Professor John Robertson OBA
From Merseyside Police yesterday:
Three people have been arrested today, Tuesday 23 December, following two warrants executed to tackle suspected county lines drug supply operating between Prescot and Peterhead, Scotland. The arrests were made during a joint operation between Merseyside Police’s Project Medusa and Police Scotland, targeting addresses in Prescot and Huyton.
Officers seized large quantities of suspected Class A controlled drugs, a significant amount of cash and drugs paraphernalia. Detective Inspector Andrew Machray from Police Scotland said:
“Taking drugs off the streets and protecting vulnerable people in our communities who are all too often coerced, groomed and threatened by County Lines drug dealers remains a priority for Police Scotland. This joint enforcement action with our colleagues at Merseyside Police underlines our commitment to the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce and Scotland’s Serious Organised Crime Strategy.
I can find no coverage of this in Scotland. Indeed, only the Liverpool Echo and the St Helens Star seem to be interested.
Despite the comments from Police Scotland in the above Merseyside report:
Why is this case not being reported? Because the whole county lines thing looks so bad for the Union?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
You would think it would be of some impor
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Oops. First attempt left on its own. As I was saying, you’d think it would be of some importance when they take every opportunity to tell us we have the highest drug deaths in Europe as often as they can. You’d think they would be happy to report any activity where drugs were concerned. Unless they were biased, of course.
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ALWAYS ALWAYS LOOKING TO LIE ABOUT SCOTTISH DRUGS
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You mean drugs imported into Scotland…the drugs are from across the globe.
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I may be wrong here John, but could your ultimate question not be deduced from ” Merseyside Police’s Project Medusa ” ?
PS’s ‘Sneaky bastirts project 479’ is likely still awaiting approval…
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The whole serious drug thing started in the 70’s. Ice cream wars etc. My cousin works in “projects” as a senior social worker in Glasgow for decades. He saw many deaths with overdoses, very few of which were recorded as drug deaths.
The reporting of this is disgraceful, as politicians and the media cover their arses over, a blame culture (SNP), and ignoring what was happening under their noses for all these years.
And with “county lines”, it’s STILL going on. Putrid rotten to the core, bastards!!!!!
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Scotland was called the drugs capital of Europe was it not, or something similar..or was it Glasgow? Anyway, the drugs were imported into Scotland deliberately, they were allowed via Scottish ports and of course as the coastline is vast, and not policed ( responsibility of the EngUKGov!!) drugs could be imported with almost no restrictions, still can be.
What better way to keep the people trapped, impoversihed and controlled, drugs works every time and has happened same in Latin America, via the US administration.
Drug the people, they won’t protest their lot, the awful poverty, the thieving of their land, their vast resources and revenues…win win for EngUK, still is a huge advantage for them, and a huge and terrible burden on Scotland’s people, economy and society, and all facilitated by the colonists.
Hard border needed after independence?
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Speaking of hard borders.
The only ones getting the vapours over a hard Scottish border are unionists. Strange when you think an important part of Brexit was about protecting “our” borders, you’d think they would understand.
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A Merry Xmas to John and all. Slightly O/T, but I have always believed, and I started in the polis in the 1960’s when Glasgow was the only force to have a drugs squad, that the only way to have some control over illegal substances, was to make them legal, but of course subject to restrictions, something along the lines of alcohol and tobacco. I know this is controversial, but I have always felt that this is the only way forward, if not to eliminate the problem completely, to at least reduce the danger. People would know that they were getting their particular substance from a licensed outlet, in the correct quantity, and from an approved laboratory. Drugs are still going to be taken if that is a person’s choice. We will never eliminate the problem completely, but for a start, it would in all probability reduce deaths, and almost destroy the vast sums of money criminals make at the present time, and of course, being legal, the substances would be taxed, and that money would go to the Government, hopefully Scottish. Although by no means a complete analogy, I remember the Clayson Report in the 1970’s, and the effect it had, at least in Glasgow, of almost completely wiping out the shebeens, and their trade in illegal liquor. I don’t, and have never believed that a “War on Drugs” was winnable, in part because, as has been said, that it suits some authorities to have a method of keeping the populace under control. I’m aware some countries throughout the world have taken the first steps to legalise some drugs, along with some States in the U.S.A, but so far none have grasped the nettle so to speak, and gone the whole hog. Maybe someday someone will have the courage to at least try this solution.
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And from eastern non-seaboard-ish Romania, Crăciun fericit tuturor…
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Many places that legalised drugs regretted it.
US chronic problems with crystal Meths. US, UK, Iraq & Afghanistan worst problems in the world.
Scottish Gov funded proper rehab facilities. £250million over five years. New facilities are opening.
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