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Update from a Would Be Criminal Mastermind Kevin Crosby 30 June 1997 Update From A Would-Be Criminal Mastermind If we want to solve the problems with our youth such as drugs, illicit sex, crime, vandalism, gangs and even the terribly high rate of teen suicide we must stop dealing with the symptoms and look at the disease. 1 For too many of our youth life has no meaning. They are screaming at us to give them some moorings and purpose in life. 2 “Kids know them as “roofies.” ” ________________________________________________6 The Horrible Truth__________________________________________________________11 We Have The Right__________________________________________________________14 “Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.”___________________19 Harm Reduction____________________________________________________________30 Prohibition________________________________________________________________32 Gangster Bureaucrats________________________________________________________40 “Mexico’s a turncoat in the war on drugs.” ______________________________________46 “Politics is broken.” _________________________________________________________51 Attorney General Is Not Required To Be “Learned at Law”_________________________58 After All, It’s A Small World__________________________________________________66 The Circle_________________________________________________________________77 Jimi______________________________________________________________________82 “The Empire never ended.” ___________________________________________________84 “Soft people become hard criminals.” __________________________________________91 Pharmacological Lobotomy___________________________________________________96 Superpredator_____________________________________________________________102 Munchausen______________________________________________________________107 Patient’s Bill of Rights______________________________________________________114 Prison Sucks______________________________________________________________117 Privatized Prisons__________________________________________________________122 Chivalrous?_______________________________________________________________128 Pawns___________________________________________________________________137 Bystander Apathy__________________________________________________________143 Pornography______________________________________________________________149 $________________________________________________________________________157 1 Concerned Washington State resident, Journal American. 2 Op. cit. 1 Kevin Crosby 30 June 1997 Extinction________________________________________________________________166 Pedagogy_________________________________________________________________175 Pain_____________________________________________________________________181 !________________________________________________________________________186 The Net__________________________________________________________________196 Um . .___________________________________________________________________203 “ “Clone” derives from the Greek word for “twig.” ” _____________________________211 Schrödinger’s Kitten________________________________________________________215 “Snips and snails and puppy dog tails”_________________________________________219 “Eyes in the back of your head” ______________________________________________226 “Private enterprise puts up the money.” ________________________________________232 Doppelgängers_____________________________________________________________239 Animals “Smell” Fear______________________________________________________244 Dreams__________________________________________________________________249 March 13_________________________________________________________________252 Historicism_______________________________________________________________261 “Be kind to slugs.”_________________________________________________________274 Tacks____________________________________________________________________277 “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” ____________________________________284 “Kids know them as “roofies.” ” 3 Imagine all the fears of parents whose daughters have hit dating age packed into one white pill the size of a dime.4 You probably remember stories about the party punch spiked with alcohol or the brownies baked with marijuana [or marijuana laced with speed or drinks dosed with eye drops to cause diarrhea]. Well it’s still happening . but now it’s those drugs plus some new ones.5 It costs about $3 at the high-school water fountain 6…in its original manufacturer’s packaging.7 It is [tasteless,8, 9] colorless, odorless and quickly dissolves in a can of cola. In about 10 minutes, it creates a drunklike effect lasting eight hours. It strengthens the effects of alcohol, causing loss of inhibition, sleepiness, relaxation and – perhaps worst of all for its victims – amnesia. The pill is made of a drug called Rohypnol.10 Rohypnol is known by various street names: Roachies, La Roche, Rope, Rib, Roche, Rophies, Roofies, Ruffies. In an unconfirmed report out of Australia, it was referred to as “Stupefi,” and it has also been designated “the Quaalude of the ‘90s” in some media reports. 11 3 David Kidwell & Connie Piloto (Knight-Ridder Newspapers), Dime-sized, $3 pill sends rape rates soaring, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb 1996, p. A3. 4 Op. cit. 5 Jeff Lindenbaum, Parenting; ‘roofies’ go a step beyond spiked punch, The Seattle Times, 4 Dec 1996, p. D2. 6 David Kidwell & Connie Piloto (Knight-Ridder Newspapers), Dime-sized, $3 pill sends rape rates soaring, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb 1996, p. A3. 7 Jeff Lindenbaum, Parenting; ‘roofies’ go a step beyond spiked punch, The Seattle Times, 4 Dec 1996, p. D2. 8 Kemp hits ‘sad’ ethics; Gore decries ‘low road,’ The Seattle Times, 14 Oct 1996, p. A4 9 Staffer says security chief knew FBI files were gathered, The Seattle Times, 4 Oct 1996, p. A7. 10 David Kidwell & Connie Piloto (Knight-Ridder Newspapers), Dime-sized, $3 pill sends rape rates soaring, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb 1996, p. A3. 11 David E. Smith, M.D., Donald R. Wesson, M.D., & Sarah R. Calhoun, M.P.H., Rohypnol (flunitrazepam) fact sheet, Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc., 1997. 2 Kevin Crosby 30 June 1997 Like Quaaludes, the trademark for methaqualone,[ 12] a drug popular in the 1970s, Rohypnol can make people forget their troubles.13 It is also known as “the forget pill” because it can cause temporary blackouts. 14 It has been used to extend or ease the effects of other drugs, or dropped in a drink to incapacitate unsuspecting people, leaving them with no memory of an assault or robbery.15 Rohypnol is a potent and hypnotic sedative,16…is 10 times more powerful than the commonly prescribed sedative Valium and is used legally in 64 countries before surgery and in treating insomnia. 17 They are legally prescribed as sleeping pills in about 80 countries but not in the United States 18 though Colombian drug traffickers, long the source of most of the world’s cocaine, are smuggling [the] powerful sedative onto the streets of the United States.19 The U.S. Customs Service said [March 5, 1996,] it is sealing the border against…Rohypnol. 20 The United States…banned imports of the sedative Rohypnol and said it would seize it from individuals, in the mail or in commercial shipments.21 Police in several states say men have slipped pills into women’s drinks prior to sexual assaults. 22 It’s the amnesia-producing effects of Rohypnol that make it the drug of choice for prospective rapists. 23 In Rohypnol-related rapes, victims who are slipped the drug become dizzy and disoriented, and have trouble moving their arms and legs.24 Many cases have been reported, mostly in [Florida, Texas,25] and California.26 • Two…brothers and a friend were charged with repeatedly raping a 15-year-old…girl after they secretly put a roofie in her wine cooler.27 • A 17-year-old…girl raped Jan. 7, [1996,] while she was under the influence of roofies lost 10 hours between having dinner with friends and waking up in a strange hotel bed. Police…investigat[ed] a 29-year-old suspect who was at the dinner.28 • Prosecutors in Broward County, Fla., said one man bragged to friends that he had drugged and raped a dozen women.29 • One Broward County man who pleaded guilty to roofie rape in a 1993 case – Mark Anthony Perez of Plantation – told authorities he used it to rape as many as 20 women.30 • At least two Texas women have now died after unknowingly ingesting Rohypnol.31 The latest episode involved a 15-year-old and a female friend given the drug and then raped by five men in El Paso.32, [ 33] 12 Methaqualone, sold under the brand names Quaalude and Sopor, is a depressant similar in effect to barbiturates. — Spencer A. Rathus, Psychology, 3rd ed. (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1987), p. 186. 13 The Associated Press, Powerful sedative from Colombia gains popularity among U.S. teens, The Seattle Times, 2 April 1995, p. A8. 14 David Jackson (Dallas Morning News), U.S. forbids imports of seductive sedative used for date rapes, The Seattle Times, 6 March 1996, p. A8. 15 Across the Nation, The Seattle Times, 15 June 1996, p. A2. 16 David Kidwell & Connie Piloto (Knight-Ridder Newspapers), Dime-sized, $3 pill sends rape rates soaring, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb 1996, p. A3. 17 Across the Nation, The Seattle Times, 15 June 1996, p. A2. 18 David Kidwell & Connie Piloto (Knight-Ridder Newspapers), Dime-sized, $3 pill sends rape rates soaring, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb 1996, p. A3. 19 The Associated Press, Powerful sedative from Colombia gains popularity among U.S.
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