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This is a note I sent Matt here, along with an article I found at Rep.
Dennis Hastert's website, with 2 of Matt's replies to start the ball
rolling.
Peace,
Preston Peet
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Matthew McDaniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: didn't see Hastert by any chance did you?
It seems official US Gov policy here is to totally ignore what their
partners are doing. The documentation on this is so heavy that it either
takes either fools or liars to say they don't know what the Thai are really
doing to people here.
So now the Thais shelled, mortared, and ambushed a village, killed most the
people in it, burned it with the bodies and the children alive. About two
kilometers from my wife's village across the border in a village that I,
maybe sort of like David Eubanks, took medicine too. I lost friends, a
young women who was shot through the chest when she came out of the hut at
6am. (http://www.drugwar.com/akhaFeb122002.shtm)
The children weren't so lucky.
This is another american dirty war.
Matthew
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From: "Matthew McDaniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "preston peet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: didn't see Hastert by any chance did you?
>
> incredible, saving and forwarding it to others.
> Update the people on the list, the border drug war is full on now and the
Akha are being killed.
> US Embassy is silent, need Senators against the drug war in the loop.
> Matthew
>
preston peet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> originally wrote Matt, asking:
Hey Matt,
> You didn't happen to run into this weenie while he was over there, did
> you? If you'd had the opportunity, what would you say/show him?
> Peace,
> Preston
>
>
> http://speaker.house.gov/library/irdefense/020114thai.asp
>
> Speaker Hastert Visits Thai-Burmese Border to Inspect Drug War Efforts
> January 14, 2002
>
>
> Bangkok, Thailand - Speaker of the U.S. House Dennis Hastert traveled to
> Thailand to support the efforts by the Thai government to fight the war on
> drugs. Hastert went to the Thai-Burmese border, a hotbed for illegal drug
> cultivation and trafficking, to inspect, first hand, the problems facing
law
> enforcement officials in the region.
>
> Hastert said of the government of Thailand: "The Thais have been reliable
> partners in the war on drugs for many years. Many terrorist groups use the
> illegal drug trade to finance their operations, and we must redouble our
> efforts to help Thailand fight drug traffickers as we fight the war on
> terrorism."
>
> Hastert was accompanied by Thai government officials,and Drug Enforcement
> Agency and State Department officials. Earlier this year, he created a
> special Speaker's Task Force focused exclusively on the continuing battle
to
> fight illegal drug use. The task force took on more urgency as it became
> clear that many terrorist groups were using profits from the drug trade to
> finance their war against America.
>
> "While we continue to work to reduce heroin production in this region, we
> are particularly concerned about the dramatic increase in methamphetamine
> production and trafficking in this area," Hastert continued. "We lose
20,000
> kids a year to drugs and to drug violence. We cannot let the drug
terrorists
> win the war against our children. Stopping the drug trade in Thailand is
an
> important part of our overall strategy to win the war on drugs and to win
> the war on terrorism."
>
> The Speaker is on a four-day visit to Thailand to discuss bilateral
> security, economic security and counter-narcotics issues with Thai Prime
> Minister Thaksin and Foreign Minister Surakiart.
>
>
>
>
>
> Matthew McDaniel
> The Akha Heritage Foundation
> Maesai, Chiangrai, Thailand
> Donations by check or money order may be sent to:
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>
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