Speaker 1: I'm Greg Gloudy, English and this is a War on
Speaker 1: drugs quick fix? Man. How you doing, Clayton, I'm good Man,
Speaker 1: I'm good. Okay, So Clayton, we you know, we have
Speaker 1: some amazing guests and sometimes you just can't fit everything
Speaker 1: into the episode that we're doing. But yeah, so this
Speaker 1: is almost like the bonus feature the director's cut um aspect,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to give much to it because
Speaker 1: this is from the Eric sterling Um interview that we did,
Speaker 1: and he tells this amazing story about a trip, you know,
Speaker 1: down to South American and Colombia and how politicians kind
Speaker 1: of use the war on drugs for political gain and
Speaker 1: kind of what some of these almost photo ops kind
Speaker 1: of look like and where a lot of this comes from.
Speaker 1: Because not only can the War on drugs be profitable financially,
Speaker 1: but from a political gain as well. I think that's
Speaker 1: pretty obvious that you can go back and say I'm
Speaker 1: being tough and war on drugs definitely is a good
Speaker 1: campaign for whoever. I mean it it's for a shriff
Speaker 1: or whatever. You're gonna roll out that table with the
Speaker 1: two German shepherds and they're gonna put on everything that
Speaker 1: they found and just you know, and act like they're
Speaker 1: doing something. When I went with the Select Committee on
Speaker 1: Narcotics on a on a fact finding mission to South
Speaker 1: America and we're meeting with the top government officials to
Speaker 1: encourage them to do more to fight quote the War
Speaker 1: on drugs, and to find out what more left they're doing.
Speaker 1: And in Peru, the Chairman and I have flown in
Speaker 1: in this proving aircraft into the jungle of the Amazon
Speaker 1: Watershed where we're seeing cocoa being grown and coca being
Speaker 1: chopped down, but with taxpayer money. And we have seen
Speaker 1: all this cope. We're seeing it being chopped down. We
Speaker 1: knew how it was supposed to be eradicated, but they
Speaker 1: were chopping down with machetes these old, crummy coca bushes
Speaker 1: that were a pair their viability, and then spraying the
Speaker 1: herbicide on the ground around the route. They were killing
Speaker 1: the weeds that were going to interfere with the cultivation
Speaker 1: of the coca. They were in effect pruning coca bushes
Speaker 1: and improving their viability using US tax dollars in front
Speaker 1: of members of Congress, thinking we wouldn't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: The congressman who represented Ocean City, New Jersey, turns to
Speaker 1: me and he says, now I understand the meaning of
Speaker 1: the term pissing into the wind. We here we you
Speaker 1: realize when you're flying in a helicopter in Colombia to
Speaker 1: sort of see the Colombian military chopping down marijuana plants
Speaker 1: with machetes and asked plantation after plantation in the helicopter
Speaker 1: US No, no way, this is this is this whole
Speaker 1: strategy is not going to succeed. There's no economic sense
Speaker 1: to it. You know, there's it's it's a boon doggle.
Speaker 1: It's a campaign. You know, how do I get elected?
Speaker 1: How do I sound tough? You know, we would send
Speaker 1: these message. You know, you'd hear members of Congress give
Speaker 1: these speeches on or sending a message to the dope
Speaker 1: dealing scum. We're not gonna take it. The message they're
Speaker 1: really trying to send is, hey, voters, I'm protecting your children.
Speaker 1: I'm doing something that you want to have done. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna do It's not gonna make a damn bit
Speaker 1: of difference, But I hope you get the message. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking like I'm doing something. I'm sounding like I'm
Speaker 1: doing something. I'm Clayton English and I'm Greg Glad and
Speaker 1: this has been a war on drugs. Quick Fix, thanks
Speaker 1: again for listen