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Newsbrief:
Prohibitionist
Bush
Supporters
"Expose
and
Oppose"
Soros
10/29/04
In an event timed just days
before next week's national election, prohibitionist supporters of President
George Bush held a "National Anti-Drug Summit to Expose and Oppose George
Soros" Thursday in Washington, DC. Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire
currency speculator, has long supported drug reform initiatives through
his Open Society Institute, as well as supporting democratic openings in
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
But despite the "anti-drug"
language of the attack on Soros, it appears he is being targeted not because
of his support of drug reform but because of the millions of dollars he
has thrown into the effort to defeat President Bush. As the summit
announcement notes, "Through a loophole in the campaign finance law, Soros
is spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat President Bush, who opposes
drug legalization." The summit was "designed to draw attention to
how Soros intends to subvert our nation's anti-drug policy if he achieves
his stated goal of defeating Bush on November 2," organizers announced.
The event featured a gaggle
of notorious prohibitionists, including Maryland anti-drug activist Joyce
Nalepka, former DEA administrators Donnie Marshall and Peter Bensinger,
recently resigned deputy drug czar Andrea Barthwell, former NIDA head Robert
Dupont, and Robert Charles, current Assistant Secretary of State for International
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and former counsel and staff advisor
to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Hastert himself made waves
a few weeks ago when he slandered Soros on national television by implying
that he made money through consorting with drug cartels (https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/352/soros.shtml).
In a further indication of
the summit's intensely partisan focus, it will also feature the release
of a "comprehensive report on how the major media have completed failed
to investigate the Soros agenda for America and his controversial financial
dealings." That report is authored by Cliff Kincaid, editor of the
conservative publication Accuracy in Media (http://www.aim.org).
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Issue #360, 10/29/04
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