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Expert’s Stunning Conclusion: China’s Killing Americans ‘Deliberately’

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Well-known China expert Gordon Chang has concluded that China is killing Americans “deliberately” with its export of fentanyl.

Writing for the Gatestone Institute, he quotes Fox News host Tucker Carlson stating it’s a fact that “fentanyl and Covid both came from China, China’s our main rival, they’re benefiting from the deaths of many thousands of Americans.”

Chang writes that China has been pushing fentanyl into the U.S. for years, and last year fatal drug overdoses hit a record 70,980, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . .

Vanda Felbab-Brown of the Brookings Institution has called it the “deadliest” drug epidemic in American history. . .

“In short, China’s regime is killing Americans with fentanyl. It is doing so deliberately. Carlson was right to suggest intentionality.” (Read more from “Expert’s Stunning Conclusion: China’s Killing Americans ‘Deliberately'” HERE)

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Ohio’s Drug Crisis Is Caused by Mexican Cartels, Not Prescription Drugs

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There are endless lawsuits in Ohio against pharmaceutical companies over the drug crisis, but to get the real culprit, it’s time to sue the government for not enforcing immigration laws. The drug crisis is all about the Mexican drug cartels and their criminal alien distribution networks in our country, not prescription opioids.

In 2017, 4,854 died in the Buckeye State from unintentional drug overdoses, more than any other year on record. Of those deaths, just 10.8 percent were from prescription drugs, according to the Ohio Department of Health. And there’s good reason to believe that some of those deaths are really the result of heroin too. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), many of the deaths due to morphine are likely really heroin deaths but recorded as morphine in toxicology “because morphine is a metabolite of heroin.”

In fact, the number of prescription deaths actually decreased before the crisis even began. The entirety of the epidemic increase beginning around 2014 was due to fentanyl and, to a lesser extent, meth and cocaine. . .

So, what is causing the deaths? It’s all the Mexican drug cartels and their illicit drug distribution networks, often powered by illegal aliens. Recently, there have been several busts in the Toledo area. In the third major bust in northwest Ohio, federal drug cops arrested Robert Escobar for intent to traffic 21 pounds of fentanyl. That might not sound like a lot, but given that a lethal dose of fentanyl is about two milligrams, this stash was enough to kill well over four million people, or more than a third of the state’s population.

U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman, as quoted in the Toledo Blade, perfectly captures the trail of the drug crisis.

“Mexican cartel activity in Ohio is very high — it’s a significant threat to us across the whole state. It’s not just Toledo, it’s every midsized city, small town, and big city — every city has connections back to Mexican cartels,” Mr. Herdman said, adding Toledo has historically been a market because of its network of highways, along with its consumer demand.

“That’s where our drugs are coming from. They’re not being manufactured here in the United States, the way that they get here is through the networks that the cartels run.”

Reading this comment, I was reminded of what Robert Murphy, special agent in charge of the DEA’s Atlanta office, told me earlier this year. “The product doesn’t sell itself or produce itself. It’s the people who make the cartel run, collect the cash, do the distribution, engage in violence, and run operations for the cartel. Those are what’s essential. The product is an after-fact. Without the people, the cartels have no success.”

Who are these people? “Predominantly, what we arrest here is illegal aliens. Sure, you might find some Americans who would be willing to go to Mexico and work for the cartels, but it won’t be the level that they need to have the control of the U.S. market like they do now with the illegals and Mexican nationals.”

During the major bust on “Devil’s Highway” in Lawrence, Massachusetts, two weeks ago, 40 individuals were arrested for drug trafficking in the major pipeline fueling the entire crisis in New England. According to former DEA special operations division head Derek Maltz, “The majority of the people arrested” in that bust were illegal aliens.

So where is the urgency to enforce immigration law and clamp down on sanctuary cities that release illegal alien drug traffickers when they are caught?

Maltz, in an interview with CR, lamented that the federal government won’t even take action to designate the Mexican cartels as terrorists. “In order for the U.S. to achieve its stated objective and dismantle the drug cartels, we must come to the realization that Mexican drug cartels are not solely organized crime organizations but instead are terrorist organizations who pose a national security threat and who have attacked and destroyed a democratic society directly across our southern borders.”

Earlier this year, the Ohio House passed a resolution asking the federal government to designate the cartels as terrorists. Maltz testified at the hearing on the resolution.

Ohio has already taken a hatchet to prescription opioids, and it is harming legitimate pain patients. Prescriptions have plummeted by 28 percent from 2012 to 2017. How about taking a hatchet to criminal alien networks? In our litigious society, it seems that nothing is off-limits to lawfare except illegal immigration. (For more from the author of “Ohio’s Drug Crisis Is Caused by Mexican Cartels, Not Prescription Drugs” HERE)

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CDC: Year’s Challenges Include ‘Steep and Sustained Increases’ in STDs, Opioid Deaths

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The most pressing health threats for Americans in 2018 included “steep and sustained increases in sexually transmitted diseases” and declining overall life expectancy blamed in large part on the opioid crisis.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s year-end roundup also noted that since August the agency has been coordinating with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health as the second-largest ebola outbreak in history sweeps through the region.

The World Health Organization reported last week that battling the ebola outbreak in the DRC “continues to be a complex challenge” as “pockets of community reluctance and the conflict setting continue to obstruct activities in some affected areas.” . . .

CDC also responded to several foodborne illness outbreaks over the year, including E. coli contamination of romaine lettuce that led to nationwide recalls, and formed a task force in November to respond to a marked increase in cases of acute flaccid myelitis — a rare but serious nervous system condition that develops mostly in children after a mild viral infection.

The agency also noted a record-breaking increase in reports of sexually transmitted diseases, including nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. STDs increased for the fourth year in a row, the CDC reported in August, including gonorrhea nearly doubling among men. (Read more from “CDC: Year’s Challenges Include ‘Steep and Sustained Increases’ in STDs, Opioid Deaths” HERE)

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Trump Set to Sign Bill Battling Opioid Crisis at the Border

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Tomorrow, President Trump will sign into law H.R.6 – the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act to address the opioid crisis that is crippling the nation. While the over-prescription of pills gets a lot of attention in the national media, the bigger problem arguably comes from the illicit drugs coming in over the southern border. Illicit drugs like heroin and fentanyl accounted for 78 percent of the 64,000 drug-related deaths in 2016. Last year alone, 30,000 people died from synthetic opioids.

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, who has been one of most visible White House officials working on battling the opioid crisis, told reporters on a phone call that this bill has many provisions that will help with the interdiction, surveillance, and disruption of illegal drugs getting into the country. For instance, the bill includes the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention Act — or STOP Act —which would require the Postal Service to scan all packages entering the U.S from places like China and Mexico for opioids. Earlier this year, President Trump urged congress to pass the STOP Act and “firmly STOP this poison from killing our children and destroying our country.” It passed in a bipartisan fashion.

More importantly, Conway said it will help bend the curve in the right direction on ending what experts are calling the single worst drug crisis this country has seen.

Tomorrow, the White House will also showcase private companies partnering up with the public sector to help increase awareness about what this administration is doing to combat the opioid epidemic. For instance, “Take Back Day,” which aims to provide a safe and anonymous way of disposing of prescription drugs.

Conway also teased big announcements from Amazon, Red Cross and Cigna.

You can read more about the bill here. (For more from the author of “Trump Set to Sign Bill Battling Opioid Crisis at the Border” please click HERE)

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Report: Trump Opioid Crisis Plan to Include Death Penalty for Drug Dealers

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President Donald Trump’s administration will release a plan to combat the opioid crisis (which is really a fentanyl/heroin crisis) that will include a proposal to give the death penalty to certain classes of drug dealers.

Politico obtained two drafts of the plan, which is expected to be formally announced Monday. The White House plan calls for the death penalty in cases “where opioid, including Fentanyl-related, drug dealing and trafficking are directly responsible for death.” The plan also suggests new law enforcement measures such as making mandatory minimum sentences for drug dealers who knowingly trade in lethal drugs like fentanyl easier to invoke and a new task force to prosecute criminally negligent doctors, pharmacies, and other opioid providers.

President Trump has recently insisted that it’s time for the federal government to crack down on illicit drug dealers.

“You kill 5,000 people with drugs because you’re smuggling them in and you are making a lot of money and people are dying. And they don’t even put you in jail,” Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend. “That’s why we have a problem, folks. I don’t think we should play games.” Trump cited the president of Singapore to make his point, noting that he had asked him if Singapore has a drug problem. “He said ‘We have a zero tolerance policy. That means if we catch a drug dealer, death penalty,’” Trump said. (For more from the author of “Report: Trump Opioid Crisis Plan to Include Death Penalty for Drug Dealers” please click HERE)

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