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   DEA Czar Gen. McCaffrey Chased Off English Campus

Brits chase away US DRUG chief from college appearence Pubdate: 
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 Source: Daily Telegraph (UK) 

The controversial American anti-drugs chief, Gen Barry McCaffrey, 
was hounded by protesters in London yesterday on the first day of 
a visit to share ideas on fighting illegal drug use in society. Gen 
McCaffrey, a proponent of hardline solutions to illegal drug use, 

(and on a forthcoming war in Columbia of course <ed>)

 including  jail and a rejection of government-funded services for 
addicts, was chased out of Goldsmiths College and barracked by demonstrators. 

Steve Rolles, of the campaign group Transform, said  they feared 
the arrival of the general, who is visiting several European countries to
discuss the international fight against illegal drugs,  reflected a 
hardening of the British Government's stance against drug abuse. 

He said America had the world's most punitive anti-drug strategy and the
worst drugs problem. 


(Better ask the Afghans and the Burmese regime about that huh?)

"The Government has nothing to learn from Barry McCaffrey. The US should not
be exporting their drug policy. We should be looking to other 
far more progressive regimes, such as those in Holland." 


(yeah, now there's a civiised nation to be reakoned with..Probably
import lotsa harmless but "lethal" Rangoon Red as soon as DASSK 
comes to power) 

He expressed concern at Government plans to introduce compulsory 
drug testing for anyone arrested. Gen McCaffrey, accompanied
by his British counterpart, Keith Hellawell, arrived at Goldsmiths to
launch an Internet site for professionals in the drugs field.
Demonstrators shouted "Go home Nazi scum" and "hypocrite". 

The demonstrators, who included students from the college in south- 
east London, and a number of rock musicians claimed that the American
government was responsible for flooding inner cities with cheap crack
cocaine. The general joked: "You can tell this is a democracy." 


            (Unlike that which doesn't exist in Burma..)

On Radio 4's Today, Gen McCaffrey refused to label his policies zero
tolerance. "We are neither having a policy of zero tolerance nor a war
on drugs. If you wish to use a metaphor, the metaphor of cancer is more
useful to shaping our concept." 

He said the success of his policy was evident in the 13 per cent
reduction in drug use in America last year. "We said the most dangerous
drug user in America is a 12-year-old smoking pot and abusing alcohol.


(Sheesh, we always thought "the most dangerous " was a white 
liberal government employee enjoying  a jolly good "booze up" 
at the weekend...      Maybe we shoud rethink?)

We are talking of gateway drugs and, taking the behaviour of a young
person aged between nine and 18, we found that where you minimise their
exposure to drug taking, statistically they will never have a compulsive
drug-taking problem. 
"In the past 50 years our own drug experience has been a disaster. It
has gone from no drug abuse almost at all in the Sixties to the worst
problem in modern times by 1979. In 1979 about 14 per cent of the
population used drugs. That's come down to six per cent. Cocaine use is
down 70 per cent." 
Gen McCaffrey stressed that he believed that education and prevention
were the "heart and soul" of the issue. Each country had to develop its
own policies to tackle its specific problems. 


(But let's not leave to the military junta huh? They only got one cell,
and that's full of prisoners, not brain..)


He said: "All of us have different legal and historical contexts. The Dutch 
are a remarkably civilised, homogenous people in a small area.

    (is the Czar a patronising b'stard or what? )

 Their approach might not be appropriate for us. We think the approach 
we are trying is reflected in dramatically reduced rates of drug abuse." 

(Ever thought about arresting the ex Governor of Arkansas?)

Mr Hellawell said Gen McCaffrey had come to learn, not to preach, 

(And never to arrest his President or any members of the Bush 
family, of course)

         (ok..ok   maybe he is here to make another war maybe? )

(And why not, there are a lotta innocents in that 40% of Columbia 
which the Pentagon wants for the following reasons?

1) Strategic geopolitical of the region, 
2) the posibility of an interoceanic waterway &  a dry canal that 
unites the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
3)  Colombia's huge deposits of oil and other minerals can 
attractive to the USA and many  of the European countries to 
Balkanize  the country and  make much easier for their control.  )

and was interested in Britain's 10-year strategy to cut drug use. 
"It is an international problem that needs an international response." 

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Oh yes?   I talked to the Czar's office just this morning. Tney 
can't  even get a letter together to send us re that they have yet 
to decide "a time" when they will debate the "lost"£ £4,000,000 
impounded drug money supposedly for the anti-drug voluntary 
sector (That's Us  folks) 

The UK main stream media are gonna have a field day when 
this "missing money" news eventually breaks. The Home Sec 
Jack Straw already is in deep trouble for lieing to the public over 
the numbers of po-lice he expects to get.

When it breaks. The missing drug money scandal will most certainly 
top that little story. ;-)

And, that's our govt "policy makers"?  Sheesh..


cc Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK)

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of HH the Dalai Lama, the Shan Democratic Union,  film maker John 
Pilger, the Free Burma Coalition,  author Alan Clements, Dennis 
Skinner MP, Tony Benn MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congress-woman  
Maxine Waters,  Socialist Workers' Party,  Dr and Welsh rugby  
star JPR Williams, Hendrix  bassist Noel Redding,  S African jazz 
pianist Abdullah Ibrahim,  All Burma Students Democratic 
Organisation,  All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian 
Trades & Labour Council, Tim Gopsill, editor. 
The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx, and numerous others.   

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