July 31, 2001
Narco News 2001
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The
Great Debate...
Readers Respond
to U.S.
Ambassador Jeffrey
Davidow
"A little tolerance toward drugs brings many undesired
visitors."
- U.S. Ambassador
Jeffrey Davidow
Experts Give U.S.
Ambassador
to Mexico a Tour
of the Facts
"We must also recognize
that evil can use absolute liberty. I myself would have a different point of view
with respect to the right of Socrates to drink hemlock, which
I sustain in how much and how wise it would be to permit 12-year-old
adolescents to be able to acquire alcoholic beverages."
- U.S. Ambassador
to Mexico Jeffrey Davidow
Responses
From...
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Davidow claimed in June 2001 that, "the consumption of
drugs would rise with legalization."
Our first witness in The Great Debate is former
Colombian Attorney General and Ambassador to Mexico Gustavo de
Greiff.
By Gustavo
de Greiff R.
Our
First Witness in this Historic Cyber-Debate
provoked
when...
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Historic
Letter from Colombia Guerrilla
Submits
Column for Publication
By Gabriel
Ángel
"On the 27th of June, 1996, I left my house and headed
to work on a second-class bus of the Transporte Figueroa lines,
from Cintalapa to Tuxtla. There was a police operation... There
were boxes of marijuana down below. I had brought only a backpack.
But they said the boxes were mine. I was arrested by the public
security police. I denied it repeatedly. They threatened to shoot
me with guns and beat me if I didn't say it was mine. It was
fabrications. And so I came to Cerro Hueco and now I'm fighting.
We are going to obtain liberty."
-
Gustavo Estrada Gómez, April 1998
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in James Petras' Analysis...
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Dictator Hasn't Banked There?
Gary
Johnson, Governor of New Mexico:
By JIM
CASON and DAVID BROOKS, Correspondents
The
national daily La Jornada, Mexico City
And
the Border meeting result...
More
Innovation in South than North...
(U.S.
Authorities Still Deny Access to This Breakthrough
in Treatment
for Cocaine and Heroin Addiction)
Eagle
Aviation is DynCorp Subcontractor
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Guggenheim, AP
Peter
Romero: Defender of Corruption
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Washington Post
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We went to
Court on July 20th...
NY Supreme
Judge
"Looked
Askance" at
Banamex
Arguments
"If Friday's oral arguments are any indication the (Narco
News Bulletin) defense will probably come out on top."
By Mark K. Anderson
Christian Science
Monitor:
By Alexandra Marks
"A precedent-setting case that raises fundamental questions
about free speech in the globalized world of cyberspace, as well
as the role of the independent journalists in a media world increasingly
controlled by corporate giants."
- Christian
Science Monitor, July 24, 2001
By Ben
Winters
from
In These Times
NEW Legal Briefs Now Online
"The new independent journalists of the Internet, as personified
by Al Giordano, play a crucial role in preserving the democratic
aspirations of First Amendment protection. The role of such journalists
is especially salient as mainstream media is increasingly in
the hands of fewer and fewer large corporations."
-
Electronic Frontier Foundation Amicus Brief
in
support of Narco News motion to dismiss
PETER
GORMAN WRITES:
The Village VOICE
Reports:
By Cynthia Cotts
The Guardian of
London Reports:
By Sean Dodson
Narco
News Needs You!
"Make no mistake. This court fight isn't about any
particular story NarcoNews has done. It's about ALL of them,
and all of the ones yet to come. And it's a battle over the continued
independence of Internet journalism as well. The silencing of
Al Giordano and NarcoNews isn't a theoretical possibility that
might happen a couple years from now. It's already happening.
Al and his volunteer lawyers are hip-deep in it right now. And
they need our help."
- Pulitzer
Prize Winning Journalist Gary Webb
March 16,
2001
Legal
Memoranda:
The
Narco News Legal Brief vs. Banamex Lawsuit
(Filed
by Attorneys Tom Lesser and Leonard Weinglass)
The
Distortions and Lies of Akin Gump
(A Pro
Se Memorandum by Al Giordano)
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