Posted on 11/18/2007 9:26:23 AM PST by 3AngelaD
MEXICO CITY -- The Bush administration's proposed counternarcotics aid package for Mexico would set in motion a vast reengineering of the country's justice system, revamping the legal education process, creating a network of court clerks and helping to write new laws...The $500 million plan would also fund anti-drug and human rights campaigns and new citizen complaint centers. It would provide money for efforts to develop "centers of moral authority" and for media campaigns to create "a culture of lawfulness..."
Under the plan, which has drawn criticism from some on Capitol Hill, officials from the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons would conduct training sessions and military officers would provide instruction related to aircraft.
Nearly every sector of Mexico's federal justice system would receive a slice of the proposed aid, with millions being doled out for equipment and training for prosecutors, federal police, prison managers and customs inspectors...The aid was requested by the Mexican government, which has been struggling to contain a war among drug cartels that are blamed for more than 4,000 killings in the past 18 months... About 40 percent of the aid package would go to the Mexican military, which would receive helicopters, planes and ion scanners, which detect traces of drugs....
The U.S. effort to sell the plan in Mexico...has been hampered by inaccurate reports in Mexican media...The Mexican attorney general's office would receive more than $70 million for an array of projects, including forensics labs and anti-corruption training, as well as for armored vehicles for 30 prosecutors and 13 investigators...An existing program that allows Mexican and U.S. prosecutors working in parts of the border area to share information would be extended along the full length of the border...
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Because normalization of the two legal systems is an essential step on the path to the planned reunification of our two nations.
That would be King Jorge and his neocon buddies. They'll dispense with all this constitution nonsense when the shove the NAU down our throats.
I somehow seriously doubt he came up with this on his own. This is the brainchild of someone in the Justice Department, I suspect. Or maybe State, though less likely. I think it would be extremely interesting to know with whom this idea originated, and why they thought the Mexicans would go along with it.
I can’t think of a single reason why the Mexicans wouldn’t go along with it. Sovereignty is clearly not a concern to them, and we’re funding it to the tune to half a billion dollars. They would be fools not to.
It really doesn’t matter which treasonous piece of dung actually came up with the idea. It belongs to Bush. If he doesn’t shoot it down, he is just as culpable as if he had thought of it himself. And for the record, this is the guy who wanted to put his secretary on the Supreme Court. I have no trouble believing that something like this would be one of his brain-children.
We need to wall of Mexico and let it stew in it;s own misery.
Some FReepers are having a hard time understanding how Ron Paul gets support. All you have to do is check out a foreign aid plan like this one to understand it.
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