Brutal Viral Meme Exposes Politicians and Bankers as Drug Dealing Criminals

Claire Bernish 

Though the justice system in the United States might continue to be represented by Lady Justice, whose blindfold and scales symbolize the fair and equitable application of law without prejudice, regardless of one’s station in life, few could argue how that original intent has actually played out. With the blindfold long ago ripped off, Lady Justice metes out sentences based solely on power, privilege, and the size of one’s wallet.
This is, of course, most clearly evident in the State’s absurd War on Drugs — far more fittingly called a War on the People. A war in which, just as a recently viral meme describes, “anti-drug” politicians deal drugs, banks launder that illicit profit, the president supplies the cartels with badly needed weapons, and the military ineptly loses massive shipments of drugs — and all of this is carried out with complete impunity. However, if you are not an agent of the State and happen to be caught with one of the most medicinally beneficial plants on Earth in one of the State’s arbitrary areas where possessing or using that plant remains a no-no, it’s guaranteed you will not receive the same treatment.
  Take the case of Senator Mitch McConnell who, as The Free Thought Project revealed in November 2014, had solid connections to the cargo ship Ping May which was stopped and searched by Colombian Coast Guard agents — who then discovered roughly 90 pounds of cocaine stashed on board. McConnell’s in-laws, the Chao family — who have donated enormous sums of money to the senator’s various campaigns — own the Foremost Maritime Corporation, which operated the Ping May. In a hubristic irony, possible only by a politician, McConnell — known for his vendetta against cannabis and sponsorship of “The Enhanced Marijuana Penalties Act,” designed to arbitrarily inflate mandatory minimum sentences for anyone caught with weed — never faced any repercussions. That’s not surprising, considering agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency itself received bonuses after they were caught engaging in sex parties with prostitutes they hired using money from drug cartels. Hard to believe, but 100% true.
If you happen to be a member of one of those aforementioned cartels (or, perhaps, a politician or DEA agent who makes business transactions with them), you won’t need to ferret stacks of cash under a mattress anytime soon — the banks are more than happy to help you hide your profits. As Rolling Stone reported in December 2012, then-Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer “signed off on a settlement deal with the British banking giant HSBC that is the ultimate insult to every ordinary person who’s ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge. Despite the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels … Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to pursue criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a ‘record’ financial settlement of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is about five weeks of income for the bank.” In 2014, HuffPost noted several other Big Banks, including Bank of America, Western Union, and JPMorgan, have also been “allegedly involved in the drug trade.”