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Hard to figure this unrec, but I have noticed how extraordinarily corrupt the RW is, here and in LatAm, including the venal corruption of a Tom Delay or a "Duke" Cunningham, or, say, Uribe's sons and their ponzie schemes in Colombia, to the U.S. vice president's company getting billions of dollars in no-bid war profiteer contracts from the VP's war of choice in Iraq, or a billion dollars gone missing in Iraq, or billions of US taxpayer dollars appropriated for the "war on drugs" going to illegal domestic spying and murdering trade unionists and other leftists, in Colombia. The RW = corruption. And it would not surprise me in the least if a RWer supports corruption in the Ecuador police if it serves U.S. corporate/war profiteer interests, directly--by making the Ecuadoran police penetrable by U.S. agents--or indirectly--by fostering mayhem and destabilization to destroy democracy in Ecuador and put Chevron back in control.
If the unreccer's objection was to lie detector tests--a reasonable comment--why doesn't it say so? Lie detectors have little more than deterrent value, from what I understand, although I am not expert. In any case, it would be reasonable--even useful--to comment on the policy. But why would anyone not want people to know that anti-corruption efforts were occurring in Ecuador? Why would it unrec the entire article, and thus help to keep U.S. news consumers ignorant of events in Ecuador? Why does this troll not want anyone to know about this at all?
The government will also be requiring disclosure of assets in order to detect police corruption, according to the article. (That will likely be more effective than lie detector tests.) This is not, however, a very truthful or informative article--but something tells me that that is not why the troll unrecced it. To understand this situation in Ecuador, you have to understand that, until Rafael Correa's leftist government was elected, the U.S. ambassador selected the Ecuadoran police head of the narcotics division, Ecuador was occupied by a U.S. military base (operated by Dyncorp) with spying and operations capabilities (--and which probably conspired with the Colombian military on the bombing/raid on Ecuador in 2008), and the military and the police were infiltrated with RW and probably U.S.-bribed agents (--the military, for instance, misinformed President Correa about the U.S./Colombia bombing/raid, and RW elements in the police were fomenting riots and insurrection to bring down the leftist government--it had little or nothing to do with "austerity" measures, as the BBCons allege; that was merely an excuse).
President Correa and his government are changing all this. Correa threw the U.S. military out in 2009 (by popular demand). He threw out the U.S. attache who was interfering with the narcotics division. After the U.S./Colombia bombing/raid on Ecuador, he investigated and purged the malefactors in the military who were colluding with the U.S./Colombia. And he has been anti-police corruption from the beginning, and was proposing measures to end the corrupt system of bonuses and bribes in the police force and place the police force on a more professional footing with adequate salaries. All of these measures reduced the means by which U.S. agents and their RW operatives could influence and control Ecuador's security forces. The BBCons never reported any of this accurately or at all. Thus, it's difficult to understand how important these anti-corruption measures are, as to democratic governance of Ecuador, good government (--honest, accountable government, acting in the interests of all) and creation of a fair and just society.
My response to bias, disinformation and black holes where information should be, in the media, is to analyze it, not to unrec it. The BBCons have been guilty of egregious bias on the leftist democracy movement that has swept South America. They are not a reliable source on this issue. And I think that anyone interested in the truth needs to understand this, needs to make it conscious, needs to develop analytical skills to detect bias and needs to seek out alternative info and compare. We must NOT "bury our heads in the sand" and ignore the news. We must THINK about it.
The RW, on the other hand, has a strong impulse to suppress that which they don't want people to know--especially where it involves RW corruption, coups, lies, murder and other means to illegitimate power and U.S. support of same--and that which they don't want to think about (--that South America is becoming democratic--truly democratic--at long last).
I still don't understand this unrec. The article has the "dark" bias that the corporate/war profiteer press tries to create around leftist governments in LatAm, rather than the truly extraordinary transformation of the LatAm political landscape with honest elections and governments "of, by and for" the people. Notice the photo of Correa they've chosen to use--a leader better known for his bright smile and honest demeanor than for this dark scowling look. They like "Correa, besieged" rather than "Correa taking charge." That and the "framing" of the story and its lack of context ought to please RWers. So, I can only conclude that whoever unrec'ed this article is a serious RW troll, in favor of corruption and who would have liked to see the police riots succeed in toppling the elected government of Ecuador. Another possibility is a Chevron employee--a paid operative, who just nixes anything and everything about Ecuador, while Chevron and the CIA plot to reconquer the country. "Darkness" is needed for such plots--ignorance, lack of information, and, above all, lack of thought.
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