Posted on 10/09/2002 4:34:44 PM PDT by RCW2001
NEW YORK, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Three Israeli nationals were arrested and accused of trying to smuggle $42 million worth of hallucinogenic Ecstasy pills to the United States from Belgium, the largest such drug seizure ever in Europe, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday. The three men tried to smuggle 1.4 million pills inside diamond polishing tables bound for New York by ship from Antwerp, according to a statement from the office of Roslynn Mauskopf, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Tipped off by witnesses who saw two of the men stuffing the pills into three tables inside an Antwerp warehouse in August, authorities allowed the tables to be delivered -- without the pills -- to New York where they were put under surveillance. The three men were arrested on Tuesday as they were retrieving the tables and trying to deliver the drugs to a buyer, the statement said. The case marks the largest Ecstasy seizure in Europe and the third largest such seizure in the United States, with a wholesale value of about $14 million and a retail value of about $42 million, officials said. Arrested were Nachshow Sinvanni, who allegedly wanted to buy 900,000 of the pills for distribution; and Ofir Lebar and Ofir Weizman, who were spotted packing the tables with drugs in Belgium, officials said. All three men live in Israel, authorities said. They each were charged with conspiring to import MDMA, the technical name for Ecstasy and, if convicted, face a possible prison sentence of 20 years and a $1 million fine. ((New York newsdesk, 646 223 6280))
This trio were idiots for making such a large move with the increased heat.
One of the brothers in the Houston ring is still at large (reportedly last seen in Spain trying to expand markert share).
They were going to use the proceeds of these illegal drug sales to open a Holocaust Museum in Antarctica.
RCW2001: did you somehow miss the announcement of the Nobel Committee? They have awarded Nobel for economics to Dan Kahnemann, the first Israeli to have won the prize.
Why have you not posted that?
I know not why such use of FR for propaganda is condoned --- as I mentioned, RCW2001 does not participate in his own threads, he merely selects anything that negatively reflects on anyone or anything Jewish or Israeli.
I guess, JIm Robinson finds this to be in line with the stated guidelines. So, go ahead, RCW2001, fire aray: heep digging up dirt.
Neither do I. But looking at this thing, the names sound more Arabic/Belgian thaan actually Jewish :).
And of course we know that our little fifth-columnist friend is currently hanging out at LibertyForum, where he takes talking points from the Grand Kludge Voegelin/LarryLied, who is on some of the most insane and frothing rants I have ever seen outside of the National Alliance site. They're probably exchanging bomb belts and mononucleosis right now ;).
Actually, nothing in this article says they were Jews, just that they were Israelis. Lots of different kinds of people there and at least 2 of the names don't even sound Jewish. If they are though, it only proves that SOME Jews are the same as y'all.
But, we are going to have to start a donation drive going to build something Jewish for sure. It would necessarily have to be an addition to the trophy room where the Nobel Laureates are honored. We are rapidly filling up the last one already. We won't have room for next year's.
Of course you guys wouldn't have that problem at all, now would you?
How liberating for your conscience: since not all Jews are saints, that absolves you from the sins of your forefathres.
Guess what? That is exactly why Europe is rabidly anti-Israeli now: the imperfections of Israeli politics cleanse the European conscience from their own dictatorships, from the mass expulsions, foreced conversion, and mass murder of the Jews.
And you, so-called conservative with conscience, are in bed with the bigots, my friend.
I was not trying to sensor a topic, a post, or words. Not only this is not my personal forum, I do believe that words should be countered with words.
If you reread my post, you will find that I was speaking of something else. This is a discussion forum, and articles --- from whatever sources -- are posted for discussion. IF you observe for a while, you will find that RCW2001 does not participate in ANY of the anti-Israeli or anti-Jewish threads he starts. This is not an agenda: agenda is a something that one DESIREs, or plans for, to occur. This is BEHAVIOR. And this behavior, in my opinion, is use of FR for personal purposes, contrary to those stated by Robinson.
Your remark amounts to "we can learn something form everyone." Fine, let's learn. Let RCW2001 tell us what he/she thinks. That is what I am talking about.
Instead, she/he shoots for something else. A small contingent on FR that sees the Joooos as the culprit of all evil in America and the world comes to these posts like bees to honey. They will elevate whatever truth about an individual Jew to all Jews: for millennia that was the favorite twist of anti-Semites. "See, I am a good person, I am. I am not against people in general, but, as you can see, them Jooos really deserve punishment." So, if you find one Jewish criminal --- they are all criminal. If one rabbi said something extreme- ---- that's what all Jews and Judaism are all about.
Just look at the post of BushMeister above: not that we caught three Israeli thugs, we should not feel bad about the suffering of the Jewish people as recently and terribly as in the Holocaust. Then, of course, FReepers with conscience, whether Jews or Gentiles, point out that criticism of individual Jews is just that --- criticism, but elevating it to the evil of the entire race is anti-Semitism. This is a discussion of what, exactly? What do we leant from this? That Holocaust, which is denied openly by posters like LarryLied, actually happened.
Most of these threads deteriorate in this manner. And, where is RCW2001 amidst all of this? Nowhere to be found. Never a participant in his own threads.
In sum, GovernmentShrinker, I am not against a topic of discussion. I am against RCW2001 using people's conscience to promote a fight and to promote anti-Semitism. This is against the stated by Jim Robinson policy, but those that violate it seem to be condoned. He is the boss; let him decide. All I did was to attract your attention. It is for you to decide whether this behavior and, essentially, manipulation of you and me by RCW2001, is OK with you.
That's an argument IN FAVOR of legalizing it. When alcohol was illegal, it was unregulated in its manafacture and was of unknown purity.
You must forgive his absence. He's part-time occupied with posting antisemitic drivel on MuslimAccess and rants against FR on that Palestinian Authority rag, you know :)).
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