Ok so after Tinkerbell's vietnam adventure he was back on the block married to Karla
(Pippey Longstocking) and living the life of alot of persons in the 1970's. Pot as it is known was the new thing on the block
and remembering that this was almost 30 years ago. Tinkerbell thought he'd take the reader back into illegal drug history
as it grew up around him back on the block in the midwest.
Karla had graduated from college and like alot of young couples we would save up
our discretionary income sometimes and buy a small bag of pot get a bottle of wine and spend the weekend at home lovemaking
and just being happily married. Karla could not find a teaching job and joined a teachers employment agency which offered
her a job on the Texas Mexican border in Brownsville. Tinkerbell had been working in the steel mills at home and being a home
maker not working was not what a college educated professional young woman wanted to do.
Tinkerbell was sympathetic working in the steel mills wheather or not I had an airplane
or not really wasn't as cracked up,(little did he realize the value of a fulltime manufacturing job) as you think.
After not much discussion and Karla hired as a teacher in the Brownsville
school district we decided to move to Texas and check it out. Before we left one of the persons that Tinker partied with got
a call from his brother who was a vietnam helicopter pilot and part owner of a night club in the quad city area. He told us
that the people we were buying pot from were also in the heroin business this information went over like a ton of bricks with
us as we were young and impressionable and just really getting the feel of living in our own space in the world. Heroin this
made smoking herb just a little more not right in the eyes if righteious persons as we had thought of ourselves. Knowing that
we had planned to move to Texas tinkerbell and his friends thought we might check out the pot scene since we were going to
be right on the border.Not druggies but mearly smoking herb every once in a while we were soon on our way to the border and
what looked like an interesting adventure.
Karla and I arrived in Brownsville and she started work I checked out the area and the airports
as part of my inclination toward aviation hopefully. But found out that the border was very wild the interstate ended about
a hundred miles from Brownsville and the area was desolate and sometimes treeless
and very much a wild west type of atmosphere.
Still not working and getting some money from my friend back in the midwest Tinkerbell
checked out the airports possibly to fly back home and bring some pot back for a Holloween party and be a big man so to speak
to his peers and the subject of heroin peddling pot persons would not bother us again and there fore inter fere with our experimentation
into the world of herb.
In Mexico the northern border with the United States is known as the frontier and
this area is the home of at least as long as I could tell was home to a cartell of crimminal activity known as the gulf cartell
and even though Tinkerbell only wanted to score a little bit of pot and bring it back for a party with his friends the way
he went about it brought him eye to eye with the ultra technicals of cross border insurgency as we hear of today.Tinkerbell
had checked out his air maps and had gone cruising around the airports in a car before hand so he would be familer with the
landscape. working on a limited basis Tinkerbell illegaly borrowed an airplane one night and flew it to a place near Brownsville
where he was promtley caught by the airport security which managed security late late late into the night not having the proper
papers Tinkerbell made bond and had to go to court where he was given a tour of a Texas work farm it was very enlightening
and something that Tinkerbell could not explain to Karla who I had kept in the dark because of the dangeriousness of the mission
to bring some herb to his friends in the winter time in the midwest. This was the mid 1970's and the Texas penitentury system
is much worse today then even back then during the last days of Vietnam. Flying a differant airplane at night near the border
was more of an adventure then one would like to think about it and as we think about that high we get from toking on a dubie
it is very true that it has been the ruin of many persons.Today the cartells get most of their spending cash from pot sales
and along with that comes interest in guns and violence and to this day wheather or not righteiously related to a good citizenship
of a young person this adventure as colored his veiws on the illegalization and the legalization of the pot industry
in modern society that we find ourselves today.
Tinkerbell has learned alot about the illegal industry about drugs and the border.
Long before the 24 hour cable news channels which give us alot of information today compared to the 1970's. No one was there
to tell you these things about the border at an airfield in Harlingen Texas Tinker found the wreakage of a P-38 fighter plane
at the end of a small runway which had happened in the 1960's bringing the on the thoughts of early cross border flights with
CIA implications.
At the begining of the FM radio industry where Tinkerbell first learned to listen
to the new rock and roll music on a transister radio from his local radio station in Davenport Iowa little did he realize
that country music stars were associated with Nashville Tenn. Here it was learned that many of these country musical devas
use to traverse between Tenn and across the country and to Mexico to buy and distribute drugs the Texan Mexican radio stations
located on the border use to play their music when they would be in the area making their drug deals which were then distributed
through their fan base and entertainment connections. As the music industry expanded and found its financial base with
the."New Revolution" in music and related internationaly the illegal drug industry exploded. All this had an effect in the
1960's to the young listening audience sometimes refered to as the." baby boomers'. Prisons expanded and lost between
the headlines of the war in Vietnam was the forgotten border to the south of FM radios listening base here in america. Later
in the 1980's there were the narco war between the countries in South Americal with the cartel's of Columbia and the caribean
frontier. Crack cocain and other insideious illegal drug concoctions prevailed in every major city in the U.S. as well as
Europe at the cost of everyone involved. No one was there to tell a young 24 year old Vietnam veteran these things he had
to put these things together himself and just lucky enouphTinkerbell had enouph of a head on his shoulders to at least explain
his idea's for a giant airplane spaceship and the future it holds for humanity and the future of mankind as we start to enter
the decade of smart phones and computers and conterfit goods all at a cost to the honest and innocent.
This mission at the time of the Vietnam war in its later stages the mission to try to asctertain
a reliable source of pot for his friends to smoke without the Chicago mob that sold heroin as well as pot and an interest
in finding a way out of the preverbial black hole of law prison and pirates so to speak Tinkerbell considers this a real war
time mission to better understand the problem associated with the world of herb and citizenship was a real mission and one
so dangerious that I could not tell my young and innocent wife who was from Chicago.This haunts me to this day as it all was
dropped on her at once when the mission turned out unsucessful I feel that wheather or not we were the perfect soul mates
that she learned very much how you could not trust her husband and this is a shattering revolation to me and leads me to wonder
if by my day to day exsistance I indanger her and what she keeps secret and cherised since all these years have
gone by.
This election night and it is November the 2nd I checked the weather channel and the hurricane
Tomas is bearing down on Haiti as we speak with a full blown problem of the dreaded sickness of Choleria inflicting
the hospitals. (90 mph winds and lots of rain is forcast )This as we have heard earlier this year that the Haitian declaration
of Independence was located in the Jamacian archives and after this was reported a giant gun battle and bad guy good guy reality
show was happening in Kingston with the capture of a most nortorious drug kingpin that used the last name called Coke! True
story!