Pubdate: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 Source: Powell River Peak (CN BC) Copyright: 2003 Peak Publishing Ltd. Contact: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1998 Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/734 Author: S. Norris, Padgett Road Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n868/a09.html CRIME LINKS Running after small-time drug runners is like living in a swamp and swatting mosquitoes with a toothbrush ["Drugs--a link to crime," June 4]. The real links to crime are through criminal organizations and their link to covert government operations. I believe drugs are just another form of mind control--if you're gooned, there isn't much thinking going on about important issues, like how much of the world's economy depends on drug trafficking or who is really getting rich on all that suffering, and why there is so much suffering in the first place. Religion used to serve that purpose almost as well--keep the people so fearful of God and the church there wasn't much time to think about the kings, queens, lords and nobles living off the backs of the peasants. Look up The CIA and Drugs, about the intimate relationship between the United States government and drug trafficking, and traffickers with enough money to buy justice. Throughout history the real conflict has been the people versus the powerful, and the powerful have a burning desire to keep the people enslaved whether it is through religion and the occult (the elite have a huge number of secret societies as such, including the religious cult inside the White House oddly called The Family--look up "Jesus Plus Nothing," Harper's, March 2003), economic control (Bildeberg, for example), military/police control and social controls (example: throwing people into poverty, indebtedness, drugs). The Project for a New American Century, headed by the finest US elite, considers the use of biological weapons targetting genetically appropriate people as perfectly acceptable. So we have a crazy religion with a warped leader that has terrible weapons--and gee, we thought it was Saddam Hussein. Oil, opium and blood flow freely from Iraq and Afghanistan, much more freely than democracy, basic necessities and happiness. The holocaust on the Arab children is deeply linked to the holocaust of our addicted children. You just have to study the mosquitoes to know how to clean up the swamp. S. Norris, Padgett Road - --- MAP posted-by: Josh