Why does the US DEA have a field office within our country? It is in Pretoria if you're wondering and the telephone number is 012-3625009. I don't know what the DEA could possibly be doing here that the South African Police aren't already doing? Is the US DEA here to influence policy or is the US DEA here to fight the war on drugs? Does the US DEA have agents deployed on the ground, working under cover? The term "field office" implies agents in the field. Who in our government has oversight over the actions of the US DEA "field office" and their agents? Just who around here is giving the orders?
"DEA
offices in the Europe and Africa Region
are combating the aggressive methods
of operations used by regional drug
trafficking organizations (DTO). DEA
also monitors evolving drug trafficking
patterns, including the influx of Ecstasy
in Europe and the U.S., movement of
opiates transiting the Middle East
for production into heroin, and multi-ton
shipments of cocaine from South America
in containerized shipments bound for
Europe or Africa."
If the US DEA is involved in work that qualifies as "policing", that would be unconstitutional. Section 207 (2) of the Constitution requires the national commissioner to exercise control of the police and US DEA agents are most certainly not under his/her control. US agents take orders from US bosses.
Nothing has ever been written about the US DEA in South Africa. I have heard anecdotes of their agents working under cover, however in the absence of shootings as occurred in Honduras their presence has gone unnoticed.
The New York Times reports that the US plans to export its war on drugs to Africa (starting off in West Africa it seems). The Pretoria field office covers:
Angola, Botswana, Burundi,
Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia,
Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,
Zimbabwe. If the war on drugs does accelerate in Southern Africa the Pretoria office will in all probability become really busy. America has been exporting its war on drugs misery for decades and they're not about to stop.
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Get them OUT! The US War on drugs is a money making racket that puts people in jail for smoking zol, but runs herion from Afghanistan and Cocaine from South America and launders their millions in banks like HSBC.
Next thing we will have gun running to, with the CIA supplying guns to their dealers and we too will have our own "Fast and Furious! "gun running!
CAN'T THESE PEOPLE JUST STAY IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY????????????????
DO THEY HAVE TO BE LIKE BLOODY LOCUSTS AND INVADE ANYWHERE THEY CAN CAUSING WAR, HAVOC AND DEATH?
They must fuck off nd screw their own kind they've got a history that's appalling
They must fuck off nd screw their own kind they've got a history that's appalling
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