In Peru. “The Peruvian Congress has approved legislation that allows the country’s air force to shoot down small planes suspected of carrying illegal drugs.” Peru supposedly produces more cocaine than any other country and smuggles most of it to the United States. Peru halted its practice of aerial interdiction in 2001 “after an American missionary and her infant daughter were killed in an attack on a plane wrongly identified as carrying drugs.” Naturally, it was a joint operation with the CIA.
Many conservative drug warriors in the U.S. probably think this is a great policy—including, no doubt, most of the current Republican presidential candidates. Hey libertarians: those of you who say that some of the Republican presidential candidates are “constitutional conservatives,” “libertarian,” “libertarian-leaning,” or “like Ron Paul,”—can they pass the drug war litmus test? Do any of them have the guts to say publicly—like Ron Paul did—that heroin should be legal on the federal level? Do any of them even believe this privately?
12:24 pm on August 21, 2015
