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To: RealMuLan who wrote (61976)	4/14/2005 12:30:33 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

2 Charged With Smuggling Ecstasy Pills on Military Jet By JULIA PRESTON Published: April 14, 2005 captain and a master sergeant in the Air National Guard were arrested late Monday on charges that they imported 290,000 Ecstasy pills to New York hidden on a military cargo plane, federal narcotics authorities said yesterday. Capt. Franklin Rodriguez, 36, is a pilot of the Air Force C-5A Galaxy, a giant cargo plane, and Master Sgt. John Fong, 35, served as a load handler in his crew, according to the criminal complaint. Federal agents said that their arrests broke up a smuggling ring that, using military aircraft, had made at least three earlier flights and moved drugs worth $10 million or more. Advertisement On April 8, they made a flight from Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y., through Germany to the Republic of Georgia to deliver supplies for a training mission there. On the way back, their plane stopped at a United States military base in Germany. The two guardsmen went to a hotel room near the base and picked up packages containing thousands of tablets of MDMA, the hallucinogenic stimulant nicknamed Ecstasy, according to the authorities. Officials declined to name the base, saying that the investigation by American and German authorities was still under way. nytimes.com

To: RealMuLan who wrote (61976)	4/15/2005 9:04:40 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

No one said China is looking for fight. Where can you read that message from my post? And unfortunately to you, yes, I am representing most of Chinese opinion. No we are NOT right wing. We just want justice! Compensation will be paid in many forms, if nothing else, boycott Japanese product can be count as one. Many of us start doing it now! I hope you are wrong in representing Chinese opinion. I hope most Chinese do not think like you. You are looking for a fight. We have a saying "when push comes to shove" that is how fights begin. I have a lot of respect for the Chinese civilization, but I think you (China) are still playing catch up. There are still a lot of stuff that you have to learn. This is not to say that we have learned all our lessons either. We also have stupid people. Some of the great lessons from Western Civilization are the teachings of "love thy neighbor" and "turn the other cheek". We have our share of stupid people that can not learn from those teachings, but I suspect you have many very intelligent people that are smart enough to understand those teachings. Those teachings transcend nationality, culture, race, ethnicity - whatever. They are universal. Those are concepts that do not belong to anyone. They are abstractions. You only have to be a smart human to grasp those concepts - and to be able to apply them to your own advantage and to the advantage of others. That is what you call win/win.