European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes Friday september 8, 1989 James j. Kilpatrick drug dealing is big Well organized business to most of us innocents ignorant of the traffic in illegal drugs a drug dealer is no More than a youngster peddling crack on the sidewalks of Washington. Miami or new York. We tend to think of the drug Trade As a dangerous phenomenon of inner cities in great metro Politan areas. Let us think again. On aug. 3, attorney general Richard Thornburgh released an Eye opening report. He had asked 93 . Attorneys throughout the nation to give him a picture of the drug Trade As it truly is. In a terrifying Way the picture is truly awesome. The drug business is big business. Two things stand out in Thornburgh s report. First traffic in illegal drugs is no longer confined to great Urban areas. Second this lucrative Commerce is being operated with the kind of disciplined efficiency thai would do credit to Many an honest Enterprise. In a cover letter to the president Thornburgh re Marks that before he asked for reports from . Attorneys he knew the country was awash in cocaine and crack but we did not expect to find significant co Caine organizations in Wyoming heroin trafficking in Iowa. Ltd consumption in Rural Georgia or met Ham Phela Minc spreading to South  the stuff is everywhere. In Connecticut a state commission concluded that 22 percent of the state s seventh to i2th-Gradc students Are regular substantial or extensive drug  in Kentucky a judge sheriff and a former commissioner of the state police were convicted of accepting bribes from a cocaine ring. In Tennessee seven sitting sheriffs and two former sheriffs similarly have been convicted. The penetration of cocaine usage and addiction into american s heartland is exemplified by the fact that 86 percent of drug cases prosecuted in the West Ern District of Wisconsin involved cocaine. In the predominately Rural Northern District of Iowa twice As much cocaine was seized in 1988 As in any previous year. District reports in Iowa conclude that cocaine is readily available in All communities to All Levels of society from the metropolitan areas to the smallest Rural villages it should be kept in mind that in Iowa the phrase metropolitan areas refers to such places Asdis Moines. Davenport Cedar rapids and Council  Savannah ga., one of the loveliest cities in the United states is a Center of drug distribution. Mobile ala., another gracious Southern City reports a  in the heart of the Midwest fort Wayne ind. Has become the crack capital of  provi Dence. . Houses a distribution Center that supplies heroin throughout new England. Growers of marijuana near Henry neb., and Guernsey wyo., were using highly sophisticated watering equipment to produce a William Buckley simulation top Grade product. The drug lords of Colombia stretch their fingers into upstate new York to Minden Fly Creek. Cossack in Newburgh and Little Falls. The cocaine processing Plant in Minden pop 4.930 purportedly was the largest in existence in North  a los Angeles Street gang called the crips has established a Branch operation in Kansas City to. Another gang the bloods supplied a crack House in Sioux Falls. . Both gangs Supply Minneapolis St. Paul. In col Umbus Ohio narcotics agents worked up a profile of the City s highest level dealer in cocaine a Middle age White residing in one of the City s More affluent suburbs. The sobering thing is to read Thornburgh s report on the sophistication and complexity of the Many operations. The biggest organizations arc the major cartels of Colombia. They now own one twelfth of All the nation s Farmland. They come into International com Merce with accountants chemists lawyers paid politicians and Bankers at the top and reach Down to Small time distributors and Street pushers at the Bot Tom. At a second level of wealth and organization arc the asian american crime groups. Other Kingpins came from Jamaica. Nationals of the dominican re Public arc trafficking in cocaine in Wichita Kan. Four motor Cylc gangs based in los Angeles arc dealing in drugs nationwide. In the next fiscal year american taxpayers will pro vide $ 12 billion to spend in the War on drugs. This will help but Thornburgh sends a message Money alone won t do the Job. In the Long haul the War will be won or lost on the Battlefield of  that Battlefield now stretches coast to coast. Universal press Syndicate confusing moral standards applied to behaviour a week or two after the washing ton times discovered the uses to which rep. Barney Frank s apartment were being put the impression is left that the whole business has served to trigger a chorus of Praise for the uses to which Barney Frank puts his office in the House of representatives. I am re minded of a 6-year-old Nephew who went for his first confession came out Knelt Down next to his Mother and then suddenly Rose and re entered the confessional. A few moments later his Mother whispered to him Johnny Why did you go Back he looked up and said i forgot to Tell the priest about All the Good things have  if four years from now the washing ton times discovers that Barney Frank s gymnasium has been used As an Sam parlor we can expect that much of the press and much of his constituency will take the occasion to remind us yet again of All the wonderful things Frank has done. This happened during the week that Lcona Helmsley s Case came to its Cli Max. The defense presented the jury with an accounting of All the deductions the Helms lays had forgotten to take inviting attention to this offsetting Factor. It did t work. Memory floats Back to the extraordinary Job done by the late Edward Bennett Williams on behalf of his client the late Rev. Adam Clayton pow Ell jr., who was being tried for tax Delin Quency of $40,000 or $50,000 or what Ever. Williams came up with a figure of $50,000 or $60,000 of deductions that Powell had forgotten to take insisting that this More than made up for those deductions he had illegally taken. I commented at the time that the implicit Ethi Cal logic of the defense was that if you save one woman from drowning you arc justified in drowning a second woman. But this time Williams having left the scene the jury was evidently unimpressed. Frank pleads that he had no know ledge that the male prostitute whose sen  he had used and paid for a few years Back was still As the British like to put it having at it Only this time Indore convenient circumstances than stray motels or Parks. But the impression is left that most people simply do not care what Frank s live in House guest did or did t do with or without Frank s knowledge in his House. It goes by the name of private  As in what docs it matter what someone does in Pri vate when we arc interested Only in what he docs in Public that being what he s elected for some newspapers did quote that Section in the congressional code that said something about How members of Congress arc supposed to Deport themselves in their private life i.e., non scandalously. It is not. At this writing Clear whether the ethics committee of the House is going to investigate the matter. There is clearly very Little appetite to dose and the reason for this reluctance is quite Plain congressmen arc afraid of antagonizing the  lobby. We arc left to understand that it Sim ply does t matter if a congressman has paid for homosexual sex. Does it matter if a congressman has paid for heterosexual sex a few years ago. Ai about the same time a congressman frown Illinois was revealed to have had sex with a Page who was a girl at the same time that a congressman from Massachusetts had had sex with a Page who was a boy. The congressman from Illinois was Defeated the next time the voters had an Opportunity to Register their Opin Ion of his conduct. The congressman from Massachusetts was returned with a robust majority. What the two episodes conspired to say was something on the order of it s of to take offence if a con Gressman seduces a girl but not of to take offence if a congressman seduces a boy because the latter gets in the Way of  liberation the movement for heterosexual liberation if that is what we wish to Call it is not nearly so Active As its counterpart and this is Well confusing. Jerry pour Anclle the science fiction writer has commented that it used to be the Congress critters his word would find themselves in difficulty if caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. But it May very Well be safer politically to have extramarital sex with a homosexual these Days than with a heterosexual. Universal press Syndicate