This just never ends. Oddly, I was married to a VPD undercover drug cop for years. He said years ago that the drug issue would be insurmountable. There was no way it could or would be controlled. ( I don’t have insider info except that statement.) the extent of corruption is far and wide, vast. Therefore, it was never hard for me to see the links and understand Sam Cooper is “right on the money” with all his investigations. Grateful that knowledge is finally being shared. Thank you again.
Thanks Susan I think your husband was right. It would take a reorganization of trade, and thankfully it looks like the US govt is seriously considering this now.
Would that still be happening if Trump gets back in? Scares the hell out of me what China is doing to the US and Canada. Obviously both need leaders with morals , strength and commitment. We just haven't found them yet.
The world is just corrupt. People want 2 things. Money and Power. They don’t care how they get them and when one creates the other there’s no end to the corruption that get them those means. The DNC and The Clintons. Should have known once they got their hooks into those two the pipeline will be open until they both die. 100,000 of our citizens died last year. 100,000! Nothing is being done about that poison coming into the US. Why? Money and Power.
Such suspicions of corruption and just overall seediness worldwide is disconcerting. What can be done? How do you find the one thread to pull to at least make a dent in these people. So much of it centered on the Chinese Community Party and it's dirty outreach an outreach that our government in Canada has not made much efforts to curtail and perhaps actually encouraged. Who are the witting in the Canadian government that have supported their drive to bring the West down?
Our political, educational and economic systems have all been infiltrated and/or co-opted by foreign governments. Chinese, police and judges were regularly feted by our police training agencies, ostensibly because the Chinese wanted to learn how our justice system operated. Yes, I'm sure that they had no idea how the system works in Canada -- NOT! Canadian officials are extremely kind and generous with everything except providing information to out those who've been co-opted. And the RCMP doesn't want to jeopardize Canadian business interests by discussing political subterfuge. What's terrifying about all of this is that democracies under attack automatically morph into autocracies with the full support of its citizens -- who increasingly hale from places where the populace lives under the thumb of autocrats. I wonder whether they view a little bit of autocracy as way more comfortable than brutal autocracy? Sigh.... We must be kind, but not recklessly so. This isn't about race, it's about installing locks to keep all malicious intruders out.
Once again, we must rely on American law enforcement and intelligence to react to a threat that has been going on for decades. They always talk about coexisting with China, how China can be our friend, how we can trade and be adversaries...
No.
People don't understand Chinese leadership. How they view the world. How much they hate us and the west. How they will use ANY possible loophole against us. There is no friendship possible. They want us dead. They want our society crumbling. They've wanted it for 100 years if not more. The faster we can understand this the better. There is no win-win. There is no cooperation. They will use everything against us. Every penny.
We should have learned this during Covid. They asked for help and the world, including Canada, handed billions, millions of masks, specialists etc. When the world needed help, what did China do? Spit in our faces. Sold crappy vaccines in exchange for favors, took our free masks, used them, sold us crappy counterfeit ones 80 times the price.
Politicians need to get this through their thick short-sided brains. China is an enemy. Not the Chinese people. The Chinese political dynasty. They will never stop until we are crumbling ruins of our former glory.
Thanks as always Sam. The system is only as strong as its weakest link and when it comes to shipping drugs, the weakest link is the port system. The western world underestimates the extent of the CCP's ambition to remould the world in the image they value. Partnering with organised crime, both in Latin America and domestically in the PRC, as you have reported before Sam, is a macabre win-win situation for the CCP. They achieve destruction of vast numbers of US and Canadian lives through drug abuse while profiting from the process. And the lives of the victims are those least valued by politicians, who lack any motivation to prioritise fixing things on the ground.
This grim confluence of factors means we should not expect drug-fuelled deaths to stop any time soon.
This just never ends. Oddly, I was married to a VPD undercover drug cop for years. He said years ago that the drug issue would be insurmountable. There was no way it could or would be controlled. ( I don’t have insider info except that statement.) the extent of corruption is far and wide, vast. Therefore, it was never hard for me to see the links and understand Sam Cooper is “right on the money” with all his investigations. Grateful that knowledge is finally being shared. Thank you again.
Thanks Susan I think your husband was right. It would take a reorganization of trade, and thankfully it looks like the US govt is seriously considering this now.
Would that still be happening if Trump gets back in? Scares the hell out of me what China is doing to the US and Canada. Obviously both need leaders with morals , strength and commitment. We just haven't found them yet.
The world is just corrupt. People want 2 things. Money and Power. They don’t care how they get them and when one creates the other there’s no end to the corruption that get them those means. The DNC and The Clintons. Should have known once they got their hooks into those two the pipeline will be open until they both die. 100,000 of our citizens died last year. 100,000! Nothing is being done about that poison coming into the US. Why? Money and Power.
Power over principle and money over morals.
Such suspicions of corruption and just overall seediness worldwide is disconcerting. What can be done? How do you find the one thread to pull to at least make a dent in these people. So much of it centered on the Chinese Community Party and it's dirty outreach an outreach that our government in Canada has not made much efforts to curtail and perhaps actually encouraged. Who are the witting in the Canadian government that have supported their drive to bring the West down?
Our political, educational and economic systems have all been infiltrated and/or co-opted by foreign governments. Chinese, police and judges were regularly feted by our police training agencies, ostensibly because the Chinese wanted to learn how our justice system operated. Yes, I'm sure that they had no idea how the system works in Canada -- NOT! Canadian officials are extremely kind and generous with everything except providing information to out those who've been co-opted. And the RCMP doesn't want to jeopardize Canadian business interests by discussing political subterfuge. What's terrifying about all of this is that democracies under attack automatically morph into autocracies with the full support of its citizens -- who increasingly hale from places where the populace lives under the thumb of autocrats. I wonder whether they view a little bit of autocracy as way more comfortable than brutal autocracy? Sigh.... We must be kind, but not recklessly so. This isn't about race, it's about installing locks to keep all malicious intruders out.
Once again, we must rely on American law enforcement and intelligence to react to a threat that has been going on for decades. They always talk about coexisting with China, how China can be our friend, how we can trade and be adversaries...
No.
People don't understand Chinese leadership. How they view the world. How much they hate us and the west. How they will use ANY possible loophole against us. There is no friendship possible. They want us dead. They want our society crumbling. They've wanted it for 100 years if not more. The faster we can understand this the better. There is no win-win. There is no cooperation. They will use everything against us. Every penny.
We should have learned this during Covid. They asked for help and the world, including Canada, handed billions, millions of masks, specialists etc. When the world needed help, what did China do? Spit in our faces. Sold crappy vaccines in exchange for favors, took our free masks, used them, sold us crappy counterfeit ones 80 times the price.
Politicians need to get this through their thick short-sided brains. China is an enemy. Not the Chinese people. The Chinese political dynasty. They will never stop until we are crumbling ruins of our former glory.
Thanks as always Sam. The system is only as strong as its weakest link and when it comes to shipping drugs, the weakest link is the port system. The western world underestimates the extent of the CCP's ambition to remould the world in the image they value. Partnering with organised crime, both in Latin America and domestically in the PRC, as you have reported before Sam, is a macabre win-win situation for the CCP. They achieve destruction of vast numbers of US and Canadian lives through drug abuse while profiting from the process. And the lives of the victims are those least valued by politicians, who lack any motivation to prioritise fixing things on the ground.
This grim confluence of factors means we should not expect drug-fuelled deaths to stop any time soon.