Reply #27: Let me just give you some context... [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

The name Eric Holder has been mentioned as high on the list for U.S. Attorney General. Holder was the big corpo attorney who got Chiquita International execs off with a handslap (and secrecy--both arranged by the Bushwhacks) after they paid $1.7 million to rightwing death squads in Colombia to take care of Chiquita's "labor problem" by murdering FOUR THOUSAND union leaders and other workers in Chiquita's banana plantations.

What a "free trade" deal with Colombia really is, is a "free fire zone" on union workers.

THAT's what Bush wants this "free trade" deal for--killing union leaders and other workers, and enriching the brutal fascist ruling elite, as a reward for their vigilance against democracy, and for being just about the ONLY U.S. ally in South America, on which the Bushwhacks have larded $6 BILLION in military aid, which somehow never stops the flow of cocaine onto our streets.

The Bush Cartel--and, sadly, also the Clintons--are filthy on Colombia. Hillary had, as her chief political adviser, a paid agent of the Colombian government (Mark Penn). "Free trade" with Colombia? You might as well have "free trade" with Nazi Germany! It is a terrible, terrible regime, rife with big time drug traffickers and close ties to the death squads in the top echelons of the government itself, whose "president" is the former go-to guy for the Medellin Cartel.

The Bushwhacks (and the Clintons) want to further reward these gangsters and murderers for being the last bulwark against the peaceful democracy movement that has swept the continent--with good leftist governments elected in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay (most recently), Uruguay, Brazil and Chile, and further north in Nicaragua, with a leftist likely to be elected in El Salvador early next year, and a quite interesting progressive government just elected in Guatemala (in sympathy with the social justice goals of the above). Honduras also has recently thumbed its nose at the Bush Junta and joined ALBA (a barter-type leftist trade group). The South Americans have formed a South American "Common Market" (UNASUR), whose very first major action was to fully back the Evo Morales government in Bolivia against a nefarious Bush Junta plot to destabilize the country.

South America is no longer OURS. That is, it is longer run by fascist pigs for the benefit of U.S. corporations--except in Colombia (and to some extent in Peru, but that pro-Bush government is in critical failure, with a 20% approval rating like Bush's).

In this context--or, really, in any context--the appointment of Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General would be a frigging disaster. It would be a signal to all of South America that they can expect more of the same from the U.S.--meddling, interference, oppression, coups, and death to leftists and poor workers.

Passage of the "free fire zone" (um, "free trade" deal) with Colombia would be the same. It would make the U.S. PERMANENTLY the "enemy" to most of South America and possibly to all of Latin America. (There is a huge leftist movement in Mexico which could well win the next election.)