A Fateful Harvest - part 6 - Corruption

Last year, the country's drug trade was a $4 billion business. In an impoverished country, that money breeds a pervasive secondary problem: corruption

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[scrubbycritter]

Yea the smart people know that almost parts of all governments have been infiltrated and corrupted.

Money rules everything, even the hearts of men.

[claptonis]

did anyone notice at 20:15 the guy gets sentenced to pay 700,000 AFA's? or $14,300 US dollars. While the average farmer in the country makes $400 dollars a year. Fair? It would take you half a life-time to pay that off and add the 10 years to that--It's a death sentence...

[AndyM138]

@claptonis he wasnt a farmer though he was trafficking the drugs

[rx7dren]

4 billion a year divided in to $400/ farmer per year is 10,000,000 farmers population of Afghanistan is 30 million people so 1/3 are growers..........oh man are they ever bad people, either that or the info we see is not real

[dexodrine]

Amazing how this is a mirror image of the way the "west" is concerning the "war on drugs"...

[ziaahmadzi1]

fuck whole American who the fuck is they are coming to Afghanistan and fuckin resting drug traficking leader in Afghanistan and taken them to fuckin America fuck them all basterd people.

[patsyd80]

Lulz. Heroin is so dam LoL.

[whatthehell81]

@scrubbycritter Even smarter people know that the jews, with their rule-book the talmud and one of it´s derivatives the protocolz of zion, created the banking systems that poors down everyone, favours those in power with them and rules everything in the western world.

Ezb, imf, fed... all Rothschild, Goldmann, Oppenheimer, Kuehn, Loeb... creatins to rule the world!

[silver760]

@CrashmagFilms On a different subject,someone savvy in the US could buy old US cars,as in running but very rough,for peanuts.Ship them to afghanistan and sell them,there's some good money to be made there.Looking at the cars they have,they are lucky if they have a windscreen and doors! All you would need would be say an advance of $10K to buy up 200 or so cars and ship them over and appoint someone to sell them,or go there and do it yourself.Any takers? cant do it from UK as cars are RHD.

[silver760]

Would you want to spend 15 years in Afghanistan or 15 years in a nice warm prison,with good food,TV,games room,gym with drugs available and a mobile phone smuggled in to run your business from your cell? I'd go for the US prison option,by the time they let you out you can apply for US citizenship and employ the prison systems rehabilitation system to give you a house,job and occasional money handouts.Great!

[CrashmagFilms]

This truly is a Prison Planet. Jails being built by Haliburton and other companies world wide. While the military goes in to kill off any competition. There is no War on Terror, just the same old same old "Keep the Masses under Control"

[Jarrad69able]

@claptonis how is he a farmer hes a drug dealer?