From the Drug Czar: Students Push For Random Drug Testing
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From the Drug Czar: Students Push For Random Drug Testing No surprise, but still… The Bush administration announced yesterday that it is seeking $200 million to help cities fight violent crime, citing as one of its reasons, the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s decision to give convicted crack cocaine offenders a chance for an earlier release. Speaking before the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Attorney General Michael B. […] “bullet” Jacob Hornberger says that Lou Dobbs should take responsibility for the death of a border agent. What Dobbs fails to comprehend, however, is that he himself, along with other supporters of the war on drugs, are morally responsible for the death of that Border Patrol agent. That is, Dobbs and other drug-war supporters cannot escape moral responsibility for the agent‰s death by simply pointing to the legal (and moral) responsibility of the drug dealers who killed him. “bullet” Interesting article from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, which puts Walters’ recent outburst against Chavez in some additional perspective: A prime weapon in the U.S. inventory to reduce Ch˝vez to size and build up Colombia‰s President Uribe is a recent government-funded report produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which claims that the South American nation, Colombia, is safely ‹back from the brink of crisis.Š But in terms of its conceptualization and implementation, the contracted document and the campaign surrounding its publication raises serious questions. These include the conservative organization‰s objectivity due to its longtime advocacy of Plan Colombia, and its vigorous support of the pending free trade pact with Bogot˝. “bullet” Richard Holbrooke, former ambassador says we’re Still Wrong in Afghanistan “I’m a spray man myself,” President Bush told government leaders and American counter-narcotics officials during his 2006 trip to Afghanistan.ć He said it again when President Hamid Karzai visited Camp David in August.ć Bush meant, of course, that he favors aerial eradication of poppy fields in Afghanistan, which supplies over 90 percent of the world’s heroin.ć His remarks — which, despite their flippant nature, were definitely not meant as a joke — are part of the story behind the spectacularly unsuccessful U.S.ć counter-narcotics program in Afghanistan. “bullet” If you’re on Facebook, consider donating $10 so that SSDP can earn $10,000. |
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