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12-4-2004 - There's no HERO IN Heroin 4:13 PM GMT
I'm reminded of this daily as I see drug-ravaged men in the streets parking cars for money, shooting up behind churches, trading needles openly in a pharmacy, walking ghost-like through the park either trying to score or sell. It's a major problem here and there's little help for the addicted. There is one treatment program that reaches worldwide and they have a little thrift shop in walking distance -- my addiction.
I've been going to this shop ever since I got here seeking antiques and other cool stuff and I've mett many men and women who have kicked their habits and graduated from the rehab farm to the shops. I've heard many stories over these years, stories that stunned, shocked and saddened me. I've heard stuff that I can't believe they've divulged to me. Somehow people like to tell me their life's story and I'm rapt in listening -- everything from robbery, embezzlement, to making and selling forged passports in Lisbon to Pakistanis and Moroccans.
It will always blow my mind that all the junkies speak English, when the majority of doctors don't. Like they tell me, it's the universal language in the drug world. I was in there the other day and there was a new guy who was thrilled to find an "Americana" in the shop and was anxious to have a conversation in English. What a conversation it was, he told of being at the top of the world financially until he became addicted to heroin, which was a 20 year run. He told me he was HIV positive and lives one day at a time, and if it gets bad, he's taking himself out with an OD.
Then he started talking about the heroin that's beginning to make its way from the fields of Afghanistan into Europe and he feared there were going to be many deaths as he believed since there's such an abundance this year, it will be purer and cheaper. He said it will create many new addicts due to the crackdown on hashish. I was saying how odd I found that. Hash doesn't create junkies, yet more hash is confiscated than heroin. The news can't show enough of the "droga" that's been nabbed -- I watched aghast as 30 tons were burned the other day. One month's worth.
Then we began talking about the CIA and tthe US government funding themselves with the drug money. I told him I had read the Brits were now into an eradication program and there was a war on drugs happening along with the other war. He said that was "tretas" (bs) and another smokescreen to keep the world from knowing they were still growing and then asked a question I ask myself all the time. Why didn't Bush or Blair get rid of the fields when they invaded Afghanistan? I've written about this before. The answer is war. The coffers were running low and the only way to fill them is with the "milk of the pod". It's nothing new, it's been going on forever and nothing will convince me it's ever going to stop.
Nothing's going to stop the farmers from growing, either. The media yabbers on about alternatives to poppies, but the ideas are not realistic. Sure, they're going to earn enough money to survive growing saffron or getting into cow herding. It cracks me up that the enfant terrible aka the USA has the sheer nerve to tell countries with centuries under their belts how to act and what to do. Sure, answers are easy from behind a desk.
Whoa, the mind is blowing again. I found almost the same words used above in an article called "Washington's Hidden Agenda: Restore the Drug Trade from GlobalResearch, so I must be on the right track. Though it seems I took a lot from this, it's just a tad and the article is well worth reading.
"The UK sponsored crop eradication program is an obvious smokescreen. Since October 2001, opium poppy cultivation has skyrocketed. The presence of occupation forces in Afghanistan did not result in the eradication of poppy cultivation. Quite the opposite.
Heroin is a multibillion dollar business supported by powerful interests, which requires a steady and secure commodity flow. One of the "hidden" objectives of the war was precisely to restore the CIA sponsored drug trade to its historical levels and exert direct control over the drug routes.
The heroin business is not "filling the coffers of the Taliban" as claimed by US government and the international community: quite the opposite! The proceeds of this illegal trade are the source of wealth formation, largely reaped by powerful business/criminal interests within the Western countries. These interests are sustained by US foreign policy.
Decision-making in the US State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon is instrumental in supporting this highly profitable multibillion dollar trade, third in commodity value after oil and the arms trade.
The Afghan drug economy is "protected".
The heroin trade was part of the war agenda. What this war has achieved is to restore a compliant narco-State, headed by a US appointed puppet."
Pete Hamill wrote in December, 2001, prophetically about what the fighting was really all about:
"But nobody yet has used the one word that is crucial to understanding Afghanistan.
The word is heroin.
Afghan fighter against the Taliban guards in Spinboldak, across the border from Pakistan, yesterday. The various warlords now sporadically killing one another in different parts of the country — and on the streets of Kandahar — are almost certainly fighting to control the heroin racket. Forget about such marvelous abstractions as freedom, liberty and democracy. The true goal is far more familiar to those of us who have lived in a major heroin market for five decades. They’re killing for the same reasons that mob families have killed for two generations: to control the supply of smack.
The great prize for the warlords is supposed to be hidden in those endless networks of caves in the north and west of the ruined country. According to the UN, the British Home Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration, some of it is pure morphine base. Some has been processed by Afghan labs into heroin. Tons of hashish are there, too, say the experts, ready to flood the postwar domestic market."
He ended the fascinating piece with: "All of which creates a ripening odor. As Afghan warlords fight one another in Kandahar for the spoils, we still don’t know what private arrangements were made by the U.S. to create its anti-Taliban alliance. We certainly don’t know if the continuity of the heroin trade was part of the deal. If it was, we will live with the terrible exports of Afghanistan long after Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar are tossed into the rubbish heap of history."
Go here for a long list of Afghanistan articles, from the CIA's running the show, to Bush's blind eye to the problem with the reasoning it kept the warlords happy. None of them have to live in Europe, none have to see what this drug is doing to the populous, hell, it's not in their backyard. I'm going to stay on this to see if what many sense, a rise in deaths and OD's occurs..
The following item says to me it's already happening. According to ibp.police.uk:
"Heroin warning after spate of drugs deaths in the city
Police are warning the public that a bad batch of Heroin may be being sold in Edinburgh."
I really fear the coming months in Europe, but mostly here. People don't usually equate Portugal with heroin, but it's a sad truth and what with the "Rock In Rio" festival coming up, drawing people from all over the EU, it will also bring even more heroin. I fear that more than a terrorist threat.
"I know it makes people die. I know all the bad things that come from it, but I have no choice. We have thousands of problems. We don't have money to buy oil or tea."
-- Afghani poppy grower
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