Written by WASHINGTON — The United States paid $10 million in each of the past three years to informants in an effort to capture major druglords, a senior government official told lawmakers Thursday.
The program, sponsored by the State Department, has paid out $71 million since it was launched in 1986, said Brooke Darby, deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
“Over the past three years, our Narcotics Rewards payments have averaged approximately $10 million annually,” Darby told the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade.
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Drugs, Medicines, Vaccines and the Freedoms to Discover and Believe
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There are several important principles I prescribe to and I try my best to adhere to them in my life. These principles form the basic tenets to building a free society. The most basic of these beliefs is the idea that you own yourself. Any person is the owner of their own body. No one should be able to force a person to do something with their own body that they do not want to do. No one should be able to force another person to eat a certain food, or take a certain medication, or ingest anything of any kind if that person does not want to, even if it’s supposedly for the benefit of that person, even if it’s for the benefit of all humankind. Only non coercive methods of convincing someone to partake in any kind of ingestion, injection, or procedure, invasive or non invasive, is acceptable, or we are not free. READ MORE »