Drug Warriors

-You Are Responsible For Allowing The $400 Billion In Uncontrolled Cash Generated Each Year In The Drug Trade To Be Controlled By The Mafia, Criminal Organizations And Hoodlums, Some Of Whom Hate America.

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"Mexican drug trafficking organizations, operating in an underworld created by a global drug prohibition regime in which only the most ruthless survive, unquestionably are directly responsible for hundreds of murders. Nevertheless, they are criminal organizations, not terrorist organizations. Any political agenda the Mexican drug traffickers have is limited to being left alone to reap their black market profits."

"Hutchinson has become a point man in the Bush administration's effort to blur the line between terrorism of the bin Laden variety, criminal violence, and political violence surrounding civil wars and rebellions."

"The Libertarians believe in Liberty [and] believe drugs should be re-legalized. Though Libertarians may not have the perfect solution to [the problem of] drugs, at least they have a reasonable approach, and one thing is for certain. The Libertarians offer a solution when all the major parties do is follow failure with more failure" Michael Holzmeister, Lamar Daily News (Colorado), Nov. 5, 2002.

Contrary to O.N.D.C.P. Ads, The Truth Is; "Supporters of drug PROHIBITION are indirectly responsible for the existence and well-being of criminal gangs, gang related acts of violence and death, injuries from drug deals -gone bad, wrong-address raids, acts of terrorism -[including political suicide bombings and bombs on school busses purported by the O.N.D.C.P. as being funded by illegal drug money] and for allowing the $400 Billion in illegal, tax-free cash generated each year in the illegal drug trade to be controlled by the MAFIA, criminal organizations, and hoodlums, some of whom hate the United States."

Drug Prohibition in the United States and Europe is the cornerstone of racketeering, crime and corruption in the entire world:

November 5, 2002: 40% of the voters in Nevada voted to legalize Marijuana. Is this not an untypical demographic example of all states? Doesn't this suggest that the U.S. DEA is "at war" with 40% of the population of the United States? The DEA and Osama Bin Laden's terrorist organization are the only organized groups who currently boast of having openly declared some type of WARFARE against the peaceful citizens of the United States... ...Note also, that the polls include ONLY registered voters who actually voted in the election. The actual numbers of persons who oppose PROHIBITION is perhaps closer to 60% of the U.S. population.

DEA Head Calls Mexican Cartels "Terrorists" in Effort to Link
Vastly Different Phenomenon
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/mexicancartels

...In yet another signal of the semantic slippage that is gripping
Washington as it attempts to use its battle against Osama Bin
Laden and Al Qaeda as a pretext to advance US interests across the
board, DEA administrator Asa Hutchinson Tuesday tried to slap the
"terrorist" label on Mexican drug trafficking enterprises. It now
appears that for purposes of domestic political consumption, the
word "terrorist" and its variants are being unmoored from any real
world referent and are instead being used by highly-placed
demagogues as polemical labels to attack their chosen enemies...

DEA CHIEF ASA HUTCHINSON SUPPORTS EPITOME OF
FAILURE FOR UN POST

Colombia is arguably the world's most telling
example of the drug war's collateral damage. At
present the South American country is in the midst
of civil war, with both communist guerillas and
paramilitary death squads taxing a thriving drug
trade as they terrorize a civilian populace.
Colombia is the world's largest producer of cocaine
and the principle producer of heroin for the
Americas.

Despite a clear record of drug war failure in
Colombia, the current head of the Drug Enforcement
Administration, Asa Hutchinson, is lending his
support to a former Colombian national police chief
who is now a candidate for the top U.N. counterdrug
post. Retired Gen. Rosso Jose Serrano has stated
that he is honored that Hutchinson is championing
his candidacy to the head the United Nations Office
for Drug Control and Crime Prevention. Serrano is
famous for dismantling the Cali cocaine cartel in
the mid-1990's, which replaced the infamous
Medellin cartel. Since the demise of the Cali
cartel, cocaine production in Colombia has
increased dramatically, in large part due to a
scorched earth campaign in neighboring Peru that
left thousands of Peruvians dead and the country's
democratic institutions in shambles. In addition
to Asa Hutchinson, Sen. Jesse Helms of North
Carolina has expressed support for Serrano's
candidacy.

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NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR GARY JOHNSON WARNS DRUG WAR FUNDS TERRORISM

Thursday, March 14, 2002

Speaking to an audience of teenagers, New Mexico
Governor Gary Johnson said America's drug war may
help finance terrorists and their attacks on U.S.
targets. "The modern-day Al Capone is arguably
Osama bin Laden," Johnson said. "I think our war
on drugs is perhaps ultimately contributing to
terrorism." The governor reiterated his support
for taxing and regulating the sale of marijuana to
adults and applying harm reduction strategies for
harder drugs. Gov. Johnson noted that the
prohibition of drugs makes it possible for
terrorists to profit from the drug trade by
inflating the value of easily grown plants.

***According to Gov. Johnson 90 percent of the
nation's drug problems stem from laws prohibiting
drug use and 10 percent from problems directly
caused by drug abuse.***
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Source: WWW.DRUGPOLICY.ORG

U.S. Anti-Drug Policy supports the funding source of some of the world's terror.

Are there two different types of opium? No. Are the drugs highly different? No, heroin and morphine, for example, are essentially similar. Not that any of that would make any difference anyway.

The only difference between opium for heroin and opium for pain meds is that pain meds are manufactured, distributed and administered legally. Heroin isn't.

In other words, opium grown to ultimately be processed into heroin provides easy money for terrorists, because it's illegal. And the converse is also obvious: Legalization of drugs would eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars a year of illicit profits, some of which accrues to perpetrators of terror and other violence. The connection between drug prohibition and terrorism can be overstated; but it is clear that ending prohibition is one of the steps that must be taken to make the world a safer place. It is equally clear why drug warriors don't like to talk about this.

In Europe, inhalant
abuse is particularly problematic in Sweden, the
only European country that maintains a U.S.-style
zero tolerance approach to drugs. Sweden is also
the only European Country that has higher
prevalence rates of glue sniffing among 16 year
olds than marijuana.

Eddy LaBarr: ... Civil Rights Advocate, Victim of high tech harassment/surveillance for almost 2 decades, Survivor of a 72 hour long warrantless - illegal SWAT training operation. These pages are not intended to promote illegal drug use. This is not a Pro-Drug site. This is not an Anti-Government site. This is a Pro-Common sense and Anti-Prohibition site.

The D.E.A. protects and serves the fiduciary interests of organized crime, Gang Violence and terrorism: