“Man has no right to turn his back upon and to ignore what is going on in the world—and there are supreme moral reasons for not allowing him to do so.”~Dostoyevsky~
Unintentionally and coincidentally, 60 Minutes has partly answered some of my questions from a few posts ago. If you have been reading from the beginning, you will recognize the woman in the red dress as Ms. Anne Milgram, the head of the D.E.A. Once again, she has made an Oscar-worthy performance.
What were we able to learn from this 60 Minutes episode, aside from how much Ms. Milgram cares and how much effort the Justice Department’s law enforcement agencies are putting into solving the difficult problem of preventing the flow of chemicals purchased from China, assembled into chemical weapons in Mexico, and then smuggled into the United States from Mexico by terrorist organizations?
Key Takeaways
Over 70,000 murders a year are being directly attributed to fentanyl by the D.E.A. I have seen reports that puts that estimate closer to 110,000 murders annually. However, 70,000 lives are more lives than the US military lost in the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined. In case you did not grasp that, during the almost 40 years that the US military fought in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, fewer Americans were killed than are killed every year in the U.S. by terrorist organizations operating in Mexico and the United States.
That number includes twenty-two children between the ages of 14-18 every week. That is more high school students per week killed by terrorist organizations than school shooters kill annually.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, 90% of all the chemical weapons being smuggled into the United States are being smuggled through legal ports of entry by people with US passports.
Although the Department of Homeland Security has no idea what percentage of the chemical weapons they are seizing, they do know that during fiscal 2023, they seized 27,000 lbs of fentanyl. According to Ms. Milgram, the D.E.A. has taken “hundreds of millions of lethal doses” off of the streets. That begs the questions: what percentage can they actually be seizing? And, how many “hundreds of millions” of lethal doses are still out there? Counting every man, woman, and child, there are only 4 hundred million Americans in the entire country.
Remember, according to Senator Kennedy, a quantity of fentanyl that will fit on the tip of his little pencil, 2 milligrams, is enough to kill a person. Using some Birdman conversions, we can calculate that 27,000 lbs of fentanyl is 12 billion, 246 million, 993 thousand, 990 milligrams.
According to Senator Kennedy, that is over 6 billion lethal doses of the chemical weapon. What is the total human population of the Earth? Whatever the percentage of these chemical weapons making it into the United States, I think that it is fair to say that many more lethal doses are getting into the country than DHS is confiscating.
I was excited to learn that someone else in the federal government agrees with me. During this House Homeland Security hearing, Mr. Clay Higgins, from the great state of Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district, states that without having to legislate one new law, the federal government has the power right now to stop these terrorist organizations from murdering one more American citizen.
I mentioned earlier that these terrorist organizations operating the United States are killing more school children every week than active shooters kill in a year. Ironically, the federal government charges the children that commit those crimes as adults and is now even prosecuting the parents of the children who kill their classmates as accessories to the crimes.
Fifteen-year-old Ethan Crumbley from Michigan, killed 4 and injured 8. He was tried and convicted as an adult. His parents were sentenced to 10 years each for the murders their child committed.
https://apnews.com/article/james-crumbley-jennifer-crumbley-oxford-school-shooting-e5888f615c76c3b26153c34dc36d5436
Fourteen-year-old Colt Gray from Georgia recently killed four people at the school he attended. He is being tried as an adult. His father is also being charged with felonies
I am sure there is an obvious and reasonable answer. However, I still wonder why the adults working for these terrorist organizations who are responsible for killing many more American citizens, including children, are not being prosecuted by the federal government at least as harshly as the federal government and/or states prosecute school children.
As the parents said at the beginning of the 60 minutes episode, everyone thinks that it is someone else’s problem until someone they know or love is murdered. That being said, I want to know why the federal government is allowing it to happen when it is obvious how easy it would be for them to stop the murder of so many American citizens?
“I have never been a coward at heart, although I’ve always been a coward in action”—(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground)
“What you allow, will continue.”—Senator John Kennedy, United States Senate