[AF68]

Business is booming from vacationers who like to dig up unexploded ordnance.

[Mike Darancette]

What is the attraction collecting brass and avoiding unexploded bombs and shells?

[PA Engineer]

There was one other attempt at a resort on Vieques and that one failed. Spent seven days on the island and left two days early for San Juan. I promise never to go there again. They have some of the most beautiful beaches on the south shore, but the culture can best be described as entitled. The biggest mistake according to locals that are honest was when the US failed to remove all of the inhabitants from the island in WWII. I like PR, but Vieques is a lesson in all that is wrong there.

[4Freedom]

After the Navy leaves, the largest employer on Vieques will be the drug smuggling industry, if it isn't already.

Here's a caption that was under a photograph in The San Juan STAR from 2/24/2003.

Fishing boats anchored on the shore of the Esperanza beach in Vieques. While the government seeks to strengthen the fishing industry, local and stateside agency officials agree that the new generation of fishermen is using its vessels to transport drugs.

[4Freedom]

Here's an article that details the degree of corruption that our federal agencies are experiencing in Puerto Rico now that we're putting Puerto Ricans in charge. If drug smugglers spread (and there are many as big as Tun Tun in Puerto Rico) around enough money, federal investigations into their operations are dropped.

Our federal agencies aren't taking the 3rd-world out of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico is 3rd-worldizing our federal agencies.

Michael Vigil, former head of the DEA in the Caribbean

Acting U.S. Attorney H.S. "Bert" Garcia

Justice Secretary Anabelle Rodriguez

This is what 'affirmative action' hiring in Puerto Rico gets us. Three fools in charge and the agencies full of their cronies that then scratch their collctive heads and say, 'What drug smugglers? What murders? Lo siento, agency policy doesn't allow us to talk about that.'

Puerto Rico: Drug kingpin faces life sentence in N.J.

[RushLake]

Not to be too conspiratorial, but you don't suppose that this hotel operation sent in an advance team to stir up a rent-a-mob to stop us from trying out our ordnance so they could have another "Island Paradise" destination do you?