[116985] in Cypherpunks
cartel crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Aug 24 20:36:13 1999
Date: 25 Aug 1999 00:15:37 -0000
Message-ID: <19990825001537.25194.qmail@hades.rpini.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
The cartels methods of operation are extremely sophisticated
and synchronized. They have invested in the latest communications
equipment such as state-of-the-art radios and pocket-sized digital
encryption devices. Mechanics and pilots outfit smuggling aircraft
with long-range navigation equipment, radio altimeters, beacon-
interrogating digital radars and communication scramblers. The
cartels' transit operations exhibit excellent flexibility and
agility due to the fact that every country in Central or South
America can be used as a supply base or transit landing p@int.@@
The cartels' strengths are numerous. They control the entire
network of growing, refining, transporting, and distributing
drugs. The cartels utilize unlimited lines of operation and bases
and they have access to unlimited resources. They have alliances
with communist, revolutionaries and terrorists and they control or
disrupt the legal governments' administrations and their law
enforcement efforts through bribery and violence. Finally, the
cartels greatly benefit from the ever increasing worldwide demand
for illegal drugs. A drug like cocaine that is highly addictive
and that produces a sensation of euphoria and dazzling clarity of
thought, "Like being on the roof of the world" or "like a thousand
orgasms" is going to be in great demand regardless of price or how
much people know about its dangers@@.
The cartels weaknesses are also numerous and may reveal the
pathway to their destruction. The majority of the cartels'
activities are illegal and their organizations are subject to
arrest and prosecution by legal authorities. The cartels suffer
from individual greed for money and power which serves to destroy
any organizational loyalty (The drug traffickers greatest fear is
an informant working undercover in his organization). The
amorality of drug trafficking and the increase of drug abuse and
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