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     | Thursday, October 19, 2000 - 01:14 pm From a president who likes head to a plain Dopehead, the decline of the west continues to gather pace. From the files of CounterPunch http://www.counterpunch.org Six months ago a CounterPuncher in whom we have absolute confidence relayed to us a conversation he had just had with someone who had attended Yale at the same time as George W. Bush in the early 1970s. The Yale man told our CounterPuncher of his direct knowledge of young Bush selling cocaine in his college years. The Yale man adamantly refused to go on the record, on the grounds that he had no desire to authenticate a story that could only damage Bush's chances in the race for the presidency this year. We relay the story now to our readers because we have been reliably informed that a New York Times investigative team digging into George W. Bush's relationship to cocaine has unearthed a similar story of young George W. using cocaine in bars and dealing cocaine out of a house in New Haven. But, as yet, the Times's investigators have been unable to get anyone to go on the record. As the presidential campaign heads into its final stretch CounterPunch has been disgusted, though not particularly surprised, by the gentle handling the press has given both Bush and Al Gore on the matter of drug use. Bush's refusal to give any direct answer on his relationship to cocaine before 1974 is a matter of record. This can only mean that he has something to hide; that he fears that a categorical denial could be refuted by someone with knowledge of his activities relating to cocaine. The attitude of the press is that "nothing new" has emerged to justify any reprise of the Bush/cocaine stories. Nothing new? Not a day passes in the nation's courts but that a non-violent drug offender is put behind bars for cocaine possession, either for use or for sale or both. Yet here is the governor of Texas, seeking to lead a nation cursed by a "war on drugs", refusing to address questions about cocaine use in his own past. Al Gore has grudgingly conceded use of marijuana in the 1970s. The prime source for the drug habits both of Gore and his wife Tipper is John Warnecke, their supplier at the time, who has stated that at that time in Nashville Gore smoked as much marijuana as anyone he knew, including opium-coated Thai sticks. We have heard stories, though devoid of the same categorical eye-witness certainty of the Yale informant, of Gore's continued enjoyment of marijuana in later years after he entered Congress. Today Gore reiterates his support for the war on drugs and declares that imprisoned offenders should not be released until they test clean. There have been many destructive campaigns by US governments, both Republican and Democrat, but only a few with more terrible consequences than the war on drugs. At home this war has been aimed primarily at the poor and most of all against black people. It is a war that has kicked aside constitutional protections and crammed our prisons. Abroad the war is a rationale for counter-insurgency. Today the Taliban, installed with CIA backing, now rule Afghanistan as the world's leading supplier of heroin and morphine to the west. The Colombian military, flush with a billion in aid from the Clinton administration, make war on desperate peasants with nothing but coca and opium cultivation between them and starvation. No inconvenient questions about the drug war or any personal relationship with drugs by either candidate have perturbed the decorum of the debates. Jim Lehrer didn't ask George W. Bush about cocaine or Al Gore about marijuana. Yet Bush has been posturing about a crusade to restore moral honor to the Oval Office and Gore about "personal responsibility". We await with interest the ultimate editorial decision of the New York Times.
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| | Friday, October 20, 2000 - 07:04 pm THANK YOU XOOGSADE! THERE ARE MANY STUDENTS WHO COME HERE AND IN PART YOU DO YOUR SHARE IN GIVING US EDUCATION. I ENJOY YOUR POSTINGS GREATLY!
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| | Saturday, October 21, 2000 - 01:22 am Xoogsade You know, I was in South Philly a couple of years back and I coulda sworn I saw George Bush on a street corner selling smack. I should have known the rumor of him financing his campaign through drug sales was true!! I'm voting for McCaine, that's it. At least he kicked some Commie ass!!!!
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| | Saturday, October 21, 2000 - 09:12 am John McCaine running for office?
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| | Saturday, October 21, 2000 - 06:37 pm Believe me,You dont wanna be around John Cane if he get pissed off.The man can put you down and strungle you with rage until he deflates any breath left in ya a$$,that is if you are a democrat.An Irony?He got one of the smallest pairs of hands in the world.Short too.Watch out- here comes Mr Cane with his cane-everybody jump on the floor.
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