Coconut Cartel the ultimate Assimilation of subcultural Groups in Australian Underbelly.

(Tim Tufuga)

(The Crimes Archives Channel)

Coconut Cartel:

The nascent rise of Coconut Cartel is considered, comparably speaking an aberration of the traditional Australian, New Zealand and South East Asian, Organised Crime Networks, which traditionally circulated and distributed illicit Drugs and Narcotics throughout Australia and New Zealand. However, what is new, is the extension of the Drug network with more powerful Drugs circulating throughout the Pacific Region, from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and elsewhere. Distribution networks were direcly linked with the Australian and New Zealand Bikie Gang and traditional criminal networks which were traditionally Anglo Celtic people, which had expanded to the Maori networks, linked with Maori Gangs in New Zealand, namely, the Mongrel Mob and Black Power expansively to other underbelly criminal networks circulating amongst the Criminal Justice System. 

The Assimilationary subcultural underbelly of the Criminal Culture has created the underclass criminal class of institutionalised and entrenched subcultural traditions centred on Gangs and Mobster culture of entrepreneurable networks beyond the regimented rigidity of class location and intergenerational welfarism for the underprivileged cultural groups in which Pacific Islanders and other marginalised cultural groups are denied social aggrandisement due to the sides of the train tracks they were born. 

In Sydney Australia, where the Arab Gangs and now the Coconut Cartel and the KVT gangs have become very prominent in recent Criminal circles were born out of the West Sydney HOUSOS welfare State Suburbs. The underclass of Centrelink dependent Families and suburbs of intergenerational cradle to grave welfare state dependency people. The bourgeoning rise of the subcultural machete welding gangs from Sudanese gangs and Somalian Gangs in Melbourne to Feuding Arab Families and gangs in West Sydney, along with the Fijian, Samoan, Tongan, Maori, and other Pacific Islander gangs, is symptomatic of the conformity and expected assimilation of the subcultural groups to their environment.

The Coconut Cartel, however, is simply the latest nascent Johnny Come Lately, Drug Mules muscling into an old drug Turf of the current distributers, which leads to Turf Wars. The more recent illiceit Tobacco Wars has become the latest topical area of conflict that may be, in part, blamed to the current Australian Federal Taxes on curbing smoking by Australians as Cancer causing tobacco, second only to skin cancer, has contributed Health cost burdens to Australian society. The Illicit Drugs has contributed to the mental health problems throughout Australian, New Zealand and now within the Pacific Island communities. The unprecedented drug associated criminal culture within the Pacific Islands has disrupted community harmony, Ruse in domestic violence, and community disruption has increased law enforcement concerns, Criminal Justice overload, and increased economic burden to fragile Pacific Island economies. Prisons are overcrowded and Drrg related crimes have risen dramatically due to the new drugs, Meth, ICE, that has transformed once quiet tranqual village life within the Pacific Islands into domestic violence and complete disruption to community stability, harmony and functionality. 

The Coconut Cartel has become the most urgent National Security Threat that required more drastic interdiction by Government law enforcement agencies and Global Networks. Moreover, the recent assassination of the alleged Coconut Cartel, Lorenzo Lemalu, a 24 year old Samoan Australian, may in truth be considered simply a hydra headed continuous problem of cutting one head, only to allow, another new Kingpin to replace the Cartel. The problem seems more pervasive and visceral with the symbiotic relations of underbelly criminal culture linked almost directly with the entrepreneural enterprise initiatives by traditionally welfare state dependent Drug Mules who are easily recruited into the lucrative criminal world to break the mould of welfare dependency. The avenue for breaking the poverty cycle include sporting opportunities through Rugby League and Rugby. In other cultures, Soccer and AFL if not through educational opportunities to improve ones lot from the drudgery of class rigidity within the Projects and the Housos Suburbs. Drugs in sport is also an entry point for many Pacific Islanders to the Criminal world of Drugs. Steroids and performance enhancement drugs are readily available through sports medicine sources. The Performance enhacement supplements are sourced from the underbelly world, including Bikie Gang supply chains. 

The rise of the Cocconut Cartel is perhaps a tip of the iceberg of the systemic cultural reality of opportunism, social aggrandisement, and escapism, by individuals dissatisfied with their lot in life. For some it is the affluenza self indulgence for their hedonistic cultiral conformity and to satisfy their dopamine sensory addiction. Addiction is hard to break. Many Drug Mules are indebted to their drug addiction and become participants in the Criminal vicious circle.

The vicious cycle of the Drug Criminal Culture is permanent particular life that one can not launder their way out of. One may go completely off grid and disconnected from everyone they once knew through a quasi witness protection interdiction and isolation from the life they once knew would the cycle end. Otherwise, their past will always catch up with them. The Lorenzo Lemalu is a case in point. 

Tim Tufuga

Source:

1. Tim BrianTufuga, youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/live/JUv40cq3qlc?si=6RQS2zr0adw6cNxj

2. The Crimes Archival Channel, Youtube.com, https://youtu.be/mlqy9FgBKBA?si=CDxRIrtGhboQR4Z2