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On 8 March 2005

Dominicans mull shooting drug-laden boats, planes

Published: 10/30/08, 7:25 PM EDT
By RAMON ALMANZAR

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Legislators are debating a proposal that would let Dominican authorities shoot at drug-laden planes and boats that refuse to land or dock when ordered, despite threats from the U.S. to suspend anti-drug efforts if the law is approved.

[Wendy’s .02¢ Worth on this matter: I don’t know who thinks they are bull shitting who here, but unless I’m badly mistaken, the Dominican Military is known for blowing aircraft, that are suspected of hauling dope, out of The sky BEFORE that aircraft has a chance to escape from their sovereign air space.

Likewise when it comes to sending any vessel, suspected of hauling dope, to the bottom of the deep blue sea BEFORE it can escape from their territorial waters… and I don’t think that they get in any too big of a hurry to go looking for any drug smugglers that might have survived either Boo.]

The proposal received preliminary approval late last year and senators are expected to debate it by year's end. Congress leader Julio Cesar Valentin urged lawmakers to approve the law and accused the United States - whose forces fire on suspected drug boats and flights - of “meddling” when it sent letters warning them of the consequences.

[I wonder if anyone has bothered to question ‘why’ the United States would be meddling in Dominican affairs to start with? Could it possibly be because those same boats and aircraft, that are loaded with dope, actually belong to the powers that be who run our so-called war on drugs here in America and the Dominicans are fucking up their drug traffic?]

“Legislators should not cower under those threats, since the assistance that the Dominican Republic receives from the U.S. government to fight drug trafficking is minimal,” he said.

[or that it just might be a Rev. Jessie Jackson style shake-down of the American government by the Dominicans for a bigger piece of the pie?]

The U.S. has provided Dominican authorities with equipment and training, and helped carry out drug operations in recent years, according to a State Department report, which did not provide a monetary value.

[I’m going with a JJ style shake-down here.]

The Caribbean country is among the top 20 nations that the State Department considers major producers of, or transit sites for, illegal drugs. Last year, Dominican authorities seized about 5 tons of cocaine, 227 pounds of heroin and made nearly 13,000 drug-related arrests.

[Here I would encourage the reader to check into the 13,000 arrested people and inquire as to what their sentences for dealing drugs in the Dominican Republic was.]

In a visit to the Dominican Republic earlier this year, U.S. drug czar John Walters urged legislators to drop the proposal because it could endanger the lives of innocent people.

[Drug dealers aren’t innocent people, neither is anyone riding with them.]

“We have been very clear in our recommendation that such force should not be used,” the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said.

However, the U.S. has authorized such force in the past and continues to do so.

[ Now if that ain’t a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Yep… another case of the Rev. Jessie Jackson’s and Rev. Al Sharpton’s impeccable logic… “do as I say fool, not as I do.”]

In 2001, the U.S. pulled out of interdiction program flights in Peru and Colombia after a CIA-operated surveillance plane misidentified a possible drug flight. A 35-year-old woman from Michigan and her 7-month-old daughter were killed when a Peruvian warplane shot down their aircraft.

[ God bless the CIA… those rascals will even kill their own, without batting an eye or giving it a second thought when they have even the slightest reason to believe that their lawless activities are about to be exposed to the public… and we, the tax paying citizens, gladly pay for it all. ]

The U.S. resumed interdiction program flights in 2004 in Colombia.

More recently, the U.S. Coast Guard fired at the engines of a suspected drug smuggling boat near Colombia over the weekend, injuring one man.

[ has anyone confirmed whether the man injured was actually a dope smuggler… are was this report simply thrown in to make the average bleeding heart citizen bitch a little louder about what the Dominicans are doing?]

It is the fifth time since the late 1990s that shrapnel injuries have been reported following 63 interdiction cases in which a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter fired to damage a boats' engines.

Authorities said they would review the case to ensure all safety procedures were followed.

“The U.S. Coast Guard and its counter drug partners take extraordinary steps to avoid injuring smuggling suspects,” the statement said.

[ OK, I believe that the USCG is doing their job within the idiotic military constraints that have been placed on them by Congress.

However, I also believe that ALL of those constraints that they are having to operate under were actually put in place by Congress in an attempt to minimize the amount of CONGRESS’S DRUGS THAT WERE SEND TO DAVY JONES’S LOCKER and to allow for the quick release of CONGRESS’S drug runners, but only after having spent several million tax payer dollars giving them their, so-called, due process instead of simply putting a bullet through their death dealing heads.]

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God I hate posting all of this political sounding crap Boo. *NOT!*

♥ Wendy