US Narks Teach Mounties
How To Violate The Rights of Their Citizens
(Ed. note: The old KGB trained the secret police
in satellite countries the latest techniques. The tentacles of US prohibition reach around
the world. How long will it be before the people of Canada follow the example of the
Czechs and others?)Canadian Press, April 8, 1998
RCMP ends special program
Manitoba's highways are thoroughfares for drug smugglers every
day, but only a small fraction of the illegal activity is being caught by police.
RCMP reached that conclusion Tuesday as they capped a special five-day highway
enforcement program with the Illinois State Patrol by showing off some of the
contraband they seized from vehicles on the Trans Canada Highway.
The two biggest finds were 45 kilograms of packaged marijuana and
7.7 kilograms of magic mushrooms from a pair of Ontario-bound vehicles on Sunday and
Monday.
The seizures, which are estimated to be worth about $400,000 combined, have resulted in
charges being laid against a British Columbia couple and a Ontario man.
Police also made more than a dozen other small drug seizures, located two missing teens
from Ontario, arrested a man on an immigration warrant and nabbed an escaped convict in a
stolen car from Alberta.
"I don't think this is out of the norm of what travels on our highways every
day," said RCMP Const. Rob Ruiters.
"We only get a fraction of what's out there and maybe this week we got a fraction
or two more."
Seven American officers made the trip north as part of a
training program with the Mounties to teach them about a successful U.S. program called
Operation Pipeline.
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