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China Executes Dealers on Drug Day
Posted by FoM on June 26, 2000 at 12:01:52 PT
By John Leicester, Associated Press Writer
Source: Star Tribune
China marked U.N. anti-drug day Monday by executing dealers, torching narcotics and publicly acknowledging the grim inroads drugs are making among Chinese, particularly the young. Those executed included three drug traffickers from Taiwan, a Hong Kong resident, two Shanghai heroin dealers, four dealers in the northern province of Shaanxi, three farmers in China' s drug-afflicted southwest, and four manufacturers of methamphetamine, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said. 
It carried conflicting accounts on the total number of people put to death but said the executions made " a clear and compelling statement." China also executed at least 38 drug traffickers last week. In its first policy paper on China' s drug problems, the government said Monday that the number of registered drug addicts jumped from 148, 000 in 1991 to 681, 000 last year. Heroin was the drug of choice for 71 percent of addicts, and 79 percent were under age 35, according to the document issued by the State Council, China' s Cabinet. More recent figures have put the number of registered addicts as high as 800, 000, and a senior U.S. drug control official has quoted Chinese estimates of 3 million to 12 million total drug users, out of China' s estimated 1.25 billion people. " The drug scourge is becoming more serious with each passing day and the situation is grim for the anti-drug struggle, " the policy paper acknowledged. Law enforcers " are waging a fierce battle against all drug-related criminal activities, administering merciless punishment to those involved." Between 1991 and 1999, China cracked more than 800, 000 drug cases, confiscating almost 40 tons of heroin, 17 tons of opium, 15 tons of marijuana, and 23 tons of methamphetamine, the paper said. It added that the 22 tons of drugs seized in 1999 marked a 33 percent rise over the previous year. After wiping out widespread opium addiction in the first years of communist rule, the government was slow to react to a resurgence in drug use following economic reforms in the 1980s. Only in the past few years has the government started public awareness campaigns and appealed for international cooperation. On Monday, authorities in the southern provinces of Fujian and Guangdong burned 2 1/2 tons of seized drugs, Xinhua said. In Beijing, authorities distributed 500, 000 anti-drug brochures. State-run television broadcast a report about young disco-goers using the drug Ecstasy, known in China as the " head-rocking pill." Stylishly dressed women were shown shaking their heads violently to techno music. The policy paper said China treats addicts within its system of 746 compulsory rehabilitation centers and 168 treatment and labor camps -- facilities for hard-core users. Private treatment centers are also being set up. One model community outreach program for recovering addicts in Inner Mongolia has brought the relapse rate down to 30 percent, the policy paper said. Overall, relapse rates remain high, partly a factor of the poor employment prospects many former addicts face at a time of rapid economic reforms. China lies on a major transit route for the 110 tons of heroin produced in neighboring Myanmar every year. The policy paper blamed drugs smuggled from the " Golden Triangle" border region for the surge in addiction. It said China has virtually eradicated cultivation of plants such as opium poppies within its territory and aids Myanmar and Laos with crop-substitution and tourism-promotion programs to discourage poppy growing. Beijing (AP) Published: Monday, June 26, 2000 © Copyright 2000. Related Articles:U.S. & China Agree on Measures To Fight Drugshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6106.shtmlBeijing Offering Drug Addicts Amnesty http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6104.shtmlU.S. Anti-Drug Czar Starts China Visithttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6094.shtmlUS Drug Policy Maker in China http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6085.shtml 
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Comment #7 posted by sundog on June 26, 2001 at 17:57:39 PT:
my god, it can't be real...
...but if it is it's just about the most twisted fu**in' thing i've read yet.of course the chinese would believe that these methods would work- they've convinced themselves of it... and they are experts at manipulating the masses...if they do succeed in 'eradicating' the drug problem then what comes next? who'll be put to death for what?...to those who would like to see these results here in the america's, i say move your sorry butt to china, communism is like, way out of vogue here...peace....
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Comment #6 posted by MikeEEEEE on June 26, 2000 at 18:08:10 PT
War Criminal
McScareFreak is loving it!!! If you're reading this McScareFreak, remember that what comes around goes around, wait until it's your turn to stand before the judge.
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Comment #5 posted by freedom fighter on June 26, 2000 at 16:18:49 PT
what is there to say?
This is sick. Yes, to be sure there are some folks here in America wishing it would happen. The question is why would in the earth they think like this? ahh, it is pretty morbid to even want to know why! The news probably will be publish again elswhere as a way to get the public used to it. If so, this would be even sicker! My sweet sis. just told me that 52% of americans get their news online nowdays. We can make the difference!
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Comment #4 posted by Mitchell on June 26, 2000 at 13:51:12 PT:
Apocolypse Now: McCaffrey Back From Far East!
APOCOLYPSE NOW! McCaffrey’s Back from Far EastAlert Amabong.com visitors who have emailed suggesting that General Barry McCaffrey was not so slowly morphing into the Marlon Brando character in Apocolypse Now, have new evidence that this is indeed the case. He just came back from China, Thailand and even ‘Nam man.  When last Barry chose to speak directly to masses stateside, he sent out a special press release which began: “This Father's Day, White House Drug Policy Director Barry R. McCaffrey highlights the important responsibility fathers have in communicating with their children about drugs.” Wisely, McCaffrey sent his press release out a week BEFORE the actual holiday since McCaffrey himself wasn’t even going to be in the country on Father’s Day, and would have to do all of his highlighting from the other side of the planet.McCaffrey was in the Far East hobnobbing with one of the most repressive regimes in the world. No press release from the General’s office about his trip to China though. The Chinese though were so pleased with McCaffrey’s visit that they executed ten people for drugs offenses like so much happy-fun-candy as part of their International World Drug Day observations. Was it really only in April that Robert Housman, White House Assistant Director for Strategic Planning, was taking Dan Forbes and Salon.Com to task for calling the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) a law enforcement agency? Housman wrote to Salon: “This is inaccurate. As a matter of fact, ONDCP is a policy coordinating office. ONDCP has no operational law enforcement statutory authority.”  Yet there was McCaffrey in China, signing what the General himself called “the first law enforcement agreement between the countries.” The agreement the United States and Chinese authorities signed means the two countries will share evidence relating to crime and drugs. Also under discussion are the sharing of intelligence on drug rings, money laundering and arms trafficking, tightening accords on controlling chemicals used to make drugs, and even setting up an FBI office in Beijing. But this apparently does not fall under the category of “operational law enforcement statutory authority,” which as EVERYONE KNOWS is the generally understood definition of a “law enforcement agency.” Be advised that you are inviting the wrath of the White House if you try to broaden the scope of the definition somewhat to suggest that our so called “Drug Czar” McCaffrey is a law enforcement official just because he goes to China and negotiates deals with ruthless dictators on criminal justice matters.  Testifying before Congress on the Columbian aid package recently, McCaffrey accused the Columbian rebels of, GASP, “intimidating journalists.”  Meanwhile, the Chinese have failed to live up to their promise to allow press freedom in Hong Kong, never mind the mainland, according to virtually all human rights groups.McCaffrey didn’t specify just how the journalists in Columbia are intimidated. We already know how the home version is played under McCaffrey’s despotic “policy coordinating regime.” First, millions of dollars are spread around in the form of ad buys among all of the largest television networks. More millions are dropped on many of the largest print media, too. Then these “news sources” are told they can run anti-drug articles in lieu of advertisements. When a reporter Dan Forbes uncovers the arrangement, he and the online publisher of Salon.Com are accused of bias. Housman told the Boston Globe: “I'm not accusing [Forbes] of anything. I'm trying to make them [Salon] play honest journalism.”  Salon editor David Talbot responded in the same Globe story that: “whatever biases Dan Forbes has about US drug policy... I think the biases were not the driving factor in the stories he did for us... What's really going on here is the White House is coming close to launching a preemptive strike on the reputation of a journalist.”More intimidation comes in the form of the “Methamphetamines Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999.” This patently unconstitutional measure, which has already passed the Senate, criminalizes speech. It would ban the dissemination of all information pertaining to the manufacture and use of controlled substances. This means that any discussion of drug use in any form (email, web pages, books, even links) would be felonious behavior. It’s hard to believe that this measure will not be struck down by the Supreme Court but then, who would have thought the Senate would pass a bill like this in the first place. 
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Comment #3 posted by kaptinemo on June 26, 2000 at 13:34:51 PT:
And now, for something completely different
Thank you, Observer. You've really made my day by providing us with some links that illustrate the moral bankruptcy of the DrugWarriors. In true Monty Pythonish fashion, here's another truly bizarre matter of a DARE cop being arrested for possession. I strongly urge those desperately in need of some amusement to click on this link and read it to the end.http://www.pdxnorml.org/dare_trimble.htmlYou might think this is a joke, but it ain't. And the guy gets off with a slap on the wrist, while someone else would have been thrown into the Black Hole of Calcutta in a heartbeat. Absolutely disgusting.
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Comment #2 posted by observer on June 26, 2000 at 13:15:52 PT
`Traffickers', Casual Users, to be ``Shot''
China also executed at least 38 drug traffickers last week. Remember that people can be and are convicted as "distributors" for passing a joint to a friend. Federal law permits procecutor/judges to define "distribution" however they want. Once this is done the victim of such a charge is elgible for up to 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine, her property stolen (I mean "siezed"), and parted among locals and feds to circumvent state laws against such predation.``A first offense of simple marijuana posession now carries a five-year federal penalty.234 Escalator clauses take advantage of the repetitive nature of drug use. First-time possession of crack can be punished by five to twenty years if the amount exceeds five grams. A second offense brings the same punishment if the weight exceeds five grams. And a third offense brings the same punishment of the weight exceeds one gram. "Three felony convictions for drug offenses carries mandantory life with no parole, and it is a felony to commit a drug offense within 100 feet of a pinball or video arcade containing more than 10 games."235 Possession of a marijuana cigarette is such a felony. Federal law permits a $10,000 fine for possessing one marijuana cigarette.236 An Oklahoma man received a life sentence for felony possession of marijuana, 0.005644 of an ounce.237''(Richard L Miller, Drug Warriors and their Prey, 1996, pgs.63-64) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275950425/Cannabisnews/``[L.A. Police Chief] Daryl Gates once advised the U.S. Senate about the 'casual user' and what you do with the whole group. "The casual user ought to be taken out and shot, because he or she has no reason for using drugs." Gates later emphasized that he was "not being facetious" and declared marijuana users to be guilty of treason. . . Would it be possible for authorities to implement the program recommended by DARE founder Gates, to round up and shoot every tenth man, woman, and child in the United States? At one time the answer would have been a resounding "NO!" But we have seen how measures demanded by drug warriors are used to punish citizens innocent of any crime (innocent even by admission of drug warriors administering punishment). We have seen courts bow to drug warrior demands and extinguish civil liberties that once made such abuses impossible. We have seen drug users hounded from jobs, homes, and communities as an orchestrated nationwide campaign of hate rhetoric portrayed them as bums, perverts, and murderers deserving to die. We have seen judges and the public approve military incarceration of blameless men, women, and children in concentration camps. Necessary mechanisms for mass killing are clicking into place as senior drug warriors demand a war to the death. We do not know if they will achieve their death wish. Before the American public succumbed to the war on drug users, mass murder was neither thinkable nor possible in the United States. Now it is both.''http://www.pdxnorml.org/dare_index.html 
U.S. State/Federal Guide to Marijuana Penalties
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Comment #1 posted by legalizeit on June 26, 2000 at 13:11:42 PT
Barry's dream
No wonder Barry went over there - so he can get some ideas to forge a new dream for the DEAland drug war!In China we have an example of a drug war completely out of control - beyond jail, actually executing people for a victimless crime... (the epitome of barbarism, executing farmers!) yet the number of addicts has tripled!People always condemn the Chinese for their heavy-handed Communist practices and human rights violations, yet we are heading down the same road.>"The drug scourge is becoming more serious with each passing day and the situation is grim for the anti-drug struggle," the policy paper acknowledged.One would have thought that the world governments would have learned a lesson from our failed alcohol Prohibition over 70 years ago... but when heads of state, parliaments and legislatures are made up of hard-headed bimbos they have to learn it over again for themselves - using unwilling citizens as guinea pigs for an experiment that has already been conclusively proven - TWICE OVER - to be an utter failure.>Law enforcers "are waging a fierce battle against all drug-related criminal activities, administering merciless punishment to those involved."Scary, but that is pretty much what we have here, and drugs are still more prevalent, and more available (even to CHILDRUUN) than ever before. 
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