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Greetings

I am a big fan of the Gary Webb story and the US Constitution. The US Constitution as well as the Canadian Charter of Rights and the Irish Proclamation protect civl liberty in a free republic. That freedom is under fire not from a foreign enemy but from enemies within.

The Gary Webb Story

Gary Webb was an award winning investigative journalist from the San Jose Mercury News who published a pivotal series exposing the CIA's involvement with the US Crack epidemic in the 1980's called Dark Alliance. He received bitter opposition from the mainstream media just like Dan Rather did which was portrayed in the movie Truth with Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford.

. After he lost his job he documented everything in a comprehensive book also called Dark Alliance. He then ended up dying of a suspicious suicide. He shot himself in the head twice. Jeremy Renner from the Avengers played Gary Webb in the movie about his life called Kill the Messenger.

The Gary Webb story went viral when he first published his series of articles online. It created an uproar in LA where they had been plagued by the crack epidemic. John Deutch, the Director of the CIA at the time held a public meeting to do damage control. At that meeting former LAPD officer Mike Ruppert spoke up and said as a former LAPD officer I can tell you that the Agency has been trafficking drugs in this country for years. He claimed they had tried to recruit him and when he refused he was chased out of the force. After running a blog From the Wilderness he too died of a suspicious suicide.

Former DEA agent Cele Castillo spoke up to confirm the Gary Webb story. He claimed he complained about the CIA's involvement with cocaine trafficking in El Salvador but nothing was done about it. After he went public he ended up in jail for selling guns at a gun show without a proper license.