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Posted by CN Staff on May 13, 2002 at 22:48:21 PT By Allen Garr Source: Vancouver Courier 
Once you understand just who that Vancouver cop was supposed to be chauffeuring to the IDEAS drug conference in a "nice unmarked police car," you'll be able to figure out the size of the problem we have on our hands. The cop is Const. Chris Graham. He is a member of the Odd Squad, a small group of Vancouver cops who made a name for themselves shooting an NFB film about junkies on the Downtown Eastside. The two senior members of the Odd Squad are constables Al Arsenault and Toby Hinton. It's no secret that Hinton and Arsenault, along with the rest of this gang, have worked to undermine harm reduction, a key part of the drug policy supported by Mayor Philip Owen, city council, the Vancouver police department, the provincial and federal governments and the general public. Arsenault and Hinton were key organizers of the IDEAS conference, along with wealthy Vancouver War On Drugs crusaders Lynda and Bob Bentall. The two cops and the Bentalls are the only members of IDEAS. The Odd Squad provided logistical support at the conference. It's just the most recent effort by the Odd Squad and its supporters to attack a made-in-Vancouver public policy that calls for the end of the American-inspired War on Drugs and the beginning of a balanced approach to drug addiction now succeeding in Europe. Graham was scheduled to pick up Betty S. Sembler. She is the mother of all War on Drugs crusaders. Betty and her husband Mel started the Drug Free America Foundation Inc. and its earlier incarnation, STRAIGHT Inc. STRAIGHT Inc. grew from The Seed, which applied a forced treatment approach to children-an approach the U.S. Senate denounced as similar to brainwashing methods used by North Korea. Betty's Florida-based foundation first inspired, then sponsored and helped fund the IDEAS conference. Bob Bentall told me that Arsenault and Hinton took a trip to foundation headquarters in Florida and came back with a plan that became the conference. For decades, the Semblers have raised major money for the Republican Party. The include among their friends Ronald and Nancy "Just Say No To Drugs" Reagan and George and Barbara Bush. Both Ron and George made commercials for the Semblers' various foundations. Mel Sembler dumped so much money into Republican coffers, George Bush rewarded him with an ambassadorship to Australia. Between Betty's work as a zero-tolerance drug warrior and the cash she kicked into the campaign to elect George Bush's son Jeb governor of Florida, it's no wonder Jeb declared August 8, 2000 Betty Sembler Day in his state. The War on Drugs has accomplished a number of things, including putting at least two million young, mostly black and Hispanic, Americans in prison. Meanwhile, drug addiction and related diseases have increased everywhere the war has been waged, including Canada. Private citizens like the Bentalls and the Semblers are free to have whatever conference they want to advance any failed ideas they choose. They can even screen and exclude certain journalists at their own peril. But when members of the Vancouver Police force actively organize these large-scale events to undermine public policy, it's unacceptable, regardless of whose cars they use. When these cops tie themselves to a foreign political machine with an agenda detrimental to our own- which is what the Odd Squad has done-it's time to stop them. Police Chief Terry Blythe has known what these "cowboys," as he calls them, are up to for some time and has done nothing. Whether these most recent revelations will push him into action during the last few lethargic weeks before his retirement is debatable. But this should not go away just because he does. Source: Vancouver Courier (CN BC) Related Articles & Web Sites: IDEA - Canada Canadian Links Cop Rejects Mayor's Drug Policy War on Drugs Conference Open To Select Few Anti-Drug Conference Attracts Critics Bad Ideas, Good Ideas Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #21 posted by p4me on May 14, 2002 at 15:00:32 PT |
| Cowboys have $hit on theoutside of their boots. Busch has his boots filled with $hit on the inside. fromthewilderness.com has some shocking things to say about 9/11. This link is to a section called the "CIA and Drugs" and there is no real way to condense it all except that drug money is accepted by both parties and things are corrupt. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/index.html VAAI [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #20 posted by redman on May 14, 2002 at 13:55:23 PT:
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| Real cowboys may have s**t on their boots but our noble leader has it for BRAINS! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #19 posted by Dark Star on May 14, 2002 at 13:48:55 PT |
| Thanks, Space Cat, for introducing a little cosmic levity here. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #18 posted by SpaceCat on May 14, 2002 at 13:45:42 PT |
| Cannabis is not lethal to aliens, I've burned one in every juke joint from here to Tau Ceti. Depending on the species However, their method of ingestion might be lethal to humans, given the difference in location and purpose of the functional orifices! [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #17 posted by kaptinemo on May 14, 2002 at 12:53:26 PT:
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| ...but I think you might like to look at this: Bentall money going to fight drug liberalization http://www.vancourier.com/115201/news/115201nn2.html From the article: Two Vancouver police officers, Toby Hinton and Al Arsenault-members of Odd Squad Productions, a group of Downtown Eastside officers who educate the public on drug issues-are listed as vice- presidents on IDEAS's board of directors. (Emphasis mine -k.) Bentall said Hinton and Arsenault are participating as regular citizens, not as members of the Vancouver Police Department. These are the guys who used arrest records (property of the Vancouver PD) to paper an entire wall...yet they are acting as 'private citizens', not policemen? Excuse me, but it becomes glaringly obvious that a flagrant violation of 'conflict of interest' laws has arisen here...since the two cops no-doubt have received remuneration for their 'support'. And used a police car to assist in that support. I said it before: first, the DEA gets itself 'invited' in. Then they start dictating Canadian drug policy. Next thing you know, the RCMP and local LEOs become the DEA Massa's 'house n****rs'. (And if you entertain any doubts as to that status, I suggest that you read from DEAWatch and marvel at the Neanderthalenic mouthings of many of the agents posting there; your sovereignty means nothing to them, as they'd cheerily wipe themselves with any other nation's national ensign with nary a hesitation.) If you Canucks don't show these creeps the door, and soon, then you might as well fold and store those pretty red-and-white flags of yours; you won't need them anymore. Because you've just joined Guam, Puerto Rico and dozens of other 'Trust Territories' as part of Uncle's Empire. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #16 posted by goneposthole on May 14, 2002 at 08:35:47 PT |
| was at Cannabis news. I guess I can't remember who posted the link. I apologize, I can remember what happened to me 45 years ago. The effects linger too long. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #15 posted by goneposthole on May 14, 2002 at 08:16:24 PT |
| to interview [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #14 posted by The GCW on May 14, 2002 at 08:15:07 PT |
| NO...! PROHIBITIONISTS. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #13 posted by goneposthole on May 14, 2002 at 08:11:01 PT |
| Oh well, I'll forget about it. Nevermind. It was sheer fantasy. Too bad Straight, Inc. is so much sad reality. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #12 posted by goneposthole on May 14, 2002 at 08:04:43 PT |
| The name is John Lear. I know this stuff is out there in outer space. If I've been smoking something, everybody knows what it is. It is also keeping me alive. If it's lethal to the aliens, too bad for them. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #11 posted by kaptinemo on May 14, 2002 at 07:57:18 PT:
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| The only post I made linked to a page which used the example of fictional human-chomping aliens as an aliteration...not as a reality. It was to point out the masks the Semblers and others wear as being pillars of the community and oh-so-concerned with 'helping the children'...while torturing them for fun and profit. But, I suppose, in a way, you could call antis 'aliens'. Their minds seem to function on a very different level than most human beings; the words we use in the same language appear to have different meanings. For example, the word 'freedom'. For me, it means being able to do with my body as I wish. But for an anti, the word 'freedom' has a negative connotation; it means the same thing as 'licentiousness'. Same language, different meanings...because of different kinds of minds. The kind of mind that can call forcing a human being to sit in it's own fecal and urinary waste until it agrees that this is helpful, and call it 'treatment'. 'Alien'? Well, I would posit that you don't have to have a huge bulbous gray-colored head and space-black eyes to be an 'alien'. Antis are weird enough... [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #10 posted by goneposthole on May 14, 2002 at 07:25:47 PT |
| I saw that episode of THE TWILIGhT ZONE. Actually, I have read at a website that the aliens do exist. Yes, they do make meals of people. They have vestigial alimentary tracts and digest humans by rubbing the nutrients obtained from cooked humans into their reptilian skins. It has information about secret caves in New Mexico. Inside the caves are huge vats and humans are cooked or prepared in some wierd way so the aliens can survive. I'll post the web site if I can find it again. The person who made the wild claims of aliens existing and eating humans was none other than Frank Lear, the inventor of the Lear jet. I hope I have the first name correct. It was at this website (cannabisnews.com) that had a link to an ABC news story about what really happened on 9/11. The news story stated that the voices heard from the communications on those planes were alien voices. A quote from the story: "The reason the tapes from the cockpit recorders of the four hijacked planes have not been released is because the voices heard are not human, but voices of aliens." The story appeared at the ABC news website on April 17, 2002 or 17/4/2002 (military style). I downloaded the story onto my hard drive (you know how those things disappear on the internet). I remember that Kaptinemo made the post. I'll check the archives, too. Maybe cannabis is lethal to the aliens, in even the most minute of doses. Pure conjecture, but, then again, that's the TWILIGHT ZONE. Stranger things have happened, but not this strange. Funny how I was thinking last night obout the TWILIGHT ZONE and how it relates to how things are these days. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #9 posted by Sam Adams on May 14, 2002 at 06:55:19 PT |
| you can't rob drug dealers if there aren't any! Has anyone seen the movie "Training Day"? [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #8 posted by kaptinemo on May 14, 2002 at 05:57:28 PT:
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| A Clockwork Straight;
THOUGHT REFORM IN AMERICA http://thestraights.com/aclockworkstraight/index-no-animate.htm E_J, if you are reading this, your encyclopedic knowledge of things Soviet would find some horrifying similarities...right here in the Good Ol' US of A, aw-hunh. But what's really scary? The extensive connections between these sick, twisted people pushing their North Korean brainwashing as 'treatment'...and intelligence agencies. Do your own research, folks. Just medicate beforehand; I didn't when I first came across this - and wish I had. It's literally quite sickening... [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #7 posted by kaptinemo on May 14, 2002 at 05:35:34 PT:
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| Some links you might like to look at regarding the pride and joy of the Semblers: STRAIGHT, INC.: And THIS one in particular is astounding in it's wealth of resources; I most highly recommend its' perusal: Anonymity Anonymus http://www.fornits.com/anonanon/ To answer your question, JRBD, the Semblers apparently forked over $100,000 USD. Which, when you compare to what, say, a Rockefeller could afford, is peanuts. If I were from OZ, I think I'd be insulted at getting such cheap trash from the US... [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #6 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on May 14, 2002 at 04:54:04 PT |
| >>Mel Sembler dumped so much money into Republican coffers, George Bush rewarded him with an ambassadorship to Australia.<< Maybe this has something to do with the reason why Australia's been backsliding in recent years... Send him to Sweden! Mel would probably fit in fine at HNN Sweden, and they'd take to him like the French took to Jerry Lewis. So how much DOES an ambassadorship to Australia set one back, anyway? [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #5 posted by qqqq on May 14, 2002 at 01:41:45 PT |
| .."If you support the war on drugs then you support terrorism."..... .....That's true!.....And,,if you pay taxes,,you support alot more terror than anyone!.....I want to see a commercial,,where they show someone filing their tax return,,and they say,,"I bombed a village in Afghanistan,and blew up children and their mothers."..........."I paid for helicopter gunships that were used to demolish Palestinian cities...I also paid the Israeli soldiers who pulled the triggers"........ [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #4 posted by p4me on May 14, 2002 at 00:50:34 PT |
| A few days back there was an article at Cnews about Robin Possner and there has not been mention since. I think at the last article she was on day 17 and I think Mother's Day was day 24. I really did not pick up a link for her diary page and wanted to put it up for people concerned on the hunger strike.
http://www.cannabisnow.org/frames.html?menu.html&day1.html
VAAI [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #3 posted by Lehder on May 14, 2002 at 00:20:58 PT |
| Think about those supply lines that are inspired and financed by mad US prohibitionists. You would never induce the fella who wants an ounce or two of weed for his personal health and well-being to carry a suitcase nuke through the border or to ferry a load of al-Qaida maniacs across Puget Sound. But the people who don't smoke the herb at all, but safely and surely deliver it by the ton for no reason other than money will have no scruples over delivering whatever is wanted - for the money. If you support the war on drugs then you support terrorism. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by Rambler on May 13, 2002 at 23:45:21 PT |
| http://thestraights.com/gop.htm [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by p4me on May 13, 2002 at 23:14:37 PT |
| Police Chief Terry Blythe has known what these "cowboys," as he calls them, are up to for some time and has
done nothing. Just like the boot wearing incompetent we have in the White House, these guys are not cowboys. Cowboys have $hit on the outside of their boots. VAAI [ Post Comment ] |
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