Is Mr Soros scared of straight up Kiwis?
Candor Trust

In response to Mike Sabins claims that U.S. billionaire George Soros has part funded the exclusive "invitation only" high stakes Government drug summit, convening at Te Papa this week, Candor Trust say that "Soros should philanthropise unwisely in his own back yard. And immediately dissociate himself from the fascist styled tactics that would seek to prevent some major stakeholders in the local summits outcomes from having voice ".

Candor would be thrilled with Soros interest, if only Big Drug Daddy was even-handed and funded clifftop drug treatment facilities and anti drink and drug driving charities here. He may not realise we're not so well equipped as his own society in this regard. Far too much money has already been poured into manipulating New Zealand drug policy by people with distance perspectives, and absolutely no awareness of how a liberal drug culture exacerbates problems rooted in increasingly high psychopathy rates in the population.

A problem claimed to be the greatest faced by the psychiatric profession this era. Soros needs to know that not everyone can "handle the Jandal", which sadly appears to be the rose tinted view of many hot civil right proponents of letting a man do whatever he wishes, without a skerrit of control or regulation. New Zealand should already be embarrassed by our drug harm level - a direct result of hippy dippy thinking around policy and implementation. Also by the ever present symptom of this; rampant glamorising advertising of cannabis in wide publications, and on the NZ Herald website. Who funds that?

What is scary about the imbalanced youth targeted pot advertising is that it has been shown by personal anecdotes of families whose youth cite drug safety from these sources as to directly link to road crashes and suicides. Mr Sabin of Methcom is correct to say the NZ Government and funded agencies run a risk of embarrassment while accepting hand outs from a pro-marijuana campaigner. Candor believes Soros is inflammatory and cheeky to write open cheques for drug legalisation, whilst offering no aid to prevention or relief of suffering due to drug related crime. It's quite comparable to Kiwis going to America and giving AK47s to all disaffected parties, purportedly for their self defence, in full awareness that many will consequently launch terrorising attacks on innocent parties, which the ambos aren't sufficiently up to catering for.

The conference certainly runs the risk of becoming yet another big advertising promo for cannabis as the better alternative to alcohol for drug users. Would it not be difficult claiming issue impartiality, free balanced debate and a lack of improiper policy manipulation when presentations and conference attendance appear to be by "invite only," thereby maintaining maximum exclusivity, control of the evidence feast, and choirly harmony among like minded legalisers?

Doubtless the $35,000 contributed by Mr Soros will hopefully cover the drug and booze budget for attendees. But it apparently does not cover admission for those alcohol or drug workers rightly or wrongly seen as in the wowser pot stopper or anti methamphetamine camps, and perhaps likely to "speak out of turn". Whilst gagging of such types may be constructive at a drug legalisation summit given that the prospect could over excite them, are the alternate and cautious thinkers not at least entitled to hear, and to join presentation "afters debate" around the affirmative arguments for legalisation?

Or could the unsavoury reality just be that some tenuous and outrageous claims are to be put forward at Te Papa this week, which have been marked as vital to get uncritically passed into the politicians, medias and then public consciousness? The message for Mr Big Drug Bucks is that New Zealanders are not sheep Mr Soros, and some of us do maintain our ethical independence, whatever approaches may be made.

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