DdC

Exporting democracy... or something
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Vietnam: Wearing black helmets and police T-shirts, their handguns levelled, a drug raid team inches along the outside of a compound, throws open the door, spots a man with a gun and opens fire.



With the pop-pop-pop of a Glock 9mm an armed suspect is shot and hits the floor as seven counter-narcotics officers fan out and clear the adjoining rooms, checking for any more armed and hostile drug runners.

The training operation over, the team leader had some stern words for his men.

"We must aim better and make every shot count so no one is injured unnecessarily and we go home safe to our families," he bellowed as some of the law enforcement officers stared at their boots. [...]

This Hanoi paintball op is part of a US-Vietnamese training exercise in which Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents pass on some of the skills of their dangerous trade to their local counterparts.

Yes, this is what we, as Americans, have to share with the world. How to bust down doors and shoot the residents. (No indication as to whether they had workshops on shooting dogs.)

At DEA, our mission is to fight drug trafficking in order to make drug abuse the most expensive, unpleasant, risky, and disreputable form of recreation a person could have.
-- Donnie Marshall, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

Authoritarians

This is part of our global contribution. The drug war has become the preferred foreign policy approach toward controlling much of the world. We export our drug war, our tactics, and, most of all, our DEA.
(Now with offices in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Canada, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Islands, Haiti, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Thailand, Mongolia, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caldeonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna, Western Samoa, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Kiribati, Nauru, Philippines, Burma, South Korea, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Laos, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Bahrain, Chad, Dijibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Russia, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Western Sahara, Channel Islands, Ireland, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Azores, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Gibraltar, Portugal, Principality of Andorra, Spain, Spanish Enclaves (Ceuta & Melilla), Algeria, France, Monaco, Morocco, Tunisia, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Slovak Republic, Ukraine.)

With that kind of presence, we insure that the rest of the world follows our lead. And if they don't toe the line in the way we want to fight the drug war, we threaten to cut foreign aid, or in the case of Venezuela, which kicked out the DEA for spying, we accuse them of allowing drug trafficking.

Most countries are hesitant to buck the system, and would rather appear eager to participate

Phnom Penh: The National Authority for Combating Drugs has asked the US Embassy to create an office for the enforcement of the anti-drug law in Cambodia, in order to train the Cambodian anti-drugs authorities in different skills, and in order to help them to combat drugs worldwide.

Why can't we go back to exporting Big Macs and "Baywatch"? Sure, they may not have been very fulfilling, but at least they generally didn't kill you in the middle of the night.

US PRAISES THAI DRUG WAR!



Common Ground Common Sense > Kathmandu and the Black Prince

Murder Weed

Cops Against the Drug War - Topix

Kill the Messenger

The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum - Topix

Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage

Wallstreet's Spontaneous Abortionists - Cannabis Culture Forums

Demonizing Drugs

Woman’s Christian Vengeance Union - Cannabis Culture Forums

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patriot

Oh yeah, Adolf W. Hitler

All this while the C.I.A. is heavily involved in drug trafficking with no fear of arrest.

Got to protect those oil companies ya know.

Remember, Daddy was former C.I.A. Director and then became drug czar under Raygun. I truly believe the Bush family hates the Amerikaan people.

Remember, Grandaddy funded Hitler.

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A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government.

We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler

Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009

Hostile

Plus he was reportedly involved in a plot to assassinate FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in America.

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It's getting better. It's getting better all the time.
- Richard Starkey

Dozer McDozer

i remember some quote by ghw bush where he says if the american people knew what the bush family has done to this country, we'd be lynched in the street

sorry i can't find where i got that from, but it stayed in my head, me though, i wouldn't want to see them lynched, thats a little too easy

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Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance. - Albert Einstein

Properly trained, man can be a dog's best friend - i'll get his name once i get book back

Hostile

"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched."
- George Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter

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It's getting better. It's getting better all the time.
- Richard Starkey

DdC

George, you're the one destroying the country...

Is it in any way a "theory" that the one, single name that can be directly linked to the Third Reich, the US military industrial complex, Skull and Bones, Eastern Establishment good ol' boys, the Illuminati, Big Texas Oil, the Bay of Pigs, the Miami Cubans, the Mafia, the FBI, the JFK assassination, the New World Order, Watergate, the Republican National Committee, Eastern European fascists, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the United Nations, CIA headquarters, the October Surprise, the Iran/Contra scandal, Inslaw, the Christic Institute, Manuel Noriega, drug-running "freedom fighters" and death squads, Iraqgate, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, the blood of innocents, the savings and loan crash, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the "Octopus," the "Enterprise," the Afghan mujaheddin, the War on Drugs, Mena (Arkansas), Whitewater, Sun Myung Moon, the Carlyle Group, Osama bin Laden and the Saudi royal family, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States, is: George Herbert Walker Bush.

Shadow of the Swastika

Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas

William Randolph Hearst and Reefer Madness

Kucinich Intros Impeachment of Boosh C-SPAN

Boosh

George Bush:The Unauthorized Biography

Bush Family Values

Bush Crimes Against Humanity

Bush-CIA-DEA-DRUG SMUGGLING

THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE

The Hitler Project
Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy

Dubya: The real Slim Shady? (salon.com)

Dozer McDozer

hahahahhahahah hes so dumb tho!11!!11

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Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance. - Albert Einstein

Properly trained, man can be a dog's best friend - i'll get his name once i get book back

Hostile

He's about as dumb as a crocodile is sympathetic.

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It's getting better. It's getting better all the time.
- Richard Starkey

stateofkane

The Bush family doesn't hate the American people. They just love money and power. They are so arrogant and out of touch, that it appears to the citizens that they are actually trying to screw everyone over for fun. The Iraq war defined the Bush presidency. Bush doesn't regret one decision he (Cheney) made during the last 8 years.

DdC

"They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet."
-- TIMOTHY LEARY

DEA terrorizes Los Angeles next with their 'museum' exhibit
DWR: Tuesday, September 2, 2008

DEA Targets America

400 agents x $60/hr...

Journey for Justice Pedaling for Pot

"The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year."
-- Jimmy Carter, 1990

From DEA Deadly Birdseed To Power To The People

Target DEAth Merchants



"The free press is the mother of all our liberties
and of our progress under liberty”
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

September 01, 2008
Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
ST. PAUL, MN— Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. continued...

Update: Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar Released After Illegal Arrest at RNC



Bad research makes headlines by Reverend Damuzi (21 Mar, 2005)

Anti-pot propaganda 14 Mar, 2005
US feds are addicted to making up fake anti-pot news.

How The Canadian Media Import Counterfeit News From The States.
The Drug Czar Lies and Even The Best Papers Don"t Check the Facts.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
"But it is time to acknowledge that the nation's news organizations have played a large and unappetizing role in deceiving the public".
--The New York Times Read Full Story...

Front Page Fantasy: The New York Times Pushes Fact Free Journalism
Supposedly About "BC Bud"
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
This article was cited in the Canadian Parliament as proof that Canada cannot even decriminalize cannabis because of US opposition, "causing costly cross-border delays." Lies have consequences, which is why people lie.
Read Full Story...

Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.

Drug War Zealots Pressure AARP To Kill MMJ Story

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini, December 8, 1935
contributing to the "London Sunday Express"

Statement on Sen. Obama’s Vice President Selection
from Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance Network

Who is Sarah Palin?

McCain Should Know The Truth

300000 Iraq & Afghan Vets Suffer PTSD & Depression

Many Veterans are the Enemy of the Bush D.E.A.th War

"No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. ....the 63% of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm them unless they united, HOWEVER TEMPORARY, to stamp it out."
-William L. Shirer, author;
"The rise and fall of the Third Reich" p.259

Wall street's Spontaneous Abortionists

Kathmandu and the Black Prince

Toxic Drift: Monsanto and the Drug War in Colombia
Plan Colombian WoD Deception and Murder
The Real Reason for US Aid to Colombia

Copter Stoppers * mirror
Massacres are blamed on so-called "paramilitaries" rather than the regular army, this is a distinction without a difference. paramilitaries are just an "extension of the state. The paramilitaries act as a glove so the military leaves no fingerprints on the crime." "To say that our sending military aid to Colombia is not promoting these massacres is fantasy," "It is like a go-ahead to the death squads of Colombia."



THE POLICE STATE COMETH by Rep.Ron Paul

Police State USA - Part One
rense.com By Amy Worthington 3-9-6
Big Brother's Most Cool Tool
The more people who courageously resolve to stand firm against this mighty beast, the safer we will be until we get through what is hopefully the final fascist interlude in human history.

The War on Drugs Is a War on Doctors
Ron Paul on the federal assault on people in pain and their physicians.

The State vs. Doctors
Dr. Ron Paul's address to the graduating class at the University of Texas Medical School-Houston.

Politicizing Pain
Ron Paul on medical marijuana.

Congressman Ron Paul: Archives

DEA implements US police state

Famous Nimbin
Australia Hemp Bar Forced to Close After Eight Years of Activism

"We Have a Police State Here"
Says Prince of Pot: Whitehorse, Yukon News

No Extradition for Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey, or Greg Williams

DdC

"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts -
not to overthrow the Constitution,
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Kill the Messenger

Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage

Demonizing Drugs

“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither”
- Thomas Jefferson

COPsAgainstGanjawar

CrazyCalvinaFay

WomansWackyVengeance Union

Fascists Piss Tasters



Con Flicts of Interest Bush Barthwell & Drugs

Health regulators have sent an uncompromising message that smoked cannabis will not be approved for use by MS sufferers, leaving the way open for GW's under-the-tongue spray version of the drug.

Former Deputy Drug Czar Andrea Barthwell is the new spokesperson for getting GW Pharmaceuticals' Sativex approved for use in the United States. Bayer and GW Pharmaceuticals announce marketing agreement on pioneering new cannabis-based treatment.

"The people who are advancing marijuana as a medicine are perpetuating a cruel hoax that exploits our compassion for the sick. They are using patients' pain and suffering in an attempt to change America's drug control policy. Marijuana is a crude plant product that most definitely is not a medicine."
Andrea Barthwell - Former Deputy Drug Czar (Bush II)

US Government Patents Medical Pot


Cannabis extract made by Parke, Davis & Co. circa 1910
GanjaExtract

Souder Orders to FDA Backfiring!
Boy, I wonder if anyone at the FDA foresaw this. The FDA statement against medical marijuana has been received around the nation (and even the world), as if NASA had proclaimed that the earth is flat.

F.D.A. Misses Medical Benefit From Marijuana

A Lie College Students Might Want To Tell (Souder Thread)

Souder Fungus Déjà Vu!

US PRAISES THAI DRUG WAR!

Drug War Bodies Are Piling Up in Mexico

Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban

Power is sweet; it is a drug,
the desire for which increases with a habit.
-- Bertrand Russell, 1951

Stop SWAT-Style Drug Raids
Ask the U.S. Conference of Mayors to support an end to violent, SWAT-style police raids like the one that left a D.C.-area mayor handcuffed in his boxer shorts while his family's two dogs bled to death at his feet.



Blessed is the Police State

Blessed are the Peacemakers
DWR: Pete Guither Monday, September 1, 2008

Radley Balko notes another community that has gone ultra-militarized (and, as he says, "Who wants to set an over under on the first time they use this thing to bust a pot dealer?")

Police Mag (March, 2008)

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The Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff's Department has acquired an armored personnel carrier complete with a turret-mounted .50-caliber belt-fed machine gun for its Special Response Team.

Sheriff Leon Lott told the Columbia State newspaper that he hoped the vehicle, named "The Peacemaker," would let the bad guys know that his officers are serious.

"We don't look at this as a killing machine," Lott told the paper. "It's going to keep the peace. We hope the fact that we have this is going to save lives. When something like this rolls up, it's time to give up."

Of course, such an article really demands a picture. I was looking to see if they had an image of the APC, but I didn't expect this dramatic pose (although I should have -- they sure love to pose with their military toys).

Sheriff Lott stated that the name selected from the entries will be "The Peacemaker" because that is the APC's purpose and the bible refers to law enforcement in Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God".

Wow.

You know, I was raised studying the Bible and had a special interest in the Sermon on the Mount. In all my reading of the beatitudes, I never once imagined Christ astride an Armored Personnel Carrier complete with a turret-mounted .50-caliber belt-fed machine gun, surrounded by apostles in SWAT gear, as he said to the crowd "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."

Anger Spills Over at Killing of Kathryn Johnston

Reefer Madness the Burning of Rainbow farm

OiNkDeCePtion Is Flying Blind

It's back... Florida Reinfested With McKillum

Q. How many states have a life sentence for marijuana crimes?

A. In at least thirteen states you can get a life sentence for marijuana.


They had a contest to name the armored personnel carrier
and decided on "The Police State."

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Smaerd

Those are some long posts Ddc but everything I clicked on was worth reading.

DdC

Toys for SWATs
Friday, October 10, 2008

Remember the Peacemaker? This is the Peacekeeper.



Don't they just love their war toys?

Via Radley.

Trust us

The contempt for the rule of law, the abandonment of Constitutional principles, the foundation-laying toward an extreme and entrenched Authoritarian government -- these are things that drug policy reform advocates have seen happening for many years in conjunction with the drug war. The ground work was laid well before 9/11. continued...

400 agents x $60/hr...

We're going to take your money now. Trust us
Asset Seizure

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