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Current Affairs 2005 - Propaganda (81 items)
| Mar 18, 2005 | RCMP Defends Controversial Report On Increasing Danger Critics Say Study Should Look At More Data Than Are Provided By Police Statistics
"This was $250,000 of taxpayers' money, essentially for the police to market their agenda,"
The RCMP is defending its decision to spend $110,000 on a high-profile study that warned of the increasing dangers of marijuana grow-ops in British Columbia and was headed by a criminologist with extensive links to police forces in North America.
Why should it surprise us that cannabis-obssessed police would not try and further their agenda? |
| Mar 12, 2005 | Canada Can't Handle Cannabis Legalization Is marijuana a gateway drug to harder narcotics? The Canadian Chiefs of Police believe it is. One can safely assume they have the figures to back that up.
Assume all you want, but all credible studies and thousands of years of use show cannabis is NOT a gateway drug. |
| Mar 12, 2005 | Marijuana Is Dangerous, Now and in the Future RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli retracted his statement that the Mayerthorpe tragedy was about marijuana, but the sad reality is that he may have been right the first time.
[They can do all the studies they want, but compared to any pharmaceutical drug, it can never be proved that cannabis is harnful enough to be banned ] |
| Mar 12, 2005 | Pot Patch Violence A Myth Justice Minister Wrong, Lawyers Say. Ontario Police Met With Violence In Only 2 Of 800 Raids In 4 Years, Cop Testifies ...many in the legal community say the claim by politicians and police that grow-ops are violent vehicles for sophisticated, organized crime groups is a "cheap shot" that does not stand up to "10 minutes of fact checking." Numerous lawyers who defend these cases in court suggested Public Security Minister Anne McLellan is misleading the public about the dangers of grow-ops with her recent comments in the wake of the Alberta murders.
[There is a lot of political maneuvering going on right now... a minority government that everyone assumed would align with the left on the cannabis Bill to keep voters happy...instead could be aligning with the right to keep the US happy. As trading partners/neighbours, we have been upsetting each other for whatever reasons, so the legalization card could be easily played instead, and get the grow op violence out of the equation. If Canadians do not speak out loud and clear with thier votes and voices, then be prepared for the prison-industrial complex in a neighbourhood near you] |
| Mar 12, 2005 | Grow-Op Penalties Will Rise - Toews OTTAWA - Growing support among MPs of different political stripes for tough mandatory minimum sentences to deter marijuana grow operations usually run by organized gangs could lead to amendments to the Liberals' marijuana bill, Conservative justice critic Vic Toews predicted.
[You would think it would be impossible to pass a mandatory minimum law for something like gardening a plant in this day and age, but we should know better than to ignore these wacko notions that could become law. There is a lot of
political maneuvering going on right now... a minority government that everyone assumed would align with the left to keep voters happy...instead could be aligning with the right to keep the US happy. As trading partners/neighbours, we have been
deliberating pissing each other off for whatever reasons, so the legalization card could be easily played instead. So the race is on.. |
| Mar 11, 2005 | US Gets High, And Blames Canada WASHINGTON - The number of American teenagers and adults ending up in emergency wards or seeking treatment because of marijuana use has soared in recent years and seems linked to the "dramatically" growing influx of high-test Canadian pot, the White House drug czar said Thursday. The elevated THC content -- the active ingredient in pot -- of that Canadian marijuana means it can no longer be considered a soft drug, argued Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
[Not to mention they are given a choice between treatment or jail, and less than 2% of their pot comes from Canada and is too expensive for most consumers, so duh... they tried to float this one in Vancouver and both mayer Campbell and ex-mayor Owen dismissed it as propaganda - lets hope the nation can keep that perspective] |
| Mar 10, 2005 | Devil's Advocate In a news story of this size and scope, the first casualty in the mainstream media is the truth....the mainstream media played their Orwellian word association game. Marijuana-Grow Operation-Four Cops Killed. We have seen this before. Muslim-Fundamentalist-Terrorist. Native-Reservation-Alcoholic. Male-Black-Criminal. Male-White-Racist.
See? Pushing your political agenda through the media in the midst of the nation's grief is how you keep your job. It seems as if some politicians shed crocodile tears to further their agenda of cannabis prohibition. Some politicians would rather have Health Canada approve pharmaceuticals responsible for thousands of deaths every year, than tell the truth about the medicinal value of the cannabis plant.
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| Mar 9, 2005 | Weed Funds Killers But after last week's horrific tragedy in Alberta, my first and initial reaction was that it was time for all of the recreational users out there who fuel the demand for this industry to take a good, hard look in the mirror and ask yourself this one question: Do you have blood on your hands?
It takes a giant leap of logic to equate the killing of 4 Mounties with the habit of pot smokers, but one enterprising reporter manages to do that. |
| Mar 8, 2005 | I Was Too Quick to Blame Deaths on Drugs, RCMP Chief Canada's top police officer,RCMP Commissioner Guiliano Zaccardelli, said yesterday that he was too quick to condemn
a marijuana grow operation as the root cause in the deaths of four Royal
Canadian Mounted Police officers last week....it appears the murders were the work of a deranged man with a long
criminal history and a grudge against police, and not that of a gangster
protecting his cash crop.
[Now the media, Anne McLellan, and Ralph Klein must admit their roles in what transpired as a huge public deception ] |
| Mar 3, 2005 | CN AB: CN AB: Four Mounties Shot Dead Gunman Kills Four Mounties: A Police Raid on an Alberta Marijuana Operation Goes Terribly Wrong, Shocking the National and Touching Off Calls for A Crackdown
[( PROPAGANDA ALERT: All the headlines scream "Killed in grow op raid", though no plant numbers are given,,,, that is a first.
Regardless of the FACT that this incident was NOT related to a cannabis crop - the pot was successfully investigated the night before, the RCMP were there about the stolen cars but this will always be imbedded in the public mind as a grow op raid gone back.
More commentary: Shooting coveup?
Fifth Estate Documentary: Hail of Bullets]
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| Feb 16, 2005 | CN ON: More Grow-Ops In Toronto Than US Ontario Cabinet ministers who back calls for harsher gun-crime penalties say Toronto is home to as many marijuana grow operations as all of the United States and claim that criminals in the city now rent guns for weekend jobs "like they are videos from a video store."
[They never mention where they get these so-called "facts". Anyone with half a brain would know this is nothing more than fantasy reporting at it's finest.] |
| Feb 11, 2005 | LTE: Dear Mary Jane Ganja Herb Some of the long-term effects that you can produce are short-term memory loss as well as the inability to do divided-attention tasks. Therefore, smoking you impairs a person's ability to operate a motor vehicle. That makes you as dangerous as alcohol on our roads.
[Okay - now we have cops talking to plants...what next? ] |
| Feb 11, 2005 | Will The Real Dopes In This Marijuana-Use Study Please Stand Up How Much Marijuana Does A Research Volunteer Need To Smoke To Demonstrate That Dope Is Bad For Your Brains? Apparently, Up To 350 Joints A Week.
[350 joints a week - 50 per day...that would eliminate (with a few exceptions) the entire pot smoking population... the study is nothing but more propaganda- which is why most US drug research is discredited by serious scientists] |
| Feb 6, 2005 | UN: US Cash Threat to AIDS War The United Nations agency responsible for the global fight against drugs has been forced to abandon its campaign to reduce Aids infection by giving clean needles to heroin addicts after threats by America to end its funding,
[One of the few blessings that could come from the imminent crash of the US economy: cancelling the war on some drug users due to lack of funds] |
| Jan 31, 2005 | Marijuana Makes Lungs Go To Pot Smoking marijuana can cause the same health problems as smoking cigarettes, a new study shows.
[The headline contains as much information about the study as the article itself] |
| Jan 28, 2005 | CN BC: Organized Crime Is Here, Say RCMP The RCMP has a national strategy to deal with organized crime... Illegal drugs are the top priority, followed by outlaw motorcycle gangs, economic crime, high-tech crime, money laundering, illegal migration and trafficking of human beings, corruption and street gangs.
[ Trafficking of human beings - usually women - is way at the bottom of the list, but does anyone ever mention the skewed priorities?] |
| Jan 27, 2005 | Project North Star a beacon for intelligence community Project North Star, run by the U.S. Border Patrol,
gathers law enforcement experts from Canada and the north eastern U.S....the two-day conference also dealt with
the explosion of marijuana grow operations in Toronto, ...He said one attendee from the U.S. left a mountain of
literature on drugs that will be distributed to the
community by Toronto Drug Squad officers.
[The US propaganda machine permeates deeper into Canadian culture, and for good reason.... although we are the closest peer country in geographical proximity, we are further away politically from the US than the sell out Commonwealth nations we share our roots with.] |
| Jan 26, 2005 | Canada Top Pot Supplier Canada is now the largest single supplier of pot to the United States, says a top customs official.
[ LIES!!!!... it was only 3 months ago the report below came out...]
*FLASHBACK* October 25, 2004 United States-Canada Border Drug Threat Assessment: While Canadian-produced marijuana accounts for only approximately 2% of overall U.S. marijuana seizures at its borders, the two governments are very concerned about an upward trend in seizures... [Further reading from CFDP] |
| Jan 25, 2005 | US WA: County's Pot Production Dropping Police Say Their Enforcement and Potent B.C. Marijuana Cut into Local Growing Operations."Like any consumer out there, marijuana users want the most bang for their buck and they prefer the stuff coming from Canada." Most of the marijuana police found statewide was from large operations cultivating cannabis with high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC,
[What this article fails to mention is less pot, more meth, is that what we really want? It then continues with standard US propaganda that we will begin seeing more and more of in a Canadian newspaper near you.] |
| Jan 25, 2005 | CN BC: BC Crime-fighting Budget Gets Boost Of $122-Million ... the explosive growth of marijuana-growing operations in British Columbia, which has earned the province the unenviable title of "Colombia North," was a big incentive for the government.
A study released in 2002 showed the number of marijuana grow-ops in British Columbia had increased 222 per cent between 1997 and 2000 and had jumped by more than 1,000 per cent in some areas.
[The incentives are so obvious - keep cannabis illegal to keep the cash flowing to police jobs rather than social programs] |
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