-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: Monday, January 31, 2000 6:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Drugs OPEN LETTER TO The Hon Michael Knight To Daily Mail (UK) In regard to the article 25th Jan 2000, on drug legalisation. Author: Steve Doughty, Social Affairs Correspondent -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. While 86% of al the heroin on Australian streets comes via the Burmese military junta, which then launders the money and builds new heroin refineries and methamphetamine labs. Isn't General Barry McCaffrey making 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. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\| ||\____ | Opium EXPRESS | ||','''|'''''''\___, | __ | ||__|'__|___|| ['''(@)'(@)''''''''''''''''**|(@)(@) *****'(@)* >From Seattle to Sydney?: Of its kind : The most powerful communications group in existance Roger Bunn Mihra Director of Policy. 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 : Telegraaf NLs number one 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* 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. 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