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Newsbrief:
Canadian
Mounties
Follow
US
Lead,
Discover
"Drug-Terror"
Connection
5/17/02
Taking a cue from their big
brothers to the south, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have suddenly
discovered that Canadian drug users are supporting foreign terrorists and
guerrilla organizations. The revelation came in the RCMP's latest
annual survey of drug trends in Canada, "Drug Situation in Canada 2001"
(http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/crim_int/drugs_2001_e.htm).
The Mounties estimated that
cocaine imported to Canada sends $50 million US to Colombian belligerents
each, while hash and heroin imported from Southwest Asia sends up to $40
million heading for criminal sources there.
"Portions of these proceeds
are used to finance terrorist and insurgent activity abroad," the report
said. "Drug consumers are therefore supporting such terrorist and
insurgent groups."
While the Mounties primly
adjust the blinders that allow them to assume the same tunnel vision that
afflicts their "drug terror" counterparts in the US, some Canadian analysts
have a different take. Eugene Oscapella, a founding member of the
Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy (http://www.cfdp.ca),
told the National Post that it was not Canadian drug users but Canadian
drug laws that enriched unsavory characters. "The only reason drugs
finance terrorism is because of our policies prohibiting those drugs,"
said Oscapella. "We are making this drug trade so extraordinarily
profitable for terrorist organizations that we might as well be handing
them the cash on a silver platter."
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Issue #237, 5/17/02
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