The FARC’s Honduran Friends (WSJ propaganda piece)

[subsuelo]

Thought some of you might be interested in the latest disgusting bit of propaganda posted by o'Grady at the WSJ (it's full of lies and disinformation)...

President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderón are in Guadalajara, Mexico, today for the North American Leaders’ Summit. They will discuss, among other topics, what to do about the explosion in drug-trafficking violence on the continent. But they are also expected to address the political situation in Honduras.

Too bad the Colombian ministry of defense will not also be on hand. It could show them evidence of the connection between the Honduran supporters of deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and the most important South American supplier of illegal drugs to North America—the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). I know this because recently that evidence landed on my desk.

The FARC is a major player in the cocaine trade, and documents found in computers captured by the Colombian military in a raid last year on a FARC camp in Ecuador show that the rebels have been active in Honduras. A number of those documents came into my possession last week. One is a March 2005 letter to the now-deceased rebel leader Raúl Reyes from another FARC honcho. It provides a list of “political contacts” that have been established around the region and in Spain to provide “support” and help “coordinate the work” of the FARC.

Honduras’s Partido de Unificación Democrática (UD) is on the list. The party has only a small representation in Congress, but it is the only political party that supports the return of Mr. Zelaya. Wherever there are violent demonstrations and roadblocks advocating for Mr. Zelaya, the UD is there.

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Hondurans don’t want Mr. Zelaya in their country because he leads a violent, antidemocratic mob, and he tried to use it to undermine the country’s institutions in exactly the same way that Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez has done. Mr. Chávez has also coached Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and Bolivia’s Evo Morales. Those democracies, too, have been seriously compromised.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574340570960456550.html">full article

[Downwinder]

1. More from the magic computer.

[Peace Patriot]

2. It's mind-boggling that anyone would believe this tripe,

but I actually don't think it is intended to convince anyone, but rather to set up such a din of noise and propaganda and leftists unplugging incubators...oops, wrong war...um, dicks with WMDs 45 minutes from London...darn, can't keep straight which are the lies for which slaughter...so that good people give up trying to understand things and abandon hopes for a peaceful, just world.

This...

"...Hondurans don’t want Mr. Zelaya in their country because he leads a violent, antidemocratic mob..."

...is meant to depress you. How can anything this breathlessly brainless be published in a major newspaper? Well, it is. 'Eat it,' they are saying. 'We have all the power. You can't do anything about it. Give up.' It's a form of torture aimed at demoralizing the victims.

[Downwinder]

3. What can you expect from a murdock press?

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4. There was a time once

when I was just learning about the world... I would read the wsj sometimes, thinking it to be objective. I even had a subscription to the Economist! I thought I was becoming so well-informed. But the more I learned, the more I dug deeper, the more lies I noticed being told.

Anyway I think pieces like this one are effective in that they achieve both aims you mention: 1) convince/lie to the ignorant and uninformed, and 2) depress those that are knowledgeable (and have half a sense of humanity left). I suppose there is a 3) -- for the knowledgeable that don't have a sense of humanity, what is the purpose served there? To signal what position they're supposed to take on matters?

[EFerrari]

6. Watching a rerun of Naomi Klein on FSTV today, she said something

very interesting: the FARC is very useful to the government in putting off democracy.

[EFerrari]

5. If everyone who they say is supporting FARC really was doing that,

FARC, not Uribe, would be running Colombia.