Image via WikipediaWe knew this was coming but it's still jarring to see and it is the dead wrong approach to combating Mexico's drug problems.
The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the U.S. military's role in the war on drugs, according to Obama administration officials.Joy Olson, executive director of the Washington Office on Latin America, which promotes democracy and human rights in the region, said the request lacks the accountability provisions...."They may say that this is for the National Guard, but the way it's written it is really a blank check for the Defense Department to do whatever it wants on counter-drug issues at the border -- and it doesn't say which side of the border,"
...The initiative, which was tucked into a supplemental budget request sent to Congress this month, has raised concerns over what some U.S. officials perceive as an effort by the Pentagon to increase its counter-narcotics profile through a large pot of money that comes with few visible requirements.
May 8 2009
Mexican troops needed in drug war: U.S. border czar
"This is an extraordinary situation, it's a national security situation that affects both sides," Alan Bersin, special representative for border affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, said at the Reuters Latin American Investment Summit in Washington.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent tens of thousands of troops to fight the cartels since he took office in late 2006, relying on the military because so many police are on the payroll of the drug lords. The central role of Mexico's army in the drugs war has raised concerns that it too could be corrupted, as well as allegations that troops are violating human rights.
Bersin, who served in a similar role in President Bill Clinton's administration, played down the risk of drug gangs gaining control of Mexican army units and said the level of cooperation between the U.S. and Mexican governments is unprecedented.
Why Is the U.S. Fighting Mexico's Drug War?by Laurence M. Vance, May 25, 2011 Vance Publications
The Mexican government deployed over 40,000 military troops last year dedicated to counter-narcotics activities in assistance of civilian law-enforcement authorities.
The former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, favors a different approach: legalization. Fox said that fear and violence is destroying Mexican society and that Mexico is losing young lives at an alarming rate as a result of the drug war. He looks to Portugal, which decriminalized all drugs ten years ago, as a model for a solution.
Regardless of how the government of Mexico decides to wage the war on drugs, one thing is for certain: the U.S. government should not be fighting Mexico’s drug war. But that is exactly what our government is doing.
An undisclosed numbers of U.S. law-enforcement agents work in Mexico. What we do know, thanks to an Associated Press investigation, is that the U.S. law-enforcement role in Mexico has surged.
The DEA has more than 60 agents in Mexico. There are in addition 40 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, 20 Marshal Service deputies, and 18 Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents, plus agents from the FBI, Citizen and Immigration Service, Customs and Border Protection, Secret Service, Coast Guard, and Transportation Safety Agency. The State Department also maintains a Narcotics Affairs Section. The United States has also provided helicopters, drug sniffing dogs, and polygraph units to screen law-enforcement applicants.
U.S. drones spy on cartel hideouts, and U.S. tracking beacons pinpoint suspect’s cars and phones. U.S. agents track beacons, trace cell-phone calls, read e-mails, study behavioral patterns of border incursions, follow smuggling routes, and process data about drug dealers, money launderers, and cartel bosses. According to a former Mexican anti-drug prosecutor, U.S. agents are not restricted from eavesdropping on anyone in Mexico by U.S. laws that require judicial authority as long as they are not on U.S. territory and not bugging American citizens.
According to William Wechsler, deputy assistant secretary of defense for counter-narcotics and global threats, the Department of Defense (DOD) will increase its counter-narcotics support for Mexico in fiscal year 2011 (Oct. 1, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2012) to over $50 million. This is a substantial increase from the $34.5 million spent in 2010 and the $34.2 million spent in 2009.
But in spite of all this assistance, President Calderón recently said that U.S. cooperation in the fight against drug cartels has been “insufficient.”
I note first of all that whether the government of Mexico chooses to engage in the folly known as the war on drugs is the business of Mexico and Mexicans. Just as no American would appreciate it if some foreign government tried to influence U.S. government policy, so the U.S. government should neither discourage nor encourage the Mexican government to fight a war on drugs or any other activity.
Secondly, if there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that authorizes the federal government to declare a war on drugs or fight crime, then there is certainly nothing in that document that authorizes the federal government to help Mexico or any other foreign country do those things.
Thirdly, even if Mexico’s war on drugs is just and right, the United States should not be funding it.Most of the violence and corruption in Mexico is because of the enormous black-market premium in the illicit drug trade. The high risk involved in selling illegal drugs means that drugs sell on the street for many times more than they would sell if drugs were legal.
The war on drugs in Mexico should be ended because it is a war on freedom by the Mexican government.....it has everything to do with individual liberty, private property, personal responsibility, and the free market.
And finally, the United States should just stop funding and participating in the Mexican drug war. It should likewise end the futile, unconstitutional, expensive, civil-liberties-eroding, financial-privacy-destroying, prison- crowding, and violence-fostering war on drugs.
Timeline: America's War on Drugs
July 1973: Nixon creates the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to coordinate the efforts of all other agencies.
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September 11, 2011, marked the largest terrorist attack on American soil, leaving nearly 3,000 dead. The event prompted the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was tasked with preventing such attacks in the future. Years later, the DHS is still a critical part of U.S. security, sporting a 2012 projected operating budget of $57 billion. This budget has helped the DHS become a job creation machine: According to DHS.gov, the Department employed nearly 216,000 people in 2010, making it the third largest Cabinet department in the nation behind the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.Some people believe a criminal should be punished simply because they have committed a crime against society. The price the criminal pays for committing the crime is the punishment.
Punish Crime, Not The Thought
The House has voted to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation. Aside from violating the Constitution's equal-protection clause, just what does this have to do with national defense?
When Thought Becomes a Crime
Last April, Christine Quinn, speaker of New York's City Council, honored members of the police department's Hate Crimes Task Force and jokingly said she looked forward to the day she could put them out of business. Since that day, the city seems to have gone on a hate-crime spree, culminating early this month with the torture of three men in the Bronx for purportedly being gay. Too soon, you might say, to disband the Hate Crimes Task Force. You would be wrong.
Almost as bad as hate crimes themselves is the designation. It is a little piece of totalitarian nonsense, a way for prosecutors to punish miscreants for their thoughts or their speech, both of which used to be protected by the Constitution (I am an originalist in this regard). It is not the criminal act alone that matters anymore but the belief that might have triggered the act. For this, you can get an extra five years or so in the clink.Hate-crime laws combine the touching conservative belief in the unerring efficacy of deterrence (which rises to its absurd and hideous apogee with executions) with the liberal belief that when it comes to particular groups, basic rights may be suspended. Thus we get affirmative action in which certain people are advantaged at the expense of other people based entirely on race or ethnicity. This tender feeling toward minorities must account for why civil liberties groups have remained so appallingly silent about hate-crimes legislation.
Prosecutors have vast powers. Most of them are decent, prudent people with a healthy respect for the law. But hate-crime laws arm the overly ambitious among them with permission to seek punishment for unpopular and often dreadful political views -- for thought.
( One part of British law that people 'don't get' is that the 'presumption of innocence' idea immunizes prosecutors from censure for unjust persecution. Taking away the need for any crime to have even been committed based upon speculation takes the power of the state to unlimited heights of freedom to abuse the people. Think that's 'over the top' ? )
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The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
( No Canadian familiar with forced schooling of 'Indians' in 'religious' schools complete with sexual abuse { there's a cemetery in this burg for kids that died in a rebranded prison here } can claim to not know the implications.
What about the next story ? )
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( Touching, no ? Now recall there was no separation between Afghan's home and Pak's home - nor are there any such tribes - until Westerners placed the Durand Line as a separation. Similarity comes to mind : Korea, Vietnam...even China/Formosa. Taken to its logical conclusion, one might even think of the 'Indian Reserve' system. )
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Blackwater, which gained international attention when four of its contractors were killed in Fallujah in 2004, was on a contract with Homeland Security, which was at first denied and then confirmed by the government. There is some dispute as to whether these contractors are providing private security or general law enforcement;it appears that those who have been curious about the operation of security contracting companies in Iraq over the past several years will now have the opportunity to watch them work here in the United States. And, given that the Iraqi government has recently cracked down on security contractors playing loose with the law, the New Orleans market may prove to be highly attractive. Indeed, some have referred to the contracting bonanza in New Orleans as "New Oraq," where contractors can flee now that money and patience is running out in Iraq.FEMA - The Secret Government
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Recent legislation attempting to legitimize the use of internment camps to detain U.S. citizens in the event of an uprising or civil unrest has many people.FEMA Concentration and Internment Camps
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This was debunked as an 'internet rumor' before Rudolph Guiliani testified at the 9/11 commission. Why did FEMA deny this fact?( Now, you might note my disclaimer about prurient content at this time. The following is deliberately designed to be disturbing - which is appropriate for a warning about the path we are on.)
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