminal activity on
the planet. People who grow food and produce the necessities of
life are up to their eyes in debt and often pushed into bankruptcy
and ruin by people who do nothing more than type figures onto a
computer screen and charge interest on them. (David
Icke - I am me I am free, pg 34)
It
is written that “No one gets something for nothing,”
but this does not embody all the truth. The Federal Reserve, fractional
reserve bankers create interest-based “dollars” out
of nothing. “Dollars” expropriate wealth to their creators.
The “dollar” creator gets everything for nothing (Merrill
Jenkins - Money, the greatest hoax on earth, pg 107)
The
ultimate purpose of centralizing governmental powers in a bureaucratic
state is to siphon wealth away from the common man and into the
hands of a self-selected elite. An elite which maintains its position
by political manipulation and, when necessary, by the ruthless application
of homicidal violence (Edwin
Vieira, Jr. - The False Alternatives)
It’s
essential to tyranny to be able to manipulate the value of money.
Paper money, not backed by gold or silver, is perfect for this purpose.
It gives the government enormous economic leverage over the entire
population. An unstable currency, whose value is at the mercy of
the state, is the equivalent of a constitution of unstable meaning,
which allows the government to decide what rules it will operate
under (Joseph
Sobran - Symptoms of Tyranny)
Any
scheme of fractional-reserve banking based on fiat currency secured
by debt and the power to tax is inherently self-destructive. No
such scheme can long survive. The Federal Reserve System is just
such a scheme. And the Establishment knows it. (Edwin
Vieira, Jr. - Homeland Security, For What and For Whom?)
If
government can find ways to engage in counterfeiting--the creation
of money out of thin air--it can quickly produce its own money without
taking the trouble to sell services. It can appropriate resources
slyly and almost unnoticed, without rousing the hostility touched
off by taxation. In fact, counterfeiting can create in its very
victims the blissful illusion of unparalleled prosperity. Counterfeiting
is but another name for inflation. And now we see why governments
are inherently inflationary: because inflation is a powerful and
subtle means for government acquisition of the public's resources,
a painless and all the more dangerous form of taxation. (Murray
Rothbard - What Has Government Done To Our Money?)
The
(Federal Reserve Board)'s record as an 'inflation fighter' is more
deserving of a court martial than a medal. Since the Fed's founding
in 1913, inflation has gained so much ground against the defending
Fed that a man who kept his money in gold rather than dollar bills
would have nearly 20 times as much. (Bill
Bonner - Daily Reckoning, 04/29/03)
A
new realization must enter the mass consciousness that modern economic
and political systems based on fractional banking are rotten to
the core. Fractional reserve banking is equivalent to economic slavery
(Vladimir
Z. Nuri - Fractional Reserve Banking As Economic Parasitism, pg.
52, 31)
Of
all the contrivances devised for cheating the laboring classes of
mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes him
with paper money. (Daniel Webster) in (Andrew
Dickson White - Fiat Money Inflation in France, pg 29)
Bankers
are terrified we might object to paying them billions each year
in interest for money they create out of nothing, guaranteed by
our taxes. (Henry
Makow, Ph.D. - Making The World Safe...For Bankers)
Wars
are arguably likely a symptom or consequence of money parasitism.
The link between money manipulation and wars is very deep and complex
and supported by Griffin's account in "Creature from Jekyll
Island" (Vladimir
Z. Nuri - Fractional Reserve Banking As Economic Parasitism, pg.
44)
The
appearance of interest-based money economy results in immediate
overpopulation because it renders millions and millions unneded
whose work doesn't produce both the interest for the money oligarchy,
the high tax for the indebted nation, the profit in a global competition
and the cost of production. A lot of people's work is necessary
and useful, but if the money oligarchy cannot generate a profit
on it, those people will become jobless. (John
Drabik - Usury Civilization III - pg. 399)
It
is the official policy of the United States Government to maintain
an unemployment rate of at least eight million Americans (Tom
Tomorrow - Tune In Tomorrow, Foreword)
According
to an University of Utah study, for every 1 percent rise in the
jobless rate, homicide increases by 6.7 percent, violent crimes
by 3.4 percent, crimes against property go up 2.4 percent and deaths
by heart disease and stroke rise by 5.6 and 3.1 percent, respectively.
(Michael
Moore - Downsize This!, pg 5)
The
bankers made $75 million from the American Revolution, $125 million
from the War of 1812-14, $3 billion out of the Civil War and $30
billion from the First World War. The amount of profit they made
from the Second World War is in the trillions of dollars. (Dr.
Martin Larson - The Historical Fight For Honest Money in the U.S.)
It
is estimated by war historian Alan Brugar that the international
bankers made a profit of $10,000 from every soldier who fell in
WW2. (John
Coleman - Diplomacy by deception, pg 1) |
Government
drug trafficking is so massive, it has a whole page
of its own.
The
interests and methods of intelligence agencies are in many cases
identical to those of high-level criminals. Both seek power, or
the paths to power, through bribery, blackmail or intimidation.
So it is natural that as one progresses upward through layers of
crime, one finds more and more intelligence agents. (James
Mills - The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace,
pg 1141)
The
clandestine service is a part of the government where hundreds of
employees on a daily basis are directed to break extremely serious
laws... a safe estimate is that several hundred times each day (easily
100,000 times a year), Directorate of Operations officers engage
in highly illegal activities. (House
of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence -
IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century)
The
McClellan Committee was established in 1965 by the Senate and in
its report entitled "Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in
Narcotics" the McClellan Committee whitewashed the American
Mafia's drug involvement, which then covered up for the CIA involvement.
(Rodney
Stich - FBI, CIA, the Mob, and Treachery, pg 302)
Iran
Contra was State-sponsored, State-organized, and State-protected
fraud of every nature. Fraud perpetrated upon savings & loans
and commercial banks, securities and insurance firms, and on the
IRS. The fraud was operated in a pyramid, originally designed in
1984 by Oliver North. State-sanctioned and authorized fraud was
at the top, using political organizations and foundations illicitly,
using them illegally in tax-exempt capacity, and then illegally
siphoning off the money for other uses. Underneath were the subcontractors,
who developed a series of corporate artifices , usually oil and
gas, gold, aircraft or real estate deals for the illegal generation
of money and the defrauding of banks willing to go along. (Al
Martin - The Conspirators, pg 12, 29)
In
the United States, there were over 1200 citizens wrongfully incarcerated
and 400 people assassinated because of what they knew about Iran
Contra. Iran-Contra is not over. It's as alive as it ever was. The
same people, the same banks, the same firms. It is as much alive
as ever. (Al
Martin - The Conspirators, pgs 21, 23, 323)
In
the states which looked on themselves as civilized, the violence
that they directed against their own citizens did not so much diminish
as disappear from public view. More and more of it took place behind
walls, whether of prisons or concentration camps. (Martin
van Creveld - The Rise and Decline of the State, pg 170)
Trinity
Gas and Oil, a pass-through fraud was started to legitimize the
flow of funds from Iran-Contra sympathizers to the hands of Oliver
North, Richard Secord and others. Then it would pass into the hands
of the political parties and the various members of the Bush family.
"Pass-through" means, not only its oil and gas part was
a fraud, (to defraud banks and securities firms), but then it was
backed into a public shell - started out at 3 or 4 cents a share,
and pumped up to a dollar. That was simply another way to exploit
a fraud. They have taken and oil and gas fraud, moved it into a
banking fraud, then into a securities fraud, squeezing every last
penny of fraud out of the initial fraud, which was not directed
toward anything else. (Al
Martin - The Conspirators, pg 126)
You
know a rule of law doesn’t exist in this country when the
FBI and Dan Rather goes on CBS and say, 'There’s no evidence
that the FBI fired any shots at Waco' and yet I can go to Blockbuster
Video and I can rent Rules of Engagement, and I can watch the guys
shooting the machine guns myself. (Michael
Ruppert, The Truth About the Drug War, VHS, 55:10) |
I
did not know, when I joined the FBI, that I would learn the expertise
of burglary, or that Director Edgar Hoover would instruct agents
to violate extortion and kidnapping laws. I did not know then that
FBI agents would plot assassinations of American citizens and put
innocent individuals in jail just because their skin is black or
because they are Native American. After twenty years of seeing a
whole Bureau manufacture phony informant reports, and create false
statistics, even the most egregious levels of corruption - when
top FBI officials lied to the courts, the Department of Justice,
and to the U.S. Congress - no longer shocked me. (M.
Wesley Swearingen - FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose, pg 1)
The
number of FBI bag jobs [burglaries], based upon my personal experience,
was about 23,800 over thirty-five years. That is only 68 bag jobs
a year for each of the ten offices engaged in regular break-ins.
(M.
Wesley Swearingen - FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose, pg 34)
FBI
chief J. Edgar Hoover recruited a band of professional killers for
his private execution squad. He found them in organized crime families
and in other services and called them the Unknowns. (Michael
Milan - The Squad: The U.S. Governments Secret Alliance with Organized
Crime, inside cover)
Edgar
Hoover was once crazed over an appellate judge out in Kansas, who
threw out every conviction the local cops could get... President
Johnson just threw up his hands and told Hoover the judge would
be in office "for the rest of his life." Then he winked.
That was all Hoover needed. He polled each one of us after that
meeting. He said, "It's a judge, boys, take your best shots."
They sent me down to do the hit, but Hoover wanted him to experience
the pain. "Make it special" he said. "Make it nice
and slow.." (Mike
Milan - The Squad: The U.S. Governments Secret Alliance with Organized
Crime)
I
saw what the cops were doing, and the FBI and the CIA, and plenty
of government agencies with lots of letters that really stand for
"Blow their brains out and don't tell nobody." I was both
inside and outside the law at the same time, and I coulnd't tell
one side from the other. (Mike
Milan - The Squad: The U.S. Governments Secret Alliance with Organized
Crime, pg 290-291)
When
I speak of gangsterism, I'm talking about serious, predatory crimes
committed by sworn officers of the law. Predatory felonies are different
from an earlier type of corruption, which I call the Serpico Model
and involved police officers accepting bribes from gangsters to
look the other way. Now, thanks to the climate created by our drug
laws, we have something more ominous-small gangs of cops who are
the gangsters. They've committed murders, kidnapping and armed robberies-sometimes
for, and sometimes against drug dealers. And I'm not talking about
the occasional case, or one department that is well known for having
a bad reputation. I'm talking about big and small departments; even
uniformed police officers committing armed robberies in uniform.
One such case involved a Bronx police officer who was charged in
11 murders which he committed for a drug gang, although he pled
guilty to only eight. (Joseph
D. McNamara - Gangster cops: A tragic - and inevitable - result
of U.S. drug policies)
In
Chicago , Mayor Anton Cermak would dispatch his own police hit men
to eliminate Frank Nitti (officially the Mr Big of the Capones,
although in reality more of a front man) after Big Al went to prison.
The mayor was looking to replace the Capone mobsters with those
of his own choosing under his favorite gangster, Teddy Newberry.
Two police officers invaded Nitti's headquarters and shot and severely
wounded him. They were acting, according to later testimony, for
Cermak who wanted to take over the Capone territories and divide
them among his gangsters who would then pay him 10% of all criminal
revenues in the city. (Carl
Sifakis - Mobspeak, pg 49)
An
undercover news team, WMAQ-TV, Channel 5, put themselves in a position
to videotape the delivery of a suitcase full of cash from the Japanese
mafia, the Yakuza. According to the Justice Department leak, the
huge cash was reportedly to be picked up by as yet then unknown
representative of the Illinois Republican Party, to be used or disguised
as alleged "campaign funds" concealing their illegal foreign
origin. These undercover operators were flabbergasted when Congressman
Henry Hyde showed up himself, and accepted and took charge of the
suitcase full of cash. They should not have been surprised, however,
since Henry Hyde wears two hats: [1] as Congressman and [2] the
head of CIA's "black budget", huge covert operations funds
for political assassinations and other dirty tricks. (Sherman
H. Skolnick – Corrupt IRS Officials Face Exposure In Dope
Bust)
A
veteran FBI agent and highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Richard
Taus felt that the selective crackdown on the Sicilian Mafia was
to eliminate competition to the CIA-backed American Mafia. He explained
the difference between the street Mafia represented by the five
crime families in New York and the higher-level Mafia imbedded in
blue-chip Fortune 500 corporations and in high government positions.
The Sicilian drug trafficking involved in the Pizza Connection cases
was interfering with other government drug routes and supplies from
the Middle east through Turkey, Bulgaria, Syria and Lebanon. It
was this competition that caused Justice Department personnel to
eliminate the Sicilian Mafia from the Drug Business. (Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pgs 203-206)
Richard
Taus: "There is a sanctified Mafia organization that works
within our government and industries. I have discovered it under
the veneer of surface "street gangsters" such as Gotti,
Scarpa, Bonnano, et al, who answer to an appointed Godfather (the
late Paul Castellano). In turn, Paul takes orders from his first
cousin, Vito Castellano who works for the governor of New York in
Albany, N.Y. (Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pg 208)
The
rulers of street crime syndicates have strong interests in the governmental
process and they are represented in one form or another, in legislative,
judicial and executive bodies all over the country. There is no
longer any "underworld" or organized criminals. The penetration
of business and government by organized crime has been so complete
that it is no longer possible to differentiate "underworld
gangsters" from "upperworld" government officials.
(Donald
R. Cressey - Theft of the Nation, pgs 3, 67)
A
Cosa Nostra family boss influences the decision of the state attorney
general, high ranking state police officials, licensing paroling
probation and sentencing authorities (G, Robert Blakey, Testimony
before US Sente Committee, 1967) in (Donald
R. Cressey - Theft of the Nation)
My
research has shown very clearly that organized crime really consists
of a coalition of politicians, law enforcement people, businessmen,
union leaders, and (in some ways least important of all) racketeers.
(William
J. Chambliss - On the Take)
Gregg
York explained that the Chicago FBI office had held a conference
with the Chicago police. He said, "We gave them a copy of the
detailed floor plan of the Black Panther's headquarters from Roy
Mitchell's informant so that they could raid the place and kill
the whole lot." I was speechless. He just confessed the FBI's
plot to assassinate the Panthers in a style similar to the Chicago
gangland murders of the 1950's. (M.
Wesley Swearingen - FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose, pgs 88-89)
90%
of the cases in the FBI's Security Division were fabricated. Anytime
the FBI investigates itself, it will lie to no end to protect its
contrived image. (M.
Wesley Swearingen - FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose, pgs 99, 144)
Edgar
Hoover was very friendly towards the Mafia families. They took good
care of him,. especially at the races. The families made sure he
was looked after when he visited the tracks in California and on
the East Coast. They had an understanding. Hoover wouold lay off
the families, turn a blind eye. It helped that he denied that we
even existed.If there was anything the mafia families could do for
Hoover , information that did not hurt (mafia) business, they would
provide it." (New York mob boss Carmine Lombardozzi, 1990)
in (Anthony
Summers - Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar
Hoover))
Edgar
Hoover protected John Rooney, even though the Congressman was, in
the words of crime consultant Ralph Salerno, "up to his ears
in collusion with organized crime." Washington lobbyist Robert
Winterberger, who said he personally saw Rooney accept a cash-filled
envelope from a mob emissary, called him the "key connection
for the underworld" on Capitol Hill. (Anthony
Summers - Official and Confidential, pg 195)
Senator
Harrison Williams filed legal action against the FBI on May 4, 1984.
He submitted tape recorded evidence showing that the FBI had been
running a sex-with-children-blackmail ring to set up US senators
and other elected officials in the "sting" operations.
Among the FBI special agents cited in the evidence was Anthony Amoroso,
one of the control agents of Abscam crook Melvin Weinberg. (Executive
Intelligence Review - Dope, Inc., pg 559)
William
Casey CIA director was a "son of the heart" of Vito Genovese;
his daughter knew Mafia Dons Santos Traficante as Uncle Sonny and
Sam Giancana as Uncle Momo (Mike
Ruppert - Carone Report)
There
are two echelons of the Mafia, the publicly known street level organized
crime families and the more secretive, more powerful elite which
possess control over the former. In a similar fashion, there are
two levels in the CIA: the conscentious hard working agents who
abide by the law, and those in the more powerful position that control
covert operation that are above the law. (Rodney
Stich - FBI, CIA, the Mob, and Treachery, pg 353)
The
real organized crime figures do not go to prison. Sure, the street
thugs and the Italian who doesn't pay his dues go to prison, but
that's only to make it look good and give the public the appearance
that justice is being done on the streets of America. (Jerry
Van - Underworld Secrets, pg 153)
The
highest rates of violent crime typically reveal the largest police
presence. Increased enforcement of laws against drug use, prostitution
and gambling (activities frequently related to other crimes) invariably
result in police collusion with, connivance in, and corruption by,
organized crime figures. In this writer's memory, virtually every
large-scale breakdown of public order, from Chicago to Detroit to
Watts to Kent State, has been either a response to police violence,
or to the perceived failure of the justice system to sanction it.
(Richard
Korn - A Crisis of Public Justice)
Bernard
R. Spindel showed how corrupt police were making private purchases
of eavesdropping equipment and using it during off-duty hours to
extort money and services from prostitutes, pimps, bookies, and
heroin traffickers. Secondly, he led an investigation that established
the existence of a massive wiretapping operation which blanketed
the entire East Side of New York City; and that, moreover, police
and special agents of the telephone company were selling the information
obtained from it. More than 125,000 subscribers were involved, including
the United Nations, various consulates, socialites, corporations
and businessmen (Jim
Hougan - Spooks, pg 104)
As
Al Capone observed, "Prohibition is a business." ... The
syndicates forged links with local politicians, political parties
and police forces in order to gain protection from the enforcement
of the law. Such arrangements were pioneered by John Torrio and
Al Capone in Chicago and were known as the "Chicago pattern."
This system was different from the Tammany tradition of gangsters
working for the political machine. In the Tammany system the politicians
controlled the gangsters through the former's system of patronage,
whereas under Torrio and Capone it was the syndicate bosses who
controlled the politicians. (Brian
G. Martin - The Shanghai Green Gang, pg 222)
All
33 gangs observed throughout the ten years of Frederic Trasher's
study established some type of expedient relationship with the politicians
in their city. The main reason why politicians and gangs established
a relationship was that both viewed such a relationship as beneficial.
Here is a representative comment from the aide of a New York politician:
"We definitely get in touch with some of the local gangs to
help our campaign in certain areas. This is not necessarily public
knowledge but of course it makes perfect sense. Gangs know the people
in their community and they can act more efficiently in getting
our message across. They are useful. If they weren't, I wouldn't
be here." (Martin
Sanchez Jankowski - Islands in the Street, pg 217)
A
union is very big, and I couldn't turn around without bumping into
a wad of cash heading straight for Bobbie Cervone. When you get
to own a union, you don't have to worry too much about records.
There is an old saying around most unions owned by the mafia that
whenever there is trouble (the prospect of an investigation) you
can always tell because there is also a fire - where the union keeps
its records. Or else somebody steals them (and what is a regular
thief going to do with a bunch of records?) It is not that there
is love between Bobbie and the politicians. It is pure business.
Bobbie steals. Those guys get a cut... Bobbie Cervone is one of
the guys who can give politicians what they need. And what they
need is cash. Now who has lots of cash that doesn't have to be accounted
for? The guys in the rackets. That's one reason they are so important
to politicians. (Vincent
Siciliano - Unless They Kill Me First, pgs 128-130)
Jimmy
Hoffa disclosed inside information about John F. Kennedy's assassination,
which he helped to bring about. He said, it was the perfect crime
of the century, because it included the highest players in government,
who then got on TV and lied their assess off to the American people.
Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover engineered the
assassination, he said, with the help of his own mob friends in
Chicago... JFK was assassinated because Nixon wanted the presidency.
(Jerry
Van - Underworld Secrets, pg 10)
Beyond
the surface of Watergate, revelations would be a deeper, secret
world of political collusion with the Syndicate in which Nixon had
operated for decades. He was hardly alone in this. Both of his immediate
predecessors had delved into this world as well - LBJ with his Marcello
money and Jack Kennedy with his now historic Syndicate relationships
and compromises. Nor would Nixon be the last president beholden
to Las Vegas [mafia] power and influence. Later chief executives
as Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton will brazenly cultivate its powers
and assimilate its money. (Roger
Morris - The Money and the Power, pg 294)
One
of the purposes of the Watergate burglary was to learn what, if
anything, the Democrats intended to do about Paul Louis Weller's
connection to Richard Nixon and William Spector's charges of narcotics
smuggling. (Jim
Hougan - Spooks, pg 224)
American
gangsters are the specialized personnel of nationwide businesses,
having syndicated connections with one another and with local public
authorities.. Among such members of the fraternity of success, to
have a police record means merely that you did not know the right
people. (C.
Wright Mills - The Power Elite, pg 340)
How
is it that officers sworn to arrest drug dealers end up working
for the dealers? Or stealing from them and murdering them? For one
thing, the cops know perfectly well that drug dealers can't pop
into the local police station and say, "Hey, some cop just
robbed me of a kilo of cocaine and $25,000," because the dealer
is facing life in prison for that. So the cops essentially have
complete immunity from prosecution. (Joseph
D. McNamara - Gangster cops: A tragic - and inevitable - result
of U.S. drug policies)
In
my research on organized crime in Seattle, Washington, I discovered
a symbiotic relationship between organized crime and the police
that made it impossible to differentiate between them. Law enforcement
officers, from street patrolmen to police chiefs to members of the
prosecuting attorney's office, not only accepted payoffs from people
who organized illegal gambling, prostitution and drug sales, but
the police and prosecutors were instrumental in organizing and managing
these activities. Seattle is not an exception; it is the rule....Suffice
it to say that the corruption of law enforcement agents is ubiquitous
at all levels of policing - municipal, state, and federal - in hte
United States. (William
J. Chambliss - Power, Politics, and Crime, pg 136, 138)
George
White was an operative at the juncture of government and crime that
one historian has aptly called America's "deep politics."
During World War II, White became a close associate of future CIA
chief Jesus Angleton. White would be a ranking officer in Operation
Underworld, that founding collusion between US intelligence and
Meyer Lansky to control the New York docks. By war's end, White
was known not only as a principal liaison between the bureaucracy
and organized crime figures the government was enlisting as sources
and operatives, but also a stone cold alcoholic. He would be a prototype
for future perversions of federal drug policy, "a law enforcement
official who regularly violated the law." White blamed Communist
China for the growing heroin traffic in the United States, covering
up the actual smuggling by Chiang Kai-shek's corrupt but US-allied
government. When the CIA later experimented with drugs on unwitting
victims, it would be a zealous, sadistic White who provided the
narcotics, hired prostitutes to lure subjects, then watched through
a two-way mirror. "Where else could a red-blooded American
boy lie, kill, cheat, rape and pillate," White later wrote
to a writer's question, "with the sanction and the blessing
of the All-Highest?" White and his fellow FBN agents also steered
the senators away from the massive drug-running that was the financial
heart of the Syndicate. (Roger
Morris - The Money and the Power, pg 120)
Hank
Greenspun hired a con man named Pierre Lafitte to pose as a mobster
moving onto the Strip, entrapping a Clark Country Sheriff into a
taped conversation about the usual bribes. The tapes, transcribed
in the Sun, ensnared the sheriff and even Cliff Jones, forced to
resign as Democratic National Committeeman. "I talk for the
state... and believe me, I can deliver," Jomes was heard boasting
on the tapes to the impostor who wanted "to operate without
no heat." The bugging also bared shady financing at the Thunderbird,
where Jones fronted, and there was a resulting inquiry, spurred
by leaked IRS documents pointing to the Lanskys as secret owners.
(Roger
Morris - The Money and the Power, pg 199)
In
drug regions [remark: only there?] the mafias can only be safe if
they are running the country. (Executive
Intelligence Review - Dope, Inc., pg 353)
We
conducted interviews with a retired Federal law enforcement official,
who confirmed to us details showing the U.S. Treasury Inspector
General was actually the highest ranking mafia representative within
the U.S. Government. (Sherman
Skolnick – The Bankruptcy Bordello, Pt 1)
Papa
Joe Kennedy began his rise as a tavern keeper who bought his way
into the corrupt Democratic Party machine (a machine that, like
the Jacob Astor - Aaron Burr power system in New York, had its roots
in opium trafficking). Once he had obtained a seat on the ward's
Democratic Committee at the age of 26, he gave up his tavern and
went into the more lucrative wholesale liquor business. Two years
later he began his first term in hte Massachusetts State Legislature.
It was common knowledge that the secret to P.J Kennedy's political
success was his control of the local crime ring, the "McGuire
Gang." (Executive
Intelligence Review - Dope, Inc., pg 417)
During
Prohibition, Joseph Kennedy and Frank Costello were partners in
the liquor business. Kennedy was also the partner of Owney Madden,
the notorious gangster and bootlegger. Mafia attorney Abraham Lincoln
Marowitz adds, "Kennedy couldn't have bootlegged the way he
did without mob approval. They'd have knocked him off, too."
A longtime associate of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, Marowitz
was appointed US district court judge in 1963 by President John
F. Kennedy. (Seymour
M. Hersh - The Dark Side of Camelot, pgs 48, 50).
In
Chicago any illicit business could operate without disruption, as
long as two payoffs were made at the beginning of each month - one
to the East Chicago Avenue police and one to the local ward committeeman.
who represented Chicago's Democrfatic political bosses. (Seymour
M. Hersh - The Dark Side of Camelot, pg 55)
Sam
Giancana leaned forward. "Look, this is one of the Roman gods.
This one has two faces, two sides. That's what we are, the Outfit
(the Mafia) and the CIA ... two sides of the same coin. (Sam Jr.
and Chuck Giancana) in (Alex
Constantine - Virtual Government, pg 203)
Thanks
to a variety of sources, including FBI wiretaps and mob associates,
it is now clear that the Kennedys used the mob connection as a stepping
stone to power. Chicago boss Giancana and Johnny Roselli, Joe Kennedy's
golfing friend, would later be overheard on an FBI wiretap discussing
the "donations" they had made during the vital primary
campaign in West Virginia. John Kennedy himself took outrageous
risks to enlist Giancana's help. He met secretly with the mafia
boss at least twice and even sent Judith Campbell, his lover to
Giancana as courier, carrying vast sums of money in cash. The Kennedy
millions, along with contributions from the mobsters themselves
were used to buy votes both during the primaries and - in Chicago
- in the close run election that sent Kennedy to the White House.
(Anthony
Summers - Official and Confidential, pgs. 269-270)
The
power of the "American Pope" operating out of "the
Little Vatican" in New York extends to the Mafia's "Commission",
first revealed by Joe Valachi in The Valachi Papers. Two of those
Roman Catholic Commission members were Frank Costello (the friend
of Joe Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover) and Charles "Lucky"
Luciano, the foremost crime boss on the East Coast. Cardinal Spellman
was the intermediary between the Roosevelt White House and the Mafia
in what came to be known as "Operation Underworld." (Jon
Eric Phelps - Vatican Assassins, pgs 586-587)
and (Martin Lee - Who Are the Knights of Malta?, National
Catholic Reporter, October 14, 1983)
It
is the responsibility of the assassins of history to portray crime
as "failure," a mere "aberration," only an apparent
departure from our nobility and the perfection of our institutions.
(Noam
Chomsky - Rethinking Camelot)
Kit
Bond’s staffer was wrong only about one thing when he said
that HUD was being run as a criminal enterprise: What is left of
the entire former government of the United States has been and is
still being run as a criminal enterprise. (Mike
Ruppert - Godfather Government) |