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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Background to Drug Warriorism (fwd)

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>NY Review of Books March 27
>
>With Malice Toward Many
>
>Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events of 1996 Human
>Rights Watch, 424 pp., $25.00 (paper) 

>(distributed by Yale University Press)
>
>Murray Kempton
>
>Human Rights Watch has tolled the passing of one more year with the
>release of another annual report on the advances of harshness on Earth
>and official ill will to the helpless. These findings at once appeal to our
>conscience and define the bipartisan compact that has put our
>conscience to sleep. Human Rights Watch takes account of infamies
>around the world and of our government's response to each and every
>one. To put what foreign despots do together with how little our
>governors care is to understand that, when we speak of our two-party
>system, we are talking about two Republican Parties, the dubiously
>Grand Old one and the New Democrats it has ingested.
>	The consequence is just one party with two wings, one the old
>Republicans, who are insensitive and stony, and the other the New
>Democrats, who are insensitive and flaccid. They share custody of the
>national conscience and offer us a free choice between the stony and
>the flaccid with about the same results.
>	There is also the permanent party that joins together the
>Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the corporations in
>sovereign immunity to occasional shifts in electoral whim.
>	Last fall, Human Rights Watch notes, General Barry
>McCaffrey, President Clinton's narcotics enforcement director, paused
>on a Peruvian tour for a bout of conspicuous fraternity with Vladimiro
>Montesinos, President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence chief.
>	Montesinos had been repeatedly linked to an intelligence
>agency death squad.... In August, a drug kingpin . . . accused- him of
>extorting large sums to enable the trafficker to transfer drugs without
>problems.
>	Anyone laden with imputations of secondhand dealings in
>mayhem and firsthand dealings in extortion would have appeared the
>oddest of candidates for friendly consort with a drug fighter of
>McCaffrey's high station. But Human Rights Watch has offered the full
>explanation, that Montesinos had "reportedly worked for the Central
>Intelligence Agency."
>	For the CIA cleanses all hands and is too seldom asked to
>cleanse its own. In 1996, the United States spent $120 million to
>assist the establishment of democratic rule in Haiti. Meanwhile, the
>White House refused to return thousands of documents detailing the
>excesses of the Haitian junta and the Revolutionary Front for the
>Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH), its paramilitary arm, in
>the course of the terror that ended with the intervention of our own
>armed forces.
>	Our troops seized the evidence, and now their commanders
>decline to pass it along for liberated Haiti's government to act upon.
>The most plausible reason for this diffidence is that the seized material
>not only illuminates the sins of the junta but too powerfully and
>embarrassingly suggests official America's complicity in them.
>	If it were not for this determinedly confession-avoiding spirit,
>why else would our government drop its deportation proceedings
>against Emmanuel Constant, boss of FRAPH bosses, and let him live
>here undisturbed? Constant had to be indulged because, throughout his
>career, he enjoyed the comity with the CIA that has customarily
>included the comforts of its payroll. He was thus a man with a tale to
>tell so much better left untold as to make his silence worth the bargain.
>	In another case cited by Human Rights Watch, the attorney
>general of Honduras has asked the White House to deliver up to him
>any documents relevant to Battalion 3-16, an elite force we equipped,
>trained, and set loose to bring off scores, if not hundreds, of
>"disappearances" of political suspects. This request has been repeatedly
>made and as regularly rebuffed by both the Pentagon and the CIA. 
>	So Honduras is trying to redress its old crimes and the United
>States is refusing to admit whatever part it may have had in them. But
>of course. We have arrived at one-party government; and, since Haiti
>and Honduras were the derelictions of Republican presidents,
>Democratic presidents are bound to the-junior partner's duty to cover
>up for the senior.
>	Copyright  1996 Newsday, Inc. 	
>
>
>

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