When subs are outlawed, only outlaws will have subs

In what The Agonist’s Nate Wilson Turner calls “the wack-a-mole aspect of the farcical ‘War on Drugs’, the United States government has taken it upon itself to outlaw un-registered submarines in interntional waters… and is prevailing about it’s largest cocaine supplier (and recipient of foreign “aid”) to do the same.  Turner quotes a Christian Science Monitor report on innovative home-built submarines (ok, techically they’re semi-submersible vessels) that ply the seas, keeping the U.S. and other wealthy countries supplied with the Andes’ most valued agricultural commodity:

IT IS STILL LEGAL in Colombia to build, transport, or possess unregistered semisubmersible vessels. So, if no drugs are found in a seizure on land or at sea, there is no crime. But a bill that gives authorities the tools to prosecute anyone linked to the subs is soon to become law. Prison sentences for those convicted range from six to 14 years.

The bill follows a new law passed last fall in the United States that outlaws unregistered subs in international waters, regardless of whether they can be shown to have been carrying drugs.

How’s the Colombian space program coming along?