Exporting DEAmocracy

DdC · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:05 am Post subject: Exporting DEAmocracy

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!

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Murder Weed

http://tinyurl.com/COPsAgainstGanjawar

Kill the Messenger

http://tinyurl.com/CrazyCalvinaFay

Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage

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Demonizing Drugs

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**Ferre** · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:44 am Post subject:

As I said many times before; The USA's number 1 export product is modern day fascism.

...that, and evangelical Christianity. (which, as history clearly proves, always goes hand-in-hand with fascism.)
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DdC · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:02 am Post subject: Blessed is the Police State?

"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

Video of the arrest can be seen here

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

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"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

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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."

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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.

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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.

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Ron Paul on medical marijuana.

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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

"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

WomansWackyVengeanceUnion

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

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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.

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Souder Fungus Déjà Vu!

US PRAISES THAI DRUG WAR!

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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."

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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."

Goddess Herb · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:56 am Post subject:

And people wonder why I'm terrified of my government and feel like I'm living in a police state. Rolling Eyes

I guess you wouldn't be scared either if you didn't believe it was really happening.
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**Brother Adam** · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject:

I'm not scared, and we ARE living in a police state. They can kick your door down any time they feel like it and YOU will be the aggressor, the instigator, the "suspect". You aren't even human. Just a "suspect". Heaven forbid you should be an "armed suspect" in your own home because they are sure to shoot you. America is not just a police state where martial law is meted out regularly under the guise of "helping" people in natural disasters, but America also now lives under noahid law, of which more will be implemented as the days pass.
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Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.

Goddess Herb · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject:

I agree, we are living in a police state!

I'm glad for you that you are not scared. I am personally dealing with issues like Generalized anxiety, ADHD, Bipolar and PTSD which makes it difficult for me not to feel the terror being used to "keep me in my place". Being killed for my beliefs is not what I'm most afraid of as IMO there are things that are far worse than death and this country employs them as a means to gain compliance.
Blessed be brother~
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DdC · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: Toys for SWATs

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

scooby doobie doo · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:17 am Post subject:

its not just the USA that has adopted these stances either the UK also is fast becoming a police state!!! however there is a delicious irony that ALL of this was born from the country that claims to be "the land of the free" dont we think? Wink

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