US Marines and the Drug War in Guatemala

[Peace Patriot]

2. The U.S. "war on drugs" is evil, evil, EVIL! There is NOTHING good about it!

It is not only corrupt and murderous, it is a FAILED POLICY. It's been going on for forty years now--at the cost of trillions of our tax dollars and tens of thousands of lives, whether by unjust imprisonment, or direct U.S. murder (such as the DEA agents who recently blew away some innocent Indigenous tribespeople boating down a creek in remote Honduras), or U.S. murder by proxy for certain aims (for instance, the thousands of labor union leaders and other advocates of the poor murdered by the U.S. funded/trained Colombia military, as prep for U.S. "free trade for the rich), or U.S. murder by proxy to create social mayhem (for instance, to disrupt civil life and leftist political organizing in Mexico) or dozens of other major harms, at home and abroad--and with all this expense of treasure and life, there is no letup in the flow of illicit drugs or the criminal organizations that control this revenue and commit other crimes as well (murder, terrorism, "protection" rackets and so forth). One such organization in Colombia put their mafia boss, Alvaro Uribe, in power as the president, with the help of the Bush Junta, the U.S. military and the U.S. "war on drugs."

It is a completely failed and egregiously evil policy. It DOES NOTHING to reduce crime; it fosters crime by orders of magnitude. And it is made to order for egregiously evil purposes--including the brutal displacement of FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their lands in Colombia (more prep for U.S. "free trade for the rich&quot , the "training" of "foreign persons" IN COLOMBIA, by Blackwater, "for use in Iraq and Afghanistan" (for which they received a slap-on-the-hand fine a couple of years ago), the militarization and smashing of democracy in Honduras, the use of cocaine-funded rightwing death squads to kill labor union leaders and others in Colombia, Honduras and probably elsewhere, the above-mentioned use of the "war on drugs" to criminalize entire communities and regions that are fighting the good fight on environmental and resource issues, and--one of my theories--the Bush Junta's use of the "war on drugs" in Colombia to consolidate the cocaine trade and better direct its trillion+ dollar revenue stream to U.S. banksters and others.

Totally failed. Totally corrupt. Totally evil. No redeeming features. None!

It should be no surprise that the Pentagon has a use for it.