Fentanyl, Subversion, and Illegal Gambling: The Chinese Communist Party and Chinese Organized Crime in Hawaii.

• In Event: Organized Crime and State-Sponsored Terrorism

Abstract

Historically the Chinatown district in Sandwich Islands has been plagued by the traditionally notorious and sinful vice crimes of illegal drugs, gambling, and prostitution since the early 1800s. However, a new form of psychologically addictive video arcade style table-top gambling machines has become the dominate form of illegal revenue made in Honolulu, Hawaii. This study attempts to document the drive, desire, or will to play and wager with arcade style gaming and understand the role of illegal game rooms in facilitating pathological gambling addiction. Indicators of police corruption by Chinese organized crime syndicates related to protection rackets, bribery, and pay-offs was revealed. Information fusion from a police science and sociological intelligence perspective indicates an insurgent warfare is being waged on the streets of Honolulu by the People’s Republic of China. This state-sponsored communist terrorism in the Hawaiian Islands used “contactless” irregular warfare entailing: (1) the deployment of psychologically addictive gambling machines, (2) the distribution of the physically addictive fentanyl drug as a lethal chemical weapon, and (3) psychological warfare by circulating pro-China anti-American propaganda newspapers targeted at the small island populace.

Author

• Gordon J. Knowles, University of Hawaii at Honolulu Community College