US DEA in Honduras: Massacre Civilians, Blame Hondurans, Stonewall Investigations, Never Apologize

[FIVR]

Just your typical War on Drugs DEA profiteering in central america. This time they got caught red handed with a few bodies, no worries though because there are no consequences. They have some egg on their face though! Haha, eggy bastards.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/us-honduras-drug-enforcement-administration-shooting

 

[senseamp]

Again, why is only UK paper is investigating this? Why isn't Fox News in Honduras reporting on this kind of stuff? Send some of their leg-crossers there to do real work.

 

[FIVR]

I think the DEA is a very interesting "law enforcement agency".... especially in the last 20 years. Over that period of time it has become very apparent that the ills of society are not caused by drugs and that heavy handed enforcement policies are less effective than general harm reduction policies. At the same time it has become increasingly clear that the militarized law enforcement in north america in response to the "drug epidemic" has been extremely harmful to public health.


This has resulted in an agency that is basically set up to be completely against public health (and moral) interests. There is probably not a single decent, moral person working at the DEA today by the mere virtue that the agency itself is completely counter productive to its own stated goals. This has resulted in an agency that has continually been in the news (for decades) for soliciting prostitution, murder, drug smuggling and other offenses. They are criminals, state sponsored criminals.

 

[HTFOff]

Again, why is only UK paper is investigating this? Why isn't Fox News in Honduras reporting on this kind of stuff? Send some of their leg-crossers there to do real work.

"doesn't watch fox"

"points out fox's lack of coverage"

"a sane individual"

 

[Jhhnn]

Just your typical War on Drugs DEA profiteering in central america. This time they got caught red handed with a few bodies, no worries though because there are no consequences. They have some egg on their face though! Haha, eggy bastards.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/us-honduras-drug-enforcement-administration-shooting

Nice innuendo about profiteering. The DEA sometimes being trigger happy cowboys trying to cover their asses would be accurate.

 

[Jhhnn]

Fox puts a different spin on it-

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/24/watchdog-says-dea-botched-deadly-honduras-raids.html

 

[FIVR]

What different spin? They basically reported what I stated in the title of the thread minus the "massacre civilians" part, which is subjective anyway. Authoritarians like yourself will naturally assume the DEA were telling the truth that they believed these pregnant women and children were deadly cartel members armed to the teeth. As somebody who actually knows something about the DEA, I can very easily assume they were well aware the people they were shooting at could be innocent civilians.

 

[Thebobo]

Again, why is only UK paper is investigating this? Why isn't Fox News in Honduras reporting on this kind of stuff? Send some of their leg-crossers there to do real work.

Less and less actual investigative reporting here in america it seems.

 

[Jhhnn]

What different spin? They basically reported what I stated in the title of the thread minus the "massacre civilians" part, which is subjective anyway. Authoritarians like yourself will naturally assume the DEA were telling the truth that they believed these pregnant women and children were deadly cartel members armed to the teeth. As somebody who actually knows something about the DEA, I can very easily assume they were well aware the people they were shooting at could be innocent civilians.

Authoritarians like myself? What part of "trigger happy cowboys" gave you that impression?

 

[pauldun170]

American forces operating in a foreign country killed 4 people because of "things and stuff"
American forces operating in a foreign country killed 105+ people because of "things and stuff"
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40051640
American forces operating in a foreign country killed 35 people because of "things and stuff"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/n...ry.html?i10c.referrer=https://www.google.com/

The United States kills lot of civilians across the globe. Does it matter what agency is involved?
Slap a "War on 'X''" on the press release and go back to applying the formula of acceptable dead foreigners.