Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Middle-class drugs buyers fuel killings: President


From the Sunday Independent:

"THE middle classes who see nothing wrong in using drugs must accept their share of the blame for the spate of gangland murders, says President Mary McAleese.

"Mrs McAleese says the burgeoning drug culture and explosion of violence on our streets is a hideous development in Irish society.

""It worries me sick," she admits in a radio interview with Marian Finucane, to be broadcast [on Sunday last].

"Who creates the market that allows these people to become so powerful? It is the people with the good jobs, it is the people with the great social life, with the fancy car at the door who are doing cocaine thinking it is a really smart and cool thing to do....""

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