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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 00:07:45 -0600 From: Michael Miller <qgrass@quackgrass.com> Subject: QRN: Drug war bullying exposed To: Quackgrass Roots Network <qgrass@quackgrass.com>
"...[T]he core reason the "war on drugs" completely dominates the official policies of so many nations, including [Canada's], is simple: The United States insists on it. ..." "The few officials and governments that do stray, even slightly, outside the prohibition orthodoxy are cajoled, manipulated, or bullied to get back in." "Why the War on Drugs has failed" Dan Gardner The Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday 5 September 2000 -- http://www.ottawacitizen.com/columnists/gardner/000905/4090140.html This Ottawa Citizen expose of US bullying is dynamite - as is its expose of many other governments' spineless surrender to that bullying. If you can read this horror story without mounting fury, you'd better check to see if you still have a pulse and a mind. If you think US' drug warriors limit their bullying to backward countries, you think wrong. Canada. Australia. Holland. The World Health Organization. Names, dates, details: the works! Gardner and the Ottawa Citizen merit high praise for publishing this report; that was a courageous act in view of the systematic vindictiveness and widespread cowardice they have exposed. It deserves the widest distribution. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Miller | Quackgrass Press | Quackgrass Roots Network Subscribe to QRN: http://www.quackgrass.com/roots/qrn.html Aiming for the New Renaissance! ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================