I had a conversation with someone a while back. I would call this guy a "good ol' boy" in the sense that he buys the nonsense being spewed by the mainstream media. He told me that the Occupy Wall St. was nothing more than a bunch of drug-addicted kids with nothing to do than complain. Now I may or may not disagree with OWS, but that's not the point of this post. After he made this statement, I mentioned that these kids he referred to were using drugs that the CIA is bringing into this country, and that the US military is tolerating the cultivation of poppy (which eventually becomes heroin) in Afghanistan. He almost wanted to kill me. The fact that I dared to question the sincerity of the US military and the CIA made him doubt my sincerity as an American citizen, and he made it a point to tell me that several times, even after I told him what to look up on the internet as proof. When I replied that dissent is the most sincere form of patriotism and that our forefathers stressed the fact that government is untrustworthy, he cursed up a storm and abruptly ended our discussion.  Is it with that conversation in mind that I post the following articles and videos...

The New York Times reported twice in 2008 that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother, a notorious drug lord, is on the CIA payroll. From the 2nd link: Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r=1

Not surprisingly, the UN reported in October that there has been a sharp rise in poppy cultivation in the last year. Gee, I wonder why...:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/world/asia/un-reports-sharp-rise-in-opium-production-in-afghanistan.html?_r=1&ref=world

Fox News sent Geraldo Rivera to Afghanistan to cover, among other things, how the military "tolerates the cultivation of opium poppies" in a country that supplies 95% of the heroin in the world. Watching this video, Rivera and the Marine interviewed try to put lipstick on a pig, saying things like "...if we don't do it, they [the locals] will turn their backs on us". Sorry guys, but you're supposed to send good people to war to protect and preserve the liberty of others, not to grow stinkin' poppies. Maybe instead of tolerating the cultivation of poppy, GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN:

CIA drug trafficking was exposed in the 1980's with the Iran Contra scandal, where the CIA was caught in covert arms deals with Iran who was under an embargo (hey, don't we wanna blow them up now?) and using the funds from the deals to give guns and supplies to the anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua in exchange for drugs that the agency shipped into the Untied States. The following videos detail the scandal, including interviews from whistleblowers and probably one of the most ludicrous statements I've ever heard from former CIA chief Dewey Clariage - "Don't give me that conspiracy bullsh*t...There has never been a conspiracy in this country!"

The CIA is mixed up with drugs all over the world, but don't believe me, instead read this essay put together by California State University Northridge Professor and Chair of Department of Communication Studies Dr. Bernardo Attias. This essay contains tons of links for you to read for yourself. Maybe I'm not a "scholar" in the eyes of some, but this dude certainly is:
http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/news/cia.drug.html

In 1988 Ron Paul went on the record stating that George H.W. Bush was "deep into" CIA drug trafficking and that he knew exactly what was happening. Funny that he's STILL the only politician speaking truth to power:

 Maybe the guy who wanted to kill me for even suggesting government drug dealing will stumble upon this and change his mind. Maybe not. I hope that one day, though, we'll all start to base our opinions on facts and not emotional repsonses like he did.