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Exhibit Links Terror, Drug Traffic
Posted by CN Staff on September 13, 2004 at 08:14:09 PT
By Donna Leinwand, USA Today
Source: USA Today 
New York -- The crumpled green 1994 Thunderbird is a jarring sight in the lobby of One Times Square. The driver, DEA agents say, was high on cocaine, barbiturates and marijuana when he hit and killed a 31-year-old Ohio woman. The man is serving 10 years. The car is the opening assault in an exhibit meant to lay bare the harsh world of illicit drugs from the intensely personal car accident to the global financing of rebel armies and terrorists.
Target America: Drug Traffickers, Terrorists and You is an expanded version of a Drug Enforcement Administration Museum traveling exhibit that opens here Tuesday. The exhibit, housed in three floors of borrowed space, is designed to illustrate through graphic photos and artifacts the societal costs of the production, trafficking and use of illegal drugs."I want Americans to realize that, although they may not use drugs, everyone is impacted by drug use in this country," DEA administrator Karen Tandy says. "That car represents the threat to every one of us on the road."The car is the centerpiece of a field of debris piled in the lobby ofthe tall retail-and-office building. The wreck is surrounded by drug paraphernalia and barrels of chemicals used to make methamphetamine, as well as broken toys representing children neglected by drug-addled parents.The overriding theme of the exhibit, visible from Times Square through plate-glass windows, is the link between drug trafficking and global terrorism. The exhibit invites visitors to trace the path of cocaine and heroin from drug labs in Afghanistan and Colombia to the pockets of insurgents in Colombia and Peru and to such terrorist organizations as Hezbollah. Snipped:  Complete Article: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2004-09-12-dea-museum_x.htmSource: USA Today (US)Author:  Donna Leinwand, USA TodayPublished: September 12, 2004Copyright: 2004 USA Today, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.Contact: editor usatoday.comWebsite: http://www.usatoday.com/Related Articles & Web Site:DEA Museumhttp://www.deamuseum.org/ Exhibit Shows Ties Between Terrorism, Drugs http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13971.shtmlDEA Exhibit: Illicit Drug Sales Support Terrorism http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13970.shtmlDEA Launches Exhibit - Drugs = Terrorism http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13918.shtml
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Comment #27 posted by FoM on September 14, 2004 at 13:12:11 PT
Heads Up: Tonight on Hardball - Kitty Kelley
Kitty Kelley: Drinking, Drugs and Saving the Republican Partyhttp://msnbc.msn.com/id/5989684/
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Comment #26 posted by FoM on September 14, 2004 at 11:55:49 PT
Thanks dongenero 
I was going to post the transcripts and you beat me too it. I really enjoyed watching the show last night. I was raised Catholic and I had Jewish friends so when they showed that old clip of Bill Maher I really laughed.
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Comment #25 posted by dongenero on September 14, 2004 at 11:47:01 PT
Maher transcript
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/13/lkl.00.htmlHere's a snippet:
 KING: Omaha, Nebraska, hello.CALLER: Hi, bill. I have a question. If you were to be able to ask the candidates one question at the debate, what would it be?MAHER: Why isn't the drug war part of this election? KING: The what.MAHER: Drug war, a huge, huge issue.KING: You think it's a false war? (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in favor of the war.MAHER: Why isn't it even introduced as a topic.KING: But they're both in favor of a war on drugs. They both would like to see drugs eradicated. What are they going to say?MAHER: That's ridiculous. It a ridiculous position. It's ridiculous that is's not up for debate.KING: Because both sides agree.MAHER: They don't agree. They shouldn't agree. We'll it's like how they agree on gay marriage. Do they really agree. That's what I hate about the Democrats, they're weasels. The Democrats -- I understand the Republican position on gays, for example, because it's moronic, but I get it. They read the bible, they think that gay -- homosexuality is an abomination. OK, it's stupid but real to them. But the Democrats, they don't think homosexuality is an abomination. They don't think that gay people any less than anybody else. Than why can they only have civil unions. Why do they have to call whatever goes on under their roof something different than other people can call it.
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Comment #24 posted by dongenero on September 14, 2004 at 11:33:45 PT
Maher on Lary King Live
Yea, Maher is awesome. He is very quick, funny and well informed. The drug war was addressed in passing as well. 
Maybe a transcript is available.
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Comment #23 posted by FoM on September 14, 2004 at 11:05:40 PT
Max Flowers 
Thank you for telling me about what I missed. I'm glad I didn't watch it. They are so Holy! Not really but they think they are.
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Comment #22 posted by Max Flowers on September 14, 2004 at 10:45:47 PT
FoM
Well I gave equal time to good guys of course... I saw Maher too, and was cheered up by his ballsy statements of truth. Almost no one else will say the things he does. He is a national treasure! 
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Comment #21 posted by Max Flowers on September 14, 2004 at 10:42:07 PT
one more thing
Oh and the last word Hannity spit out as the segment ended was an extremely sophomoric and dishonest comparison between alcohol and "drugs"... he gestured with his hands as if weighing and sarcastically said "let's see, a beer--and heroin, which is worse?" I was instantly seeing red, as that is such a purposely dishonest argument. Alcohol as a problem drug is never about just one beer! He tries to give the impression that the only amount of alcohol ever used at one sitting is "a beer"... nothing could be further from the truth, and he knows that damn well. Moreover, the drug war was never really about heroin (much of the traffic in which is protected and in some cases RUN by US shadow operations), and in its current state its focus is squarely on harmless cannabis users, amounting to an attempted cultural cleansing.
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Comment #20 posted by FoM on September 14, 2004 at 10:35:26 PT
Max Flowers 
I didn't watch it. I watched Bill Maher on Larry King Live instead. I'm serious that I won't watch Fox News anymore. I knew it was right wing and only is interested in Bush and sure doesn't like Kerry or Democrats but after seeing OUTFOXED I can't watch Fox News anymore at all.
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Comment #19 posted by Max Flowers on September 14, 2004 at 10:19:42 PT
Walters made me sick
Saw John "Pee" Walters last night on Hannity and Colmes; what a venal atrocious excuse for a human being he is (that goes for Hannity too by the way). Spewing lies intended to scare people and protect the federal government's cash-cow drug war, he is one of the most reprehensible creatures alive. He needs to be hung by his thumbs for a few months to just begin to get an idea of the misery he is causing so many people.
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on September 14, 2004 at 09:14:04 PT
mayan
Thank you. I would have named you Newshawk but I didn't see that you posted this link. Here it is.http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19488.shtml
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Comment #17 posted by mayan on September 14, 2004 at 04:56:32 PT
Good News
Sorry if this has already been posted...Court chooses privacy over pot:
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2400558,00.html
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Comment #16 posted by military officer guy on September 13, 2004 at 19:55:19 PT
http://badnarik.org/Issues/IndustrialHemp.php
check it out, and check out his blog
http://www.badnarik.org/blog
vote for Michael Badnarik
Libertarian Candidate for President...
we can win this war...
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Comment #15 posted by Overwhelmsam on September 13, 2004 at 18:54:28 PT
Hard To Believe - But There It Is.
So the US government is actively marketing prohibitionism to the public. How sick.
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on September 13, 2004 at 18:42:56 PT
Thanks ron
Thank you for sharing your LTE. I hope you get published.Virgil please keep us informed. I only get the CCC List from Canada and I don't think I have seen anything about it. 
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Comment #13 posted by ron on September 13, 2004 at 18:21:03 PT
Off topic but still relevant
Caught this article in Cannabis Links:http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v04/n1298/a09.html?176Thought I'd write directly to the editors. I don't expect it to be published, but I hope the higher powers can still feel shame. It's the best weapon we have, but sometimes it's not enough.Anyways, paranoically mirroring my letter lest it be lost in one of the black holes of cyberspace, I thought I'd send CNewsers a copy.Re: We want to take pot sales off the street (Sept 13).Does this story signal a change in the Province’s treatment of cannabis issues? A low point in Canadian journalism was plumbed last year (on this very day , I think) when your editorial staff chose to print a press release from the RCMP on their drug education efforts among the young. You ignored the major news item of that day – the five hundred people who gathered in front of Parliament in Ottawa and passed around joints, in open defiance of the government.Newspapers that continue to blindly follow the prohibitionist mindset, either by omission or commission, lose their credibility on serious matters.Tell your readers about Harry Anslinger and Emily Murphy and their even more ludicrous successors - William Bennett and John Walters, and other major architects of this immoral persecution.  Get Jon Ferry or Susan Martinuk to mention one of these guys in their incredibly stupefying columns supporting continued criminalization of people whose lifestyle isn’t up to their particular moral standards. Maybe then we’ll stop thinking of journalists as presstitutes. RonBC
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Comment #12 posted by Virgil on September 13, 2004 at 18:13:49 PT
Tomorrow is the day
The ruling on the Neilson case is due tomorrow. It concerns a man and a wife and their child pleading that the laws on cultivation and possession are dead and cannot be legislated into a new existance for all of Canada by an Ontario court. The judge did not allow tape recording of the July session and today a written request was made to allow tape recording which needs the judges permission. The Crown did not sign for service, which is the second time they pulled the stunt. Turmel already had the paperwork drawn up to have the misconduct investigated.It could be the judge already has the decision typed out for release purposes. If so it will be up at medpot this time tomorrow and if the recorder is allowed, I am sure Turmel will make it a priority to get it up also.Long dead the laws. I'll toke to that. Anyone know what SRH means? You might tomorrow night.
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Comment #11 posted by FoM on September 13, 2004 at 18:07:56 PT
Heads Up: Bill Maher on Larry King Live Now
The drug czar is scheduled on Fox this hour too. I just thought I should let you all know.
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Comment #10 posted by mayan on September 13, 2004 at 17:10:04 PT
Bush Laden
The biggest narco-terrorists in the world are in the White House...THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE: 
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/bush-cheney-drugs.html
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Comment #9 posted by ryno35 on September 13, 2004 at 14:26:23 PT
Point of View
It's sad that most people won't view this exibit the way it should be viewed. Prohibition causes the problems laid out in this exibit.End the global prohibition on drugs and take control over them, instead of letting the evil forces of this world profit from our unwillingness to let people consume what they want even when it's dangerouse to them and people around them.We will never be able to stop certain people from destroying themselves, trying to causes many more problems then it solves.
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on September 13, 2004 at 13:20:29 PT
Off Topic: News Article from The Associated Press
Soros, Lewis, Sperling give to Proposition 66 FundSeptember 13, 2004LOS ANGELES - The effort to pass a ballot measure that would tone down California's tough "three-strikes" sentencing law has received three $150,000 donations from some of the nation's largest backers of Democrat-oriented political groups.International financier George Soros, insurance magnate Peter Lewis and private university founder John Sperling each gave $150,000 to help pass Proposition 66, according to campaign finance records. The contributions were received Friday.In a written release, the "The Yes on 66 - Fix Three Strikes" campaign said the $450,000 came via the Drug Policy Alliance Network, a national drug-law reform organization.The proposition's backers argue that the three-strikes law unjustly ensnares small-time users with lifetime sentences. They want the stiff sentencing guidelines to apply only to people convicted of "serious or violent" felonies such as rape and murder - what they call the "original intent" of voters who passed the original law a decade ago.Proponents said the donations would finance a "a vigorous media campaign," starting later in the week.Opponents point out that drug users are only eligible for the harshest sentences if they have prior felony convictions and argue that Proposition 66 would release thousands of predatory criminals onto streets the current law has made safer. Opponents didn't return phone calls Monday seeking comment on the donations.Lewis, chairman of the board of the suburban Cleveland-based insurer Progressive Corp., and Soros are political contribution regulars who have donated millions this election cycle to Democratic-leaning causes. Sperling is founder of the University of Phoenix.ON THE NETProponents: http://www.yes66.orgOpponents: http://www.threestrikes.org/Latest donors: http://www.drugpolicy.org/about/
 Copyright: 2004 Associated Press
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Comment #7 posted by siege on September 13, 2004 at 12:18:07 PT
The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
 Sharon Bush contemplating a libel suit.of Kitty's Litter So why is it that G W Bush is not Suing the Officer's at the Guard?? for said use of marijuana and cocaine!!http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/13/133346.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/13/133346.shtml
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Comment #6 posted by CorvallisEric on September 13, 2004 at 12:17:57 PT
Cannabis Culture article
Long article by Pete Brady on the DEA Museum and DEA history from Nov, 2001. I liked the final paragraph:"The pro-drug organization NORML was having a conference in Maryland in 1999, and they wanted to check out the museum," Fearns [museum director] recalled. "Our security people made me nervous by throwing a lot of worst-case scenarios at us, like what if they came in and did some kind of civil disobedience like the animal rights activists do, throwing blood on the carpet or spray painting the walls. Our head of security used to work the White House, and is familiar with all kinds of nut cases. But about 18 of them came in, and they looked just like average citizens. They looked like regular Americans. Their only negative comment was: 'This is a beautiful building and an expensive operation. What a waste of money."http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1797.htmlNote: article states The DEA Museum is open Tues-Fri, 10am-4pm, by appointment only. The appointment bit is apparently no longer true except for groups of 15+ according to their website.
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on September 13, 2004 at 10:45:13 PT
Just an Off Topic Note
I've been trying to find absolute proof that the book is legit. If Kitty Kelley taped the Bush in law that would have helped. I'm not sure if all of it is true or not but it's number 2 at Amazon in sales as of a few minutes ago.The Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynastyhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385503245/qid=1095097538/sr=8-1/ref=pd_cps_1/103-2863756-2789448?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
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Comment #4 posted by Max Flowers on September 13, 2004 at 10:10:35 PT
DEA art?
Oh so now the DEA is involved in the business of dramatic propaganda art pieces, eh? Very interesting.Also very interesting is the name of the exhibit--"Target America: Drug Traffickers, Terrorists and You"... the way I read that is it is a statement that they (DEA) plan to target America, and that includes drug traffickers, terrorists, and YOU (the average citizen and spectator of the exhibit).How else can one interpret it?
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Comment #3 posted by dongenero on September 13, 2004 at 09:42:01 PT
Your tax dollars at work.
You don't suppose they point out how our Prohibitionist policies prop up all of these Drug/terrorist cartels by artificially inflating the value of a commodity that has basically always existed and will never go away.It looks like our Govenment is in "the business" themselves...otherwise how could you possibly continue to promote such a system. Follow the money.
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Comment #2 posted by global_warming on September 13, 2004 at 09:30:53 PT
More Lies
"The car is the centerpiece of a field of debris piled in the lobby ofthe tall retail-and-office building. The wreck is surrounded by drug paraphernalia and barrels of chemicals used to make methamphetamine, as well as broken toys representing children neglected by drug-addled parents...The overriding theme of the exhibit, visible from Times Square through plate-glass windows, is the link between drug trafficking and global terrorism...The exhibit invites visitors to trace the path of cocaine and heroin from drug labs in Afghanistan and Colombia to the pockets of insurgents in Colombia and Peru and to such terrorist organizations as Hezbollah. "It's difficult to understand how this current "Prohibition" has fueled much of what this display proposes to reveal.
In all fairness, could the "children neglected by drug-addled parents" be represented by the broken homes that this "drug war" has wrought? Might we catch a glimpse of the millions of faces who look back at us through their prison gates, placed there by this "war on drugs", yes the "war on drugs" has a face, it is the face of children, men and women who have been swept up by these maniacal drug warriors, a product of a "Modern" society, a product that lacks any true human compassion, a product that can only function when it hides and deceives, when only lies will keep it in existence.End this madness, end the "war on drugs", end the war on people.
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Comment #1 posted by Truth on September 13, 2004 at 08:23:39 PT
alcohol
Does these folks consider alcohol a drug?
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