Home made tazer in the Gowrie drug house

justin heywood said :

Ah, the good old CIA. If it didn’t exist, we would have to invent it, or most of the world’s conparacy theories would collapse.

If only they were half as capable as they are in the movies.

Yes, the CIA hasn’t been the same since Get Smart was cancelled.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Truthiness said :

Snitches get stiches, dogging a supplier is worse than getting busted.

I have a lot of sympathy for drug dealers, they don’t create the demand they just supply it. When the police and physicians won’t let you get high, there is always a friendly neighbourhood dealer risking their neck to get you a little happier.

Besides, if you go far enough up the food chain it goes way outside the AFP’s jurisdiction. Who is running those opium fields in Afghanistan? the fields gaurded by American troops, the fields whose production has increased ten fold since the US invaded.

Who controls the coca fields in south america? That same cocaine which has been *proven* time and again to be smuggled around the world by the CIA.

Busting small time dealers for doing their mates a favour, real impressive work there. But then, not a lot the Canberra cops can do about the drugs coming in in diplomatic pouches is there? Its a lot easier to bust meth dealers and potheads than to go after the bankers, lawyers and judges who snort coke for breakfast.

So yes, boo hoo, poor dealer, taking the fall because we keep criminalising natural human behaviour. There have been drugs longer than there have been police, and there will still be drugs long after there are police. The usage rate doesn’t change when it is made legal and after a hundred years of drug war, the usage rate is still no different. So why is it still a crime to get high?

Lol

Yah, I loled too. Wickepedia is such a reliable source of information………….I am not surprised Henry has thoughts on it 😛

The Bible is more believable than Wikipedia and Fox News combined – and I’m an atheist.

Comments #7, 9 & 14, undoubtedly the results of and reason for prohibiting drugs. This level of paranoia cannot be good for you. If you looked into the news recently [ if you believe any of it ] there are drugs that make people eat each others faces off. Great reason to make it legal.

I’m in favour of pulling out fingernails until the top rung in the drug ladder is found.

Truthiness said :

I have a lot of sympathy for drug dealers, they don’t create the demand they just supply it.

Some arsehat dealer sold one of my acquaintances the smack that killed him. It was one last little treat before he went into rehab. Yes, the victim was responsible for his own actions and they resulted in his death, but without the dealer pushing the crap on him so he could make money from the sale my friend would still be alive today I reckon.

I’m all in favour of decriminalisation of drug use. Under a decriminalised regime drug dealers would be just like any other retailer. But we don’t live under those happy circumstances, so right now dealers are purveyors of misery, disease, corruption and death.

Truthiness said :

Snitches get stiches, dogging a supplier is worse than getting busted.

I have a lot of sympathy for drug dealers, they don’t create the demand they just supply it. When the police and physicians won’t let you get high, there is always a friendly neighbourhood dealer risking their neck to get you a little happier.

Besides, if you go far enough up the food chain it goes way outside the AFP’s jurisdiction. Who is running those opium fields in Afghanistan? the fields gaurded by American troops, the fields whose production has increased ten fold since the US invaded.

Who controls the coca fields in south america? That same cocaine which has been *proven* time and again to be smuggled around the world by the CIA.

Busting small time dealers for doing their mates a favour, real impressive work there. But then, not a lot the Canberra cops can do about the drugs coming in in diplomatic pouches is there? Its a lot easier to bust meth dealers and potheads than to go after the bankers, lawyers and judges who snort coke for breakfast.

So yes, boo hoo, poor dealer, taking the fall because we keep criminalising natural human behaviour. There have been drugs longer than there have been police, and there will still be drugs long after there are police. The usage rate doesn’t change when it is made legal and after a hundred years of drug war, the usage rate is still no different. So why is it still a crime to get high?

Lol

Jim Jones said :

johnboy said :

On the other hand if you don’t believe the CIA was involved in drug trafficking to fund operations off-budget then I’ve got a very great number of large bridges to sell you.

How much?

And where? Don’t want to camp just anywhere in retirement…

justin heywood said :

Ah, the good old CIA. If it didn’t exist, we would have to invent it, or most of the world’s conparacy theories would collapse.

If only they were half as capable as they are in the movies.

Come on. Air America. What do you think they were all about?

And the result of the CIA-sponsored drug epidemic in the USA?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/29/even-police-shocked-by-gore-in-face-mauling-attack/

justin heywood said :

Ah, the good old CIA. If it didn’t exist, we would have to invent it, or most of the world’s conparacy theories would collapse.

If only they were half as capable as they are in the movies.

Perhaps you should take another look at their achievements:

They have overthrown dozens of governments, broken the laws of most countries on earth and abduct people, without charge, constantly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_US_regime_change_actions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Division

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States

By comparison their portrayal in the media has been rather modest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_in_fiction_and_the_movies

In fact they are barely covered by the media when compared to the influence they exert over the media

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_the_media

Indeed many of their declassified projects are so wacky you wouldn’t believe it if it were turned into a movie.

Feeding LSD to thousands of people against their will in giant mind control scheme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

Lying to millions of people and impersonating various groups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

The number of pies they have their fingers in is truly staggering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Central_Intelligence_Agency_operations

And thats just the stuff we know about, there is so much more they hide from everyone, including their own government, that no one really knows the extent of their activities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency#Lying_to_Congress

The factual reality of the CIA is so much broader and scarier than the movies make out that I think most people are too scared to look into it, or just don’t care.

All this is a bit beside the point in this thread, but just dismissing people because they mention the CIA is really quite counterproductive to stimulating conversation.