History Is Going To Record That Gary Webb Got It Right.
By Maxine Waters
THE NIGHT THAT I read Gary Webb s Dark Alliance
series in the
San Jose Mercury News, I was so alarmed that
I literally sat straight up in bed, poring over every word. I reflected on the many meetings I attended throughout South
Central Los Angeles during the 1980s, when I constantly asked, Where are all the drugs coming from? I asked myself
that night whether it was possible for such a vast amount of drugs
to be smuggled into any district under the noses of the community