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Published on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 by Witness for Peace
Shoveling Water: War on Drugs, War on People
Journey to the heart of coca country where United States tax dollars
have financed the aerial fumigation of 2.6 million acres of land in
Colombia – the world's second most biodiverse country.
See cropdusters target coca plants, the main ingredient of cocaine,
with concentrated herbicide as part of the U.S. war on drugs.
Listen to people on the ground, hear about the impacts, and learn new ideas about how to solve this deadly problem.
Shoveling Water from Witness For Peace on Vimeo.
© 2009 Joshua Dautoff
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Show AllThank you for posting this excellent video.
Thanks to Joshua Dautoff, Sanjo Tree and Colombian friends. Alternative agricultural development and respect for ancient indigenous rights are essential for resolving conflicts created by the drug war.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -- Thomas Jefferson
The freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom. The drug war violates religious agricultural freedom and obviates the free market, as it imposes a violent black market, food insecurity, malnutrition and induces essential resource scarcity.
There's no way that drug prohibition can be truly legal, as it is responsible for creating so much crime. Anyone who continues to support prohibition is either ignorant or corrupted by the economics of a self-destructive paradigm, headed for irreversible synergistic collapse.
End the drug war completely, plant hemp for fuel and food. The solution could not be simpler or more achievable.