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March 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Since the drug war has become so unpopular with the electorate,
instead of politicians actually changing the drug laws, the Department
of Defense seeks to reduce and conceal the real costs by transferring
the “dirty work” to private contractors to do what “U.S. military forces
are not allowed or encouraged to do.”
The BBC (in Spanish) is reporting
that the U.S. Department of Defense is delegating the war on drugs to
private mercenary companies. Of those companies, the increasingly
infamous organization previously known as Blackwater is said to have
received several multimillion-dollar government contracts for “providing
advice, training and conducting operations in drug producing countries
and those with links to so-called “narco-terrorism” including Latin
America.”
The “no bid” contracts, issued under
the Counter-Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office’s $15 billion
dollar budget, are described as “non-specific” and are said to be
“juicy” for the private contractors. The Pentagon says “the details of
each cost in very general contracts do not go through bidding
processes.”
An unnamed analyst says “the responsibility of the
public and national security changing from a state’s duty to be a
private business…has become the trend of the future.”
Although parts of the drug war have been privatized for years,
the BBC reports this “transfer” of responsibilities is an attempt to
placate those looking for Pentagon budget cuts in an election year.
According
to Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA),
“the drug war is unpopular and has no political weight except in an
election year like this, so the Department of Defense wants to remove
that spending from their accounts.”
“They surreptitiously want to reduce anti-drug budget by transferring it to private agencies,” said Birns.
Bruce
Bagley, head of International Studies at the University of Miami,
agrees with Birns that the main reason for privatizing the drug war is
to sidestep “the high political cost.”
But this move is not
without risk, as private mercenaries have known to operate outside of
national and international laws. ”Here we go into a vague area where
the rules of engagement are not clear and there is almost zero
accountability to the public or the electorate,” said Bagley.
The
Pentagon maintains that it’s perfectly legal, and mercenaries must
follow strict parameters. However, Bagley points out that “few members
of the Oversight Committees of the Senate and the House are aware, but
they are required to keep secret, so all this flies under the radar.”
There
are concerns that contractors acting independently will threaten the
sovereignty of the “key countries” in which they will operate. The
Pentagon says the largest efforts will occur in Latin America including
Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Colombia and other Andean countries.
Professor
Bagley says these private armies could “generate a nationalist backlash
if the public came to realize the situation” of operations in their
countries.
Once again, the war on drugs creates the opportunity to
place troops in countries where having American soldiers would be
politically disadvantageous, or simply impossible.
Ultimately, the
Pentagon claims they will save money because private contractors don’t
have the bureaucracy and hierarchy involved in operations and because
“if any of its employees dies, they are responsible.”
Apparently,
humanity is the last concern for the Pentagon budget, which always seems
to have plenty of money for advanced weapons systems (also privatized),
but is consistently lacking in benefits for its veterans. By
privatizing the drug war, they no longer have to concern themselves with
paying for benefits for warriors who pledge allegiance to the United
States and take an oath to defend its Constitution.
As the war on
drugs is increasingly viewed as a money-draining failure, it’s unlikely
that this move to privatize it will succeed in anything but creating
demand for more government allocated profit, thus fueling its
continuance through corporate lobbying to prevent a political end to
such lunacy.
Eric Blair – January 17, 2012 – posted at DeadlineLive
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