Weblog Entry - 12/12/2002: "800 MILLION DOLLARS; EVERYBODY MAKING MONEY ON THE BACKS OF USA CITIZENS: Int'l Narcotics and Law Enforcement"

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12/12/2002 "800 MILLION DOLLARS; EVERYBODY MAKING MONEY ON THE BACKS OF USA CITIZENS: Int'l Narcotics and Law Enforcement"

The Assistant Sec of State in charge of Int'l Narcotics and Law Enforcement testified in front of the House Govt Reform Committee.
17 MILLION DOLLARS PAID TO THE DRUG COMPANIES for spray to eradicate heroin poppies in Columbia.
Then there is money for training pilots (take 6 or more months),money for airplanes parts, "premium payments to contractors", the military personnel and their bases, and the other countries like Equator----
The payments to families when they shoot down and kill missionaries and innocent pilots - --
Payment for training of the kill pilots.
They lost more aircraft in Columbia then they lost in desert storm.
731 Million dollars total. 439 Million for Columbia;--- the rest for Peru, Equator, and Bolivia.
SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY ONE MILLION DOLLARS AND THEY SAY THERE IS NO MONEY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY.
Republican Mica wants more money so they can go into Mexico and do the same thing there - the drug companies favored by the Bush family will make a killing.
There are additionally not included in the above budget, the salaries of DEA agents and their expenses, and their administrator's salaries and their expenses.
Then there is the MICRO HERBICIDE PROGRAM that Rep John Mica Republican from corrupt Florida wants more money to implement.
BUT NO MONEY TO EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR UNEMPLOYED US CITIZENS.
ONE OTHER WITNESS TESTIFIED. Adam Isacson, Senior Associate for the Center for International Policy.
Democracts requested this witness yet none of them showed up for the hearing to ask questions.
And they wonder why they are in the minority.
Herbicide/fumigation is ineffective - an annual that grows in 120 days - is hard to find.

Spraying since 1976 coca in Columbia has tripled production.
When crops are sprayed, the income is taken away from farmers - no income replaces it - the farmers join the guerrillas. Opposition hardens.
Herbicides destroy the eco-system - here Republican John Mica laughed, and defended herbicides.
Isacson continued ---- Replacement industries is the solution not spraying.
He shows that securing a pipeline is the real goal.

Ginny Rose Predicts: This is Viet Nam all over again - this is the way it started - no one paid any attention - that is the way it will end.

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