dog and pony show losing it's zeal

It used to be that when the police made a major bust of any kind they would drag out all the seized property,run the perp walk,display a table loaded with drugs,money,guns and bundles of cash.They would have some officer with the sternest face in the division give a statement about how this was a _ year investigation costing$-millions of dollars and that it had dealt a major blow to the drug scene and to organized crime.On the street no-one even noticed.Today we saw another low in the dog and pony show era.One tattooed guy with an RCMP entourage went to the airport where they did a one man perp walk and then made the speech with nothing in the way of evidence as he was being deported by their con-air plan to rid the city from as many street people before the Olympics.This was a sad replica of bygone days when they actually solved crimes before they pandered to the public via the media.A few days ago they set up two addicts for murder by making sure the dealers they had just ripped off were aware of who robbed them and when they were being released.When the police do something like this and laugh about how much hurt these guys are in for they have sunk to using the street to attain the justice they are unable to deliver.This is a cowardly act and is no better than hiring a hit man to eliminate someone they dislike.This is just another example of the twisted logic that is the drug war and the total lack of morality or human decency that exists under prohibition.

Cops cry fowl,safe injection site to be judged

Over 500 police representatives from the western hemisphere got together in Vancouver this week to swap stories and scare people.There were all kinds of allegations and very little evidence to back it up but then they were preaching to the converted.There was talk of the terror of Central American gangs and how easy it was for them to cross borders.They wanted one individual locked up on zero evidence and weren't afraid to give the mans name and where he lived.Of course they "knew" this was a really bad guy they just didn't have any of that damn tricky evidence thingy figured out yet.Not to be dissuaded the cops alluded to all manner of horrific crimes that this guy must have committed.They released a whole bunch of figures that showed that they haven't actually done much to put a crimp in gang crime.That wasn't their take but 5 kilos of pot and one of cocaine is not exactly a dent in organized crime.Meanwhile, the feds have released their long awaited report on Insite,Our safe injection site and there is nothing in it that is any thing but positive .Now I guess it's going to be about whether it's positive enough.Tony Clement,our health minister says he'll let them know sometime in the next four months.The only possible reason he could have for denying them their extension now would be personal or dogmatic.Either way,these conservatives have never been shy to let their personal view cloud an issue.We'll know by June 30.

The Poppy is also a Flower

Not if you live in Alberta and have nosy neighbors it isn't.A 63 year old immigrant from India found that out the hardest way possible when he found himself in an Alberta court charged with cultivation of a narcotic product?I don't know if I'm the only one that's aware that hundreds of people have poppies growing in their yards and gardens every june and some of them are the most powerful poppies in the world.Is our government going to start arresting every person with a patch growing in the back yard?According to the judge in this case this is a terrible crime and must be crushed harshly to send a powerful message to anyone of a like mind?So all you criminals out there with a poppy patch in your yard can expect your door to fly off the hinges at any time because the drug war has entered a whole new era.It's zero tolerance to the max and no-one is safe.This 63 year old fellow has been growing poppies for a medicinal tea since he was a child in India and is shocked at the way he's being treated.Although he was aware it was against the law he thought that because it was on his own land and he was using the product himself he would not be bothered.He underestimated the psychotic nature of anti-drug warriors and their bottomless pit of a soul.The paranoia that the word drug elicits in the cruel and pitiless legions of the anti-drug thought police is never ending and without mercy.How this case could effect society in any manner is beyond even my wildest dreams.Some 63 year old man drinking a cup of tea each day is such a threat to us that we have to crush this poor man with the full weight of the law.I don't know what the drug war is trying to show here,unless it's that they are without mercy and that none are safe?That's pretty much their message all along so I don't know why this one hits so close to home.If you've been listening to the recent dialogue from Texas you'll have heard all the talk of brainwashing and how horrible it is to feed young minds with false information that ill prepares them for the realities of life.The drug war is the biggest and most insidious brainwashing of a people since Hitler did a number on the Jews.One day the lies and fear will disipate and we'll be able to live our lives without the fear of the jack boot at the door.This case just may display to more people the insanity that is the drug war.The Poppy is Also a Flower is a book I saw somewhere but it is also the truth and my mother used to grow them all down the side of our house in the east end of Vancouver.If she was still alive I'm sure she would shrug her shoulders and say"they wouldn't arrest me".Sorry mom but the world is a meaner and nastier place because in a province called Alberta,they do just that.