Democratic (socialist/fascist) de facto President Clinton, Esq., signs the Emergency Supplemental Act of 2000, committing 1,300,000,000 in military aid to “Plan Colombia,” for massive cocaine interdiction.  The center piece of “Plan Colombia” is 60 Blackhawk helicopters, with the necessary United States Armed Forces (private mercenaries) to act as military advisors.  Clinton insists, “[W]e are not going to get into a shooting war, that is not Vietnam, neither is it Yankee imperialism.”

       NOTES:

• Clinton was referring to the Second Vietnam War (First Vietnamese Civil War/Vietnamese-American War) in which much of U.S. military aid was sold by the South Vietnamese to their Vietcong enemies.
• As an attorney (Officer of the Court) Clinton was ineligible to serve in two branches of government at the same time, according to Article I, Section 6 [Clause 2].

       Postscripts:

• The massive spraying of herbicides (funded by Plan Colombia) to kill the cocoa plant resulted in the destruction nearly all staple (basic food source) crops in the region
• Nearly two years later the General Accounting Office released a report stating that the 14 state-of-the-art Black Hawk helicopters are lying idle in their hangers, as Colombia has not provided the 250 pilots and support personnel necessary for their use.
• John P. Walters, Drug Policy Control Coordinator, had also complained that in order to be effective, Colombia must double its spending in the “War on Drugs.”
• In the decade since the beginning of PC, and the expenditure of over 8,000,000,000 “dollars,” the number of Colombian acreage under cocoa cultivation has actually increased.
• By the year 2000, nearly 130 square miles of sensitive Amazon rain forest had been turned into desert; not only have the coca plants been killed, but all others as well—including those that grow food.  As the eradication program continues, this will continue to drive more starving subsistence farmers into the sphere of the FARC.

       [updated 11/13/2020]

       The Federal court for the southern district of new york hands down United States v. Hiett: Judge Edward Korman sentences United States Colonel James Hiett (private mercenary) to five months in prison for laundering 25,000 “dollars,” in connection with the heroin smuggling operation run by his wife Laurie.  Hiett had been in command of U.S. anti-drug efforts in Colombia before his arrest.

       NOTE: Hiett’s wife Laurie received five years in prison; her Hispanic chauffeur, Hernan Aquila, who unwittingly transported the heroin, received a greater sentence than both the Hietts combined.

        [added 11/13/2020]