D.E.A.: the NEW illegal world police force
This is maddening!
A story published by the New York Times today reveals the secretive and widely inappropriate GLOBAL actions of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Mind you, the DEA postures itself to be a domestic police force to enforce US drug laws (although their site mentions foreign and international policing efforts). Information recently leaked through Wikileaks tells us of various schemes involving wire-tapping and cover-ups for US political allies overseas caught up in drug busts. For instance, the President of Panama requested the DEA go after his political enemies asking for help with "tapping phones." Methinks the DEA must be pretty good if their skills are sought out internationally. In Guinea, where the nation's largest narcotics kingpin is the president's son, diplomats found out that before they busted him, all of the drugs were replaced with flour. Peculiar, isn't it? After all, the DEA has used this perverted sense of power to spray fields in South America in hopes of destroying cocaine crops.
As the article states: "The D.E.A. now has 87 offices in 63 countries and close partnerships with governments that keep the Central Intelligence Agency at arm’s length." Even at its beginnings, in 1974, the DEA had 43 foreign offices in 31 countries.
An obvious misuse of American tax-payer money, but what can we expect from an organization chartered on the faulty logic that free citizens must be protected from themselves? Complacency and a naive trust in the US government has allowed prohibitionist bureaucrats to police the world in the name of an impossible "drug-free society." Citizens of the United States and the world are paying the price.
It's time to end this bloated, corrupt and vile drug war bureaucracy and restore the liberties that a free society demands from its government. Tax-payer funded corrupt institutions like the DEA will never check itself; how can we expect a government with the ability to write its own rules to act in the people's interest? We must act swiftly to dismantle these government agencies that pose a real threat to personal liberty and world stability. When the US government is allowed to control multiple police forces worldwide, freedom everywhere is in grave danger.We are seeing the effects today.
A story published by the New York Times today reveals the secretive and widely inappropriate GLOBAL actions of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Mind you, the DEA postures itself to be a domestic police force to enforce US drug laws (although their site mentions foreign and international policing efforts). Information recently leaked through Wikileaks tells us of various schemes involving wire-tapping and cover-ups for US political allies overseas caught up in drug busts. For instance, the President of Panama requested the DEA go after his political enemies asking for help with "tapping phones." Methinks the DEA must be pretty good if their skills are sought out internationally. In Guinea, where the nation's largest narcotics kingpin is the president's son, diplomats found out that before they busted him, all of the drugs were replaced with flour. Peculiar, isn't it? After all, the DEA has used this perverted sense of power to spray fields in South America in hopes of destroying cocaine crops.
As the article states: "The D.E.A. now has 87 offices in 63 countries and close partnerships with governments that keep the Central Intelligence Agency at arm’s length." Even at its beginnings, in 1974, the DEA had 43 foreign offices in 31 countries.
An obvious misuse of American tax-payer money, but what can we expect from an organization chartered on the faulty logic that free citizens must be protected from themselves? Complacency and a naive trust in the US government has allowed prohibitionist bureaucrats to police the world in the name of an impossible "drug-free society." Citizens of the United States and the world are paying the price.
It's time to end this bloated, corrupt and vile drug war bureaucracy and restore the liberties that a free society demands from its government. Tax-payer funded corrupt institutions like the DEA will never check itself; how can we expect a government with the ability to write its own rules to act in the people's interest? We must act swiftly to dismantle these government agencies that pose a real threat to personal liberty and world stability. When the US government is allowed to control multiple police forces worldwide, freedom everywhere is in grave danger.We are seeing the effects today.
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