this article read verbatim like the anti-drug adds you started seeing in the 2001 superbowl, "If you use drugs, you support terrorists." my take, 99% positive it is propagada.
problems with it:
1. As in the article, Drug lords would never allow a massive amount of there customers to be killed, it would be bad for buisness.
2. As Walsh said, this press release was announced by the same department that is currently \'at war\' with drugs, so take it with a grain of salt.
propaganda
It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided. The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
That in mind, heres some of the key words and how many times they appeared in the text:
4 Osama bin Laden
4 DEA
6 drug lords
5 buy/purchase/spend/finance
10 cocaine/heroin/poison/drug
2 kill thousands
2 plot
3 deal
3 September 11 attacks on New York and Washington/World Trade Center
so, reorganized, this is the key information they want you to subconciously take away:
drugs: cocaine, heroin - poison!
drug lords finance Osama bin Laden
DEA deals. September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, kill thousands... plot?
