Breaking BBC US confirms anti drug plane shot down in Columbia

by rebels...........more soon

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showing up on the 'ol body, 'eh?

... they're FREEDOM FIGHTERS

but did the "rebels" include Rush Limbaugh? :silly:

Hope no-one was killed, but that is probably too much to hope for.

This whole drug "war" is useless and silly anyway. 85 percent of all prisoners are in jail because of drugs, alcohol or drug related offenses. Most of them are there for possessing, dealing or stealing in order to buy the drugs.

If we had rehabs for all who want them, REAL drug education and legal drugs that could be bought for reasonable prices (which is more than posible, becaue the actual cost of the drug is miniminal, people wouldn't need to commit crimes to get drugs, wouldn't be any drug sellers (cause they couldn't meet the prices of the legal outlets), the legal outlets could tax the drugs to help pay for rehabs and education and you wouldn't need planes flying over columbia.

The ONLY way to alleviate the drug problem is to cut of demand....you will never cut off supply.

And that opinion comes from a former prosecutor who saw all the guys who went to jail for drug related crimes.

Oh, by the way, if someone does something illegal while on drugs, they should be prosecuted just as people who use legal drugs (alcohol) are.

Michael Levine is a veteran of 26 years of undercover work for four federal agencies. He is the recipient of many Justice and Treasury Department awards for hi s work undercover, including the International Narcotics Enforcement Officer Association's Octavio Gonzales Award. He is also the subject of Donald Goddard's book Undercover: The Secret Lives of a Federal Agent (Dell, 1990).

Joining the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) after discovering his brother's heroin addiction which eventually killed his brother, Levine was the most successful agent in DEA history. By 1977, he had made 3,000 drug arrests going undercover to set up buy and bust operations against New York City heroin and cocaine dealers. This led to his assignment as DEA station chief in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

By 1989, after having several of his operations stopped by higher ups who allowed his targets to get away, Levine quit the DEA in disgust. Levine then wrote the book Deep Cover (1990, Delacorte Press), describing his experiences that led to his leaving the DEA, exposing the government's phony "War on Drugs".

Levine tells a chilling story of treachery by members of his own agency, and the CIA, men Levine calls the ":suits" who he says use the War on Drugs as a cynical cover for covert foreign policy adventures. Levine says that since he began speaking out against the War on Drugs he has been threatened by high level DEA agents and has been the target of campaigns meant to discredit him.



He contributed a chapter to the excellent book,

that relies on mercenaries to spray dangerous toxins responsible for the deaths of cattle and people, and the destruction of the country's ecology. The so-called war on drugs is a cover for a counter-insurgency program designed to protect American business interests and the subservient Colombian ruling class.

Mercenaries are not protected by international law.

Just in time for the fall roll-out season.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3160350.stm


The United States has confirmed that an anti-drug plane that crashed in Colombia last month was shot down by hostile fire.



Rebels of the left-wing ELN said on Thursday that they had downed the US-owned aircraft, which crashed on 21 September.


A State Department spokeswoman in Washington told BBC News Online that the plane crashed in the Norte de Santandar region, killing its Costa Rican pilot.

"Preliminary information indicates it was struck by hostile ground fire," she said.