Here Are The Wild Details From The Secret Service's Prostitution Scandal

[Peace Patriot]

47. I think we need to understand that Colombia, as a country, is a prostitute of the U.S.

Colombia has been prepped for corporate rape with $7 BILLION in U.S. military aid, which has been used to slaughter thousands of trade unionists, human rights workers, teachers, community activists and other advocates of the poor and to brutally displace FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their lands--THE worst human displacement crisis on earth.

This horrible prep for U.S. "free trade for the rich" was mostly accomplished by the Bush Junta (very likely along with U.S. war crimes in Colombia and consolidation of the trillion-plus dollar cocaine trade into fewer hands), but--as U.S. politics goes--Obama is thus poised to dole out the "benefits" to Monsanto, Chiquita, Exxon Mobil and other transglobal "players" while Colombia's own rich, fascist elite cleans up as well. The "benefits" include a huge slave labor pool (5 MILLION peasant farmers now living in city slums, can't feed their families any more, etc.) and huge tracts of fertile, resource-rich land "opened for business."

These Secret Service agents and Special Forces who hired prostitutes and party-ed in Cartegena were likely attuned to the general drift of U.S. policy (no matter who's in charge, Democrats or Republicans), that Colombia is a U.S. colony. Colonizing troops understand what that means. And it's quite interesting that the entire scandal was reportedly triggered by a Secret Service agent who wouldn't pay one of the prostitutes (or wouldn't pay her as agreed). This resulted in a loud dispute (following loud partying). Under Colombia's peculiar laws, "guests" have to be out of the hotel by 7:00 a.m. She wasn't. So the police were called in. How contemptuous and disrespectful can you be, to act as if local "services" should be free or low cost?

We should not immediately dismiss the notion that this was a set-up. Colombia is a snakepit of fascist plotting and fascist secrets on numerous fronts. For instance, the current president of Colombia, Manuel Santos, is in a deadly political battle with the former president, Bush Jr. pal, Alvaro Uribe, who is also "mafia boss" of Colombia (and ran Colombia like a criminal organization, with the blessing of the Bush Junta). Uribe is financed by drugs cartels (and very dirty on rightwing death squads, among other things). Santos, in calling for drug legalization, may be trying to undercut Uribe's power base. (He may also be fronting for Big Pharma which may be ready to enter the market for herbal, recreational and addictive drugs, via legalization.) The U.S. played a very dirty game in Colombia under the Bush Junta. The fascist plotting and fascist secrets involve virtually every agency of the U.S. government: the State Dept. and its diplomats, the Pentagon, U.S. military 'contractors,' the DEA, the FBI, the NSA, the USAID and more.

So, among these interests, who would want to embarrass Obama (just for starters) by a high profile scandal? Uribe springs to mind. Obama, via Bush Sr crony, Leon Panetta, replaced Uribe with Santos, likely because Uribe is so dirty. But they have taken actions to protect Uribe from Colombian prosecutors and other legal proceedings, and they landed Uribe on a silk cushion (among other things, cushy academic sinecures at Harvard and Georgetown) and are clearly afraid of him likely because of what he knows about U.S./Bush Junta crimes in Colombia. Uribe may have been "thanking" them (i.e., warning them) by planting a trouble-making prostitute in the Secret Service contingent. This is just a wild guess, as to a "set up" of the Secret Service agents. There are many possibilities.

But if it WASN'T a set-up, then the other possibility as to how these Agents could be so indiscrete, foolish and suicidal is that they felt that they were in a U.S. COLONY where such behavior by colonizing troops is expected and is covered up by local authorities in deference to the COLONIZER. This kind of attitude is probably not a fully conscious attitude. It's something "in the air" that soldiers pick up on. They thought they were immune.

And it's quite interesting that Bush/Uribe tried to make them immune to all Colombian laws. When Bush's operative in Colombia (U.S. ambassador William Brownfield) secretly negotiated and secretly signed a U.S./Colombia military agreement, with Uribe, circa 2009-2010, that agreement included "total diplomatic immunity" for all U.S. military personnel (and all U.S. military 'contractors') in Colombia. This secret agreement was later declared unconstitutional by the Colombian supreme court, but still, it indicates Bush Junta intent in Colombia. Lawlessness. (That it occurred in 2009-2010 probably indicates additional intent to use the immunity provision retroactively, to cover up U.S. crimes. When Jim DeMint (SC-Diebold) used the rightwing coup in Honduras to blackmail Obama on his LatAm appointments, one of DeMint's goals was very likely to keep Brownfield in place, in Colombia, to get this deal done--a Colombian presidential signature on total immunity for all U.S. operatives--and that would include Brownfield himself. There is evidence that Brownfield, during the Bush Junta, was aiding Uribe in his illegal domestic spying program.)

Soldiers, Secret Service agents, Special Forces, et al, understand this kind of signal and other signals in the dominance game that is colonization. Colombia is less of a country than the U.S. and Colombians are lesser beings than U.S. agents. Thus, frolicking with Colombian prostitutes (and not paying them as per agreement) and causing a fray with loud partying, to them, was not unseemly; it was appropriate to the place (the colony). (And obviously they didn't think this through very well--it was likely subliminal.)

Of course, both things could be true--the Secret Service agents and Special Forces picked up on the colonization vibes AND they were set up.

It's impossible to know, as this point--and we really can't trust any account from corpo-fascist 'news' sources (all of the so-called "mainstream" media, which actually represent "the 1%" and are anything but "mainstream&quot . Sometimes the truth leaks through the corporate B.S. because there are contending corporate forces--for instance, Big Pharma vs War Profiteers, as to legalization. That could be in play--if my Big Pharma theory about these rightwing LatAm presidents pushing legalization is true, and if the Agents were set up. (War Profiteers trying to pressure Obama against legalization--showing him the kinds of ops they can pull off if he doesn't do their bidding?) (Just a guess.)

That is another thing that the agents and soldiers could have picked up on--that the U.S. "war on drugs" is a game. It is a war profiteers game; under the Bush Junta it was a big drug lords game; and now it is very possibly a game between Big Pharma and the war profiteers. What it is NOT is a sincere effort to address the drug problem. And if the "war on drugs" (no matter who is in charge) is just another transglobal corporate game, you better believe that soldiers "get" this and can conclude that they are entitled to their own games--however minor and relatively "innocent" they may be. (I mean, compare partying with prostitutes to the slaughter of thousands of advocates of the poor and the brutal displacement of 5 million peasant farmers. Their behavior--if true--was insignificant compared to the crimes of the military-industrial complex and the prison-industrial complex.)

Mainly, I would caution against believing corporate 'news' stories (about this or anything else to do with LatAm). Something no doubt happened, because the agents and soldiers were reportedly recalled. But deeper issues such as lesser functionaries (the agents and soldiers) picking up on "colonial" policy vibes will never be addressed in the corporate media (because corporations are the beneficiaries of U.S. policy) and the fascist plots and secrets, of course, are systematically suppressed. (Ask yourself: Did you ever hear about the U.S./Colombia military agreement and its immunity provisions, its secrecy and its unconstitutionality before this? So many things are suppressed, "black-holed," distorted or given entirely inadequate attention--mere blips in the 'news' that quickly slip into the Great Corporate River of Forgetfulness.)