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  Spraying Blitz Cripples Colombian Drug Crop
Posted by FoM on July 30, 2001 at 08:10:11 PT
By Juan O. Tamayo 
Source: Miami Herald 

science It is harvest time in the mint-green hills of southern Putumayo state, the epicenter of Colombia's coca cultivation. But coca farmers such as Gabriel Nieto are in no mood to celebrate.

The price of what everyone here calls simply ``the merchandise'' has plunged following a U.S.-backed aerial defoliation campaign in December and January that turned huge expanses of coca bushes into dead brown stalks.

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Comment #9 posted by freedom fighter on July 31, 2001 at 17:44:51 PT
Doc is right..
Just recently Colorado has the biggest bust ever..

250 pounds of snow..

price of buying a 8ball is the same as ever..

ff

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Comment #8 posted by Dr. Ganj on July 30, 2001 at 18:18:48 PT
Still Plenty of Blow
The price is low, and there's plenty around. That tells me all I need to know.
No matter what these pigs try and do to stop the flow of drugs, it will never work.
With that fact in hand, what should be done? You bet, decriminalize cocaine. If people want to snort coke, let them. We have no business spraying poison that could affect other plants, and the health of innocent people.
What's the alternative? Keep pretending the U.S. can stop world drug production? Yeah, right.



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Comment #7 posted by jorma nash on July 30, 2001 at 15:17:25 PT
Harm Maximization
FoM (comment #3): if this does happen,
the NarcoJihad considers it a beneficial side effect.
since you are already ingesting moral poison,
adding a little physical poison serves you right, they figure.

Just like criminalizing bongs or vaporizers.
They reduce the danger of the smoke
which is supposed to be part of the justification
of declaring War on You and Me in the first place.

listen to the contempt with which they dismiss
Harm Minimization policies;
they obviously prefer Harm Maximization.




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Comment #6 posted by Rambler on July 30, 2001 at 12:14:55 PT
Infomercials
Right on Dr Nemo.The papers,and the journalists are on the
payroll.The money comes from the various black holes of the
ondcp and friends.Did anyone seriously believe that the ondcp
stopped funding propaganda after their exposure in Salon?


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Comment #5 posted by kaptinemo on July 30, 2001 at 10:40:06 PT:

More "brown, smelly stuff" from the Herald
Friends, it would seem that the Miami Herald has pimped itself to the DrugWarriors:

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/10/thread10418.shtml

And here is Mr. tamayo's email address:
jtamayo@herald.com

The question is, has has Mr. Tamayo actually set foot on Colombian soil? ? Has anyone from the Miami Herald done so? Or are are they merely parroting an AP or Reuters McJournalism designed by a former(?) CIA mouthpiece?

Have a look, here:
Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v09/v09p305_Marchetti.html

The CIA
http://serendipity.nofadz.com/cia.html

CIA:The Use of Journalists
http://www.alexconstantine.50megs.com/the_cia_and.html

from the above link:

"For roughly ten years, between 1967 and 1977, Americans learned something of their secret history. From the perspective of twenty additional years, the results were mixed and much remains secret. But it's scary to think of where we might be now if the counterculture had never happened.

During the last half of those ten years, sandwiched between Watergate coverage on one end, and Congressional investigations of the CIA on the other, the media showed some interest in examining their own intelligence connections. The first shoe was dropped by Jack Anderson in late August, 1973, when he revealed that Seymour Freidin, head of the Hearst bureau in London,
was a CIA agent. Freidin, already in the news because the Republicans paid him $10,000 in 1972 to spy on the Democrats, confirmed Anderson's story. At that point William Colby, the new CIA director, was asked by the New York Times and the Washington Star-News if any of their staff were on the CIA payroll.

I wonder if Mr. Tamayo is "double-dipping" like so many of his journalistic friends have, at the CIA's watering hole?
James (Scotty) Reston of the NYT was satisfied with an evasive answer, but when the Star-News editorial board met with Colby, they made some progress. The other shoe dropped with an article by Oswald Johnston on November 30: the Star-News learned from an "authoritative source" (Colby) that the CIA had some three dozen American journalists on its payroll. Johnston named only one -- Jeremiah O'Leary -- who was one of their own diplomatic correspondents. (The Star-News stopped publishing in 1981, at which point O'Leary joined Reagan's national security staff. From 1982 until his death in 1993, he was with the Washington Times.)
Hmmmm. Given the CIA's long involvement in the Miami area, and that so many journalists have had very discreet paychecks sent to them for moonlighting as CIA mouthpieces, perhaps Mr. Tamayo has a reason for such cheerleading support for poisoning babies.


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Comment #4 posted by dddd on July 30, 2001 at 09:14:37 PT
paraquat
I've wondered the same thing about contaminated cocaine,
but I think that the process that goes into producing cocaine
would quite likely rinse off the glyphosphate.

Sam Adams is right on about the propaganda thing.It's the
same as all reporting on the drug war,,,articles are
produced to support both success and failure.One article
will say the drug crop is crippled,,the next one will say
that there is much more spraying needed....Todays "news",
is no longer the product of a free press.....dddd


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Comment #3 posted by FoM on July 30, 2001 at 09:00:29 PT
Question
I was wondering if people got contaminated Cocaine here in the states what harm can be done by ingesting Glyphosate. I wondered about that and Paraquat years ago when they were spraying marijuana with that substance in Mexico. I sure hope they stopped that.


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Comment #2 posted by Sam Adams on July 30, 2001 at 08:57:50 PT
Heil Hitler!
wow......pure propaganda. Really scary to see this stuff. Let's see if it engendered the sought-after reaction, "Gee, we really hit those cocaine cartels hard. That'll really knock down the amount of cocaine in the world. Good job, US military!"

Too bad the reality is that after year 1 of Plan Columbia, the total amount of coca harvested increased 11 percent. The year before, it had increased 22 percent. We may have ever-so-slightly slowed the INCREASE in production for one year. So even though some crops in some areas were killed, some buyers are scared and some labs are shutting down, all our efforts are like firing a kid's slingshot at a charging grizzly bear.

Which makes this yellow journalism article a SHAMEFUL piece of propaganda. It's like the rest of the Western world is moving forward and we're moving backward, culturally. The plan is working perfectly....keep everyone dumbed-down, kids watching MTV, mesmerized by big tits and trying to imitate rappers, Mom & Dad working harder & harder to buy the stuff they need at WalMart, Home Depot, and Circuit City...then the government can keep growing out of control each year, and law enforcement and the military can go use their fancy toys on poor brown people in the U.S. and around the world! And just pay for some moron to sit in the White House to preside over the whole thing! Yippee!

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Comment #1 posted by Ethan Russo, MD on July 30, 2001 at 08:39:12 PT:

Predictions
The price of cocaine on the streets in the USA will stay low. Overall cocaine production may decrease in some areas only to be replaced with more than enough in other areas. The spraying will not stop the Colombian insurgency or solve the issues. Poor farmers will suffer and die. American corporations will continue to profit.

Plan Colombia is a dangerous and expensive farce.

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