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BaronChocula

(3,782 posts)
2. Many years ago
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 06:28 PM
7 hrs ago

my father sat in high-level meetings on the topic of international crime interdiction. Others in those meetings included other agency heads and deputies during the reagan administration. My father was a career man and NOT a political appointee unlike the head of Customs at the time whom my father described as some spoiled kid from a rich republican family. This Customs commissioner's contribution to the meetings was to interject "why don't you just shoot drug planes out of the sky? - if it's a war on drugs make it a war."

It sounded crazy then. But here we are.

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just add him to the list for the war crimes trials..... moonshinegnomie 8 hrs ago #1
Many years ago BaronChocula 7 hrs ago #2
We used to call them the "GS-1000s" BumRushDaShow 6 hrs ago #3
Ha! BaronChocula 4 hrs ago #4
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