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- jgubbe, on 07/19/2009, -3/+37Leave Ecuador alone! It is not our country. Dumb ass politicians trying to run the world. And you always wonder why you are taxed for everything you do and buy here in the U.S. When it was supposed to be the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We are the land of the Elite control. We are not acting Brave. We are running around scared of everything and killing others like it doesn't matter.
- elijahyossie, on 07/20/2009, -0/+33It beats me why Westen countries blame places like Ecuador and Columbia for drug problems - the demand for drugs is our problem, and we export it to other countries.
- allowners, on 07/19/2009, -4/+34Is there a spray for fascism?
- redcolumbine, on 07/20/2009, -0/+21It's the very illegality of the drugs that makes them so expensive, and thus so profitable. We could knock the underpinnings out from under the drug lords simply by kicking the drug laws off the books. But then the drug lords would stop sending kickbacks to the War on Drugs politicians, so it's not very likely.
- WiretapStudios, on 07/20/2009, -0/+14"The company claims Roundup is not harmful if instructions on the label are followed."
What about if you happen to be looking up at the sky with your eyes, nose, and possibly your mouth open at any point while a fine mist is layered on your land and crops with no warning?
YOU'RE NOT FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE LABEL! - kemp34, on 07/20/2009, -1/+13Government actions lead to unintended consequences, which lead to government actions, which lead to unintended consequences, which lead to government actions, which lead to unintended consequences, which...
- Spamorama, on 07/20/2009, -0/+10Agent Orange to the rescue!
- jmac9, on 07/20/2009, -1/+11Those nations consent to be sprayed because if they refused, they would be cut off from millions in US aid money.
Bolivia rejected DEA interference in its country and Bush threatened to cut off the US money --
All of Latin and S. America has to work itself out of being chained to US foreign aid money. But that is what the US has worked so hard to force those countries to be dependent upon. That's why the US is so against Venezuela's Chavez, He has led Venezuela out from indebtedness to the US.
The problem is the prohibition against drugs.
Illegal means: corrupt governments, police, and massive international criminal cartels reaping billion dollar profits, Mexican drug wars, Taliban profits, and unrestricted age access...
Legal means: we, the people control, production, distribution, age access. And profits to criminals dry up overnight. And surprise, surprise - according to Portugal's example - drug use goes down when its decriminalized...
Besides -- what is the real problem of people having some access to intoxicants? People have used these throughout all of human history, and now, and particularly only because of the USA- and USA money - there is the impossible and expensive world effort to stop drug use.
It's really just a way to get massive amounts of money to the military, DEA, CIA, and make for the destruction of human rights with the excuse of a "war on drugs".
Look at the tobacco industry, it gets to sell its product when its the worst killer of them all --- far more people die from tobacco than all the drug related deaths combined. - smashTasker, on 07/20/2009, -1/+10Yeah right, once they ask to stop spraying, the US government would just switch to bombs.
- rmxz, on 07/20/2009, -0/+9Ironically, apparently much of the coca crop is engineered (possibly genetically engineered; or perhaps just selective breading) to resist the herbicides the US sprays there: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/columbia. ...
So basically this war-on-drugs money is weeding the gardens of the coke dealers while killing the environment. - fety, on 07/20/2009, -1/+9***** YOU Monsanto!
- ImBaack, on 07/20/2009, -0/+8No *****, do you think those guys would be planting, harvesting, and importing those plants if there wasn't money in it? America is ridiculous in it's hypocrisy. We medicate our own population with fifty different types of pills, uppers, downers, all arounders, and we still have the audacity to tell people living outside our borders that we are a drug free country. That is complete *****. The truth is that we only allow people to have drugs that American pharmaceutical companies (that give huge kick backs to politicians) can profit from. Regardless if they have the same effect or not.
- spookyttws, on 07/20/2009, -0/+8So not only are we hurting people, we're making the land unusable for growing anything. Good thinking. I'm also pretty sure these guys are well armed, so the idea of using slow moving, low flying aircraft to kill the crops of people who have crates of RPGs may not be the safest measure.
- RudeTurnip, on 07/20/2009, -0/+7A spray of bullets.
- darkened, on 07/20/2009, -0/+7Change you can believe in! Wait nevermind there's nothing to see here.
- oldhick, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5Damn chemtrails! Break out the orgone generators. It's the only solution.
- kemp34, on 07/20/2009, -3/+8Lots of so-called "well educated" (i.e. Ivy Leaguers) become the fascists, so what happens then?
- oldhick, on 07/20/2009, -1/+6Yeah, I'm sure there are strings attached to everything though. Still their is some truth to what you say. They can maintain their sovereignty and then the end up on our list of evil doers and things aren't pretty....
- cheddaro, on 07/20/2009, -1/+6I thought my coke had been tasting funny...
- vbullinger, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4I dugg you, but I would say that, after a while, you have to start thinking "you know, maybe these consequences aren't so 'unintended' afterall..."
- aron1185, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4Big Government FTW!
Man it sure would be nice to take the drug industry out of criminals. I say if ppl want to get messed up on drugs, let them. Instead of spending billions on a War on Drugs, we could better use it to help rehabilitate addicts instead of jailing them and packing our prison system... which also costs taxpayers millions. - ProfessorSYM, on 07/20/2009, -4/+8It's called education.
- kemp34, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4I'd say it's a combination of the two.
- LouisCipher777, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!
- vbullinger, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4Hooray, Monsanto! The world's savior!
/really hard sarcasm! - vbullinger, on 07/20/2009, -3/+6Nope. They've thought of that. They've infiltrated that and turned into one big propaganda incubator.
- chesterogilvie, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3"Those nations consent to be sprayed because if they refused, they would be cut off from millions in US aid money."
I just wanted to point out that this is exactly what the Federal government does to the States. This is why it is important to respect State's rights instead of federalizing everything! - vbullinger, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3We allow "illegal" narcotics, too. Just in a crony type of way. I.e. you ain't in the big club, so you can't traffic drugs. If you were one of them, you could. See Afghanistan and the re-opening of the poppy fields.
- vbullinger, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3I saw a documentary ("The Panama Deception," maybe?) where they did some research on what the most cost-effective ways to reduce drug use were. They tried many things, including (can't remember all of the methods they tried):
Spraying drug crops
Increasing border policing to crack down on drugs coming over the border
Educating kids and reducing the desire to want to do drugs
In every single test, spraying the crops was the least effective and most costly. Also, decreasing the desire to want to do drugs was the most inexpensive and effective way of preventing drug use. The government had commissioned this study in order to help make better policy decisions. They dismissed the findings because they weren't what they wanted to hear and just sprayed crops instead. - suhredayan, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Aerial spray of herbicide should not be allowed unless it is your own property, and it is only your family staying there.
- LouisCipher777, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2your weed is grown in Mexico, so it's OK.
- vbullinger, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2I wonder what those instructions must be? I mean, if I had to reverse engineer them, I'd say that, in order to make them 100% accurate and make the product 100% safe:
"Get the ***** away from this product. Don't ever use it and don't eat or even touch any crop that has been sprayed with this *****. Avoid it like the plague. Spread this message all over the world so that you can take our godforsaken company down." - LouisCipher777, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2i've always thought it smelled better through a $100 bill than through a $1. maybe it's just me.
- TheJimid, on 07/20/2009, -1/+3Damm crashed after 3 minutes on the front page.
- inactive, on 07/21/2009, -0/+2The label in this bottle in front of me recommends wearing gloves while handling and a face mask which is protective clothing and that is only for a basic home weed killer. So why don't the US get all the people and hand out gloves and face masks! If they fail to do that that makes the US liable for endangering peoples health since you failed to warn them, supply PPE and use the products as directed BY THE LABEL!
Silly politicians! The problem is the demand not the growers. If I could grow Drugs for a living you can bet your ass I will! While it remains illegal you have no control, period! - jerbaker, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2How would the CIA fund anything it does?
- vbullinger, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2I dugg you up, but I wouldn't call that ironic. If it were to be ironic, it would have to be the opposite of what you'd expect based on the given circumstances.
As such, this is _exactly_ what I'd expect, given the circumstances. - ImBaack, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2I hate cocaine, I just like how it smells.
- jleopold, on 07/19/2009, -3/+5hahaha! Now that's a spray I would be buy by the case
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1ngresonance, yes we've known about Plan Columbia since at least Bush 1.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Didn't we already know this?
- eryximachus, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1While heroin is legal in only a few countries, opium is still the primary source of morphine - the major pain reliever used in hospitals worldwide.
Coca is a different story. Legal uses are few and the legal demand is thus small. - bornfreeid, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1The story goes that there is more money to be made in the fight against drugs, but if we just legalized and taxed the daylights out of it (like we seem to do with everything else) we wouldn't have any environmental side effects, innocent bystander side effects and a potentially safer world...
Ew, I sounded like a hippie. - SpinningHead, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Novocaine?
- FLarsen, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1Coca is used as a flavoring, for instance in Coca-Cola.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1If there is a way to waste taxpayers money the US will be involved.
- Fingersoup, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1If so, let it rain.
- SpinningHead, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1We need to poison the land because drugs are unhealthy.
Oh...wait. - Bennuendo, on 07/20/2009, -0/+0reduce "illegal" cocaine and heroin production.. because you know... there's legal production of such things?
It's only allowed if you're on the governments payroll.. In our beautiful arms for drugs barter policy.. - inactive, on 07/20/2009, -2/+2just leave my weed alone
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