Hout / Log: Sycophantic

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Sycophantic · Sep 27, 12:07 AM by Hout

I heard a radio documentary today by Marjon van Royen, author and journalist for Dutch Radio 1 in Latin America. And guess what: George Bush is actually doing some good things there!

Here’s the story.

Cocaine gets poppier every day (wow, fun with dope ;-)). Forget XTC and shit, coke’s the deal (now stop, really…). We’re not naive, no, party people need a drug. So, where do we get it? There’s an 80% chance your snort is Colombian.

You all probably know that the U.S. of A. are investing a lot of money and effort in fighting the War on Drugs. Just as succesful as the War on Terrorrism, by the way.
Since 2000, the U.S. has spent over $3 billion taxpayer dollars in Colombia where violence and living conditions have only worsened. Armies of state, guerilla troops, FARC, counter-para-contra-militaristic posses, you name it, they have it. Truces don’t mean shit, and shit’s the business. The only way to survive is to become a drug lord.
So, on one side, there’s the US Army, poisoning the crops with crop dusters, eradicating about 4,500,000,000 sqare feet of coca lands. On the other side, drug lords have planted about three times as many more feet of coke plants.

If you’re a cokehead, there’s no need to worry. There’s plenty of snow arriving pretty soon. Transportation methods become more creative every day. The other day, they found coke balloons sewn into dog’s intestines, and every day youngsters die because one of their swallowed balloons bursts.

So what’s the good news? Well, thanks to Bush, a sniff of cocaine means a sniff of DDT and other pesticides (who’s the pest?). I think this problem will solve itself within a couple of years. Knock knock. Hurray, Mr. Bush, hurrah!

Oh, and please, no reactions such as ‘healthy eco drugs’ like on the Phage article… ;-)

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