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Edited on Wed Jul-09-08 03:42 PM by Peace Patriot
any possibility that the truth about Uribe/Bush's behavior--and their egregiously cynical (and, indeed, murderous) maneuvering around the hostage situation, over this past year--will ever be revealed. There are caverns and dungeons of godawful horror holding secrets about Uribe and the Bush Cartel in Colombia. Dreadful tortures and murders (chainsawing union leaders and throwing their body parts into mass graves, slitting children's throats on suspicion of their parents being leftists), thousands of innocents killed, a culture of fascist death threats against human rights workers and journalists, major cocaine and weapons trafficking, gross misuse of $5.5 BILLION in U.S. military aid, assassination plots (and war plans) against neighboring leftist leaders, and on and on. Bush and Uribe are two of a kind--the nasty, conscienceless tools of powerful global corporate predator interests. Fifty Uribe cohorts, including family members, are under investigation in Colombia, by courageous prosecutors and judges, for death squad, drug trafficking and election fraud activity. Some have been convicted and are in jail. Uribe himself is under investigation for participating in a death squad meeting--and, recently, for having bribed legislators to extend his term of office. This, and the Mancuso and other extraditions, are not really extraditions from Colombia to the U.S. They are PERSONAL extraditions, from Uribe to Bush, or, rather, from Uribe's mafia operation to Bush's mafia operation. Justice? Ha! There is no justice in this. It is Uribe saying to Bush, 'Take care of my problem for me.'
Obviously, these FARC rebels know some things--just like Mancuso does. They will likely be tortured, subdued, silenced, and maybe 'disappeared' in U.S./Bush custody, more than likely in Guantanamo Bay, but it could just as well be done in the U.S. federal prison system, or U.S. military prisons. I fear for the lives of all of these extradited prisoners. Here, they have no support system; if they are granted attorneys, they will be attorneys who are not as familiar with the culture and language of the prisoners. But under the new lawless rule of George Bush, they can simply vanish, and we would have no right to know how or why.
The purposes of international fascist "anti-terror" projects, fostered by the Bushites and their global corporate predator sponsors, are made clearer by these extraditions of potential whistleblowers from Colombia to the U.S. Disorientation of the prisoner is one effect. Removal of the prisoner from a familiar venue. Denial of whatever rights and support networks he may have at home. Protection rackets are in play--in this case, Bush protecting Uribe--and protecting his own criminal networks, using his executive fiat acts, such as designating anyone he chooses as an "enemy combatant." Bush/Cheney political control of the Dept. of Justice, the FBI, etc. They have many Bushbot plants doing their bidding--after eight years to purge or intimidate anyone who felt loyal to the rule of law. And ain't it ironic that the U.S.A. is now the country where it is easiest to bully, intimidate, torture and kill any potential whistleblowers, and anyone who inconveniences Bush or their pals anywhere in the world.
I had not perceived the hostage saga as a Bush Cartel cleanup operation. But this extradition makes me wonder. I think I understand how they tried to set Hugo Chavez up for a diplomatic disaster, with dead hostages--and, when that didn't work, had to stop his negotiations with the FARC (which the treacherous Uribe had requested him to undertake, and which had achieved the release of six hostages, without conditions) by blowing away the FARC hostage negotiator and 24 other people, in their sleep--with ten U.S. "smart bombs--on the eve of FARC's release of Betancourt (March 1 of this year). Then they set up this rescue stunt, with a $20 million ransom (if that proves true--and, since the prelim to it was a phony accusation that Chavez had given FARC money, I presume that that accusation was prelim cover for this actual payment--a typical Bushite media ploy)--all this so that Uribe gets the credit. (Notice how the conservative president of France, Sarkovy, yesterday praised Chavez for his help. I was glad to see Sarkovy not toe the Bushite line. They fucked him over, a couple of times, too.)
But I hadn't thought of the crap that Bush needs to cover up in Colombia, before he leaves office. Cocaine trafficking and assassination plots, at minimum. FARC members could have knowledge of that and more. Also, apparently, Uribe doesn't have as much control of the justice system in Colombia, as Bush does here. Colombian prosecutors and judges are after Uribe's ass. Mancuso was one of their star witnesses! (--now 'disappeared' into the Bushite DoJ). These FARC members could at least expose the $20 million ransom and the farce of the Betancourt "rescue." But in the U.S. they can be deemed "terrorists" by Bush and silenced.
I'm thinking that the hostage saga has an aspect to it that we don't fully understand yet. In Miami, we have this ridiculous prosecution of two Venezuelans and a Uruguayan (the notorious "suitcase full of money" saga, out of Miami) for "failing to register with the Attorney General as agents of a foreign government." According to the Bushbot prosecutor in Miami, the money ($800,000) was intended from Hugo Chavez to Cristina Fernandez (who was running for president of Argentina at the time--she won, without out the money). But if that is the case--that that was the origin and destination of the money--what does that have to do with the U.S.? Nothing! It is an internal matter, between the two countries. (And as I recall, Venezuela has a law against foreign money in its election campaigns, but Argentina does not. So this may not even have been a crime!) If Venezuelans and/or Argentinians want to do something about this incident (if it's even real--which I seriously doubt), that is THEIR BUSINESS. The U.S. has nothing to say about it! No jurisdiction. No right. But this asshole in Miami is INVENTING a jurisdiction. He claims that the three non-U.S. citizens he is prosecuting TALKED TO a fourth person, in Miami--a dual U.S./Venezuelan citizen who got caught with the money at the border, flying into Argentina--and pressured him not to implicate Chavez. How is that the business of a U.S. attorney? How is that a crime? People talking to people, about a political matter in a foreign country (clandestine or otherwise). (They weren't talking about blowing things up--like a Cubana airliner or anything. They were talking about a political matter!)
What I'm getting at is that I think the entire "suitcase full of money" caper is entirely made up--conceived, executed, and botched by the Miami mafia, on behalf of the Bush Junta, and "rescued" by the U.S. attorney (or they planned something like that all along), who is making headlines out of it, slandering Chavez and Fernandez (leftist leaders of their countries). This was one of the first alerts that the Bush Junta was using the U.S. justice system for political purposes outside of the country. They also intervened in the Chiquita death squad case, and got Chiquita execs off the hook for paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to rightwing paramilitaries in Colombia to take care of their "labor problem (a case in U.S. courts). I'm sure there are many other instances of Bushite interference with the U.S. justice system, on matters affecting other countries. But the Miami "suitcase" caper was so absurd that it stuck out. An entirely invented incident--more than likely. An entirely invented U.S. jurisdiction over it. The Miami Herald gets more leftist-bashing copy.
Of course the Bushites are pouring billions of our tax dollars into rightwing political groups in South America--to buy elections, to invent elections (the "recall" in Venezuela), to push corporate interests, to stage 'brownshirt' riots, to destabilize countries, to lie, to subvert. They have a lot of nerve accusing Chavez of political interference in other countries. But, of course, that is WHY they are doing so--as cover for their own massive interference and profligate spending on OUR money to help fascist causes (possibly the worst one of which is their support of white racists in Bolivia).
The FARC extradition (and the Mancuso extradition) fit this pattern. So perhaps they will be "show trials" to coincide with re-introduction of the Colombia/U.S. "free trade" bill, or with Rumsfeld war plans against Venezuela and Ecuador. That is one other possibility--the fascist/corporate media game. But, especially with Mancuso, it is more likely the removal of whistleblowers from Colombia, and silencing them here.
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