“What we saw was a lot of desperation and problems,” McGovern said. “If it’s not implemented, then the Labor Action Plan was basically a public relations ploy to get people to vote for the free trade agreement.” --from the OP (my emphasis)
The murders of labor leaders and other advocates of the poor in Colombia was/is a conscious, deliberate policy of the U.S. government, AS
PREPARATION FOR U.S. "FREE TRADE FOR THE RICH."
Decapitate the labor movement, terrorize the poor, brutally displace FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their lands, and Chiquita, Drummond Coal, Monsanto, Occidental Petroleum and brethren--and Pentagon contractors--PROSPER.
We know that at least two of these brethren--Chiquita and Drummond Coal--were themselves employing rightwing death squads to take care of their "labor problems." There are likely more murdering perps among the U.S. corporations in Colombia. And then, the Pentagon (Bush Junta) took the burden off U.S. corporations and infused $7 BILLION U.S. taxpayer dollars into the Colombian military, BECAUSE OF--NOT in spite of--their close ties to the rightwing death squads! The Colombian military and its death squads then went on a killing spree, murdering thousands and brutally displacing millions.
The "Labor Action Plan" was/is not just "a public relations ploy." It was/is not just a piece of shit LIE. It is the mask and coverup of a deliberate policy of cold-blooded murder and destruction of civil society.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their operatives in Colombia--their "made man," Alvaro Uribe, and their U.S. ambassador, William Brownfield--OUGHT TO BE IN JAIL for what they did to Colombia. But President Obama and his team, first of all, seem to be under obligation to these mass murderers not only not to prosecute them for their many crimes, but not even to investigate them, not even, say, to establish a commission to look into it; and, secondly, Obama's team is led by "neo-liberals" (free tradists) whose
modus operandi is fake democracy (as in Honduras, as in Haiti), so, yeah, an "Action Plan"--ha, ha, ha, ha!
Kudos to Rep. Jim McGovern for checking it out! Most of our so-called representatives DON'T CARE--or else SUPPORT the murders of labor leaders and other advocates of the poor. But, Hell and damnation, he ought to use stronger language and connect more dots. U.S. "free trade for the rich" is BEING BUILT UPON the mountain of dead bodies in Colombia, to which we contributed $7 BILLION and all the political support needed to maintain a mafia boss--a killer, a fascist, a drug lord--as president of Colombia throughout the Bush Junta.
The "Labor Action Plan" is a COVER-UP!
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