I don’t have a big problem with Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio holding a campaign event at the restaurant of a convicted drug smuggler. I think it’s amusing because of their criminal justice perspective, but he did his time and righted himself,

Bermudez, who was 38 years old when he was arrested on the coke charge, was part of a conspiracy to smuggle 248 kilos

Reinaldo Bermudez, who served three years in federal prison after pleading guilty in 1999 to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/08/site_of_mitt_romneys_campaign.php

3 freaking years for 248 kilos

Controlled Substance Minimum Sentence Maximum Sentence
Cocaine 400gms – 149.99 kgms 15 years + $250,000 fine 30 years

http://www.ejdirga.com/criminal_offenses/drugs/controlled_substance_penalties.htm

Maybe you should care David because the only way you get a sentence like this is by bribing a judge, selling drugs for the CIA or squealing to the feds.

The Central Americans provided roughly $9 million — 40 percent — of Bain Capital’s initial outside funding

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the Salaverria, Poma, de Sola and Dueñas clans — were also at the time financing, either directly or through political parties, death squads in El Salvador. The ruling classes were deploying the death squads to beat back left-wing guerrillas and reformers during El Salvador’s civil war.

The death squads committed atrocities on such a mass scale for so small a country that their killing spree sparked international condemnation. From 1979 to 1992, some 75,000 people were killed in the Salvadoran civil war, according to the United Nations. In 1982, two years before Romney began raising money from the oligarchs, El Salvador’s independent Human Rights Commission reported that, of the 35,000 civilians killed, “most” died at the hands of death squads. A United Nations truth commission concluded in 1993 that 85 percent of the acts of violence were perpetrated by the right,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/mitt-romney-death-squads-bain_n_1710133.html

I don’t think anyone who squealed to the Feds for a 248 kilo Coke deal would ever show his face in public much less leave Witness Protection.

This, however, is much more serious:

Jean Donovan (April 10, 1953 – December 2, 1980) was an American lay missionary who was raped and murdered with three nuns in El Salvador by a military death squad while volunteering to do charity work during the civil war there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Donovan

Reagan Administration admits Contra-cocaine connections

On April 17, 1986, the Reagan Administration released a three page report acknowledging that there were some Contra-cocaine connections in 1984 and 1985, arguing that these connections occurred at a time when the rebels were “particularly hard pressed for financial support” because U.S. aid had been cut off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US

If Mitt met this guy through his Death Squad supporting American Nun killing, coke dealing friends this is a big deal.

They’re basically saying that the trip was paid for with campaign funds, and the campaigns involved got money from defense industry PACs, so the trip was subsequently paid for with defense industry dollars. That’s not entirely fair;

Fair is one thing but this is only a big deal if its illegal and if the Justice Dept were to actually do anything about it.

I would be wondering if the coke dealer and has any cartel friends who want a Presidential Pardon or if Mitt’s Death Squad investor’s want some more military aid to El Salvador?

I recall that even Milton Friedman stated that money spent on defense does not benefit the economy as much as money spent in other areas.

We continually raise our defense budget while cutting safety nets and spending in vastly important areas like education. Our defense spending does not even include the black budget items that see substantial funds never reaching the light of day.

Even though the Cold War has been dead for decades we continue to arm as if it is still alive. Even though wars are now local conflicts we arm our military for global war.

Even though Republicans rant against welfare spending they support fully welfare to defense contractors. Even though Democrats say they support welfare spending and other safety nets they act like cowards when it comes to taking a stand against raising the defense budget yet again. Even though Obama speaks about peace he acts to prolong war.

Here’s the link to McCain saying

“I am absolutely confident that he did NOT pay taxes.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29vt9WNRmxY&feature=player_embedded
F2F INTERVIEW: SENATORS McCAIN, GRAHAM AND AYOTTE

Why is Ayotte doing this tour yet claiming she wants the “Defense” Department audited?

http://www.ayotte.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=672

I guess it is the faker tactic.