Charlie Sheen: Drug cartel's pitchman


By Patrick Osio

Charlie Sheen may have become the best pitchman for international drug cartels, that, I venture, would gladly pay him the added million a week he demands to continue acting on the cancelled Three and a Half Men television sitcom from the better than $30 billion the cartels rake in annually from U.S. users. He can be their poster child luring legions of fans into the world of drug consumption.

In his public confession to drug use in one of his several television interviews, Sheen said, "I probably took more than anybody could survive. ... I was bangin' seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll, because I have one speed, one gear. [I survived] because I'm me. I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. dying' s for fools, dying's for amateurs."

Is Charlie Sheen's bragging about drug usage and indispensable to a good party, make him an accomplice to the killing spree the Republic of Mexico is enduring? Sadly, he and his many fans may not see the connection, but it's there.

Why didn't the interviewers say and ask: "Charlie in Mexico there have been over 34,000 people, and more to follow, killing each other for the right to bring you and others the drugs you use, but among those killed are police officers, police chiefs, mayors of cities, judges, prosecutors, journalist and innocent people including children some as old or younger than yours, caught in the cross fire. Don't you feel like you are an accomplice to these crimes? Don't you feel any pangs of conscience over so many deaths your drug use causes?"

And, "Charlie, what would you say to the parents of those children killed in the crossfire about your statement, 'dying is for fools, dying is for amateurs'? Were they fools? Were they amateurs placed here for your pleasure?"

We will of course, never know his answers since he wasn't asked. But as bad as not asking was Pierce Morgan's observation that Sheen sounds "alarmingly normal" In short: Hey, you're right on and since you're alarmingly normal, anyone who does the same is as alarmingly normal as you are.

How many thousands of Charlie wanabees took his and Morgan's endorsement message to heart thinking if he can do it so can I. "I wanna live like the great one!!" I wanna have it all, just like him."

Drug's usage promises of care free and wonderful state of being are induced illusions, but its destructive harm is significant and certain. By all accounts this is what at some point awaits Sheen, and what awaits those who follow his lead. But the killings in Mexico continue and more and more are overlapping into the U.S.

Drug usage is a U.S. national disgrace and the part it plays on the killing spree in Mexico a national shame. Our journalists all but ignore the causes of the killings, never digging more than just scratching the surface, but always pointing the finger south placing the responsibility and culpability on countries south. Our political body screams about more border fencing, about national security but never about drug usage's role in the meltdown. And of course, the usage of drugs by their own peers in news rooms and political chambers.

And the popular and famous help elevate drug usage from sub to main stream culture. It's OK to use, just don't get caught and if you do, apologize, enter rehab, come out and go back to partying. If your name is Paris, tell them you've learned your lesson and you're going to dedicate your life to helping the women prisoners you met; then go back to partying. If your name is Lindsay keep denying it and keep going back to rehab until you do something that the court seems to think is a greater crime than illegally purchasing and using drugs that come from international drug cartels who don't mind massacring people.

By far of the various popular celebrities pushing the drug usage envelope, the most famous, charismatic and immensely talented is Charlie Sheen. As such he has the power to be the Pied Piper who can lead a generation into the world of drug use, or conversely be the one who leads them away.

Unfortunately as long as Charlie doesn't realize his true value and his potential contribution to his nation and its people, he will be the poster child for drug use and drug traffickers.

Patrick Osio

Editor

HispanicVista.com
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Thank you for your usual insight, Tocayo.

I suspect the answer to the question you have posed is: "You cannot fix stupid."

Saludos,

Pat Mullen

Radiation plume from Japan is apparently on its way

Break out the kelp tablets. Projected path of radiation plume from Japan headed towards U.S., according to NYT.

URL: http://tinyurl.com/4wx7gpo


Posted by Pat

JAPAN COMMUNICATIONS, CONTINUED

From W6KY


In case you haven't seen this already:

Following freq'assigned for emergency QSO. Please be clear. Thank you for

your kind help! Ops JARL & volunteers - 3520 to 3530, 7025 to 7035, 14090 to

14110, 21190 to 21200, 28190 to 28210, 50100, 51000, 14100, 14500, 430100,

433000. DXped Ops - Please kindly consider QSX freq & RTTY freq.

73, Art W6KY

ps; Heard from Shin, JA1NUT. He is North of Tokyo. He is a doctor and very busy.

No food, little water. He has family in Northern Japan, but hasn't heard from them.

Entire towns missing. The news says, Japan (the entire island) has moved eight feet.

JAPAN COMMUNICATIONS

Freqs to avoid by CW users so we don't interfere with emergency communications in Japan


http://ei7is.blogspot.com/2011/03/japan-earthquaketsunami-emergency.html


The Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) Regional HQ station JA7RL is now involved in emergency communication to support rescue and disaster relief coordination using 7 MHz SSB, 144 MHz SSB/FM and 430 MHz SSB/FM.

Recent information from CQ Newsroom: http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2011/03/quake-update-radio-amateurs.html

7043 kHz is being used by JR3QHQ, the Osaka branch manager of JARL, gathering incident information on radio and forwarding it to the Internet.

7075 kHz is occasionally operated by JL3YSP in Wakayama.

7030 kHz is the JARL emergency communication frequency in its bandplan and is in use by JA7RL (JARL regional HQ station).

Please report other freqs as you learn of them

I also heard that SATERN web site was taking request for Health and Welfare information

mail Site - http://satern.org/

Click on  Health and Welfare Information Request it takes you to Request Forms here

http://qso.com/satern/emailfrm.htm

73, Dennis N6KI