Stich, Rodney.
Drugging America: A Trojan Horse.
Diablo Western Press
(P.O. Box 5, Alamo CA 94507, Tel: 800-247-7389), 1999.
519 pages.
A former FAA inspector turned whistleblower, Rodney Stich publishes name-intensive tomes that detail instances of corruption within the U.S. federal government. His shotgun-like prose blasts away at the CIA, DIA, DEA, FBI, INS, Customs, Secret Service, prosecutors, and judges who go along. In this book he adds international drug traffickers and corrupt Mexican officials to his list. Many of his sources are former adventurers, opportunists, CIA spooks, gunrunning pilots, agents, informers, assorted hucksters, and con artists. Some once saw themselves as commie-kicking patriots, but now they feel more like victims. Others ran afoul of someone higher up, and are now behind bars. Rodney Stich is their court of last resort -- he is willing to listen, and willing to spend time and effort confirming their stories and petitioning officials on their behalf.
Stich sees the U.S. as massively corrupt, and the war on drugs as the most corrupt and wasteful enterprise of all. In addition to his own sources, he is also beginning to dig out anti-establishment research from the 1960s and 1970s. (Unlike most of his cowboy sources, Stich now feels that the U.S. had no business in Vietnam to begin with.) Our "Entertainment Tonight" monoculture has no room for Rodney Stich's energetic moral outrage; he'll always have to publish his own books.
That's why he's welcome in NameBase.
ISBN 0-932438-10-5
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P.S. Author's web site: http://www.druggingamerica.com/
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