16061: Dorce: Re: 15972: Burnham re Kettan. (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: LAKAT47@aol.com

In a message dated 6/20/03 6:10:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  thor burnham
<thorald_mb@hotmail.com> writes:

<< For those on the list who are experiencing a little cognitive dissonance
 about the extent to which drugs, drug money and the culture of the drug
 trade have permeated society here, just think about Kettan's presence prior
 to his arrest. Everybody knew who he was. Everybody knew where he lived.
 Everybody knew where his kids went to school. Everbody was terrified of him.
 The joke about enforcement was that Kettan and the head of the DEA greeted
 each other at Union school while picking up and dropping off their kids.
 Indeed, they were thought to be friends. >>
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That's right Thor, EVERYONE knew, including the US.  So why didn't they ever
get him before?  No doubt because they WERE friends.  Something happened that
he was more trouble than benefit and now he's gone.  Look to the US for
answers...they've got the power and maybe drugs are not the enemy of the US
government.  Maybe they are a cash cow.  Some war on drugs we are waging.
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>>And I should note that the story about the teacher being beaten wildly
differs from the account related to me, as well as the account written in
the Haiti Observateur, which was suspect anyway.<<
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So tell us, how did it differ?  What was related to you?  And why do you
think the versions are out of synch?

Kathy Dorce~