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Customs officers in Hamburg present seized cocaine, February 24, 2021
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It is always a nice picture when a photo shows a pallet with 500 kilograms of wheat flour type 405 (in Kreuzberg, of course: whole-grain spelled) in one-kilo packets, with two men and two women of one to the right and left Super elite unit with an extra black balaclava and in the center of the picture diagonally in front of the pallet an interior minister and a police chief, handing each other packages of flour.
Very serious face.
Headline: "Biggest find of all time".
Optional: »of the year«, »since the beginning of the weather records«, »in Jena-Lobeda«.
"Biggest find of all time".
Optional: »of the year«, »since the beginning of the weather records«, »in Jena-Lobeda«.
This is followed by a text in which the following words must absolutely appear: "Always more", "highly professional", "Mafia", "selling price".
It is about the fact that highly professional drug barons from South America are smuggling more and more wheat flour to Germany, where it could have had a street selling price of so many fantastic trillions if the ladies and gentlemen in the photo had not struck once more, which makes them very happy, but also "Realistic", because they are professionally fighting the tips of an iceberg, which continues to grow under their self-sacrificing care, which prompts the drug commissioner (s) of the city of Jena, the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt and the Federal Republic to state clearly that they are warn against eating too many empty calories and not that much at all.
Small joke!
The experienced reader knows that we are talking about cocaine, optionally from amphetamine;
but it can also be fentanyl or a devil chemical called THC.
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Born in 1953, is a legal scholar and was chairman of the 2nd criminal division of the Federal Court of Justice.
He is the author of an annually revised standard short commentary on the criminal code and numerous other specialist books.
Drugs!
Of course, this does not mean ibuprofen or a combination preparation with a bit of amphetamine derivative that swells the nasal mucous membranes of the 20 million headache sufferers in Germany who are permanently cold, raises their blood pressure and internal drive a bit and is therefore within easy reach of the trusted pharmacist Shop counter stands.
For 60 years, Germany has been "sinking" again into drug intoxication, after a short break between 1945 and 1960 because the crystal meth industry (submarine chocolate) first had to be rebuilt.
Since then it has been round and colorful and more and more, more and more.
It didn't really hurt Germany as such, you have to say, if you ignore a few hundred thousand losts, but the three leading breweries and the Kaiserstuhl average output easily manage them without anyone really getting upset.
In the past, Mr. Doktores med.
Mornings and evenings a little morphine in the vein to be able to endure the tiredness of their anemic patients, and the crazy Nazi elite or what they thought roared with angel dust through the night of genocide.
Today, of course, the game is called differently!
But the rules have remained the same, as have the roles to a large extent.
war
The "War on Drugs" was once declared by President Richard Nixon of America, who was a friend of the single malt.
He didn't declare war on anyone in particular, but just like that: on the world.
Since then we have been at war, which you can already see in this country from the wearing of balaclavas mentioned above.
It is not known why they are running around as if they were extras from a Bruce Willis C movie.
Usually not that much can happen at a photo session.
In any case, it looks very dangerous, and perhaps the drug barons in Bolivia are afraid.
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Largest find in Europe: Customs seized 16 tons of cocaine in the Port of Hamburg
This war on drugs has brought us a wide variety of things: beautiful photos anyway, the best of which are those of heavily armed "elite soldiers" under the eyes of their respective ruler in an even more heavily armed police barracks somewhere in Uzbekistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan or Costa Rica supposedly burn gigantic amounts of confiscated drugs while holding back laughing.
In addition, a never-ending chain of records: see above.
Just again: Biggest find of all time in Germany!
16 tons of cocaine, as always "highly professional" packaged in cans, etc. Just by the way: If this is supposed to be "highly professional", how do the middle professionals and part-time farmers ship it?
And wouldn't it be extremely surprising if people shipping 16 tons of cocaine to Europe didn't do it professionally?
Cultures are only destroyed by drugs if they come from outside.
Gladly recorded as a record: the value.
Money, money, money rules!
"Street sales price of billions," reports the police.
Strange self-importance.
16 tons are not sold by the gram, but there are dozens of trading levels in between, at each of which trade profit is tapped.
It's like with oil or lithium or the diamond trade, and even 16 tons of vine tomatoes do not bring the farmer 16,000 times the price per kilo of € 4.99.
Since you usually need an enemy in war, even if he remains invisible, the War on Drugs has brought us a lot of enemies.
The chain ranges from the gram sellers in Görlitzer Park to the golf courses of the palace haciendas on the Pacific and the Caspian Sea.
Like any ordinary war, it has brought an infinite amount of violence.
It is distributed differently.
The self-destructive violence of consumers should be excluded here;
it is a normal risk to life that every Riesling drinker is also familiar with and which must and will somehow be regulated in a socially acceptable manner.
As you can see, Russian men can make ends meet even with a few years of functioning livers, and the American middle class will somehow manage to insure the few million additional opiate addicts privately.
Seen as a whole, i.e. taking into account the profits from opiate production and distribution as well as from the Hippocratic fulfillment of the duties of the highly professional medical pain reliever, it probably still pays off economically.
Otherwise you wouldn't do it!
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In the port of Varna in Bulgaria: Customs officers find more than 400 kilograms of heroin
Italy: Investigators seize 1.3 tons of cocaine
Boat stopped: Mexican Navy confiscates drugs worth millions
It is a layperson's mistake anyway not to see these things in the necessary abstraction and economic dimension.
Cultures are only destroyed by drugs if they come from the outside and are used with the proper will to indifference and destruction: see firewater!
The indigenous peoples have been mumbling, chewing, swallowing and injecting all kinds of stuff for the purpose of enlightenment, dreams, healing or fun for 20,000 years.
Even the elephants in the Serengeti, which are booming with fermented fruits, do not die out because of this.
Terms of Trade
The other, strange and frightening force is that of commerce.
However, it does not come from hemp, poppy seeds or coca, but from the Terms of Trade.
The trade in copper, uranium, tea, and cocoa is about as violent.
But the violence there has had a little longer to get used to in foreign trade chambers, consulates general and international treaties.
We only rarely hear from her at the moment, for example when two good friends of Germany, Greece and Turkey, "in the southern Mediterranean," talk to each other in a friendly manner about natural gas;
or if one or the other Foreign Minister murmurs, which might unfortunately be necessary if the Strait of Hormuz were to be blocked by the evil enemies of our dear friends.
The trade in copper, uranium, tea, and cocoa is about as violent.
I'm not saying that the cocaine gangs' murder business in Mexico is no worse or different or more brutal than the Baltic trade in Russian gas.
Of course, that would change immediately if there was a raw material exchange for cocaine in Miami and the coca stocks were traded like the beer stocks, the heroin like the tramadol.
Then it would be over with the romance, the full-body tattooed Kalashnikov wearers would have to look for something new, and the cocaine containers in the Port of Hamburg received extra security from the Senator for the Interior.
That sounds terribly incorrect, of course, and where would we go?
Answer: To where we are already, just a little different, a little quieter, a little less violent and much cheaper.
Even in countries where alcoholism is very common, only a small proportion of the population is directly affected.
And I am sure: As soon as one had nearly free access to cocaine or opiates, the majority of people in Germany would not plunge into misery.
The number of misfits on drugs of all kinds in the cities is high, but not immeasurable.
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Every war has its secondary costs: economic, emotional, human, moral. As we can read and hear every week and after every new "record", the war on drugs has by no means led to any strategic success.
The drugs, the enemy, are about as destroyed as the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Even halfway presentable tactical victories are not enough: every time a minister of the interior presents a ton of confiscated drugs, he says that this is once again the tip of a constantly growing iceberg and at best a shadow of reality.
If that is the case - which nobody doubts -: What are we so terribly afraid of?
If over 90 percent of all the destructive drugs that are produced reach the consumer unhindered: Why then the panic that it could be one hundred percent?
Martial law
A frequently neglected, mostly lying and disguised collateral damage of the war occurs in law, especially in criminal law.
The »narcotics criminal law« is a place of normative madness and police-organizational frenzy.
There are tens of thousands of criminals in the prisons, who are there simply because the cultivation of cannabis is threatened with high fines, but the cultivation of hops or vines leads to the Federal Cross of Merit or to marriage to a wine queen.
Sure: you shouldn't do what is forbidden, that's the good old Gessler rule.
But in the end, one would like to know why one can earn stupid & stupid from pseudoephedrine and why it is praised in Germany's highest-circulation publication, the Apotheken-Umschau, but goes to jail for ten years for the same amount of MDMA.
One would like to know why one can earn stupidly and stupidly from pseudoephedrine, but goes to jail for ten years for the same amount of MDMA.
Finally, a particularly beautiful collateral growth is the so-called fight against so-called money laundering.
It is a topic for at least one separate column.
But one has to say again and again: The fog that is served up to the citizens is remarkable.
Just a small, current example: 17 tons of cocaine, "street sales value of billions", the brave investigators are happy to say, but only show that they have not found at least 150 tons.
150 tons by 1000 kilograms by 1000 grams times among brothers 40 euros makes 6 billion.
But that is only the value on the last level.
All intermediate stages are also illegal and also bring illegal profit.
That's just a drug and a year and just one source.
The whole thing has been going on - see "War on Drugs" - for decades.
Hundreds and thousands of billions of euros: they are all still there, have long since been "washed" ten times, become legal and have disappeared into our lives.
The assertion that one only has to fight "money laundering" properly, then everything will be fine, is just as plausible as the assertion that one only has to abolish evil and then paradise will come.
So the question is: How often does a halfway sensible person run his head against a massive wall before he stops saying it would be better if she weren't there and you just have to take a more run-up?
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