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From: Kay Lee & Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 12:13 AM
Subject: [smashthestate] NEW LEVEL IN WAR ON DRUGS
From: "Kay Lee & Joe Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: It's the same old story - if the grassroots folks don't get involved it
AIN'T GONNA WORK.
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CC: The War on Drugs is about to be lifted up another rung. The hysteria has
risen to the point where we may soon see soldiers in our streets - if the
"border" troops miss someone, what is the next step; send them into the
cities.
I remember visiting Cuba as a young boy
before Castro's revolution. I still have pictures I snapped of guys I
thought were cops standing on street corners with machine guns hanging from
their shoulders. I don't want to see that here.
The terrible mistakes being made by our highly trained civilian drug forces
should be reason enough not to bring the military into the fray.
Army training, except at the highest levels, is highly incompetent. It's
very difficult to "flunk" and when it happens the penalty is to be recycled
back through the same sorry program again.
This is a very dangerous step our congress is about to take.
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Washington, D.C. - A House-Senate conference agreement on the defense bill
includes a provision directing the Pentagon to develop a plan on how the
military can better assist law enforcement agencies in interdicting drugs
along the border and stopping terrorists from entering the United States.
The provision represents a modification of an amendment authored by U.S.
Rep. James A. Traficant, Jr. (D-Ohio) that was attached to the House-passed
version of the bill last June. The
Traficant amendment authorized the use of U.S. troops to assist civilian law
enforcement in patrolling the border. "Narcotics is still the number one
problem in America," said Traficant, a former drug counselor and sheriff.
"You can have all the counseling programs in the world and a
million cops on the street, but unless we get serious about stopping drugs
from pouring over the border, America will never win the war on
drugs."
Later today the House will consider the conference report on the fiscal
year 2000 Defense Authorization Act. The measure authorizes $288.8 billion
in fiscal year 2000 for defense programs.
Last June the House approved an amendment sponsored by Traficant authorizing
the use of
U.S. troops to assist the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs
Service in interdicting drugs at the border and apprehending
terrorists attempting to enter the country.
Under the Traficant amendment, which the House approved 242 to 180, the
troops could only be deployed at the request of the Attorney General or
Treasury Secretary. The amendment also required the troops to be under the
command and control of a civilian law enforcement official, and that they
receive law enforcement training.
The amendment was similar to measures Traficant attached to the defense bill
in 1997 and 1998. In
both those years the amendment was dropped from the bill in conference with
the Senate.
The compromise provision included in the conference report directs the
Secretary of Defense to prepare a plan to assign members of the armed
forces to assist the INS or Customs Service in responding to a threat to
national security posed by the entry into the U.S. of terrorists or drug
traffickers. Like the Traficant amendment, the provision directs the
Secretary to ensure that the plan does not violate the Posse Comitatus
Act and that military personnel assigned to such activity receive law
enforcement training. The Pentagon must submit a report to Congress
no later than May 1, 2000 that includes the troops on the border plan, a
risk-benefit analysis, recommendations on the functions most
appropriate to be performed by military personnel in support of civilian law
enforcement, and the total number of active and reserve armed service
personnel who participated in drug interdiction or other civilian law
enforcement support activities in fiscal year 1999.
"For more than five years I've been fighting to get the military more
involved in stopping drugs and terrorists from coming into America," said
Traficant. "This language marks an important step forward in better
securing our borders and protecting American citizens from the narco-
terrorists. If the Pentagon can send troops to places like Haiti to
vaccinate dogs, direct traffic and build homes, it certainly can send troops
to our border to stop drug traffickers and terrorists," added Traficant who
served as director of the Mahoning County (OH) drug program from 1971 to
1981, and Mahoning County sheriff from 1981 to 1985.
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CC: If our information is correct, this may also be in direct conflict with
Canadian and Mexican treaties signed by the U.S. which guaranteed
our borders would not be patrolled by the military.
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