Colombia: Laboratory of Witches, Democracy and State Terror (book review)

romy says on Aug 13, 2008, 11:26:

I pressume the book will present evidence... Most Important I found:

The infrastructure of totalitarian terror defines the boundaries, content and participants of electoral politics. It includes: Rule by Presidential decrees suspending all constitutional guarantees (page 295); A nationwide secret police network of 1.6 million spies (page 296); Peasants forcibly recruited and forced to act as local military collaborators (“Soldiers of My People�) in 500 of Colombia’s 1,096 municipalities; 30,000 military-trained and armed death squad paramilitary forces; 300,000 active military forces, the DAS (Departamento Administrativo de Seguidad – Security Administrative Department) – the secret police numbering in the tens of thousands. The private militias of landowners, bankers and business leaders involving private security agencies number over 150,000 gunmen.

Colombia is the most militarized country in Latin America. The Congress, electorate, judiciary and civil service exercise no effective control. The constitutional protections are totally non-existent. The scope and depth of human rights violations exceed those of any military dictatorship in recent Latin American history, including those in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia.

The totalitarian terrorist infrastructure of the state defines the political character of the political system. The electoral process serves exclusively as a façade facilitating ‘normal relations’ with liberal, conservative and social democratic regimes in Europe and North and South America. In effect their praise and support of Uribe in the aftermath of the Betancourt affair served to legitimize the terrorist regime. Their condemnation of the FARC was also a rejection of the anti-totalitarian and anti-terrorist left.

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tasco66 says on Aug 13, 2008, 12:41:

did romy or Cassini write this book??? LOL

Is Piedad the witch?

Now for the thruth:

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win (Leonid Brezhnev)

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quantum says on Aug 13, 2008, 15:10:

Ive long wondered how the Bush/Cheney/Globalist administration ever managed to "appear" to do something correct and benevelent. I always suspected a hidden agenda, just knowing who theze people are and what makes em tick. They dont give away money like that, even if it is counterfeit, unless it goes towards furthering their agenda. But the disturbing thing and difficult to digest is that there IS so much mass support . Is it possible that an extremely complicated situation was oversimplified in this article. I know personally of wars between different paramilitary factions for supremacy. This surely was not overseen and administrated by command/control in Bogota. It would make no sense at all. Its an interesting article but things still remain to be better clarified.......

quantum

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