http://www.gladefestival.com (Updated picture gallery from this year?s Glade Festival) http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20020208.htm (Noam Chomsky: ?Drugs play a role similar to communism or terrorism, people huddle beneath the umbrella of authority for protection from the menace. It is hard to believe that these consequences aren't understood . . .?) http://www.stentorian.com/propagan.html (?Propaganda consists of the planned use of any form of public or mass-produced communication designed to affect the minds and emotions of a given group for a specific purpose, whether military, economic, or political." Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony. 1954. Psychological Warfare, 1954 . . .?) "Even if certain Web sites made a reference to their age, journalists should not pursue this. These individuals were corrupt. Their sentence was carried out with the approval of the judiciary, and it served them right.? (gay.com/ Iran Focus) Iranian cleric Ali Asgari defends the recent public execution of two gay teenagers who commentators suggest were hanged on ?trumped up? charges of raping a 13 year old boy. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/be_prepared.htm (Suicide Bombing Safety Tips: ?if you can choose your car on a subway, select a less-crowded car towards the rear of the train. In a crowded compartment, it is safer to be sitting rather than standing, because you are less exposed to shrapnel and head wounds . . .?) Colombian Coke Cartel Foil al Qaida Attack Canny Colombian drug producers refused to sell tons of cocaine to Osama Bin Laden, the New York Post suggested this week, after learning the al Qaida chief planned to poison it to try and kill tens of thousands of American coke users. Quite with he overlooked the heroin on his own Afghanistan doorstep in favour of South American cocaine remains unclear, though the DEA told the Post Bin Laden continues to deal drugs to fund ?training, travelling and terror attacks?. The US tabloid also repeated then-DEA Director Asa Hutchinson?s comments from 2002 suggesting drug users fund terrorism, which prompted a robust response at the time from civil liberties guru Professor Noam Chomsky. ?Terrorism is now being used and has been used pretty much the same way communism was used. If you want to press some agenda, you play the terrorism card. If you don't follow me on this, you're supporting terrorism. That is absolutely infantile, especially when you consider that much of the history of the drug trade trails right behind the CIA and other US intervention programs,? the Professor pointed out. ?US domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about?? he continued. ?It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control. If most people are dissatisfied and others are useless, you want to get rid of the useless and frighten the dissatisfied. The drug war does this,? he pointed out.