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24 de Febrero, 2007
Smile and Say CHEEZE
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FIFTEEN YEAR-OLD OSCAR GUTIERREZ is not smiling anymore. He died last weekend, addicted to a new, cheap drug called "Cheese," or "Cheeze," which is made of heroin and Tylenol PM. The drug, which sells at a very affordable $2 per hit, is sweeping through middle-schools and high schools in Northern Texas, primarily Dallas. Hispanic youth, like Gutierrez, are being targeted by those purposely selling to children and while the Dallas DEA has no evidence that Cheeze is being "orchestrated by any major cartel," news sites such as Dallas Morning News are citing "experts" who mention that "Mexican heroin mainly comes from the states of Sinaloa and Durango and is smuggled into the Dallas area through either the Nuevo Laredo-Laredo area up the Interstate 35 corridor or the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso port of entry."
Not surprisingly, when these same sites quote unnamed "law enforcement experts," it is to tell us that the "loosely organized packagers and sellers" have no structure or central organization that they know of (after tracking this activity for two years), but yet find it relevant to lead off their story by informing the reader that "high school kids – some of whom are gang members" appear to "make up" the packagers and sellers. Pretty definitive police work, there. These "experts" do not say what percentage of these sellers/packagers are gang members, nor to what gangs they belong to, and these same "experts" also do not say if "some" of these students are also bandmembers or Science Club members, or what percentage happen to be chess club members.
Businessman on Train: [reading a newspaper] I see the police have made another lightning raid.
Priest on Train: I suppose young girls was involved?
Businessman on Train: One found naked in the bathroom. "Breasts smeared with peanut butter. The police also found a bag containing 15 ounces of cannibus resin. The bag may also have contained a small quantity of heroin."
Denis Dimbleby Bagley: Or a porkpie. The bag may also have contained a porkpie.
Businessman on Train: I hardly see what a porkpie's got to do with it.
Denis Dimbleby Bagley: Then how about a turnip? The bag may also have contained a large turnip.
Priest on Train: The bag was full of drugs. It says so!
—How to Get Ahead in Advertising, 1989
Nice triple-whammy, doodes! Addict the Latino youth, jail the Latino young men, and brand Mexico further as a snake pit of deadly drugs and amoral drug-dealers. This is way better than crack in the Black ghettos!
Now, I think it's great that the parents are organizing. Right on. And I'm not saying that the CIA has found a way to introduce a cheap, deadly agent into the midst of the Latino youth. I don't know the names of all the secret agencies who are interested in doing such things, so I can't deny that any of them specifically are hosting this event. Nor am I denying that this "loosely organized" non-group of "packagers and sellers" who lack any "hierarchical structure" is specifically targeting Hispanic youth to further destroy the Brown™. But even the Dallas police admit that the Drug Cartels are not behind this, and that Cheese activity in schools is not a gang activity. So, just like the news sites reporting on this, I, too want to know "Who, then, is the marketing genius?"
While many of the mixers are gang members, it's a leap to say that gangs are in control of the distribution at schools where cheese is most prevalent.I haven't seen any hierarchical structure in the mixer level, not like true heroin dealers who have stash houses and runners and are very organized."
—Dallas Independent School District (DISD) police Officer Jeremy Liebbe
Oh, it's a leap, but with the type of reporting being done here, it's a very effective leap. It's the ole imply A/publicly state B. It's the ole Iraq-9/11 tie-in/non-tie in that works so well on the average reader or consumer of news. We snarf up these unstated insinuations like, well, like crack. And these Experts dole them out like faithful dealers. One more hit, please, to distract us from the darkening blisters on our lips.
ABC news in Charleston offers some interesting reasoning as to why the drug (introduced into primarily Hispanic areas) is "most popular" with "the Hispanic community": "because it gives the same high as the cocaine and heroin combination, but costs as little as $2 a hit." Care to break that down? Oh, wait, I get it. The reason the Chinese or Greek or Anglo or Black communities are not the largest group using this drug (introduced into primarily Hispanic areas) is because...it is cheap and Hispanics are poor? And because Hispanics are particularly fond of a speedball type of high? Okay. Got it.
This post is not to say that there is not a serious epidemic of a new drug combo happening. One of the purposes of this post is to trumpet that very fact. Neither is this post meant to refute that action needs to be taken. It does not blame parents who need to work long hours, and have to entrust schools to take care of their children. After all, that is what schools are supposed to do. And what are parents to do anymore, when sending their child to public school (schools for those with less money than those who can afford private schools) exposes them to the possibility of bullet spray, drug pushers, or lecherous teachers—not to mention slanted history lessons?
I have no answer for this. I personally believe public schooling is one of the worst things you can do for a child. Just like the great thinkers warned us of the dangers of abdicating our conscience to the decisions and whims of other people, or a list of tenets in a book, we ought to learn that we cannot abdicate our children to a system that does not love them, and in fact, gains to enslave their minds and souls. The system as it stands has been devised—or if you prefer to be more forgiving—has evolved—to make it impossible for those of us not of the financial elite to protect our children from this harm. For how many of us can afford to homeschool a child?
How did we come to this place, where most of our life is dedicated to a study of rationalization; to a grind of usually unsatisfying and dull work? Where our children cannot work by our side, or play by our side and thus learn from us, directly, how to be human beings? Where we plug them into TV and Brand Name Toys and 2 hour long commercials for products and lifestyles that destroy them? Are we really surprised when they become teenagers and hardly know or respect us? Should we gasp in shock when they become statistics—victims of advertising, of other bent humans, or the poisonous memes that proliferate our social conversations and the constant flux of marketing? Given the state of our nation and all its mental and spiritual and social decay, are we really surprised when even the young children turn into killers and junkies? Do we have the right to be surprised? And do we expect any sympathy from History when it is understood that as a People we couldn't recognize the most obvious symptoms of our society's failure?
We will, undoubtedly, keep running with our Western holed-bucket methods to bail out our boat from the ever-rising ocean of symptomology—using metal detectors, more invasive laws, security checks, walls, lists of items we cannot bring on trips, spying methods, police powers, wars of fearful aggression—until one day, our ignorance engulfs us completely. It may up for debate whether or not we will deserve such a burial. But surely the children do not.
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Comentarios (22)
XP dijo:
It hasn't hit here in H-Town yet, if it has, its not making the news yet.
Palabras por XP spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 10:09 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
Yeah, it makes sense that the news is painting it as some hysterical epidemic. Why not? As I said, it's a triple whammy on our people. Not saying it isn't a dire situation for these schools (11 Dallas schools so far). But one thing I always remember is that the NEWS is the chosen NEWS. it is not all the news nor the most important news. It is what fits into an agenda that is highlighted.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 10:23 AM
darkblack dijo:
Targeted marketing, just like Freeway Ricky Ross and the Nicaraguans back in the 80's. 'Plus ce change...'
Whoever's running this is financing something else that requires liquidity of capitalization. Hopefully, whoever investigates it won't end up like Gary Webb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Palabras por darkblack spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 10:53 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
The ole' two-shots to the face suicide method. I wonder why that isn't used more often.
Poor Gary Webb. A real journalist. Of course he had to be killed. He wanted to tell people the truth.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 11:09 AM
XP dijo:
I hear ya, but isn't it funny how Afghanistan has the heroin crown
Palabras por XP spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 11:32 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
But...the Freedom™ that is blossoming in Afghanistan makes up for the boom in the Heroin trade. Right?
And what are you suggesting? That this news item is being covered with such urgency to distract Americans from the real source of the chiva? That this frantic news coverage is designed to paint a picture that the increase in heroin trafficking in the US is from Mexico, when really it is a result of our war on Afghanistan? HA! Next you'll be telling me Bush lied about WMDs!
Remember: it's MEXICAN heroin, not AFGHANISTAN heroin. Keep saying it. Over and over.
Good boy.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 11:40 AM
XP dijo:
Naw...why would I want to do that, that would be like me saying that we "wiped out" the Mexican heroin ring operating across US.
Palabras por XP spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 12:17 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
Whew. For a moment there you had me thinking that perhaps there was more to our government's actions and press releases than it seems!
That link is clearly an attempt to fool the Mexicans into thinking that the US is letting its guard down so we can pounce on them and end their devious ways for good and for all.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 12:31 PM
darkblack dijo:
Someone's got to pick up the slack from that wishy-washy Golden Triangle...That smack won't shoot itself into America's veins, gosh darn it...and Fox's Battle Of The Network Boobies trampoline bouncing competition is on, just in time for the nod to wear off.
;>)
Palabras por darkblack spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 12:56 PM
RickB dijo:
Probably related to this ICE/DHS/DEA shindig
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2007/2/11/17325/3527
Palabras por RickB spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 01:39 PM
L.G. Fucktard dijo:
Speaking of blisters on lips, the huffin stuff is still pouring in from Iraq, so all is well.
Palabras por L.G. Fucktard spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 02:11 PM
Arcturus dijo:
you'd think they'd get some new writers, but why bother since it all keeps workign so well?
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 04:05 PM
turtlebella dijo:
See, us hispanics need the speed cos we are LAZY. and here in America they don't like lazy, do it manana mezzicans. And um, we want to be like speedy gonzalez? I'm not sure about the Tylenol PM part. Maybe that's in there cos we like to take naps?
Seriously though. Fucked up shit. The news, I don't think they think they can exist without creating everything into a completely hysterical epidemic nightmare. In my own cynical way, I'm thinking the news studio and other types had various discussions about whether to pin it~however loosely or indirectly~ on the terrorists (with Afghanistan/Iraq heroin connections) or the Latino gang members/Mexican cross-border drug cartels. Am I a conspiracy-theorist or does anyone else think that they went with the Latino connection because the war on terrorism isn't actually that popular these days?
Also- Nez...is there a reason I'm not getting feeds for the Unapologetic Mexican on bloglines? for the past few days: nada! And suddenly I thought, I wonder if Nezua is in a coma, it's not like him to be so silent. And indeed, you were not being silent. It was me. Any ideas?
Palabras por turtlebella spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 06:36 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
hmmm. let me check. i will change a few settings. you tell me if it changes things on your end from now on.
yeah, i don't know why the news articles are comparing it to a "speedball" high. i just copied it down, but for that to be true, the Tylenol PM part would have to be the speed part. but both heroin and tylenol are the opposite of speed...so do they mean the acetominophen? i guess. they say this "cheese" needs all three ingredients. anyway.
i think the last thing our govt wants to do is draw attention to the fact that our war on afghanistan—popular or not—has flooded the USA with dope. so it makes total sense they are making connections to Mexico to explain it.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 06:43 PM
turtlebella dijo:
yeah, I was a bit confused about the heroin (not exactly speed) plus tylenol pm (not exactly speed) equals speedball high. but what i know about drug interactions is like almost nothing. so....who knows. And yeah, the govmt they don't want us to think about the heroin coming from afghanistan. War on drugs, my ass. Only war on drugs if it comes from somewhere SOUTH of our border!!!!
Palabras por turtlebella spat forth on el 24 de Febrero, 2007 at 07:27 PM
Rafael dijo:
Mexico, like Puerto Rico is the highway, not the destination. Its American Narco-Dollars that fuel the drug trade. But its easy to blame the Mexicans, or Puerto Ricans, or Colombians or Peruvians or anyone else but the real consumers of this shit. Or gutters clog with dead bodies while we go to sleep to gunfire lullabies (I still remember those). And now they are sued to poison children, exploiting them from cradle to grave, making the journey that much shorter and harder.
When will this end?
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 25 de Febrero, 2007 at 12:14 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
when the Brown™ are entirely dead, exploited completely, or....those who would see us and all our kind wiped out are stopped somehow. or changed. it's a Long War, the only one out there. i wish i knew. i wish i could live to see the day.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 25 de Febrero, 2007 at 04:34 AM
fernando dijo:
I can't believe the Dallas Morning News actually published something real.
Palabras por fernando spat forth on el 25 de Febrero, 2007 at 05:27 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
well, yes. "real," but if read the article closely (some of which i've outlined above) it's completely slanted against Mexico and Hispanics.
but i guess that's as real as it gets, tho, eh?
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 25 de Febrero, 2007 at 05:33 AM
XP dijo:
turtlebella - I think you must have that tin foil a bit too tight around your head, now why would this great country of ours what to connect us good hard working mescans with em towel heads. I am sure the FBI, and the Justice Department's Criminal Division have a reasonable excuse why they mislabeled their undocumented immigrant cases as anti-terrorism. I mean, why would Al "Torture Lover" Gonzales sell a brotha out. He one of us, he came from the hood.
Palabras por XP spat forth on el 25 de Febrero, 2007 at 02:20 PM
mikefromtexas dijo:
When someone says 'War On Drugs' laugh at them and reply NAFTA. If they continue, keep laughing at them. To make matters worse, is anyone familiar with the proposed Trans-Texas Corrider????? If not, Google it. It may keep you up at night...
Palabras por mikefromtexas spat forth on el 26 de Febrero, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Ill Do Chay dijo:
Hey, why the big gripe about Afghani H? Sounds to me like the Afghani People have embraced Murkan-style Capitalism! Mission Accomplished!
I too have doubts that the combo would be speedy in any sense. I suspect that's a selling point, but once you're addicted, makes no difference.
Last point - I believe the biggest backers of the War On Drugs are the cartel overlords. You know Al Capone didn't make his fortune without alcohol prohibition. WOD is just a different prohibition. KA-CHING!
Palabras por Ill Do Chay spat forth on el 1 de Marzo, 2007 at 11:22 AM