Could the American drug war be a political devise designed to control
Americans, deny their constitutional rights, legalize property seizures,
develop profits, power, and ongoing security for the DEA, judges, lawyers,
police, jailers, jail builders, and the like?? Does our drug war look like
prohibition did?? Is it possible that Americans and supplying countries
might fare better if the "money" was taken out of the drug industry, drugs
were decriminalized, drug users were treated with education, medication, and
jobs that elitists are sending offshore to enhance corporate profit?? Could
drugs could be controlled the same as alcohol and tobacco are now? Could
constitutional rights then be restored to working Americans? Is there a
better use for funds now used for lifetime jailing of nearly 2 million
non-violent prisoners?? And, could the unemployed enforcement personnel
find productive private sector employment??
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> "At just the time when President Bush announced his campaign in the War on
> Drugs, with aid to Colombia as its centerpiece, the Andean Commission of
> Jurists reported the the military was using antidrug measures as a pretext
> to arrest and murder union leaders, grassroots organizers, and activists
> in the Patriotic Union political party. The aid did not go to the
> Colombian national police, which is in charge of almost all counter
> narcotics operations, but to the military. By the early 1990s Colombia was
> the leading recipient of U.S. military aid in Latin America, aid which
> increased under the Clinton Administration and was expected to reach
> record levels in 1997....
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> United States officials have repeatedly claimed that the War on Drugs
> abroad is not counterinsurgency. But the recipients openly admit that U.S.
> aid is used for this purpose, which translates into repression of the
> perceived supporters of armed insurgents: that is, much of the general
> population. For example, Colombian military officials informed U.S.
> Congressional investigators in 1990 that most of "counternarcotics"
> military aid for the year was to be used for counterinsurgency."
> --From "Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor,"
> Common Courage Press, 2000.
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> "From 1984 through 1992, 6,844 Colombian soldiers were trained under the
> U.S. international Military Education and Training program. Over 2,000
> Colombian officers were trained from 1990 to 1992..."
> --From Noam Chomsky's introduction to "Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy,"
> by Javier Giraldo
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>
> Victims of Political Violence in Colombia 1988-1995
> Political Assassinations: 6,177
> Assassinationss Presumed
> to be Political: 10,556
> Assassinations Presumed
> to be "Social Cleansing": 2,459
> Deaths in Combat between
> Army and Guerrillas: 9,140
> People Forcibly Disappeared: 1,451
> Obscure Assassinations: 37,595
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> Total: 67,378
>
> Average per month 701.9
> Average per day 23.4
>
> --From Data Bank of the Comision Inter-Congregacional de Justicia y Paz as
> reported in "Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy," by Javier Giraldo
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