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  Seven Held in Cannabis Café Raid
Posted by FoM on April 25, 2002 at 16:44:36 PT
Dorset Police say they will arrest users 
Source: BBC News 

cannabis Seven people have been arrested for alleged drugs offences after a police raid on a cannabis café. Dorset Police raided the shop in Station Approach, Bournemouth, on Wednesday night, as it was being featured in a BBC Two documentary.

The Money Programme looked at the financial and legal issues surrounding cannabis cafés in the UK. The show followed the proprietor, James Ward, originally from the Manchester area, as he attended a training course in Amsterdam on how to run a cannabis coffee shop.

The programme also featured his search for a location for the café in Bournemouth and the troubles he encountered in setting up the venture.

There were 25 people in the café at the time of the raid.

Warrant executed

Chief Inspector Nick Hazelton said: "A warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act was executed at Unit 15, Station Approach, Boscombe, Bournemouth, on Wednesday 24 April.

"Twenty-five people were in the premises.

"There were seven arrests for drug-related offences and a quantity of substance believed to be cannabis was recovered."

A total of 60 police officers as well as a police dog and handler were involved in the raid.

Of the seven arrested, three men aged 17, 18, and 47 and a woman aged 21 were released on police bail.

A 30-year-old man is still being questioned while a 34-year-old man has been charged and bailed to appear before Bournemouth magistrates court on 29 April.

A 28 year-old man was released.

Enforcment 'duty'

Chief Inspector Hazelton added: "I am pleased with the results of the operation.

"Once again, it shows Dorset Police's intention to deal appropriately with offences at this enterprise.

"We are here to uphold the law and will continue to do so."

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Stanger said: "Dorset Police targets dealers and users in the more harmful class A drugs like heroin and crack cocaine.

"But clearly we will not tolerate the dealing in and use of cannabis because it is an offence and our duty is to enforce the law."

Note: Once again, it shows Dorset Police's intention to deal appropriately with offences at this enterprise. -- Chief Inspector Nick Hazelton

Source: BBC News (UK Web)
Published: Thursday, April 25, 2002
Copyright: 2002 BBC
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Comment #24 posted by dddd on April 26, 2002 at 17:02:09 PT
Wise advice Kap....
..but,,I dont think that "spyware",within your computer is necessary for "them",to monitor all you do when on line....And,,,I also am convinced of my crackpot theory,,that says;;when you go to certain sites,,government type sites,,or sites like antiwar,,the extraordinary long download times,can very easily be a scan of your hard drive!
..I used to have a cable modem,,and I am convinced that this type thing occured on many occassions! .. .I know it sounds like a crackpot conspiracy theory,,but there's alot more shenanigans goin' on out there than anyone realizes!...dddd


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Comment #23 posted by FoM on April 26, 2002 at 17:01:14 PT
I don't use netscape
I'm only an IE user. Never like Netscape. I have a current version of Nerscape but it still doesn't do for me what IE can and I only use 5.5 of IE because this isn't a pentium processor and the new IE said it works best with a Pentium.

Do I need to check Netscape then? Thanks!

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Comment #22 posted by FoM on April 26, 2002 at 16:57:56 PT
kapt
I have a program called internet eraser. Does that help me? I use it when I shut down for the day.

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Comment #21 posted by kaptinemo on April 26, 2002 at 16:34:27 PT:

Spyware
Folks, most spyware hides in the Netscape Cache folder and the Cookies folder for Internet Explorer on Windoze machines.

For those who use Netscape, CLOSE NETSCAPE, FIRST. You can't do what you need to do to clean it when it's running.

!.) If you have a Windows 95/98 machine, go to START, then go to Programs, then Windows Explorer.

2.)When it opens up into the two-paned window, look at the window on the left. You should see a whole bunch of folders on the lft, with "+" signs on the left of each folder.

3.)Look for the Folder that says "Program Files" and click on the "+" sign to the left of the folder.

4.) Look for the Folder that says "Netscape". Click on the plus sign to the left of that.

5.) You should now see two folders. One says "Communicator", the other says "Users".

NOW, BE VERY CAREFUL! DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING YET! YOU ARE NOW IN THE FOLDER THAT HAS ALL YOUR EMAIL IN IT, AS WELL AS YOUR ADDY BOOK AND BOOKMARKS!!!

Click on the "+" sign next to "Users". You will see a folder beneath it. Depending on how your email addy is set up, it will be named that way.

6.) Right click on this folder and choose "Make shortcut", then send the shortcut to the Desktop. This will save you having to jump thru all these hoops later. Close Windows Explorer. Double click on that shortcut folder. DUMP EVERRYTHING YOU SEE IN THERE!

(It's okay; you won't hurt anything, and are actually helping the program. Netscape has only so much memory allocated to it, and when it full of crap in the Cache file, it gunks things up; Netscape starts to get balky.)

6.) Now, open Windows Explorer, again. Look for the Windows folder in the left hand window pane. Double click on it and look for the "Temp" file. Make sure no programs you use have been stored there, as some downloaded programs you want may still be there. You might want to move them elsewhere. If not, DUMP THE CONTENTS.

7.) Close out of Windows Explorer and go to START, then go to Settings, then Control Panel. When the Control Panel opens, look for "Internet Options" Right click on thei and also send it to the Desktop, so you don't have to go thru digging again. Double click on that shortcut icon. On the first tab, you will see buttons that say "Delete Cookies" "Delete Files", and "Clear History". Hit all those buttons. This will clear probably all the spyware out, unless it is the kind Mari says was on hers...and I'd very much like to know what was used to clean it off, too.

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Comment #20 posted by mayan on April 26, 2002 at 12:18:50 PT
Excerpt...
This excerpt from "All Fall Down" - The Politics of Terror & Mass Persuasion,by William Thomas, raises some vital questions about 9/11 which our so-called leaders & the mainstream media refuse to ask.

"All Fall Down" - The Politics of Terror & Mass Persuasion(excerpt),by William Thomas http://www.attackonamerica.net/allfalldown.htm

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Comment #19 posted by mayan on April 26, 2002 at 12:09:44 PT
Keep Pushing
Way to go Lehder & thanks for those links! I've been writing congresscum & also Cynthia McKinney to show support. I've wrote her detractors too, letting them know how I feel. Sorry Jose, I thought you meant to stay there. If I went there to protest I doubt if I would come back!

More Lost Freedoms:

Nevada Cops Can Hide Monitoring Devices On Peoples Cars: http://rense.com/general24/dev.htm

Michigan Takes One Step Closer To Becoming A Police State: http://rense.com/general24/mich.htm

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Comment #18 posted by Jose Melendez on April 26, 2002 at 11:07:36 PT
huh?
Please don't think I meant any harm, ill intent or disparaging commentary. It's just that... the internet is like standing on a street corner with a bull horn, only with search engines and other software, anyone anywhere can listen in on your comments. I love you guys.

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Comment #17 posted by SParker on April 26, 2002 at 11:02:55 PT
Jose Melendez - Please Light(en) Up!
Jose ~

I think it was a little bit insulting that just because FoM and I expressed an interest in trying to detect and disable any secretly installed spy-ware, you assume we are ready to "stop speaking out".

I greately appreciate your efforts and commitment, but I do not feel you are justified in questioning mine.

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Comment #16 posted by Jose Melendez on April 26, 2002 at 10:15:30 PT:

too late to stop speaking out
There is not much that can be done to completely stop people from seeing what's on your computer if it is connected to the internet. There are even ways to detect keystrokes wirelessly, so we might as well flood them data and continue to excercise our freedom to speak, or otherwise exhale.

By the way Al Gore, Colin Powell, Janet Reno, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson, Dave Letterman, Howard Stern, Bill Maher, Alec Baldwin, Woody Harrelson, George Soros, and Marc Emery: I'd love to utilize my skills and do consultant work such as be on a rapid response team, so we can arrest prohibition. I mean, if you want to win.

Email me at airjos@yahoo.com to arrange a meeting.

Peace,

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Comment #15 posted by FoM on April 26, 2002 at 09:57:12 PT
Mari me too
I would like to be able to see if my computer has any spyware on it but don't have any idea how to know if I do or not. I know how to do a search of the computer content but would need the name to see if I have it on mine I think.

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Comment #14 posted by SParker on April 26, 2002 at 09:45:31 PT
Mari - More Info on DEA Watch Spy-Ware?
Mari ~ I am hoping you can provide some additional info regarding the tools your computer friend used to detect/remove the Carnivore spy-ware planted by the DEA Watch site. Thanks.

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Comment #13 posted by kaptinemo on April 26, 2002 at 09:33:24 PT:

DEAWatch: it's still there
At least, it's daily postings are. It's still comprised of everything, from thoughtful commentary to misogynistic, racially biased and anti-Semitic blathering. hurled with all the decorum of verbal projectile vomiting. But I can't seem to access the main web page, either.

DEAWatch dailies: http://members.aol.com/deawatch/daily.htm

Doc Russo, you and other Children of Abraham might find this of interest:

"Is the Israeli destruction of Palestine what the President meant by 'A Long War'?", con't:

I like the suggestion of temporarily moving the men wanted by the Israelis to the US for a short time, thence to be handed over to the Palestine authorities. Both Ashcroft and Hutch claim to be Christians, why didn't they make this offer weeks ago?? It's a downright crying shame that our president and his alleged Christian buddies in Justice stand idly by while the same race that murdered Jesus is slowly destroying one the most holy shrines of Christiandom. I suspect George Bush and a few others are Zionists masquerading as Christians.

Ah yes. reminds me of the 'Good O' Boys" get togethers in the South in the 1990's; you know? When Federal LEO's got together to drink beer, whore, and issue each other 'n*gg*r hunting licenses'.

The Good O' Boys Roundup http://www.parascope.com/articles/1196/gobindex.htm

Racism and Hatred in Government http://www.constitution.org/abus/racism_gov.htm

Yep...and we paid for and continue to pay for the salaries of people like those mentioned above...who are supposed to 'protect' us. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that they are in the same 'protection' racket as La Cosa Nostra...



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Comment #12 posted by Jose Melendez on April 26, 2002 at 09:02:43 PT:

mayan
I meant we should go there to protest.

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Comment #11 posted by Mari on April 26, 2002 at 08:08:04 PT
DEA Watch
I have found that I can't access this site either. A computer proffessional of my aquaintence was cleaning up my computer when she found a Carnivore spy-ware hidden deep in my files. It had come from this site.I don't know why you would now be required to adjust your browser as they had no trouble plantimg the spy-ware even with my firewall.

I thought maybe the site was gone because of some of the things the agents were leaking about Shrub and his henchmen.

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Comment #10 posted by Lehder on April 26, 2002 at 07:36:07 PT
email letter
Dear Congressman:

There are a great many questions that must be answered regarding the US security lapse that permitted the 9/11 attacks to occur. Here are some links to detailed articles about those lapses:

http://bushoccupation.com http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/sept-j16.shtml http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Molson041502/molson041502.html

Calling Cynthia McKinney a nut case who speaks from a grassy knoll has so far been the only government response to the evidence presented in these articles. This name calling is not going to satisfy me. I demand an official and public investigation.

I know that you are too busy to read these articles, just as practically all of Congress were too busy to read the USA PATRIOT Act before passing it.

You should know that I am voting against you and all incumbents.

Yours truly,

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Comment #9 posted by Lehder on April 26, 2002 at 06:53:30 PT
omitted link
to Bernard Weiner article -

http://commondreams.org/views02/0425-06.htm

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Comment #8 posted by Lehder on April 26, 2002 at 06:48:43 PT
9/11 investigation
Thanks for the link, mayan. http://bushoccupation.com It has several good articles detailing the evidence of a coverup. It's good to see a web site dedicated to demanding an investigation into the security failures that permitted 'the events of September 11.' Here are a couple of articles that I have posted before, also listing the evidence of a coverup:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/sept-j16.shtml

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Molson041502/molson041502.html

If the machinations described in these articles are ever officially investigated within public view, then heads are going to roll for sure. But will it help?

Bush's approval rating has now slipped to 69%

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=571

and it's easy to imagine this number slipping ever further and faster.

Journalist Bernard Weiner said it better:

Bush's approval ratings are slipping fast. When the final unraveling comes, when critical mass occurs and the whole deck of cards begins to collapse -- fed by the discovery of all sorts of embarrassing and possibly criminal secrets currently being hidden by the administration -- the end-slide is going to be fast and vicious. Resignation or impeachment is not out of the question. Keep the pressure steady and building.

When the nearly fifty million who voted for Bush are made to feel foolish by seeing how their candidate was able to rely absolutely on their gullibilities, when the millions more who lined up to donate their money to the families of the 9/11 victims learn that Bush knew the attack was coming, and when the zillions who for months flew the Chinese-made flags from their antennas see that they have been victims too - then, maybe, we will have a chance of ending the drug war.

It will take a staggering psychic event like the executions of convicted heads of state to break the propaganda and television induced American perseveration, the affliction described in these pages by kaptinemo that renders Americans impervious to fact and reason on the drug war and every other issue too.

But who knows? Americans will watch the investigation and ensuing trials on their TV sets from the comfort of their heavily mortgaged homes. Everyone will be angered but peseveration will remain in force; hardly a single citizen will be found who admits to having voted for Bush; the drug war will continue and if you challenge it then one or several of the multitude of pinheads newly empowered by the "war on terror" or maybe DEA agent Michael "That-but-for-the-grace-of-God-is-your-fucking-face" Levine himself will smash your head and all our problems will be ignored again as the evildoer is brought, by God, to justice.

Maybe our luxuries and more must taken too. Maybe it will take a nuclear terrorist attack and a total collapse of the stock market and US credit, or a large scale nuclear or biological war and a protracted and severe shortage of petroleum for transportation and heating, or a drastic change in climate that drives tens of millions inland from the coasts or brings a famine to the cities.

But it is certain that the endless scapegoating of categories of innocent people in foreign countries and in our own solves none of our problems at all. So I'm emailing my government representatives to demand an investigation of 9/11.

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Comment #7 posted by Patrick on April 26, 2002 at 06:02:52 PT
Headline should have said…

COPS OUT NUMBER CAFÉ PATRONS 2 TO 1 AND A DOG!

7 people arrested for sitting and sipping tea with a smoke. Citizens, did you get your justice & money's worth?

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Comment #6 posted by mayan on April 25, 2002 at 20:51:38 PT
That is...
http://bushoccupation.com

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Comment #5 posted by mayan on April 25, 2002 at 20:50:22 PT
I hear ya' Jose!
I don't know how long I can stay in a country ruled by treasonous murderers & liars. What am I to think?

Major 9/11 Oddities Revealed In NY Firehouse Documentary: http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings/911-oddities-revealed.htm

Why Is Bush Blocking The Investigation Of 9/11???: bushoccupation.com



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Comment #4 posted by Jose Melendez on April 25, 2002 at 18:31:59 PT:

maybe we should all go there
Telephone Numbers of The World's Best Travel Agents

http://www.etn.nl/houtphon.htm

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Comment #3 posted by SParker on April 25, 2002 at 18:14:03 PT
Off Topic - DEA Watch Website
I can't recall which frequent contributor tipped us off awhile back to the DEA Watch website, but I now find that I can't visit it without first lowering my browser security settings. Anybody have any info or theories?

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Comment #2 posted by Toker00 on April 25, 2002 at 17:39:58 PT
"People arrested for Living."
Isn't that what it amounts to?

I was sitting here thinking how nice it would be to come home, tired from a satisfying days work, STRAIGHT,(As I haven't, in quite a while) and walk through my sliding glass doors, onto my deck, with the sun still shining bright, the birds singing in flight, all our flowers bursting with color and fragrance, kids playing in the neighborhood, people walking, and just fire up a big ole' DOOBIE. And not have to worry about being arrested for LIVING.

These people are putting it on the line, and we should be wiling to do the same. Just wish I was wealthy enough to buy my way out of jail for DISOBEDIENCE

Peace. Realize, then Legalize.

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Comment #1 posted by mayan on April 25, 2002 at 17:38:03 PT
WHAAAAA!!!
These crybaby pigs might as well get in their last licks now before they are forced to fight real crime.

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