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Mayor wants to open supervised injection facility for heroin in NY city
FOXNEWS ^ | Feb. 22, 2016 | Cody Derespina

Posted on 02/23/2016 10:33:50 AM PST by PROCON

One upstate New York city is planning an unconventional approach to combating a growing heroin epidemic: Letting addicts shoot up on government property under the supervision of medical professionals.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick unveiled his controversial proposal to open a supervised injection facility during an interview with The Associated Press released Monday. The facility would provide a space for users to inject pre-purchased drugs with clean needles under the watchful eye of healthcare professionals who could, in theory, keep them safe and direct them to addiction services.

"My father was a drug addict. He split from the family when I was 5, 6 years old," Myrick told the AP. "I have watched for 20 years this system that just doesn't work. We can't wait anymore for the federal government. We have people shooting up in alleys. In bathroom stalls. And too many of them are dying."

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.."It's {heroin addiction} no longer a fringe issue," Frederique said. "It's being talked about at every kitchen table in the country..

How out-of-touch these liberal do-gooders are.

Reminds me of the movie, "Idiocracy."

1 posted on 02/23/2016 10:33:51 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Ithaca city of EVIL.


2 posted on 02/23/2016 10:35:43 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: PROCON

I remember a SiFi novel about government heroin
I want to say “Future Shock” but I’m not sure.
Didn’t end well for sure.


3 posted on 02/23/2016 10:37:52 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: PROCON

Same story at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3400528/posts


4 posted on 02/23/2016 10:39:20 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (Trump fans:'he's no more conservative than Mitt'-www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3389209/posts)
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To: PROCON
And too many of them are dying

Value judgement.

5 posted on 02/23/2016 10:42:03 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)
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To: PROCON

A self inflicted problem. Sticking needles in your arms ain’t no way to be productive. Stick to whiskey bottles and brand new cars while watching out for Oak trees ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz1x28DHF08


6 posted on 02/23/2016 10:43:25 AM PST by soycd
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To: PROCON

What could possibly go wrong?


7 posted on 02/23/2016 10:45:31 AM PST by yuleeyahoo ( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Did Jim give you a badge?


8 posted on 02/23/2016 10:46:05 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Seeds of Terror
How heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
http://failuremag.com/feature/article/seeds_of_terror/#ixzz35QhbgQ8K

Drug shipments off of Africa have “significantly increased since 2009”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2014/June/international_June26.xml&section=international

Drug trafficking, kidnapping fund al Qaeda
By Rachel Ehrenfeld, Special to CNN -May 4, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/03/ehrenfeld.al.qaeda.funding/

Qatar used as transit point by drug traffickers: Expert 2013
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/qatar/253421/qatar-used-as-transit-point-by-drug-traffickers-expert-

Obama secretly released high risk Taliban terrorists to the care of Qatar. (Qatar is where the US established for Taliban headquarters in 2011.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-offers-the-taliban-a-new-mideast-headquarters-2011-9

Islamic Revolutionaries under any name you google are tied to the Heroin trade along with most other drugs, as well as human trafficking.
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/06/12/talibans-new-role-afghanistans-drug-mafia-237524.html

Heroin production hits record levels in Afghanistan - study
http://rt.com/news/156128-afghanistan-drugs-usa-heroin/

Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053

Terrorists in “Americas Back Yard”

State Department Reports Hezbollah Increasing Drug and Terrorism in South America 2013
http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/exporting-terror-in-americas-backyard/
“There has indeed been a “marked resurgence” of Iranian state sponsorship of terrorism over the past 18 months. But as the new Nisman report drives home, here’s an even more disturbing fact — Iran has run intelligence networks in the United States’ backyard to “sponsor, foster and execute terrorist attacks” for decades.”

“Criminal plans” by Iran could be under way in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, the report said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/world/americas/iran-latin-america/

Mexican Cartels Buying Afghan Heroin
http://www.banderasnews.com/1101/nr-afghanheroin.htm

Obama’s America:

“The horrific toll of America’s heroin ‘epidemic”
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26672422
America’s Heroin Epidemic -BBC 2014

The SEC sees no evil while Wall Street banks launder $BILLIONS in cartel
money. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

Hedge Fund Manager, Banker, and the largest Individual donor to Obama’s coiffeurs, continues to pour $Millions into thenDrug Legalization Campaign, made to look like citizen activism. George Soros 2/2014
http://www.hightimes.com/read/how-one-percent-will-legalize-marijuana

As “medical marijuana” legalization spreads across the country, police and other industry warnings about the dangers of legalizing marijuana ignored by media
http://www.flsheriffs.org/newsroom/entry/florida-sheriffs-pass-resolution-to-oppose-the-legalization-of-marijuana

DEA has been caught laundering money as well, “Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&;;

Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border
http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-cartels-2012-9#ixzz36vAJbBpS

Obama shut down the NDIC in 2012, the itelligence agency dedicated to tracking terrorism funded by drug trafficking.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/tag/national-drug-intelligence-center/
“Mexican cartel violence is at an all-time high along the increasingly porous southern border yet the Obama Administration has shut down a critical intelligence agency dedicated to identifying, tracking and severing the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism.”

CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With SINALOA Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel (They claimed feds agreed they could traffic into Chicago) JAN. 13, 2014
more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl

U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners
Written by Alex Newman Jan. 2014
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/17396-u-s-government-and-top-mexican-drug-cartel-exposed-as-partners

The link between drugs and crime, including violent crime, would be hard to overstate in Chicago. Eighty-six percent of adult males arrested in Chicago last year tested positive for drug use. Chicago, with a population of 2.7 million, had 506 murders in 2012, the highest per capita among the four most populous U.S. cities.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/heroin-pushed-on-chicago-by-cartel-fueling-gang-murders.html

The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates (cooking the books)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/

Dirty doctors, Russian mafia fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/07/nj_state_commission_of_investigation_prescription_drug_heroin_abuse.html

Opiates are now the leading cause of accidental deaths, surpassing car crashes and alcohol. http://elitedaily.com/news/world/prescription-painkillers-overtake-car-crashes-leading-accidental-death-us/

Banks Laundering Cartel Drug Money -Rampant
http://www.globalresearch.ca/money-laundering-and-the-drug-trade-the-role-of-the-banks/5334205

BORDER CRISIS: CONGRESSMAN SAYS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ‘CAUSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/05/Congressman-Illegls-Aliens-Rise-Obama-Advertises-If%20you-Come-You-Can-Stay

Cartels Exploit Immigration Crisis To Smuggle More Drugs Across Border
By Frank Diez July 03, 2014
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/07/03/cartels-exploit-immigration-crisis-to-smuggle-more-drugs-across-border/

Mexican Cartels are Behind Border Crisis -2014
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html

Drug dealing, informant get border pass -2014
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/informant-gets-free-border-pass-675432

EXCLUSIVE: Photos Show Drugs Pouring Over Southern Arizona Border as Agent Resources are Overwhelmed Jul 08, 2014
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/07/08/exclusive-photos-show-drugs-pouring-over-southern-arizona-border-n1859982

The Obama Administration’s Human Trafficking
July 11, 2014 by Arnold
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/the-obama-administrations-human-trafficking/

7 posted on 7/12/2014, 4:16:07 PM by mgist (.)
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9 posted on 02/23/2016 10:48:25 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: PROCON
Yeah, but he said my decoder ring is on back-order.
10 posted on 02/23/2016 10:53:10 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (Trump fans:'he's no more conservative than Mitt'-www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3389209/posts)
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To: tet68

Heroin addiction is slavery. I don’t think it is the least bit hyperbolic to say that a government that supports, condones, or otherwise promotes heroin addiction is actually promoting the enslavement of its citizens.


11 posted on 02/23/2016 10:53:36 AM PST by RC one (I will vote for the Republican nominee period. end of story.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Yeah, but he said my decoder ring is on back-order.

Bwahahaha...did he also tell you that I am The Keeper of the Back-ordered decoder rings?

I'll bump you higher on the list for a small donation.

12 posted on 02/23/2016 11:01:49 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Sure. And they are paid by the taxpayers to destroy their health.


13 posted on 02/23/2016 11:02:37 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: PROCON

Just when you think they can’t sink any lower......


14 posted on 02/23/2016 11:03:23 AM PST by capydick
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To: PROCON

Was in San Francisco airport a few weeks ago and in the mens room were needle disposal boxes mounted on the wall next to the hand towel dispensers?


15 posted on 02/23/2016 11:07:36 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: TruthWillWin

Hopefully more for insulin dependent diabetics but you never know.....


16 posted on 02/23/2016 11:09:31 AM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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To: PROCON

I live in KS...Denver, CO has a needle exchange program.

An addict in KS gets caught with needles, he gets arrested.

An addict in Denver gets caught with a needle, he shows the cop a card that gives him permission to possess drug paraphernalia.

So...I’ve known people who have travelled from KS to Denver for this very reason. Once you’ve lost your job and burned through all the goodwill of your friends, you have no roots...and Denver beckons.

So I’m sure Ithaca will draw quite a crowd.

I happen to believe that the best ‘first step’ in quitting heroin is forcible...as in get arrested, and your family wises up and won’t bail you out. This program in Ithaca will stop that first step, and likely more people will die or ruin their lives.

Then there’s the whole matter of how the hell the heroin gets to New York. That ‘supervised medical setting’ is likely at the tail end of a trail blazed by Mexican drug lords and marked with decapitated heads.


17 posted on 02/23/2016 11:11:50 AM PST by lacrew
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To: TruthWillWin

Same in Seattle.


18 posted on 02/23/2016 11:23:56 AM PST by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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To: RC one
The Gov't controlled "health" industry already legally prescribe heroin in its various other forms to millions of citizens daily, but the drugs only alter your perception of the current reality.

To increase hard drug use the government has "fundamentaly changed" the reality of the country for the worse, and now advocates legal unfettered and supervised use of heroin.

Shut up, shoot up, and pay your F*CKING taxes!

19 posted on 02/23/2016 11:26:39 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: PROCON

“Here’s your shot. And here’s your voter registration form. “


20 posted on 02/23/2016 11:26:40 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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