-----Original Message----- From: D.H. Michon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 9:27 AM Subject: The Return of Soros Bashing
>Thanks to Herb for: >http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_2122752.shtml >including this odious passage: >"... >But the cover-up gets more serious than that, especially because of his >opposition to virtually all measures taken to curtail drug use on a national >and global basis. Don't expect to see, for example, any stories about the >reported Soros connection to Evo Morales, the new pro-Castro, pro-cocaine >president of Bolivia. > > During the heat of the 2004 presidential campaign, House Speaker Dennis >Hastert made headlines by accusing Soros of having links to the >international campaign to legalize dangerous drugs. He specifically >mentioned a Soros link to the Drug Policy Alliance and the Andean >Confederation of Coca Leaf Producers. Morales was a key figure in this >latter group. > >In response to the Morales win in the Bolivian presidential contest, Ethan >Nadelmann of the Soros-funded Drug Policy Alliance declared that "Coca >deserves the same opportunities to compete legally in international markets >as coffee" and "Perhaps the time has come to put the coca back in Coca >Cola." > >The left-wing Washington Office on Latin America published a report in 2003 >advocating accommodation of the coca producers in Bolivia. "It is >crucial,"said the author,"that the U.S. government and international >organizations permit the Bolivian government the necessary leverage to make >key concessions" to the coca lobby. The funders of the study included the >Open Society Institute. > >There used to be a time when journalists here and abroad exposed the forces >behind dangerous mind-altering drugs. In perhaps the most sensational case, >journalist Veronica Guerin exposed the criminal gangs behind drug dealing in >Ireland. She was gunned down and murdered in 1996. "I am simply doing my >job," Guerin said. "I am letting the public know how this society >operates."In the powerful movie version of her life and death, in which >actress Cate Blanchett plays the role of Guerin, she says about the drug >trade, "Nobody is writing about it. Nobody cares." She did so and paid the >price. Nobody is writing about it much these days either. It's easier to >write about Abramoff. ..." > >This Cliff Kincaid knows what buttons to push to incite the mob. He learned >his vile machinations when he served as an aide to Oliver North. >http://www.aim.org/who_we_are/speakers/kincaid.html > >and went on to break important stories such as "Did Mandela's Son Die of >Aids?", "From Pot to Porn to AARP", and "Pot Linked to Insanity; More on >AARP and Dope" http://www.aim.org/cliff_blog > >Excuse me! Wasn't Ollie involved in drug-dealing? No wonder these gangsters >push prohibition. > >Dave > > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.11/219 - Release Date: 1/2/2006 > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.11/219 - Release Date: 1/2/06 > > _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
