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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 21 hours ago

Former DEA agent charged with agreeing to launder millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartel

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Former DEA agent charged with agreeing to launder millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartel

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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 21 hours ago
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A former DEA agent and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain weapons for a Mexican drug cartel.
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    The war on drugs was a mistake and only affects poor people like you and me.

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      It was intended to be disruptive to poor and minority communities. It was designed as a way to target “undesirable” people and populations.

      I take your meaning, but the war on drugs was a hugely successful project when one considers that mass incarceration was the goal.

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        The entire purpose was to manufacture a reason to prevent blacks and hippies from voting by making them felons, because you can’t just arrest them for being black or hippies (in large enough numbers to matter)

        This isn’t even a conspiracy theory; one of Nixon’s architects of the plan straight up said it.

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    Better start being racist in public to lock in that sweet sweet pardon before the attorney fees start adding up

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    He enforced the shit out of those drugs.

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    10 yrs ago I would, without a doubt, have believed this immediately.

    Now everything is suspect from this current regime.

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