The San Francisco
Chronicle Breaks DEAland Media Blackout
On Drug Bizarro’s Attacks on Dutch
(Ed. note: Although all of the media have the
Reuters reports on the Drug Czar’s buffoonery, it is still being covered up. They too
have a vested interest in keeping the facts about the Netherlands from reaching the
American people. However, thanks to the medical marijuana movement, a majority of the
people of San Francisco are at least suspicious. The only violence at the medical cannabis
clubs was committed by the police. Note that this article reports actual data. Very
subversive.)
See
Dutch Respond to
Libels By Drug Bizarro; Correct His Data; DEAland Media ContinueTheir Cover-Up
and
Drug Bizarro
Continues Lying In Sweden; Attacks Dutch Again
July 15, 1998
San Francisco Chronicle
chronletters@sfgate.com
http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/DUTCH
ERUPT AT SPEECH BY AMERICAN ENVOY
U.S. drug czar wrongly cited higher crime rate in Holland
The Netherlands reacted angrily yesterday to critical
remarks by U.S. drug czar General Barry McCaffrey in which he blasted liberal Dutch
narcotics policies and incorrectly claimed that the Netherlands has much higher rates of
murder and other crime than the United States.
The murder rate in Holland is double that in the United States. The per capita crime
rates are much higher than the United States," McCaffrey said at a press briefing
yesterday in Stockholm. He is due to travel to the Netherlands tomorrow, but he may
receive a cool reception after his wildly inaccurate remarks.
He said the United States had 8.22 murders per 100,000 people in 1995 compared with
17.58 in the Netherlands and that overall per capita crime rates in the United States were
5,278 per 100,000 compared with 7,928 in the Netherlands.
"The overall crime rate in Holland is probably 40 percent higher than the United
States," said McCaffrey. That’s drugs."
The Dutch government’s Central Planning Bureau poured scorn
on McCaffrey’s figures. Official data put the Dutch murder rate at 1.8 per 100,000
people in 1996, up from 1.5 at the start of the decade. The Dutch say the U.S. rate is 9.3
per 100,000.
"The figure (McCaffrey is using) is not right. He is adding in attempted
murders," a planning bureau spokesman said.
The Netherlands, a front-runner in drug tolerance, recently started giving free heroin
to hard-core addicts through a health ministry project.
Dutch law permits possession of up to five grams of light drugs for personal
consumption. Sale and consumption of hard drugs are not legally permitted, but authorities
have developed a pragmatic approach, putting the emphasis on stopping drug-trafficking and
helping addicts, who are treated as medical cases and not as criminals.
A spokesman for McCaffrey, Robert Housman, said the drug czar would warn Dutch
authorities not to "put American children ... at risk" by allowing its liberal
drugs policies to be promoted abroad.
But three hours later, Housman telephoned news agencies to say the statement "no
longer stands" because it did not reflect McCaffrey’s views.
See "These
legalizers put American children at risk.
The Dutch government should be renouncing them, not siding with them."
What? Oh, Never mind!
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