Reply #8: Let's hope Evo and the Bolivians inspire the same here--END THE WAR ON DRUGS! [View All]

Next to the war on Iraq, the corrupt, failed, murderous U.S. "war on drugs" is the biggest war profiteer/police-state boondoggle ever conceived. It is the fallback boondoggle for whenever the other Forever War takes a holiday for a year or two, and a major contributor to the Financial 9/11 the Bushwhacks just pulled off: four simultaneous wars--the war on Iraq, the war on Afghanistan, the war on "terror" and the "war on drugs"--with multiple tax cuts for the rich, and for the traitorous outsourcers of jobs and manufacturing--so that all four wars are paid for by working people and the poor, who will be paying for this unto the 7th generation. The Bushwhacks are larding Colombia alone with $6 BILLION for the "war on drugs," with no impact on the cocaine reaching our streets, and with rightwing death squads, closely tied to the Colombian military and government, murdering hundreds of union leaders, small peasant farmers, political leftists, their children, human rights workers and journalists, and running their own drug operations, while pretending to fight it.

And that's just Colombia. Then there's Peru, and Mexico, and dozens of other countries where billions of our tax dollars are being used to support rightwing governments, militarize societies and oppress the poor.

In South America, one country after another is rejecting this horribly corrupt U.S. interference. Ecuador is kicking the U.S. military base out of the country, when it's lease expires next year. That base at Manta, Ecuador, has been used to spy on South American countries, and to directly participate in Colombia's bombing/raid on Ecuador earlier this year, which almost started a war. Paraguay's new president has said he wants the U.S. military out of his country. The president of Brazil has said that he considers the Bushites' reconstitution of the U.S. 4th Fleet in the Caribbean to be a threat to Brazil's coastal oil reserves, and it is obviously a threat to Venezuela's Zulia oil coast, where fascists have been plotting in insurrection, like the one the Bushwhacks instigated recently in Bolivia. to secede from Venezuela and take the oil with them.

The U.S. "war on drugs" is not only an horrendously costly boondoggle, it provides military bases and surveillance for WAR PLANNING, and for destabilizing and toppling democratic governments. And the South Americans know perfectly well that this is one purpose of it. Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, said he would agree to U.S. boots on Ecuadoran soil when the U.S. permits Ecuador to put military base in Miami. How absurd is that, eh? "Enough of this crap!" is the predominant view in South America. They are pursuing a sensible drug policy, which makes a distinction between coca leaves and cocaine, and which is aimed at stopping drug lords, gangs and weapons trafficking, not criminalizing, punishing and oppressing the poor. We should do the same here. It shouldn't BE a war. It should be a healing. And I would go further: legalize all recreational drugs, take the profit out of it, and that will be that. No more gangs. No more drug-related crime. The "war on drugs" is the stupidest fucking policy ever designed by government to line the pockets of fascists!