White Supremacist network busted with enough fentanyl to kill over a million people.
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What gets me is there was no national reporting of this huge bust in the national press.
Did we see anything on the major networks; NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC CNN? I didn't did you? How about the major newspapers?
I gooled "huge fentanyl drug bust. Absolutely nothing came up.
This is the release from the Justice Department
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/drug-ring-tied-aryan-prison-gang-indicted-24-federal-arrests
But all we hear from Republican congress people is how Biden is letting drug runners stream across the Mexican border.
This is huge news and should have been widely reported. Instead nada, nothing.
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)Where?
cilla4progress
(24,588 posts)and Arizona
Me.
(35,454 posts)looked but couldn't see
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)Headline says Tacoma
dutch777
(2,871 posts)What was that quote I just saw the other day, a movement becomes a business and then becomes a racket? Seems true in this case.
atreides1
(16,046 posts)That's one group of the Republican base that won't be voting!
wnylib
(21,146 posts)Might not be eligible to vote.
Vogon_Glory
(9,085 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)Maybe this was just anticipation, too soon.
Goddessartist
(1,710 posts)Homeland Security, FBI, helicopters....with an arrest for human trafficking and fentanyl distribution...
https://vashon-maury.com/police-activity-on-vashon-possibly-linked-to-fentanol-and-human-trafficking/
Vashon is a 15 minute ferry ride from Tacoma. I used to think it was a safe little island...I suppose it is in the larger scheme of things. I used to live in Tacoma, and one of my daughters just moved back to the island from Tacoma because the crime seems to be out of control in some areas.
leftieNanner
(14,998 posts)Love it here.
But we used to live in a bedroom community near San Francisco where there were meth lab busts. Sometimes I think they choose areas like that because nobody expects to find drugs in a family safe city.
Goddessartist
(1,710 posts)Moved from Vashon to Tacoma, then back. We loved it there and still do. We will only shop over town in Tacoma. It's a beautiful city, with wonderful restaurants, etc. Just don't go to Hilltop if possible.
Here on Vashon, we've lost several youths to Fentanyl. Two I know. One died from it, and one has lost her child, and is succumbing to it yet again after being detoxed several times. I knew her as a young girl. The young man was only about 30 or so. I love/loved them both.
Aviation Pro
(12,053 posts)Fuck Todd.
And Lydia too.
Upthevibe
(7,882 posts)Yep................
Lucky Luciano
(11,242 posts)Bev54
(9,963 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,383 posts)other , throw away the key.
llashram
(6,265 posts)of these racist pigs LOVE trump. He loves them. Hell if trump could make $$$ off of a huge cache like this, that murderous POS would do it. Down with trump and his foot soldier suckers like these.
BOSSHOG
(36,854 posts)Duncanpup
(12,716 posts)They are sick evil with that white power lies theyd kill their own race and other races to make a $.
Kittycatkat
(1,356 posts)subterranean
(3,427 posts)That, along with the Nashville shooting, might partially explain why this story got less media attention than it should have.
Kittycatkat
(1,356 posts)And I did love that headline!
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)it is measured in kilos.
ShazzieB
(15,958 posts)Traildogbob
(8,576 posts)Damn you Biden. Those were all Obama voters. And Biden is his clone.
TeamProg
(5,788 posts)bahboo
(16,234 posts)and should be treated as such...
stopdiggin
(11,094 posts)if not exclusively, then at least primarily. And, yes .. organized crime in every way. Ideology very much secondary to money and criminal enterprise.
Delphinus
(11,808 posts)even thought about that, it being an organized crime network.
evolves
(5,394 posts)border is the problem.
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ancianita
(35,812 posts)I've just posted it on FB and asked that people share it.
There are 50 states with field offices involved in drugs/guns trafficking investigations and arrests. It's probably understandable that editors' decisions are likely market based and biased. But if we want MSM to pick up this huge news, we'll probably have to try to repost it on social media so they receive it on their feeds, and then decide to give it coverage.
Just sayin'.
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Chakaconcarne
(2,387 posts)COL Mustard
(5,783 posts)I immediately thought you meant Fox.
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)Warpy
(110,910 posts)that they moved on from meth and into fentanyl. The reagents for meth were getting more risky to obtain, but fentanyl is so potent that it's really easy to conceal and ship from China through the Mexican cartels to gangs in the US.
Every street drug is now turning up with fentanyl contamination, even cocaine.
The major news media are hobbled by the corporate parent company. They're not going to report anything that disparages the sainted right wing.
live love laugh
(13,004 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,702 posts)2.5 grams is allowable to be carried while 3 mg is lethal. And the cops won't even confiscate it.
SunSeeker
(51,370 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,558 posts)White people don't fit the narrative and don't make good copy in yellow journalistic circles.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)orleans
(33,987 posts)no msm outlet other than that (from what i can tell)
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here is a better source, there's a tv news video & they specifically mention how much fentanyl was confiscated; seattle times didn't say how much (because they're lame?)
https://komonews.com/news/local/fentanyl-aryan-prison-gang-methamphetamine-guns-drug-trafficking-seizure-24-arrests-white-supremacist-members-seattle-tacoma-washington-state-mexico-idaho-federal-operation-drugs
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SouthernDem4ever
(6,470 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Charlottesville Tiki Torcher Killed Himself Before Drug Smuggling Trial
jmowreader
(50,452 posts)and assume they were planning to sell all this to minorities. Take either their money, or their money and their lives.
progressoid
(49,825 posts)Prairie_Seagull
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I wonder and have for a while if the explosion of opioid availability and subsequent abuse isn't also what brought some magats out from under their rocks. I am not a medical professional but a quick search turns up the following.
This is copy/pasted:
Chronic opioid abuse can lead to issues like:
poor response to stress
antisocial personality disorder
depression
problems with decision-making and behavior
behavior regulation
altered pain perception
chronic discontent
Hmmm who does this sound like?
I know that some chronic pain sufferers need these meds and in my mind are accepted from this.
Conjuay
(1,300 posts)To finance a revolution.
IronLionZion
(45,259 posts)and not these "fine people" right here in the USA.
Only local news is covering it. Here's Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/24-wa-residents-indicted-in-aryan-family-drug-ring/