New Weapon of Mass Destruction

Tragedy struck nearby recently.

Death from Fentanyl

The daughter of a friend overdosed [OD] on marijuana - laced with Fentanyl; her small daughter found her, comatose.

She was an attractive young lady whose boyfriend introduced her to marijuana, then to heroin, and on to other drugs.  She had "gone straight" after her last overdose, and it's possible, she was given Fentanyl in another substance; the end result was death.

She was in the health business and lost her job when she was found using her access to pharmaceuticals for her increasing habit. In the meantime, her boyfriend died of an overdose, leaving her with a small child to raise on her own.

The young woman had moved away from her hometown and extended family, probably to be with her boyfriend two states away, to avoid family pressure to give up drugs. Her mom begged her to come home where she and extended family could help care for the child, but, the young woman was adamant that she was "clean".

A Fentanyl Dose the size of a Sesame Seed
Can be inserted into a Marijuana Joint
and not be noticed

Given her heroin OD, it was obvious she was not clean.

Sadly, she had visited with us only a few weeks before her OD death.

Fentanyl did the trick, as it takes only a smidgen to kill - and it killed her in a flash; and even with immediate response by the EMT, no measure of could revive her, and she died in her mother's arms in the ICU, with her child in the next room.

The mom and her family remain  devastated, and heartbroken, but will come together to raise the child in a loving environment.







But the grandmom, who co-signed for her daughter's student loans, is now on the hook for those loans; although she's unemployed/retired with a minimal income, she can't file for bankruptcy due to the exclusion of student loan liability protected by the Dodd-Frank Consumer Financial Protection Act -- which protects banks and destroys consumers.  The Financial Protection clause of that act ensures that students - or their parents who declare bankruptcy are still liable for student loans.

What's our motive for publishing this?
The issue here ties to Trump's goal of building that Wall.
It won't block all the Illegals, and it will only partially block the flow of drugs into the US.
But, it will enable our Law Enforcement Community to deal it some crippling blows.

In the interim, it will likely block the massive amounts of drugs crossing our southern border in tractor trailers, cars, horseback, and backpack.  Among those drugs are Fentanyl, which can be blocked from entering overland; the Wall could possibly stifle the drug trade, or severely limit it.

Don't look to Congress to act anytime soon since it's fairly obvious that most of Congress are in the pockets of the drug lords. Worse, several of our recent Presidents and their families were controlled by the Cartels which bolstered their multi-million dollar bank accounts - not to speak of the spin-off criminal activities of Human Trafficking and Child Sex exploitation.

But, this drug problem is nothing new; it began in earnest in Vietnam with opium and heroin being transported regionally in those ubiquitous "Black Helicopters" with the drugs subsequently being transported to the US aboard USAF cargo aircraft and commercial ships, and even  having been inserted into the corpses of our dead GIs.

Hollywood introduced Marijuana as a "cultural issue" in a variety of very popular movies such as MASH and movies about cool kids in California high schools.


In fact, one of the most popular TV series was Weed, which popularized the use and sale of Marijuana and linkages to Mexican cartels as just a lot of fun - with a touch of danger.  And then, there was the wildly popular series, Breaking Bad, which rationalized the use of a broad scope of narcotics as a part of the US drug culture -- and a very profitable one.  Drug usage for our younger generations is not only "cool", it is Mandatory to fit in as one of the "In-Crowd".

A large percentage of our young and naive troops in Vietnam were introduced to Marijuana to relieve their boredom in remote outposts and to reduce their tension while waiting for the inevitable Viet Cong attack.  As the War progressed, more of our GIs partook, and the dealers began lacing the Marijuana with Heroin to ensure continued addiction by our troops when they returned to the US.  Back home, the former GIs were hooked and were ready customers for drug dealers selling boosted Marijuana, and leading to Heroin and Cocaine addiction.

Nearly 20 years later, no one can define
why our troops are in Afghanistan!

This narcotics consumption process continued to the present with hundreds of thousands of US troops  shipped to the Middle East to fight in the Bush/Clinton/Obama Middle East wars, the most recent of which continues in Afghanistan -- a key source of international heroin production and distribution.
[Otherwise, we remain bewildered at why our troops are deployed there]




Fast forward to today, after decades of Hollywood movies and Television programs extolling the virtues of Marijuana and Opiates as "Recreational Drugs",  the pressure was on to legalize "Medical Marijuana"; and, many states took that initiative.  The hook there was that Big Pharma lobbied state legislatures to create tight restrictions and massive amounts of paperwork to sell this Medical Marijuana, squeezing out the small medical Mom&Pop outlets who could neither staff their enterprises or manage all the paperwork involved to meet state requirements.

Today's marijuana, produced by the Pharmas is magnitudes greater in intensity than that which was popular in the 1960s, and now, it's laced with both heroin and Fentanyl -- the point is to eradicate our younger population as a functional element of our work force and overall population.

We'll get off our soap-box now.
If you know of any users, or families of users, feel free to pass our comments along; your kids, and our kids are not safe.

And our country is under assault with narcotics as the new Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Drugs like laced/boosted Marijuana reduce our workforce through elimination via drug testing; while more potent drugs [e.g., heroin] reduce the effectiveness and judgment of the mid-range executives managing financial institutions.

Ultimately, Fentanyl is poised to create massive damage to our water supply infrastructure, as only a small amount can contaminate millions of gallons of water.  This deadly substance is being carried across our southern border in amounts sufficient to cripple our major cities well ahead of any detection process -- and Congress is allowing this to happen by blocking the efforts of President Trump to close the border access to Illegals transporting this WMD.

DeVos under Attack

As She Attempts to return the Rule of Law To Our Education System
Prepare for the Leftist Media Attack on DeVos

We feel the following reprint of a New York Post article deserves wider distribution.

Hats off to both Betsy DeVos and to NYP journalist Rich Lowry.

Click here for original article
NY Post 31AUG2018 [comments.lowry@nationalreview.com]

A judicial process that doesn’t allow the accused to cross-examine his accuser or reliably see the evidence against him is a civil libertarian’s nightmare. It traduces every principle of fairness and is blatantly un-American.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos intends to remedy this abomination, but will be savaged by the Left for replacing just such a process with something more in keeping with our Constitutional legal norms.

The Education Department is preparing new rules that would roll back the monstrously unfair Obama-era requirements for how colleges handle sexual-assault and harassment allegations. It will be a significant advance for due process, which is almost as out of style on campus as free speech.




In one of its least defensible actions, the Obama Administration used its Office for Civil Rights to impose its preferred procedures for handling sexual-assault cases on all the universities in the country that receive federal funds; it did so via a 19-page “Dear Colleague” letter, in the name of Title IX, the provision in federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination in education.

Watch Closely as I Destroy the Constitution

The Obama process was terrible, blowing right past the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires public notice and comment before such rules go into effect.


And the substance was worse.


The letter reads as if it were written by inflamed activists who had no interest in balanced proceedings – and it was.



1) It required colleges to adopt a “preponderance of evidence” standard
rather than a “clear and convincing” standard.

2) It essentially forbade colleges from allowing the cross-examination of accusers.

3) It adopted a remarkably broad definition of sexual harassment to include “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature.”

4) It also encouraged the use of a “single investigator-adjudicator system,”
i.e., a single person as investigator, judge and jury.

The Obama rules ignore central developments in 

Anglo-American justice that arose hundreds of years ago! 

 In their important book “The Campus Rape Frenzy” KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. describe how the rules often played out:

“Start with an alcohol-soaked set of facts that 

no state’s criminal law would consider sexual assault. 

Add an incomplete ‘investigation,’ unfair procedures, and a 

disciplinary panel uninterested in evidence of innocence. 

Stir in a “de facto” presumption of guilt based on misguided 

Obama Administration dictates, ideological zeal, and fear of bad publicity.” 

The result inevitably, has been horrific miscarriages of justice.

Everyone should want perpetrators of sexual assault to be punished — and in the criminal-justice system, not just by colleges — but elementary protections for the accused cannot be discarded in the process.

One reason the Obama rules were so lopsided is that they were crafted in an atmosphere of moral panic – assuming a spiraling epidemic of sexual assault on campus.



To the contrary, Taylor and Johnson note that sexual assaults of female college students
had dropped by more than 50% between 1997 and 2013,

-- and that young women in college are less likely to be assaulted than those who are not in college. 






The Obama rules have been battered in the courts, where due process is still taken seriously.

A US District Court judge wrote in a 2016 ruling against Brandeis University:

 “If a college student is to be marked for life as a sexual predator, 

it is reasonable to require that he be provided a fair opportunity t

o defend himself and an impartial arbiter to make that decision. 

Put simply, a fair determination of the facts requires a fair process, 

not tilted to favor a particular outcome, and a fair and neutral fact-finder, 

not predisposed to reach a particular conclusion.” 

This is the animating spirit behind the DeVos changes.

 They are still being formulated, but a New York Times report suggests that they will correct the worst excesses of the Obama rules and interject fairness into proceedings that were, shamefully, designed to lack it.

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Editorial Note:

Disbarred and prosecuted for
Criminal Actions as District Attorney

We have watched such legal abominations during the Obama years destroy the lives of college students who have been given no recourse to senseless and groundless allegations, with no rationale other than the accuser had just broken up with a boyfriend and wanted to see him suffer; or, in the case of a hooker in Durham, NC, claiming that she was assaulted by an entire LaCrosse Team --  a case elevated to and prosecuted in a local court, with the District Attorney later disbarred for concealing exculpatory evidence, to include DNA samples plus testimony by the hooker's associates who stated the hooker bragged to them that she had lied about the entire event -- she had only been hired to dance at a team victory party!

Under the Obama Administration, the Rule of Law was replaced by Political Hysteria!
We presume that the Left will use every extreme tact