Rolling Stone’s Seth Harp joins the program to discuss an epidemic of drug overdoses on Fort Bragg. Bragg is one of America’s most important military bases and is home to its Joint Special Operations Command. Yet over a hundred soldiers have died there over the past year and Seth found out why.
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We are back and we are joined now by Seth Harp investigative reporter and contributing editor at Rolling Stone. Whose piece on Fort Bragg is like really just a must-read for everybody. Seth thanks so much for being here today. great to be here thanks for having me. So you begin your piece by setting the scene of two men who were killed by gunshots outside of Fort Bragg. And I mean the numbers are just startling in terms of how many deaths have piled up since the beginning of 2020. What led you to look into this? and what I guess takes us to the beginning of your piece where you initially set that scene. yeah, it was that double murder that you just referred to that initially brought me to this story of more Bragg the larger story of Fort Bragg. the murderer Billy Levine and Timothy Dumas. that actually happened in December 2020. Last time I came on the old show I talked a bit about that. and some other murders that seem to be linked to drug trafficking by elite soldiers at Fort Bragg. and at that time I mentioned that there had been a large number of deaths for Fort Bragg soldiers in general. so aside from the murders, there have been at least 44 deaths at Fort Bragg among soldiers that year in 2020. And I told you all about how I was trying to figure out exactly what was going on there and what was behind such a high body count. Now come to find out here almost a full year later with the latest piece the total number of soldiers that have died before bragging over two years from 2020 to 2021 was 109. 105 of those occurred Stateside. whereas only four of them took place in overseas combat operations. and the latest piece I wrote ruins don’t really focus on one of the major leading causes of death there which is accidental drone overdoses. which is pretty obviously linked to you know the prior topic which is you know a lot of the drug crime that was going on the Fort Bragg.
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We are taking down statues, and erasing names off of buildings. The south won't rise again.
It's certainly nothing to
…Bragg about…mm.ha..haha….
Hahahaha.
This is what several decades of neoliberalism gets you.
How much of this crime could be taken care of by legalizing drugs, and let people trip off the clock?
Soldiers love hard drugs… that's worldwide. Think about the kind of people that enlist 😂
I can't help but think of the film "A Few Good Men". We push these men to the breaking point, and when they do in fact break we let them do drugs, commit crimes, and die because even in 2022 we need men on that wall!
Not sure if it is a good comparison, the film was long before the "war on terror" but it seems like the men-on-the-wall mentality they were trying to depict in the film never went away, it just moved to other forever wars
The whole thing is disgusting. We are criminally negligent in not stopping this.
“Fayettenam” has been a sobriquet for Fayetteville NC for fifty years.
This is some of the most important reporting I've seen in a long time bravo Emma
Crooks' body was found in Fuquay-Varina, southwest of Raleigh, not Fayetteville.
Who knows, I'm just glad they're dead
I had to live in Fayetteville with navy husband for nine months. It’s a hell hole. Fayett-nam it’s nick named. Liquor stores and strip clubs. 💩💩💩
Raised on Fort Bragg. Dad was part of the special operations community so I grew up around a lot of these guys. All this thats going on is well known to people close to the special operations community. Hells Angels, Wingman and Veterans motorcycle clubs recruit heavily from SF. And this guy has either balls so big he can't walk or is too stupid to know he's playing with fire. I really hope nothing happens to him but he fucking with the wrong people. If they'll eat they're own what do you think they'll do to journalists?
Love the show. Left is best.
Ahhh yes the big three heroin, crack, and mdma* . wtf ?
Wow
Mr. Harp has said more than enough to let me know one must be just out of their mind or crazy or owned by a crazy 🙌🏿🌎✊🏿👍🏿🖤
The barracks being filled with mild is probably affecting cadets living on base too. An impending sense of doom is literally ome of the symptoms of black mold exposure.
This guy just exposed Delta Force on Fort Bragg, as being corrupt, by claiming that their soldiers are never charged with a crime no matter what they do.
Margot Psorn "what are you saying. There is no such thing as a leftist libertarian, at least not in the US, maybe it's different elsewhere."
That's neither a question nor complete sentence (and you edited it from a previous attempt at asking something or just saying something), but I explain.
Libertarianism is anarchist, just in a fancier name (kind of like the NAZI abducted the word "socialist" because it was absolutely more popular than anything else in Germany at the time, before Italians invented fascism to rival anyone else in the world).
The Nolan chart clearly shows a left or right libertarian, on the top, supposing left is liberal and right is conservative, as if human minds actually situate in a imbecile square.
David Nolan was one of the founders of the Libertarian Party of the United States, having hosted the meeting in 1971 at which the Party was founded.
Ronald Reagan in 1975 said "liberals want to privatize government as fascists" (see the 60 Minutes video if you like), and that is exactly what Libertarians have supposed in order to disrupt American politics with metaphysics (aka "religious freedom").
and if you look at the original political spectrum libertarianism was trying to emulate, "radical" is in the place of your "left."
Was born at old Womack and did 11 years active
This issues have been at Bragg since the 80s