IN AFGHAN FIELDS
In Afghan fields the poppies grow
Beside the landmines, even though
Their place is marked by "eye in sky"
But bombs, still falling, pass them by.
Scarce here before the "Saviours" came.
Afghans are dead, but years ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Planted oranges and crops to eat
Had animals we raised for meat.
Tell the truth about our foe
That everyone who cares should know
The heroin they allow to thrive
Is almost all that's left alive
We shall not sleep, while poppies grow
In Afghan fields.
~ adaptation by Jackie Jura
from In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae
AFGHANISTAN REMEMBERED and AFGHANISTAN AFTERMATH
Disgusted in Victoria ('Human misery' in downtown streets scaring tourists away). National Post, Sep 1, 2007
Doctors want cars carrying kids to be smoke-free. CanWest, Aug 23, 2007
England growing heroin poppies (says it's opium for morphine) & A world awash in heroin (92% - 6,100 tons - from Afghanistan facilitated by all foreign armies). EveStand/Economist Jul 18, 2007
Foreign Armies in Afghanistan
Afghan heroin flooding USA (the purest in the world causing seizures & overdoses). PakTribune, Jan 1, 2007
Afghanistan's "Achilles heel" (drug trade permeates every aspect of life in this war-ravaged country). National Post, Jan 16, 2007
Afghan kids scavenge for explosives (left by retreating Soviet army) & Canada's new Afghan offensive ("Operation Bazooka" for Taliban). NationalPost, Dec 16, 2006
Afghan poppy harvest at record level (cheap heroin for UK streets) & Police want heroin injection sites (5,000 users in downtown Vancouver). Times/CBC, Aug 19, 2006
Heroin fields' grim reapers (opium growing has increased tenfold) & Brain pills for all urges UK gov't scientist. Sun/Times, Jun 7, 2006
Reader asks how to create a learning experience for a boy who chose the poem IN AFGHAN FIELDS as his own
Afghan gripped by worst fighting since 2001 (in main opium-growing region & western city of Herat). Independent, May 21, 2006. Go to 35.Brotherhood & 5.Pyramidal NWO
Prisons offer needles to inmates (to inject illegal heroin). National Post, Nov 11, 2005. Go to 34.Ministry of Love (Torture) & 22.Doublethink (mental condition: controlled insanity)
Heroin trade thrives in Iraq (non-existent under Saddam's rule). Telegraph, Sep 4, 2005
Popular Afghan singer killed in Vancouver, CBC News, May 10, 2005
Police say popular Afghan singer Nasrat Parsa is dead following an attack over the weekend outside his hotel in East Vancouver....Three men approached Parsa after a concert on Saturday night. He said witnesses saw one man punch Parsa, who then fell backwards on some concrete stairs. The 36-year-old Parsa was taken to Vancouver General Hospital, where he died on Sunday night. A 19-year-old man was arrested and initially charged with aggravated assault. Police have recommended that the charge be upgraded to manslaughter. Parsa lived in Germany, and was popular among young Afghans around the world after recording 10 albums. He had performed a concert in Toronto last week before going to Vancouver.
Britain on top of heroin league (all of it comes from Afghanistan). Sunday Times, Feb 27, 2005
Desperate parents feeding children opium (to alleviate hunger & suffering). Macleans, Feb 20, 2005 & Fears for children in Afghan cold (28,000 people at risk). BBC, Feb 18, 2005
Epidemic among London drug users (gov't to give free needles for heroin "to reduce harm" from HIV/HepC). Guardian, Nov 12, 2004
Opium trade booms in "basket case" Afghanistan. Independent, Jul 28, 2004
The opium harvest in Afghanistan this year will be one of the biggest on record, the Foreign Office said yesterday, and it has triggered a flood of heroin on Britain's streets. The revelation will prove highly embarrassing for Tony Blair, who cited cutting the supply of heroin as one of the main reasons for the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001...the consequences of the rise were already evident: cheaper, better quality heroin was arriving in Britain, luring thousands more youngsters into addiction than ever before..."The rise in cultivation and production of opium poppies in Afghanistan has horrendous portents for us in the UK bearing in mind the PM's statement that 90 per cent of heroin sold on British streets comes from Afghanistan".
Nova Scotia police seize cocaine on CSL ship (owned by Prime Minister's sons, named after wife) & PM Martin's family vessel raided for drugs (83 kilograms of cocaine were found) & Drugs on Martin-family ship (Police say neither Prime Minister nor his sons are under suspicion) & Cocaine found hidden on CSL Vessel (no charges are expected to be laid against crew or shipping company). CTV-Halifax Daily News-National Post-Globe & Mail, Jul 1 & 2, 2004
Heroin poppy threatens Afghanistan (thriving under UN control). BBC, Mar 22, 2004
Afghanistan the world's biggest heroin dealer. Independent, Jun 22, 2003
Afghanistan is still the source of almost all of the heroin sold in London, even though Britain has poured millions [of taxpayers dollars] into [supposedly] trying to stamp out the war-wrecked country's resurgent drugs production business." "Opium poppies are springing up from the plains to the mountains of Afghanistan in far higher quantities than in the final year of the Taliban, which the USA and Britain overthrew, while vowing to end the region's narcotics trade. Opium - from which heroin is extracted - is produced on farms only a few dozen miles from the capital city of Kabul, headquarters to the international effort to end the heroin trade and rebuild the country."
EVIL PURVERYORS FEEDING OFF MISERY
Injection sites cost millions (planners want $54,000,000/year for 1,000 drop-ins/day). Vancouver Sun, May 5, 2003
Afghan top heroin source (piques our interest says DEA). Wash Times, Apr 8, 2003
Tobacco shortage for troops. AP, Apr 1, 2003
Afghanistan retakes heroin crown (1,685 acres now 30,750 acres; 185 tonnes now 4,000+ tonnes). BBC, Mar 4, 2003
Heroin a HEALTH problem, not criminal (gov't should CONTROL say pushers). Vancouver Sun, Jan 21, 2003
Heroin deaths rise dramatically (pure & cheaper than six-pack - snorted & smoked by middle-class). Boston Globe, Dec 19, 2002
Bitter Harvest: Drugs, Guns and Money on the Old Silk Road (follows the journey of Afghanistan's opium trade on its way to the main market in Europe). CBCTV, The Passionate Eye, Nov 18, 2002
Gov't forcing drugs on addicts (cuts funding to abstinence programs). Vancouver Prov, Nov 10, 2002. Go to 23.The Proles
Vancouver to apply for approval of safe-injection sites for addicts. Vancouver Sun, Nov 2, 2002
Addicts shoot up crack & heroin (openly sold in front of cops). National Post, Sep 19, 2002
Vancouver, Canada has the biggest, open drug bazaar in North America. Illicit drugs are openly sold and consumed. On one street corner alone police have identified 74 drug dealers peddling their wares. Addicts openly smoke crack cocaine and shoot up heroin. Ambulance crews get over 1,000 overdose calls a year. The national cost of illicit drug use, including property crime, enforcement, health care and lost productivity, is $5-billion annually... In the name of "harm-reduction" some groups, including the governor of New Mexico - want to legalize ALL drugs ... Liberalized drug laws in other countries have led to an increase in drug use and overdose deaths... Australian Parents for Drug Free Youth state: "Harm reduction policy has no place in either prevention or treatment. It is permissive because it tolerates drug use..."
AFGHAN OPIUM AT RECORD LEVELS. Rense.com, Sep 17, 2002
Flood of cheap Afghan heroin on way. London Times, Sep 25, 2001
12.Ministry of Peace (War) and 11.Ministry of Plenty (Starvation) and 35.The Brotherhood and 23.The Proles and 22.Doublethink
Jackie Jura
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