Reply #2: Yeah, I think you are right. It will be ratified. The fascist thugs running Colombia [View All]

know where their boodle is coming from--$7 BILLION in U.S. military aid, and "free trade for the rich" protected by the U.S. military. They've used the U.S. "war on drugs" to kill thousands of trade unionists and other community organizers and political leftists, and to drive some 5 MILLION peasant farmers off their lands, giving the land to the RICH, BIG, PROTECTED drug cartels, and to Monsanto, Chiquita, Occidental Petroleum, Exxon Mobil et al, and as a rewards to rightwing political operatives.

Democratic conditions do not exist in Colombia. State terror exists for the poor majority. So there is little chance that Colombians, most of whom DON'T WANT the U.S. military in their country, will be heard. I think what we may be seeing in this ruling in Colombia is the kind of democracy cosmetics that Hillary Clinton inflicted on Honduras--where rightwing death squads are still murdering leftist activists. Crossed T's and dotted I's--something that looks like democracy, that can be paraded as democracy--but that is, in truth, the opposite of democracy: rule by the rich elite, like we have here. Fascism. In a fascist state, the poor majority does not get proper representation. That is the whole point of the system. Colombia's legislature, which has been as corrupt as everything else in Colombia, won't likely defend their country's sovereignty against U.S. military occupation. They will, instead, cross the T's, dot the I's and collect their various paychecks.

I can hope otherwise--just as I can hope for the U.S. Congress to rid our health system of the insurance vultures. But when you look at the reality of the situation, there isn't a chance in hell that that could happen--until we have a democracy revolution here like they have been having in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua and other countries. And neither is the Colombian legislature going to act in the interests of their people as long as the U.S. is propping up a fascist state.