{"id":8891,"date":"2016-03-09T21:07:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T08:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2016-03-09T21:07:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T08:07:37","slug":"little-faith-judith-collins-will-affect-the-illegal-meth-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=8891","title":{"rendered":"Little faith Judith Collin&#8217;s will affect the illegal meth trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Crusher_Oravida.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8972\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8972 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Crusher_Oravida-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"10\/07\/2013 Oravida NZ opens new office New Zealand minister of Justice Judith Collins opens a new office for Oravida in Auckland 07 October 2013 picture supplied http:\/\/www.oravida.com\/lwl\/newsen\/ NZH 11Mar14 -\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Crusher_Oravida-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Crusher_Oravida-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Crusher_Oravida-768x510.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Crusher_Oravida-570x379.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Crusher_Oravida-701x466.jpg 701w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Crusher_Oravida-1067x709.jpg 1067w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Crusher_Oravida.jpg 1913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Methamphetamine is evil incarnate one of the parasites of poverty and about the worst scourges to afflict New Zealand since the Neo-Liberal sell off of state owned assets and the colonial land grab\u00a0committed during the 1800&#8217;s. The meth trade has destroyed entire communities and countless peoples lives while literally destroying hundreds of homes through contamination during the manufacture process.<\/p>\n<p>Recently MP Judith Collins placed the blame on\u00a0three gangs for &#8220;P&#8221; methamphetamine trade. As a political agenda Collins is attempting to paint a picture of boogeymen selling Meth to\u00a0affluent school\u00a0children in wealthier suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>A key\u00a0ingredient in the productions of Methamphetamine is Ephedrine\u00a0and is not manufactured in New Zealand.\u00a0Ephedrine is being smuggled into the country from mainland China by international drug cartels that use New Zealand gangs to cook and distribute the drug. With out\u00a0Ephedrine making it past our borders the gangs have no ingredients to cook methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>Collins is setting up a new multi-agency Gang Intelligence Centre to target the gangs and their families that are low level operatives in an international drug trade. The reason she refuses to go after the international drug cartels is because they resemble the type of business people she affiliates with like Oravida. Collins also wants to drum up more customers to incarcerate in prisons operated by her \u00a0favourite British based company Serco.<\/p>\n<p>Collins has no intention of stemming the flow of\u00a0Ephedrine crossing our borders from mainland China. This could be built into our FTA with China that local law enforcement closely monitoring exports to New Zealand\u00a0. Of course the only white powder New Zealand exports to China is infant formula so this being a reciprocal agreement would be alot easier for border security in our ports.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980&#8217;s\u00a0United States government couldn&#8217;t control the illegal\u00a0cocaine drug trade in Miami Florida arresting\u00a0small time dealers was an exercise in futility. The US Drug Enforcement Agency went after the Medelin cartel in Colombia and\u00a0Pablo Escobar was captured. Unless the New Zealand government can stop\u00a0Ephedrine at the source\u00a0money is going to continue to flow off shore to drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Collins approach is doing a \u00a0dis service to law enforcement and the victims of methamphetamine drug abuse by only acknowledging the Mongrel Mob, Black Power and Head Hunters as being the only link in the chain of\u00a0illicit Meth trade. A realistic solution is to focus\u00a0on working with Chinese law enforcement to stop\u00a0smuggling of Ephedrine from Chinese ports and setting up a new\u00a0Drug Cartel intelligence centre that investigates the corrupt officials that turn a blind eye too\u00a0Ephedrine being shipped\u00a0to New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Joe Trinder Methamphetamine is evil incarnate one of the parasites of poverty and about the worst scourges to afflict New Zealand since the Neo-Liberal sell off of state owned assets and the colonial land grab\u00a0committed during the 1800&#8217;s. The meth trade has destroyed entire communities and countless peoples lives while literally destroying hundreds of homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8891"}],"version-history":[{"count":118,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9019,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions\/9019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}