from the WRN file:
Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, September 21 2003: Radio Netherlands
This week on Amsterdam Forum: The US's "war on drugs"; not only is it being waged in the jungles of South America but also right here in Europe, and the Netherlands is in the frontline. According to US law enforcers, eighty percent of the party drug Ecstasy used in America comes from the Netherlands. The chairman of the US senate committee in charge of tackling drugs - Mark Souder - has called the Netherlands "the Colombia for synthetic drugs" and has threatened to call for economic sanctions unless the Dutch authorities do more to tackle the problem. US detectives are already actively involved in tracking down suspects and the number of Dutch citizens extradited to America has risen sharply. Many Dutch lawyers and politicians are now expressing concerns that rights afforded under Dutch law may be bypassed as pressure for results from the US grows. Is the US right to say it may call for sanctions unless the Dutch do more? And how far should a country be able to go if it thinks another is soft on drugs?
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If we wanted to boycott things Dutch, where would we look? Hmmm, one thing that comes to mind is Giant foods, the regional supermarket leader. As you may know, it's owned by Royal Ahold of the Netherlands.
I always wanted to do something about the crazy names they've come up with for the Giant brand soft drinks, since Ahold bought the company.
That's quite interesting. I did not know that - about either the new drug lords or Giant.
Posted by: maphet at October 20, 2003 10:16 PM