TheOnce:ler Of L&Ytonville Bill Bailey Vs. TheLorax MnCity� The Death (Or Was It Murder?) Of Detroit Berlin: Now Let's Tear Down Some Of Our OwnWal ls EmeraldTriangle . & San Francisco News + Northern California Punk Rock: Tons of Totally Crucial Coverage Along WithPages And. Pages Of Insignificant Fluff, Gossip & Mondo DestructoReviews .. EBP-DA | www.eastbaypunkda.com � '-.;._ -� 'Jl t.\.,._�� �- 1· / E:T. -· -...,,,.. �--- ....__� -..._ . .l'. Adventure .., CIADru& Wars: The Continues economies of sever:tJ Latin :-';m :un�ies, an hanced much.l=- p eri�an co d fi h new development m US cities Miami, New , and Lofi--==- -..: Ietnam as O UCM un, et S L I hke York y· W S Angeles. It a1so helped the CIA 10 pursue its regime· of terrorism and. I Ullm'<n1ioo uom,d <h• globe. - D 0 t All Q Vef Agalll... • . ey If ��t trouble _lay ahead for the c ociiliie kmgpi'"iisofLangl , _ Virginia. Inspired by the ,American free enter system, _ Remember Vietnam? Probably not. you're a student, you/ prise If j thousands of entrepeneuni real.1zed that there was r00m them in might have heard about it in history class, which almost guarantees,, for -'I :- � the marketpl e. Anyone with the for a p lan et IO -- you don't have any idea what it was about. you're old enough, ac money e tick �� that �ogota and the cluitzpah to bl way :::,,,--- to have been around when it was happening, even if you were one ofl' . �ff his or her past customs ms to was on the way to t fortune. an ai ed, ,-- the unfortunates who got dragged offto fight in it, the Vietnam War/ pec rs crea mg a private M y f l of course, �t succeeded that coc� ....=-. that you think you remember has very little to do with what really� enough e became, if you11 pardon!!,, the the went on; . � ex�ss1on, a drug o� m_arket. Prices plummeted in the 1980s � . as rapidly the 1 We re not suffering from a collective case of Alzheimer's:: . as they had climbed m 970s. Themtroduction of crack helped some. ed the disease; it's just that the government and the media have rewritten:= It multipli mnowu ?f money that could extracted !rom the story so many times that no one could be expected to sort out the: be a single gram of cocaine, tr to a uge new tor ­ truth from the morass of lies characterizing that sorry misadventure. ::. m oduc� �e drug � � of society,and because it is CUSmore addictive than ordmary cocame, ensured a steady supply of You see bumper stickers that read: "To All Vietnam Vets:� Thanks." Thanks for what? Thanks for blindly following orders and tomers. killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Asians andee forever . The problem that had not been solved, though, was that of the independent operator. CIA drug merchants, largely white and/or blackening the name of the United States of America? G ' 111 knowlI who to call if I want any more favors done. Cuban, were unable to make serious inroads in the black ghettoes where much of took place. ' Vi I sympathize with the young men who wound up in the killing . so . the cocaine trade now What s more,the org za ons and gangs did the traffic were !t '.machine out of fear of prison or ignorance of what they were doing. �u u who control becoming nch and powe l that beginning to pose a People at that time were accustomed to doing what the government , so � they were serious 1 1 challenge to authonty. · told them and calling it patriotism. What as ha nin US cit!es happening a thousand '.::.- -­ But we learned our lesson, didn't we? 55,000 of our young men,� . � � $ in was t s o ver m coun es like eru. H by Yankee ::- � lie.and Godknows how many Southeast Asians, all dead for the sake of a . une . tn Colombia and P eld gun at near • Weep and moan all you want at theVietn am Veterans Memorial, = 1><? diplomacy to -c<;>lonial status for so long, South n Amer cans w able to use coc e to get back some of the resources -\ .,, but don't hand me that line about "They died for their colllltry." Grow. i e;re am �"'� up, people, they died for rwthi g. · that the gringos had been systematically looting. Local � ;::: And that's putting the best possible face on it, because if you lgovernments were not unsympathetic, for without cocaine, they lacked even the rudiments of base. � �·.1. really want to get down to facts, what they died for was worse than • an economic A 1 ) . 'I)t e trafficke�s continued to grow more powerful, often . l , nothing. You might •have thought all those people's lives were · ' , .. snuffed out, stolen from them. simply because some ignorant echpsmg the nommal government. Fa rmers and laborers knew where the ead was I politicians in Washington couldn't fi gure out that the war was ir br buttered,and gave their loyalty to the monied pointless and stupid. But while it was stupid, it wasn't completely ;:drug cla.ss. who provided them with the only means of earning a 1,;::;;::.:;;. were g : decent hvmg. � . I pointless. There men workin behind the scenes pulling the . strings ofit presidents and congressmen to keep that' war going � 1: he United States has been making noise about the South f' � Amencan drug economy for years, but it seldom went beyond the I because was essential for their own puipOSes. -r«- One ,of those �en is president of the United States today, and if, realm. of talk._ As long � the bu}!c o! the trade was controlled by a::! a gr hethat gets his way, hell eventually have us in a w ar, or series of wars. Americans, with only pittance tnckhng down to the owers and low deale g / will have us reminiscing nostalgically, "Ah, Vietnam, now that - -level rs, US politicians were inclined to leave well enou h \ 1 J wasa good old-fashioned war where you knew who was who and what alone. II w, with the oney accumulated by �dependent traffickers you were fighting !or,H Geor11e B�h, long-time agent and former . N<;> IT! head of our country s secret pohce, will be happy to thinkslead, ex cuse me • begmnmg to undermme government authonty m both North and send us into battle in South America the minute he he can get � outh America, the Bush administration has felt the need to reassert away with it. ·its.control over the cocaine trade. The price the American people are The cause this time? Drugs, allegedly; communism doesn't seem be� ask� � pay for this goal includes the substantial erosion of -to play as well these days, especially when the world's head red is� their consutuuonal nghts and the very real possibility that they will clearly more intelligent an� humane th� our own top dog. But � be asked to find another unwinnable war in thejungles of Colombia, into. • dor, and P . , lx;fore we �barge off to snute the demoruc canels of Colombia, it • Ecua eru . • nught be wise IO remember the last drug war we got ourselves Bush and Co. are so frantic on this 1Ssue because. they know that ucr the • Vietnam was a dope war, a s truggle for turf between rival gangs economic system currently sustaining them is dependent on a of traffickers. At stake was the incredibly l ative Golden Triangleimported � gove�e!1t--controlled illegal narcotics trade. Either legalization or dif source of the world's best heroin. Tons of the stuff were the fusion of drug trafficking into a wide variety of independent channels inio the United States, mostly through France• by a partnershipl will put them out of business. Will the American people consisting of the CIA and the Mafia. • fall for this gimmick again? Perhaps for a while, but once the flag- The enormous profits, laundered through CIA playgrounds like draped c�ffi!'s start rolling in from South America, George Bush's _ drug l indeed - ' · ' '- -.... / Castro C�ba and Mafia resorts like Las Vegas, fmanced CIA f war 1s likely toI becomeLOOKOUT a very hard sel . pre- and &vii;ti,I · ... \. _. Mafia tenonsm at home and abroad. When the Viet Cong seized I )' I � ' / , • PO Box 1000 •111 �, '� control of .the Golden Triangle, the CIA, its livelihood threatened,;, used Am�can troops in an attempt to regain its drug monopoly. a.lE,........._, L ay t •11e CA 95454 ••·.�llltf Despite ten years of war, the opium fields remained in the hands 8!!l:i!ll� ODVI o� the C?mmunists. Things settled down, the CIA made deals with Vietnams ne'Y rulers, and after several years,• Southeast Asian heroin• was once agam. • a v81 'l bla e · 11? eyery Ameri can city. · LawrenceLivermore Editorand Publisher The Junkies were sausf1ed, but the CIA and Mafia were ' · · not Chris Appe I gren, AssistantEditor Paying a fair price to the Indochinese farmers and the commi� Aaron Cometbus, Alex Roberts, Marty Maceda, • -:: mi<f<!Iemt;n took an intolerably large chunk of their profits. The Contributors: "M", � ey ve Rates: I� pubhc bemg unlikely to support any crusade to recapture the do Barn Lo Subscription producing region of Indochina, CIA drug lords found themselves casting about for new sources of income. USA: $l{1SSue They found it in South Americancocaine. Coke had been readily Canada, Mexico: $1.50{1Ssue ...,�available in ':'1this country, in fact was legal until 1914 but 1t Europe, South America (via air mail): $2.S0{usue �ed a �ialty item until it caught on with the hippie �d rock Asia, Australia, Africa (via air mail): $3/issue music scene th! 1970s.