-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: Roger Bunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 7:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: fta of VP Hon Professor George Saitoti, Foreign Min Dr B. Godana Kenya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hon Professor George Saitoti Foreign Min Dr B. Godana ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\| ||\____ | Opium EXPRESS | ||','''|'''''''\___, | __ | ||__|'__|___||_\ ['''(@)'(@)''''''''''''''''**|(@)(@) *****'(@)* >From Seattle to Sydney?: Of its kind : The most powerful communications group in existance >From Roger Bunn, Mihra Director Policy / Press Office +44 181 742 2803 30th Jan 2000 Gentlemen, I am Mihra director of policy, and head of an international coordination team pursuing a genuine war upon hard drugs. One of which the general public can use to show their determination to rid our societies of its endemic curse. I am a British national. And excluding those inside S Africa with whom we both worked during the anti apartheid days gone by, along with the Rt. Hon Peter Hain of the UK, I am a world authority on the use of sports sanctions. In 1991 and for my work on international sports sanctions. I was made an honoury chief of the African National Congress. Sydney 2000 86% of all the heroin on the streets of Australia, the host nation. Comes via the military junta in Rangoon. Which then launders the money and builds new heroin refineries and methamphetamine labs. The following briefing explains why , as a major sporting nation, Kenya should not add its considerable weight to an Olympiad farce which, already compromised, will also destroy any hope of a genuine war upon hard drugs. We have a growing number of contacts with diplomats and governments, which are agreeable to work on the ousting of the Burmese military junta team. Your support for Mihra's Burma Out! anti -drug campaign could more than assist a war upon hard drugs, it may also be of some assistance in consolidating the basis of a "front line" state development against the Burmese junta in south east Asia, and elsewhere. We have a coordination unit in S Africa. And I am writing to you now, as we hope you will assist those inside your nation to bring this issue before both the government, the Olympic Association, and the Kenyan general public. We woud be most grateful if you could add your national solidarity to this call. And doubly so if we could arrange a further briefing with your office. With sincere thanks. Roger Bunn London . ----------------- The Hon Michael White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minister for the Olympics Australia 29th Jan 2000. Dear Minister, One understands that it is the Marques de Samaranch and his 200 affiliates of the IOC establishment who are dragging Australia into a phony war on drugs conflict. Has not General Barry McCaffrey made a rod for his own back by allowing the Marques to dominate the Syd 2000 political / social agenda, instead of pursueing a genuine war upon the interface between hard drugs, human rights abuse, and major sports events? By constructing a new phony body, the "World Anti Doping Authority" the General and his friend, the already compromised Marques de Samaranch (who during December was asked by the US Congress to resign from his position as President of the International Olympic Committee.) are about to further compromise any hope of a genuine war upon hard drugs. signed ---------------- fyi ; Burma Out! supports not only the legalization of cannabis, but also is pushing for the law to be changed so that tourists can bring back up to 2kilos of grass / hash from the "3rd world" If Blair wants a "caring society" then he will have to go with that.. The Dutch, who are consistently critiqued by their surrounding nations for holding the most civilised drug policies in the western world, have every right to be angry at those who run a phony war on drugs. And whose PR ploys and inconsistent policies, are permanently grabbing the headlines HOLLAND'S NUMBER ONE NEWSPAPER : Telegraaf 20 January 2000 Sydney involuntarily hosting Drug State Burma By Menzo Willems * Translation from Dutch - --------------------------------- Amsterdam, Thursday - The invitation to the Sydney 2000 Oympic games of East Asian Burma, number two in the top 25 list of narco-nations, has greatly appalled both the host nation Australia and international human rights organizations. Personally invited by IOC boss Antonio Samaranch, to take part this summers Olympic Games in Sydney. His friendship with and invitation to this dictatorial junta regime, nowadays Myanmar (land of the happy) but once called Burma, aso means that Australia will receive it's illegal 'house-dealer' - (providing 86 % of the 'in the land down under' circulating heroin) - as an official guest. Australian parliamentarians have already alerted Michael Knight, the Minister responsible for "Syd 2000". But all he could give as an answer to their questions was "If Samaranch invites the junta, then I cannot prevent that." For the time, European governments have not protested against participation of Burma, after Afghanistan the world's largest producer of opium. And where a ruthless military junta rules with iron hand, profiting in gold and cash over the heads of poppy cultivating farmers from the export of hard drugs. The capitals of Europe refer to Brussels when an issue is a possible sportsboycott of Rangoon. On which a weapon embargo is already in place. But before a policy from this European capital will be effective, all EU members must comply with such a boycott. To the international Human Rights organization MIHRA the invitation of Samaranch, who on top of all is campaigning against doping, is so heavily condemned by evidence that the IOC boss is an unreliable, corrupt figure, is a double standard policy. "How can one pursue an anti-doping policy if Burma is admitted to the Games", says MIHRA spokesperson Roger Bunn from London. "Such politics is merely a farce when the largest producer of hard drugs is not being targeted." MIHRA does not rest it's case. Under the slogan "Burma Out!" Roger Bunn, a 57 year old ex-musician who campaigned successful for sports sanctions against South Africa in the days of the apartheid, and his organization launched a campaign against the participation of the East-Asian country to the 'Millennium Olympics'. The main place of protest activities will be Sydney, but there will also be demonstrations at the Swiss Lausanne, headquarters of the IOC. "In Australia there is a lot of support from the unions. They are planning demonstrations in the spring against participation of Burma", says Bunn. The activist admits that there are more narco-nations participating in the Olympic Games. There is no representing team from Afghanistan, exporting country number one, but countries like Columbia are participating. "Unfortunately we can only concentrate on one country at the same time", says Bunn, who played bass in the band of Marianne Faithfull in the early sixties. "After the Games we will lobby the international football organization FIFA to prevent the participation of Colombia in the World Championship in 2002. In the meantime the junta in Rangoon continues to attempt to convince the world of the fact that the drugs economy in Burma is being tied down. A number of journalists were proudly taken on a tour recently to a mega project in which 50 000 opium farmers in a period of three years will be forced to leave their homes at the Chinese border and live to grow longan-fruit, some 160 kilometers further in the area close to Thailand. The Wa State army, with whom the junta maintains a cease fire, will take care of the transportation of the farmers and their families. Roger Bunn is most skeptic about this operation. "It's uncontrollable. I doubt whether such policies can be effective, while by so doing, the whole social structure of the country is being damaged. The military regime at times burns down some poppy fields. But in the meantime enough are left over. The whole Burmese economy floats on drugs. Without opium production, the junta could not exist." *end text* --------------- To: Robert Agresti Policy Analyst General McCaffrey Policy Office Fax: 001 202 395 6742 Supporting a Genuine war upon drugs and human rights abuse. Sydney 2000 : Burma Out! http://www.mihra.org/2k/burma.htm Music Industry Human Rights Association http://www.mihra.org / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Mr. Agresti, In Europe, Burma Out is currently in discussion with diplomats from a small number of Burma's bordering nations, and have been pleased by their response. From London and including the DEA (London) Burma Out runs a very high level communications loop, which includes both the Burma and Colombian desks of the FandCO, and members of the British cabinet. Again, we are encouraged by their response and clarifications. Since the beginning of the planning stage, the coordinators of the Burma Out! (of the Sydney 2000 Olympic games). have been aware that a large amount of Burmese heroin enters both the USA and Canada. And from study of the narcotic flow between Burma and the sovereign and democratic nations of Thailand, Australia, Canada, and America over the last two years. It is obvious that some form of public confrontation with the Burmese junta would, on an international stage, assist both the democratic process inside Burma, and advance the cause for a genuine war upon nations and governments which are also engaged in large scale hard drug production / trafficking. Australia : The host nation of the Millenium Olympiad has a growing heroin problem.... In that 86% of all the heroin on the streets of Australia comes courtesy of the Burmese military junta. And while some Asian nations state that they "cannot move on Asian human rights" they also suggest to us that it may be possible for them to "move on an anti-drug war". But without the help of General Barry McCaffrey to bring this cause to fruition during his forthcoming meeting with the President of the IOC, the Marques de Samaranch in Lausanne, the ousting of "Australia's local drug dealer" will be impossible. And both the Olympiad and any "war upon drugs" will remain "people unfriendly", except to those who own material copyrights to the games. And while 5,000 journalists report on the games, sports journalism will again suffer from lack of meaningful truth and from on-going anti-drug superficialities. The above is only part of the millions of individual reasons why, to convince the world of an existance of a genuine war upon hard drugs and those who sanitize its manufacture, General Barry McCaffrey, who himself served in Viet Nam, has to bring forward both Burma Out! and "off-track drugs" onto the agenda in Lausanne and elsewhere. And as policy analyst to the General, you have a unique opportunity to bring this to fruition . As you will see from our signature on the attached page. Both HH the Dalai Lama, and the popular leader of the nation, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi have stated their support for the ousting of an ethnically unrepresentative team, one which only represents the military junta of Rangoon. The US Drug Czar is about to take the Green Berets, the SAS and 3/4 of a billion dollars into 40% of Colombia. Whereas we say FIFA (who last week arrived in London at the same time as the General) should first use sports sanctions to confront major drug producers / transporters. signed --------------- The Top 25 on the US Drug list 1999 : Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Taiwan, Thailand, and Venezuela and Vietnam. So, maybe they should hold their own Olympiads in future? Follow the plea by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the appreciations 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, SACP (South African Communist Party), COSATU, Tim Gopsill, editor. [EMAIL PROTECTED], and numerous others. Supporting a Genuine war upon drugs and human rights abuse. Sydney 2000 : Burma Out! http://www.mihra.org/2K/burma.htm Music Industry Human Rights Association http://www.mihra.org / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Union Action http://www.mihra.org/2K/Union.htm Founded during UN50. Mihra's roots are in music and anti-racism and was first in line in calling for a sports boycott of Burma for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Mihra also advances protection of creators rights in an anti-cultural market, currently 93.8% monopolised by the recording / publishing Grand Cartel. -------merci-------- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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