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POLITICAL POLLS AND DONATIONS

Actually, pollsters can make a poll come out any way they wish. And they do. Regularly. There's a lot more to it than just asking questions. Once the pollster knows the demographics of the people to be called, the desired answers can be obtained by tailoring the questions properly. That's why, when we see a "poll" on the Internet, where all Americans can reply and the demographics are not a factor, the results are usually significantly different than polls announced by the press.

These Internet "polls" are not reported by the national media because they do not fit in with the national media's agenda. Were honest polls related to the American public, some in government would not be intimidated into passing socialist laws.

"Clinton is helping his party [raise campaign funds] more than the Republican national leaders are helping theirs," the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reported last week. And, accordingly, the Pew poll was related to the American public with glee by the leftist major media.

On April 3 [missed by two days] the Associated Press reported: "President Clinton's lofty performance rating accounts for some of his party's new-found support and is brightening election prospects for the Democrats in upcoming congressional elections, a poll suggests."

So, when the national media tries to tell us that Clinton's problems are actually helping fundraising for the Democratic Party, that brings to mind a few interesting questions. For instance: Is the whole country corrupt now? I mean, are we actually rewarding corruption in government with even more campaign donations? Or, perhaps because the Democratic Party was able to take those millions of illegally laundered campaigns donations with impunity the last time, they now feel confident that they can get away with it anytime.

Anyone studying our history soon realizes that the Democratic Party is directly responsible for most of the problems the average citizen has with government today. The FDR administration gave us all those oppressive (and unconstitutional) federal regulatory agencies. The Johnson administration gave us the so called "Great Society," which ruined our major cities and created a huge American underclass. Meanwhile, a Democratic controlled Congress gave us a civil rights program that turned Black against White and women against men. Now it seems as though they're working on turning children against parents too.

The spin-offs of the new Socialist-Democratic Party brought us a host of silly environmental laws, pitted the Army (corps of engineers) against the American public, allowed animals and fish to become more important under American law than the welfare of humans, and used the heavy hand of the central government to completely regulate everything in our lives from womb to tomb. And, to pay for all that, the Democrats placed stiff taxes on everything they could think of.

So, who could possibly benefit from donating to the Democratic Party? Well, the trial lawyers made more than a billion dollars with the help of the Clinton administration. The communist Chinese made out like the bandits they are, too. Ditto for Mexico. Indonesia, and a host of other Asian countries will soon be spending billions of our hard earned tax dollars. So will Israel and Egypt. And, kids out in the jungles of Africa will soon be cluttering the Internet instead of studying, paid for by tax dollars taken from hard working factory workers and small business owners in the United States.

Probably, it must be the constituency and supporters of the above named groups who are donating to the Democratic Party this year. Because, for any average American citizen to do so, they would have to be either an avowed socialist or truly out of their cotton-picken minds.

Early on as President, Bill Clinton freely told America exactly how he felt about our Constitution and the American rule of law. For instance, on the March 22, 1994 MTV program 'Enough is Enough,' Clinton brazenly said: "When we got organized as a country we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans . . . and so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities."

Even before that, on March 11, 1993, Clinton told USA Today, "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." No matter, evidently, that his oath of office requires exactly that. . . .

And so it goes with the Democratic Party. As a political party, they have developed into a group that is diametrically opposed to nearly every single thing supported by our Founding Fathers.

THE GUN NUTS STRIKE -- AGAIN

In the text of the Federalist papers, and the opinions of the Supreme Court, one will quickly notice that Congress is the branch of government charged with making all law. Because Congress does not wish to be bothered, and hence delegates much of its legislative authority to the administrative branch, is immaterial. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, (most recently in New York and Printz) Congress may not delegate any of its legislative authority because that would upset the balance of power between the three branches of government (and the States).

So, simply put, under our Constitution, the administration has no authority to make law. That includes the President. Because, if Congress continues to allow the administrative branch to make law ad lib, what the hell do we need a Congress for? We can just have a four year elected dictatorship (which we almost have).

On April 6, the White House announced: "Today, in response to a previously issued memorandum, the President announced that the Treasury Department has concluded that more than 50 kinds of modified assault weapons are generally not importable because they accept large capacity military magazines. Up to 1.5 million rifles whose importation had been temporarily suspended may be affected by this decision." . . .

"The more than 50 models of firearms affected by today's decision are modified versions of military assault weapons that were banned by the Bush Administration in 1989, or by the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. Most of these models are based on the AK 47 assault rifle, but some are variants of the Uzi, FN-FAL, HK 91 and 93, and SIG SG550." Find more information on this at: http://www.atf.treas.gov/pub/assault_rifles/index.htm

Herein, we see two violations of the Constitution. First, the President has no power to make law. Second, the law is retroactive, and no branch of government has the authority to pass an ex post facto law.

The American people have both the right and the duty to keep personal arms equal to those light arms used by any police department or military force in the world. We also have the right and the duty to become proficient in the use of these personal arms for the protection of self, family, home, State and nation.

Because, as Thomas Jefferson admonished: "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

Recent reports indicate that at least a dozen foreign governments are demanding that the American public be disarmed. Furthermore, there are even suggestions within some crazy factions at the United Nations that foreign military forces enter the United States and disarm the American people by force. Admittedly, today these are classed as lunatic factions within the UN. But, based on previous actions of the UN, things that are originally called crackpot ideas have a strange habit of later becoming treaty.

It is the considered opinion of many people out here in the foothills of Appalachia that the entering of armed foreign troops into our country to act as police would be recognized as an act of war against the American people. And it is, incidentally, because so many millions of American people are proficient with their personal arms that the UN fears even considering any such action at this time. Apparently, though, the Clinton administration is attempting to aide the lunatic faction within the UN by removing some of our protection.

Also, as R.J. Rummel, Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science at the University of Hawaii reports: "Nearly 170 million people have been murdered by governments in this century; over four-times the number killed in combat in all the international and domestic wars." A breakdown of that data can be found at: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rummel/,

We might also add that most of these 170 million people were easily slaughtered by their government because they were unarmed. Furthermore, many millions of these killings happened while the murdering government was a member of the United Nations.

Congress must take quick and decisive action to countermand the administration's action. Our job is to insure that they do. There is only a window of a few weeks available for Congress to act. So, tell them your opinion quickly.

GUNS, POLITICIANS AND AIRCRAFT

Just after a couple Cooper copycats tried something similar, the frequent flyers of the Congressional class got interested. Because, if a plane they were on was hijacked, they could actually be late for a fund-raiser luncheon, a lobbyist funded vacation, or something. Can't have that. So suddenly, most Americans could no longer carry a gun on a commercial aircraft. Gun-toting on busses and trains was fine, because Members of Congress do not normally use them. Packing heat on commercial aircraft became verboten.

Ditto for bombs. No one knows of any American (except police officers) ever actually trying to board a commercial aircraft carrying a bomb. But, heck, better to be safe than sorry said the frequent flyers in the Congressional class. So, nowadays even the baggage that is checked is checked.

Many airports, like the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Airport, carry that trend one step further. They have money police there too. That is, if any of the airport employees see an aircraft passenger or airport visitor with a roll of cash, they call the special airport cops and the nice officers relieve that person of the burden of carrying so much cash. Then, they share part of the illicit cash with the airport employee who fingered the beleaguered person.

It's all quite legal, too -- so they try to say. You see, they're looking for illegal drugs. And money, of course, may be used to purchase illegal drugs someday. So, they take the cash. The current drug cops at the Cincinnati Airport must really be doing a great job, too. They haven't found a lot of drugs, but they have relieved a whole lot of people of large stashes of personal cash.

Apparently, the Cincinnati airport cops are not very good at finding guns, though. Kentucky State Rep. Pete Worthington (D-Ewing) tested that last week. Worthington caught a flight to the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport with a .22-caliber handgun in his carry-on baggage. He made it to Dallas just fine. But when he tried to come back they noticed the gun. And not knowing that he was a member of the protected class, they stopped him.

Worthington says he carries that handgun (without a permit) with him everywhere, and just "forgot" it was in the bag. Also, he didn't like being stopped and bothered. So, he called his buddy Kentucky House Speaker Jody Richards. Jody Richards, also a Democrat, then called his counterpart in Texas. The good old boy system worked, and Worthington came home.

As the story goes, the Kentucky prosecutor responsible for charging Worthington (the Cincinnati Airport is in Kentucky) said he can not charge Worthington cause no one saw him with a gun here -- no matter that Worthington admits he had it with him while boarding the aircraft. And, of course, the Texas prosecutor is not interested in pressing charges, either.

Now . . . we do not really believe that Worthington, or anyone else for that matter, should be prosecuted for something as silly as taking a little handgun on a commercial aircraft. However, because he is a legislator -- a lawmaker -- and that is the law, we feel that the State House should censure him. And, as part of his punishment, he should be required to spend a year working to have many of these stupid laws repealed. Maybe he could do something to stop that crew with badges and guns from stealing people's money, too.

Meanwhile, let this be just another example that there is no "equal justice" under the law. Congress gave us a class system. There's the elected ones and their friends, the bureaucrats, and then the normal citizens. And as we are seeing -- over and over again, and in all levels of government from the White House on down -- only the citizens are required to obey all laws.

Yes, we still have something referred to as the "Rule of Law." It's just that the Lords and Ladies of the Hill rearranged it to fit their own personal needs more adequately.

EQUAL JUSTICE Vs. NATIONAL SECURITY

And this Justice Department has got to be the crowning jewel of the Rule of Law. Reno's Just-Us Department recently informed us that those accused of major felonies now have the option of investigating themselves. No matter, either, if it was a huge ongoing criminal enterprise spanning over a decade. The perpetrators can conduct the investigation. And, so they did.

Remember Gary Webb and his recently discredited series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News? He outlined what many of us have believed for years: Agents of the federal government -- the very same federal government out there arresting Americans for selling the stuff -- are among the largest illegal drug importers in this country.

Reporter Gary Webb weaved a tale describing how federal officials regularly allowed a dubious "national security" program top priority over "citizen security." He told a story of an officially sanctioned crime -- a crime that was (is?) in progress for many years. This is a crime against society that has devastated hundreds of American neighborhoods and tens of thousands of American citizens, by the introduction of tons of cheap cocaine.

The San Jose Mercury News series described part of how CIA agents encouraged, used and protected drug kingpins for years on end. It told how the DEA, FBI, IRS, and even federal prosecutors and judges, aided and abetted the CIA and their network of protected drug runners in flooding American neighborhoods with cheap cocaine. And, as those of us who studied the background material provided know, Webb backed up his accusations rather well.

The lesson, clearly understood by anyone reading that series, is that this "national security" farce touted by agents of the United States government clearly has absolutely no relation to the everyday security of the citizens of the United States. Rather, it functioned to the detriment of millions of American citizens.

Webb showed that federal judges aided federal prosecutors in releasing federally "protected" drug runners. The FBI, DEA, and even Customs, helped the CIA insure that they would profit from selling illegal drugs in American neighborhoods. It almost appears as if members of all these federal agencies joined together to keep the competition down so the "protected" drug sellers would have a ready market.

Of course, that was not a new story. The Wall Street Journal reported that CIA operatives were importing cocaine into the United States as far back as 1987. And at least fourteen other major publications ran similarly enlightening articles since then. The Senate even held a hearing on the subject in 1986.

Back then, Senator Kerry's report stated: "The Subcommittee found that the Contra drug links included: Involvement in narcotics trafficking by individuals associated with the Contra movement." And hence, the CIA. Yet, no action was ever taken to stop the flow of illegal drugs into our neighborhoods.

Now, the CIA and Justice Department says none of it was true. And the CIA's investigation of itself proved that there was no truth to the accusations. Anyone believe that? Can anyone honestly say they expected anything else from them? The problem is, government (again) lied. We know that because, this time, we have information from a 25 year drug enforcement insider and yet another report to a Congressional committee. Read on:

We should note that, in nearly every country of the world, the major drug kingpins are readily identifiable. Not in the United States, though. Here, any time investigators get too close to the top drug kingpins, they run into a very large wall. National Security, it's called.

Over the last decade or so, a number of House committees investigating illegal drug running gave up in frustration because the Department of Justice withheld all pertinent information and fought every committee investigation tooth and nail. So too with the Kerry Senate Committee. The Kerry Senate Committee actually identified some of the CIA connections and named a few names. Then suddenly, evidently, Kerry was told to go sit down and shut up about things that do not concern him. He did, and the Department of Justice dropped the whole deal. Nothing was done. As always, everything was covered up under the guise of national security.

Now comes an op-ed piece in last week's "Washington Weekly" by Michael Levine, now retired, but a 25 year veteran of federal drug enforcement. And now we learn that there is, in fact, and has been for at least 15 years, a secret deal between the CIA and the Justice Department allowing tons of illegal drugs to enter the United States with impunity.

So, again we learn a serious lesson in American law. The law does not apply to all people equally. Some government employees may, with impunity, import as much illegal drugs for distribution within the United States as they wish. They may also personally profit from this endeavor. Government will then arrest and imprison American citizens who are small time dealers and users of these very same illegal drugs.

National Security, it's called. How's that for equality under the law?

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CIA ADMITS TO DEAL WITH DOJ TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE

As an ex-DEA agent I found the complete lack of coverage by mainstream media of what I saw during last month's congressional hearings into CIA Drug Trafficking both depressing and frightening.

I sat gape-mouthed as I heard the CIA Inspector General testify that there has existed a secret agreement between CIA and the Justice Department, wherein "during the years 1982 to 1995, CIA did not have to report the drug trafficking by its assets to the Justice Department."

To a trained DEA agent this literally means that the CIA had been granted a license to obstruct justice in our so-called war on drugs; a license that lasted, so the CIA claims, from 1982 to 1995, a time during which Americans paid almost $150 billion in taxes to "fight" drugs. Of course the evidence indicates that they did not stop obstructing justice in 1995 either, but that I suppose is going to be another congressional hearing. As far as the current hearings go, this Catch 22 "revelation" means that all the present hearings are for nothing; that if they are caught violating the drug laws they have been given "secret" license to do so by our Justice Department. This might also explain Janet Reno's recent and unprecedented move in blocking the release of a Justice Department investigation into CIA drug trafficking.

God, with friends like these, who needs enemies?

It is now clear that this agreement began with the events described in THE BIG WHITE LIE; that the top drug traffickers in Bolivia, then supplying virtually all the world's cocaine (including Sonia Atala) were CIA assets that had to be protected from our deep cover probe.

Those watching the hearings cannot have helped but notice the snickering on the part of Chairman Porter Goss, an ex-CIA officer, as congresswoman Maxine Waters spoke. Now here's the reason why: Sources of mine, who speak to me from inside this veil of secrecy out of conscience and because I am cheaper and more reliable than a psychiatrist, have told me the following:

1. There is secret communication between CIA and members of the Congressional staff indicating that the whole hearing is just a smoke and mirror show so that the American people -- particularly the Black community -- can "blow off some steam" without doing any damage to CIA. The CIA has been assured that nothing real will be done, other than some embarrassing questions being asked.

2. That the hearings will result in the CIA receiving an even larger budget than the current $26 billion that they admit to.

One of the most distressing things for me as a 25-year-veteran of this business to listen to was when Congresswoman Waters said that the hearings were not about CIA officers being indicted and going to jail. "That is not going to happen," she said.

Almost in the same breath she spoke of a recent case in Miami wherein a Venezuelan National Guard general was caught by Customs agents smuggling more than a ton of cocaine into the US. Despite named CIA officers being involved in the plot, as Congresswoman Waters stated, the Justice Department will not tell her anything about the case because of "secrecy laws."

No wonder chairman Goss was snickering. She could not have played more neatly into CIA hands than to surrender before the battle was engaged.
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[Michael Levine is the author of "The Big White Lie" and "Deep Cover" and is the host of THE EXPERT WITNESS radio show WBAI, New York City, 99.5 FM, Tuesdays, 7-8 pm]

Published in the Apr. 6, 1998 issue of The Washington Weekly. Copyright © 1998 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com). Reposting permitted with this message intact.