now see, that's just backwards!  it only serves to make them more
dependent on illicit money and to alienate them from more legitimate
farmers and towns.  it's like encouraging straight kids to dump their
drug using friends, so then the drug users only have fellow drug users
as friends and never have a reason to not use drugs socially, are
further alienated (which is often part of the problem in the first
place), and feel that even if the stop their old friends won't like them
any more.  it encourages hatred and alienation, neither of which are
helpful or good in general.

Russell McMahon wrote:
------
>=20
> That may be. But from what my friend who was there in person said, the
> growing patterns changed while they were in control, and have changed b=
ack
> again. She encouraged them to grow other crops in the last few years bu=
t the
> opium income is superior. Some private US aid providers will not give $=
$$ to
> villages that are growing opium.
---------

--=20
Philip Stortz--"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.=20
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
Jew.=20
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a trade unionist.=20
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.=20
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-- Martin Niem=F6ller, 1892-1984 (German Lutheran Pastor), on the Nazi
Holocaust, Congressional Record 14th October 1968 p31636.


_______________________________________________
http://www.piclist.com
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist