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September 03, 2005
Greed Lured GIs Into Colombian Underworld
...because as the song Smuggler's Blues reminds us, "the lure of easy money has a very strong appeal". Indeed it does. From the AP story:
"U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Rosas was deployed to Colombia as part of the large U.S. mission to fight drug trafficking, but before long he found the lure of cocaine money too hard to resist.
He formed a smuggling ring involving U.S. soldiers that was eventually busted, deeply embarrassing U.S. officials.
A deposition obtained by The Associated Press shows Rosas' scheme was so amateurish that at one point he made a deal with a stranger he met in a Mexican nightclub bathroom and even saw a $140,000 payment vanish in the mail. The authenticity of Rosas' sworn statement was recently confirmed by a Colombian official familiar with the case."
And it seems the Colombian people are furious. Demonstrations fill the streets demanding US armed forces and DEA agents leave Colombia at once.
Once again we see why this war on the American underclass' recreational drugs only breeds corruption, violence, and the growth of the police-prison industrial complex. Our jails fill and our liberty diminishes.
America's elite's will never understand this ongoing tragedy either. At least not until they are the one's that need a joint to get gramps through his chemotherapy, or junior gets denied admission to college because he got caught with an ecstasy tab at party.
Posted by Ali Massoud at September 3, 2005 09:39 PM
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