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Another way of looking at what is perceived to critical and answered with criticism. Maybe less offensive, since it does not use any specific posts as examples.

1965 on the school playground. Freddy says to Joey, "Yo Joey, your dad is a bum". Joey to Freddy, "Yo mamma is ugly". Both end up suspended from school due to the ensuing fight.

2003. Fred to Joe, "I was concerned that your father was out of work. Is there anything you need?"

Joe to Fred, "Thank you Fred for your concern. You have always been a good friend. Actually, Dad is doing quite well. He is working at home these days. You know technology, the computer. It's nice we get to see more of him. Let me take you to the local pub, we can grab a beer, burger and watch the game". Both end up in jail, arrested for public drunkenness and disturbing the peace due to the fight they got into over the game. Some things just never change.

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Does anyone know that the Deputy Prime Minister of Belize's father is a CONVICTED DRUG DEALER!
He was in hancuffs on CNN many years ago. When he got back to Belize after time in the slammer he got a hero's welcome.
This family is super rich.....hmmmmmmmmm
Many of the other government ministers also have drug links.

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We don't choose our relatives.

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Belize Reporter

Mexicans "invade" Belize in airborne drug stunt
(Friday 05 September 2003 10:31:44 am)

Sometime around 7 o'clock Friday night on a remote stretch of road in the area of Blue Creek in the Orange Walk district a vintage Russian prop-driven cargo plane dropped out of the sky and landed in what is mostly Mennonite territory.

The plane had help from five pick-up trucks parked alongside the road with high beams on, showing a clear path for the plan to land.

As soon as it landed busy hands removed the cargo, several large sacks of what was undoubtedly cocaine. Within 40 minutes the complete exercise was over and the pick-ups left the scene, leaving the old cargo plane with the key in the ignition and a red and white Toyota truck behind. Each of the four pick-up trucks were capable of hauling half a ton.

It is estimated that some 4,000 pounds or more of cocaine was discharged from the bowels of the plane and taken quickly across the border into Mexico. The Rio Hondo can be forded at certain places in the river, and it is widely believed that the smugglers lost no time in getting the drugs out of Belize.

Mennonite observers who do not wish to be identified say the trucks all bore Mexican license plates. The Toyota truck that was left behind also bears a Mexican license plate.

Government officials have seized both the truck and the plane and have exchanged information with their Mexican counterparts about the truck that was left behind.

This caper in Belizean territory is the boldest invasion yet of Belizean sovereignty by Mexican drug smugglers desperate to get their hands on the narcotic to feed the American taste for hard drugs.

Observers believe that the Mexicans may have had some local help. It is known that the plane first appeared over Blue Creek at 5 in the evening and returned at various intervals until it received the signal to land.

Several members of the Blue Creek community called the police in Orange Walk Town to tell them of the plane. They called the police, the Area Representative and the Mayor of Orange Walk Town. They even called Belmopan. The earliest response came the next morning at seven, some twelve hours after the cargo was removed, when an official band of policemen and B.D.F. arrived on the scene.

Some members of the Mennonite community recalled that a certain inspector of Police was in Blue Creek the day before the plane arrived, asking for donations "for a children's party ".

Police and Government officials did not release details about the drug plane until Tuesday, days after the Press had learned about it.

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Marty: I think the related story in The Reportor about the US Coast Guard capturing the boat off Belize with all the cocaine on it (article can be accessed by going to BelizeNews.com at the top of this page) is very interesting.

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here tis...

U.S. Coast Guard seize loaded cocaine vessel Bze. Customs Officer Vanzie was aboard!
(Friday 05 September 2003 10:33:16 am)

Belize law enforcement officials are not saying anything about a drug boat which U.S. Coast Guard officials intercepted in waters off Belize carrying several tons of cocaine.

Customs Officer Arie Vanzie, a man with nine years' experience working for the department and the second in command at the Punta Gorda Customs station, was apprehended along with a crew of Colombian sailors. He is being detained in Miami under charges of drug trafficking.

U.S. Coast Guard officials tracked the boat by air on Thursday night and sent in a cutter to intercept the smugglers. Both government officials and U.S. spokesmen say the boat was intercepted in international waters, but nobody believes this.

In the shootout which followed, several of the Colombians were injured. All were arrested.

Belize authorities have refused to release any information to the media about what happened.

Reporter investiga-tions show that Arie Vanzie joined the Belize Customs Department in 1994 as a Customs Officer Grade II. His last posting was in Punta Gorda to work under Customs Station Chief, John Nembhard.

Early last month Vanzie applied for leave and was granted the time off. He boarded a plane en route to Colombia, ostensibly on holiday. Airport records confirm this. He was due back at work on September 25.

It is speculated and is widely believed that Vanzie offered to act as pilot for directing the Colombian boat when it arrived in Belizean waters. The old Cartel pilot, former Chief Fisheries Officer, Liston McCord, is now in jail in Miami, serving a sentence of ten years for cocaine trafficking.

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heres an idea: sink the plane and make a new reef/dive spot!

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