Reply #4: The Uribe gov't is "doing little"? Hell, the Uribe gov't IS COMMITTING 92% of

[Peace Patriot]

the violence (torture, death) against union organizers.

AI Report: "...cases in which clear evidence of responsibility is available indicates that in 2005 around 49 per cent of human rights abuses against trade unionists were committed by paramilitaries and some 43 per cent directly by the security forces. Just over 2 per cent were attributable to guerrilla forces (primarily the FARC and ELN) and just over 4 per cent to criminally-motivated actions." --Amnesty International Report, 7/3/07 (AI Index: AMR 23/001/2007)

http://www.amnesty.org/en/alfresco_asset/26e626d7-a2c0-11dc-8d74-6f45f39984e5/amr230012007en.html

Colombia security forces = 43%

Paramilitaries (very close ties to the Uribe gov't) = 49%

Total: 92%.

Over the last two years, the very close ties between the rightwing paramilitaries in Colombia, and the Uribe government and its military, have been exposed by courageous prosecutors, judges and others. By close, I mean the head of the Colombian military, the former head of Colombian intelligence, and many Uribe office holders including relatives, have been tied to rightwing death squads, heinous murders (such as chainsawing union leaders and throwing their body parts into mass graves) and drug trafficking. It is absurd to think that they are going to punish themselves, or stop the violence, which is also inflicted on small peasant farmers, community organizers, human rights workers, journalists, political leftists and all manner of innocent bystanders who are merely asserting their human and civil rights. So long as the Bush Junta continues to prop up this fascist government with billions of our tax dollars--in one of the biggest, mostly military, aid packages on earth--the violence will continue. The Bushites prefer a violent, chaotic atmosphere. We have seen this time and again. It enhances war profiteering, creates fear, curtails democracy, reasonable discussion and good government, and provides opportunities for massive looting of resources and expansion of conflicts into new resource zones. They have tried to expand the Iraq War into Iran, but apparently have been stopped by China and Russia. Now they are trying to expand their phony, corrupt "war on drugs" and Colombia's civil war (with armed leftist guerrillas-FARC) into the neighboring Andes democracies (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador), where most of the oil is.

You can't whiff the psyops, disinformation, dirty tricks and black ops, coming out of the Bush Junta, against Venezuela in particular (the strongest of the Bolivarian countries, and the most defiant of the Bushites), and not see Oil War II: South America, on its way. Colombia is to be the launching pad.

See Donald Rumsfeld's op-ed in the WaPo of 12/1/07:
"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by Donald Rumsfeld, 12/1/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

And see these threads today:

(The latest Bushite bullshit a la Chavez--that Chavez is a cocaine trafficker!)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3148266

(Subtler bullshit from the Houston Chron - those FARC terrorists love Chavez, see para 11, and my comments)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3148221

My prediction: The context of the November election may well be U.S. military intervention, in support of fascist coups, in South America, possibly starting with Bolivia. They are working on it, believe me. There is far more at issue here than Colombia's outrageous violence against union organizers, and the Bushites' wish to reward them for that with some "free trade" booty. The Bushite's "swan song" will likely be yet another horrendous, violent mess, this time in South America, that leaves the next president with no good choices. Their purpose is chaos, because that loosens the reins of good government, and democratic control over global corporate predators. They have actively tried to create chaos in Venezuela (starting with the Bush-supported violent military coup attempt in 2002), and keep trying, but failing. Their latest project is Bolivia, where the first indigenous president of Bolivia, Evo Morales--a socialist and ally of Chavez--is beset by rich rural landowners who want to split the oil/gas rich rural provinces off from the central government, to deny any benefit from those resources to Bolivia's vast, displaced, rural peasant population in the cities, and in order to sell off the country's resources to U.S. and other first world corporations. We can be sure that Bushite money (that is, our money) is at work in Bolivia. Colombia's military, paramilitaries, and U.S. military/DEA, forces have also been stirring up trouble on the Colombia/Venezuelan border.

And even though Bushites have caches of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars stolen from us in Iraq, and Colombian and U.S. forces (including Blackwater mercenaries), with which to conduct a private war, there is some urgency to get certain things in motion while Bush is still in office, and also due to pending actions, such as Ecuador throwing the U.S. military base out of the country this year. They want to lard MORE military aid on Colombia, to build permanent bases and other war infrastructure.

And they are horrified at the prospect of Hugo Chavez negotiating peace in Colombia's civil war, starting with his recent successful hostage negotiation with FARC, because that will, a) reduce the justification for pouring war materials into Colombia; b) likely put some portion of Colombia's oil out of reach of Occidental Petroleum (in FARC territory), as well as lands Chiquita, Monsanto and others want for environmentally unsound biofuel production; c) interfere with major drug trafficking (by the big drug lords that Uribe/Bush are protecting, and drugs/weapons trafficking by rightwing forces), and d) will make Chavez and his Bolivarian revolution even more popular in South America than they already are (very popular).

So they've got to do some major disaster-creation work soon, with their "unitary executive" still in place, and before things get too peaceful and positive in the Andes region.