Terrorist Cigarettes?. . wtf?

[annabanana]

How come every single media outlet is pushing the "cigarettes are funding terrorists" story? It seems to be in every single TV and print outlet all at once... almost as if the story was being somehow ... I don't know.. coordinated at some central point...

None of these stories are giving any details.

[skids]

1. I can't seem to google that...

...maybe just breaking on the wire and hasn't caught up to print yet?

[annabanana]

3. odd..

When I put cigarettes terrorists in my google machine lots and lots of links come up.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. Link

http://www.wnbc.com/news/16045334/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

[lonestarnot]

14. Just like the bootleg knock-off designer bag allegations.

I'm thinking bullshit.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. There must be a reason why the whole committee wasn't behind the report, just King.

I smell bullshit too.

[skids]

16. Thanks...

...and my take: it involves a Republican and Native Americans. We all know how this one ends.

Also, obviously they have found a replacement for Abramoff.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. Perceptive take and your welcome.

[parasim]

2. Well, you made me go over to Foxnews.com (ugh) but they have a story

Yeah, looks like a report by NY's Dept of Taxation or some such...

Cigarette Smugglers Funnel Money to Terror Groups, Report Finds
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353017,00.html

[JHB]

4. Jeez, this sounds awfully familiar. I wonder where I've heard this before...

Oh, right, the old "The Commies Are Running the Coke Trade" line, dusted off and tailored to fit the situation.

Check this old Heritage Foundation propaganda item



March 14, 1986
Nicaragua's Terrorist Connection
by Ashby, Timothy
Backgrounder #495

(Archived document, may contain errors)
(Boy howdy, does it contain errors, and I don't even mean the factual ones. Heritage can't be bothered to have an intern proofread OCRs of their old newsletters? -- JHB)


The Narcotics Connection
Sandinista involvement in international narcotics trafficking aims at subverting the U.S. through drug use and destabilizing other Western Hemisphere nations by financing revolution with narcotics profits against the West. Indeed, Fidel Castro has boasted: "We are going to make the eo le up there white, white with cocaine Ips $e Cuban dictator reportedly coordinated this strategy with Tomas Borge and other Sandinistas during a 1982 meeting in Havana The drug trade is part of a Soviet-Cuban-Nicaraguan strategy Sandinista drug trafficking is handled by the Ministry of the Interior under Borge's direct control In 1982, this ministry ruled that all cocaine, precious metals, and U.S. dollars recovered by the Ministry's Department of Criminal Investigations (DIC) must be sent to Borge's office. The proceeds from the sale of this cpptraband is used to help finance international clandestine operations 14 15. Lima El Comericio, January 28, 1986, p. A2 16.


http://www.heritage.org/research/LatinAmerica/bg495.cfm

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. OMG! Terror-ists in North Carolina!!

That's where my package says it was grown.

Maybe we should call in the Nat. Guard! :scared:

on edit: a blogger's reaction to the recycled (orig. 2004) story...
http://tammybruce.com/2008/04/cigarettes_terrorists_and_stup.php

[annabanana]

6. Thank you for that link... I'd forgotten.

I'm not going to worry much about cigarette terrorists until I see a truckload of pretty compelling evidence.

I think they just want an excuse to tax the Indians...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. It is a report done by terra Rep. Peter King from NY. No proof of arrests made or

anything and the Native American cigarette sellers are going to create a big stir. King is talking about having taxes paid on the cigarettes they sell.

Please note, he is only the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, so it didn't come from the Committee itself.

[annabanana]

8. I really really hate that tool

(I know, I know, it's unhealthy... but he really is SUCH an ass)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. How much more of this bullshit are these maniacs going to spew.

I am becoming numb.

[KSinTX]

9. Is that Peter 'being in Baghdad is like being in Manhattan' King?

Seems right on top of things.

[JHB]

13. Pete "NORAID's pal in Washington" King warning of possible monies sent to terrorists?

How ironic.

[babydollhead]

12. I tell my grown kids there are additives in cigarettes

that make people very addicted, way beyond tobacco alone,and if they want to smoke they may as well become republicans since that's the dick they are sucking anyway.

[newmajority]

18. Cigarettes have always funded terrorists

The tobacco companies are major donors to the Republican party, which elects members of the Bush Crime Family, who create terrorists.

Case closed.