A week ago, the Drug Czar's blog announced what it calls "Another Sign of Progress in Colombia." The exciting news was that no journalists were killed in that country this year:
Then, yesterday, The Washington Post reported that pop musicians in Mexico are being killed right and left by drug cartels. It's a horrible story of murder and corruption that you won't read about at the Drug Czar's blog. As this nightmare in Mexico continues to unfold, the Drug Czar could scarcely look sillier than by boasting about the survival of Colombian journalists. It just shows once again how selective and therefore useless his statements always are.
Hopefully, once the Drug Czar is finished listing people who haven’t been killed by drug war violence, he'll get around to acknowledging how many people are dying everyday.
Now, via the Committee to Protect Journalists, comes another sign of progress. The Committee has released their annual report stating that despite a global increase in the number of reporters killed this year, there were no journalists reported killed in Colombia for the first time in more than 15 years.My initial reaction was that the Drug Czar is setting the bar very low in his desperate quest to bring good news from the front lines of the drug war. Merely celebrating the recent lack of journalist killings in Colombia demonstrates how prevalent that phenomenon generally is, and does not really make me want to walk around Bogota with a press badge.
Then, yesterday, The Washington Post reported that pop musicians in Mexico are being killed right and left by drug cartels. It's a horrible story of murder and corruption that you won't read about at the Drug Czar's blog. As this nightmare in Mexico continues to unfold, the Drug Czar could scarcely look sillier than by boasting about the survival of Colombian journalists. It just shows once again how selective and therefore useless his statements always are.
Hopefully, once the Drug Czar is finished listing people who haven’t been killed by drug war violence, he'll get around to acknowledging how many people are dying everyday.
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Proposal...
...that we pin a press badge on the Drug Czar (who ought to submit to frequent testing, judging by the incoherent balle that emanates from his office), have him walk the streets of Bogota and give us a field report as to how safe it is.
it's been a great year
When my son first learned to ride a bicycle, he collided with a car, which, luckily, was barely moving -- for days afterward, when I'd come home from work, he would say, "I had a really good day, Mom; I didn't get hit by no cars."
But, you know, he was 5 years old.
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