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R.A.A.S.T.A. MANIFESTO
May 4, 2009 by homelesschampions
THE R.A.A.S.T.A. MANIFESTO Recovering Addicts against Supporting Terminal Addiction We Believe That The Many Resources Available In The Dtes Today Do Nothing More Than Support Addiction! If That Were Not True, Then Why Do You Have More Financial Support For Addiction Than Recovery? Why Is There No Support For Detox Services, When The Estimated Number Of Addicts In The Dtes Is Some Ten Thousand, And There Are Only 200 Hundred Detox Beds Available? The Carnegie Center Has The Largest Open Drug Market In North America And Is Supported By Many Different Foundations. There Are Over 200 Hundred Carnegie Centers Throughout The World And Not One Of Them Has The Reputation That Ours Has. It Has Been Estimated That Over 2000 Drug Transactions Take Place On The Very Doorstep Of This Building Daily. Who Cares? We Do! We Are A Group Of Recovered Addicts That Want To Put Pressure On The City, The Police, And The Government To Put A Stop To This Building And Its Flagrant Abuse Of The Carnegie Foundation And Legacy. United We Can This Building Is Probably The Worst Example Of Abuse Of Any I’ve Seen. Everyday Men And Women Will Scour The Bins, Garbage Cans, Etc Of East Vancouver; Only To End Up Back On The Hasting Street Locale, To Exchange Bottles For Cash, Walk Out The Back Door And Be Met By A Drug Dealer, To Spend What Takes Hours And Hours Of Digging Through Garbage To Earn. The Physical Condition Of These Men And Woman Is Bankrupt! They Are Only Steps Away From Death, Their Health Is Poor, They Are Being Motivated By Addiction Not The Ecosystem, And I Have Seen The Lineups, They Can Be Quite Festive As Friends Gather Together To Tell Stories Of A Nights Work. Most Of These Poor Lost Souls Earn 20 T0 40 Dollars For Their Evenings Labor, But It Is Instant Fast Cash. They Are Infected And Disease Ridden! What A Sad State! To Us This Is Unacceptable! The United We Can Foundation And All Its Supporters Should Be Ashamed. Supporting Terminal Addiction Is Not A Good Cause Insite Is Next On The List. The Money That Is Spent To Keep These Doors Open Is Justified I’ll Agree On The Point Of Saving Lives, But In The End How Many Times Would They Allow An Overdose In Their Facility To Happen For A Repeat Offender? The Fire And Ambulance Service Is Stressed To The Max! In General This Building Keeps Them Very Busy. The One Real Question I Have For The City, The Police, The Carnegie, The Government, The Insite Supporters, The United We Can Store: Is Why Are You Supporting Not Only Addiction, But Why Are You Supporting Drug Dealers? The Ones That Make There Trade In Front Of These Services Are Ruthless, They Have Been Given A Green Light By Each And Every One Of You And Your Sponsors! They Seem To Be Doing Quite Well. They Have Generated 10.000 Customers Right Under Your Noses And No One Seems To Care! Supporting Terminal Addiction Is Alive And Well In Vancouver And I.M Sick Of It. The Methadone Program Is As We Speak Creating A Whole New Generation Of Opiate Dependency The Government Junkies Slash Methadone Zombies Are Just Starting To Amass The Support Of This Form Of Terminal Addiction Is The Worst Of Its Kind The Overall Program Is Corrupt The Kickbacks ,The Pharmacies Themselves Can Do What They Want! They Are Out Of Control! If You Think That These Services Are Helpful Then Just Ask Any Twenty Year Veteran Of The Dtes How He Or She Feels About Themselves Today, And The Answer Will Be Universal. They Wish They Had A Better Chance At Life, But Now They Are Addicted Till Death! Thus Terminal Addiction This Is What You Served Them, A Huge Plate Of Enablement And You Better Hope Your Children Or Grandchildren Don’t Get A Taste Because The System Or The Machine Is Well Oiled And Organized And Alive And It’s Eating Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters Etc. As Fast As It Can . We At RAASTA Are Just Beginning To Organize. You Will Hear From Us Again I Promise You! The Resources We Have Available Are The Same As Yours But We Are Coming From A Different Perspective. Not Terminal Addiction: But A Life Free From Addiction Of Any Kind! If What We Do On Behalf Of These Our Brothers And Sisters In The Dtes Will Save Just One From Terminal Addiction Our Cause Is Just And We Can Sleep One More Night, But We Are Not Going To Stand By And Allow This Slaughter To Happen Under Our Noses Any Longer! The Killing Fields Or Death Sentence As We Know It, The Existence And Support Of Terminal Addiction Has To Be Stopped! We Feel The Place To Start Is With Detox On Demand! Not Waiting A Week! If We Accomplish This One Goal We Will Feel We Have Made A Small Dent Into The Worst Addiction Problem In North America
saurabh
helen
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