Aussie Drug Culture

"Hotel drug dens claim at schoolies" 'The Herald Sun 26-11-05

There is no doubt that hypocrisy has reached new heights then the media, (firmly in the hands of tory plutocrats who must comy up with new controversies daily to distract from whats really going on with taxes and IR), villifies one young aussie for serving three months in a chickenroach infested foreign jail, while drugs use is rampant in Howard's Australia.

"ECSTASY dealers are using rooms at Gold Coast hotels favoured by schoolies as drug dens, young revellers claim."

It is understandable that record numbers of young people want to escape, and it is also clear why many migrants want to keepo their own children out of the mainstream, drug and exploitation saturated, culture.

It is typical of the sort of hypocrisy and inaction that permeates Australian culture under the tories that while debate rages over the hanging of one young Australian, and the fate of nine others who were DEALING smack, and the racists and religious bigots were villifying another who served her time for the much lesser crime of drug use, the same behaviour is a cultural commonplace, even tolerated for commercial reasons, as part of the tourism trade.

What a national disgrace. No wonder ethnic minorities treasure multicultural diversity, choosing not to buttimilate to the Australian drug culture.

"As the Herald Sun saw more than 100 drug-affected youths in the Surfers Paradise schoolies precinct early yesterday, a group of teenagers said schoolies did not need to leave the hotels to get the drug."

How convenient.. the economy provides drugs to their door.

This is the ultimate free-market dream.. a profuct that is addictive, an unregulated market, the perfect recipe for exploitation. And the toolies circling to exploit the weak and stupid... it's a metaphor for Howard's IR dreams!

"Schoolies are buying tablets for as little as $25 each from dealers operating out of hotels and from beach-trawling drug pushers.

Gold Coast police said ecstasy had never been more popular."

Thousands of Victorian schoolies are expected to pour into the Gold Coast from today.

Some of the 30,000 school leavers say it is easier to take a pill than risk a $225 police fine for drinking in public."

Now there's a sensible piece of public policy! B^p

A group of schoolies who did not wish to be named said dealers were operating out of the hotel room above their own.

"Everybody knows they are there," said the girl, 17, from Brisbane.

Another school leaver said teenagers were selling drugs from the flat next door to hers.

Josh, 18, of Brisbane, said his group had bought ecstasy on the beach.

"We've been approached by people a couple of times. They offer us pills and we just take them," Josh said.

Police have been cracking down on drug dealers since schoolies began last week, but said there had been no arrests in hotels. "It is much easier to search and arrest people in possession of drugs on the street," a police spokeswoman said.

"There are certain restrictions on police going into hotels and we would need a search warrant . . . but certainly if we had enough information we would have no hesitation."

And they are applauding schoolies who are increasingly pbutting on information about dealers.

"A couple of drug arrests have resulted from schoolies ringing us, and that's very encouraging," the spokeswoman said.

A few sleazebags like ferdie and Bash always circle hoping to exploit a young victim;

"Thousands of schoolies were dancing to DJs playing on the main beach about 1am yesterday when police swooped on a group of older Sydney men in the throng. The 25 men, who appeared to be in their 20s, were ordered off the beach for 24 hours after a young woman told police they were being verbally harbutted and intimidated by the "toolies".

"The males were surrounding schoolies on the beach and were intimidating them," Gold Coast police Superintendent Brett Pointing said.

He said the swoop by more than 20 officers served as a warning to anyone considering similar behaviour.

Of the 33 arrests made by police on Thursday night, only 14 were schoolies."

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