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Now there's an idea!

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Saturday, January 1, 2011 11:26 AM

NIKI2

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The Colombian government plans to use lands seized from drug traffickers to relocate victims of massive flooding and the United Nations is beefing up emergency measures in what has been called the South American nation's worst natural disaster ever.

More than 300 people have died in the torrential rains that have drenched Colombia for several months and another 2 million people have been affected.

"We found people isolated in the hills, in places where the roads have been destroyed, and their children were hungry," said Marlene Mesa, a staff member for the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, in a statement Friday.

The Colombian government announced Wednesday that it has passed a decree that will allow lands confiscated from drug traffickers to be managed by the National Calamity Fund to provide shelter for those left homeless by the floods.

Dunno how well it will work, but sounds like a good idea to have people occupying those lands so they don't fall back into drug use. To me at least.

The situation is dire down there. More at http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/12/31/colombia.floods/index.htm
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Saturday, January 1, 2011 12:40 PM

DREAMTROVE


That's no kind of idea at all. The assertion that someone is a drug trafficker is random, and at the heresay of govt., and that they have to be seized just gives the govt. a reason to seize them.


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Sunday, January 2, 2011 8:24 AM

ANTHONYT

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Hello,

I do fear that a government which seizes and redistributes the land will start seizing it improperly and redistributing it improperly.

--Anthony

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Sunday, January 2, 2011 8:26 AM

NIKI2

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Certainly that's a danger. Given the situation, I'm not sure I wouldn't be more willing to accept the solution than not, however. Just my opinion.


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