From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Colombia Newsbriefs 12/9 ed-lp
Date: 17 Dec 92 08:19:28 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

Another defender of drug producers states:

>Mr. Edelmiro..

>You are totally pissing out of the toilet..

>First, You have no freaking idea what really is going on.
>Tellme how many times have you fought the guerrilla?

Many times, you see you can also fight guerrillas from within ideological 
trenches, for as Baron Von Clausewits said, war is but the carrying out of 
politics to a higher level.  Howver if you ask me about participating in 
military campaings, never.

>How many friends of you, have died fighting drurg lords and crime?

None,althoug perhaps the thousands of Puerto Ricans dying in the streets at 
the hands of some junkie could count.

>How many times have you slept in the jungle, looking over your shoulder
>Hoping to see the lights of the next day.

Well let's see, every time I slept in one of Puerto Rico's jungles I did it on 
a comfortable bed. And of course I always hoped to see the lights of the next 
day.

>You are drawing conclusions from what you read and hear in the news.
>The news media is the worst source for real info.
>The information that you get has been previously composed
>and the editing rooms is where the bigest orchestrations, lies
>and make ups take place. Everything to protect the wealthy,
>politicians, corporations, and in general $$$MONEY$$$. That is what
>really is beign protected. No matter who gets injured in the process.

Evidently, my thesis that communists are defending the drug trade have been 
confirmed again.  This capitalist newsmedia should never be heard.  Instead we 
should simply tune into Radio Havanna or better yet see for ourselves how the 
guerrillas work, how they process drugs, and sleep in cold jungles waiting to 
see the light of the next day.  It seems our only source of information will be 
some maoist press in the Peruvian andes.

>The US forces have tryed to help the Colombian army but they never succed.

And what do you suggest?  Should we let the druglords and terrorists run the 
country for a while?  I sure Colombians will sleep happily now that they don't 
need to fight terrorists once they have been empowered in government.

>So don't think that The almighthy US army is going to solve it.

Of course not, the Colombian people are the ones who have to solve it.  We 
will simply militarize our border in the meantime.

>The problem is at home, yes.. Look at the politicians, look at the rich
>and famous, Look at the streets.

Well it's useless; the bourgeoise is the one responsible for the drug trade 
along with their corrupt politicians, right? And besides, how can I look at all 
of them if you don't even let me read the press?

>Drugs are ruling this society, and Colombia is not the one to blame.

Who ever blamed Colombia, I was only blaming the druglords and terrorists who 
happen to live there, along with the criminals who end up gettin it into our 
county's youth.

>The ones to balme are the ones that support it. Support is given by
>buying it, by paying no matter what just to get a few grams.

I see, so we should blame smokers for teenage smoking and not the tobacco 
industry.

>Simple economics, supply Vs demand, If the drugs are not consumed
>at all, there will be no suppliers.

You forget that the suppliers also do a great job at marketing their product 
and doing whatever they can to have others stop the supply, so that they keep 
on marketing.

>So, before looking over your neigbor's fence. Look at the problems
>in your own house, look at the streets in LA, San Francisco, New York,
>Detroit, Chicago. There is where the problem resides.

No, it resides in these cities AND also down there.

>How many stars, Big movie makers, singers, politicians, have a drug problem.
>A High percentage, there are just a few that can be excluded.

Ah, now it seem it is you who are watching the news.

>It is not a rich people problem, It is not a poor people problem, It is
>everybody's problem.

Yep, it everybody's problem, including the producers.

>I bet you've never heard how many teen-age soldiers died daily
>in Colombia.

No, and that's precisely why they need ecnomica help and political soultions 
in combination with the ongoing military campaigns.  They need, crop 
susbsitutions, economic stimulus, development aid, and lots, lots of repression 
to stop the thugs who are shipping drugs and terrorizing their population.

>Yes.. You can count them in the daily basis, Don't think that
>the Colombian Government is just sitting doind nothing.

When have I said this.  It's incredible that anything I say becomes 
transformed with counterarguments to statements which I have never made.  The 
Colombian government does what it can against the narcocommunists and 
narcoterrorists, and we will continue helping them in this respect.

>Many people has died in this process, but you open your big
>mouth without consideration of how many lifes had been lost in
>the process, because of your ignorance about this.

People have died becuase of Edelmiro Salas?  What next?

Edelmiro