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Baitball Blogger

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25. So much American history, that wouldn't have happen if not for complicity.
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 03:24 PM
Jun 2020

They probably paid to silence the authorities and politicians.

Interesting Mike 03 Jun 2020 #1
If cocaine was dumped, it had to be in the eighties. 5X Jun 2020 #2
I think in the movie traffic or crash they Baitball Blogger Jun 2020 #20
It was meant to raise money for the illegal armament of the contras in Nicaragua. Voltaire2 Jun 2020 #24
The 1980s, when Reagan was President is when it happened karynnj Jun 2020 #3
Also, didn't Congress give immunity to those who testified who should have gone to prison Hestia Jun 2020 #8
Yes, the main hearing did, but the earlier Kerry ones did not karynnj Jun 2020 #13
Bill Barr and roger stone. How do we close the Baitball Blogger Jun 2020 #21
It is amazing how they keep resurfacing! karynnj Jun 2020 #22
It was the 80's. ananda Jun 2020 #4
You do know they really don't exist but are labeled as such. Goes with the Welfare Queen memes. Hestia Jun 2020 #10
I taught the first wave of them JT45242 Jun 2020 #18
Crack babies are a myth JonLP24 Jun 2020 #23
I lived in Los Angeles during the entirety of the 80s. Mike 03 Jun 2020 #5
Remember reading movie budgets included major amt for cocaine bobbieinok Jun 2020 #12
It depends on the purity and percentage of the cocaine - anything, I think over 7% is addictive Hestia Jun 2020 #15
So much American history, that wouldn't have happen if not for complicity. Baitball Blogger Jun 2020 #25
In the 60s it would have been heroin JHB Jun 2020 #6
Same time they dumped in here in JA with the guns malaise Jun 2020 #7
It was the mid-80's when it was sold in rock form, aka crack. Hotler Jun 2020 #9
We really need a refresher course on this shit. Baitball Blogger Jun 2020 #26
80's and Ronnie Raygun. sarcasmo Jun 2020 #11
Snowfall on FX Johnny2X2X Jun 2020 #14
Ollie North was neck deep in this randr Jun 2020 #16
I was around in the early 70's and black folks were selling weed to hippies & friends, not coke. lark Jun 2020 #17
I remember reading that Hoover worked with the mafia to flood black communities with heroin in the jalan48 Jun 2020 #19
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