We've never put real value on poor foreigners lives

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...4f903605a40c10&ei=42

I have highlighted a few disturbing things from the article.

How in the Hell does the Peace Corp have such lowlifes in high positions representing us overseas?

This does not surprise me. In 2005/6 I was in Zambia for some time and I ran into quite a few peace Corp workers. Some were great, family type people. Others were overgrown trust fund babies who thought of their time in the Corp as an extended frat party.

I once listened, well unintentionally eavesdropped, in on a conversation outside my guesthouse window as I tried to nap. It was a group of peace corps workers on leave from their rural posts. They were in the capital, catching up with each other. I was shocked as the one upped each other with their tales of drunken debauchery.

A month after I left, the government ordered the PC out of the country following an incident in which a group of Peace Corp workers got drunk and city water tower and wrote a vulgar message on top.(note why I might compare them to overgrown college frat partiers). The graffiti read the name of the town, followed by a vulgar saying common to young American’s: “Kasama Fuck Yeah!”

An American might understand that as praising the town. I believe they meant “Kasama is great!”.

The locals misunderstood the message and were scare. Rumors swirled that the water supply had been contaminated by terrorists.

So yes, the locals believed that the peace corps workers had carried out a terrorist act. Hard to blame them…


Monique Maddie(?) wrote a great book that included tales on her time working with the peace corps brass overseas. Her description made the PC higher ups sound a lot like the whites who had lived it up in East Africa in the 1950’s. Their purpose seemed to be to “have a ball”, more than “spread word of American good will”, throwing cocktails parties and focusing on socializing and networking with no real oversight.

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John Peterson, now 68, received more than $250,000 in salary and bonuses while on leave after he struck and killed street vendor Rabia Issa in 2019. The deadly crash on the streets of Dar es Salaam took place after Peterson was drinking at a bar and brought a sex worker to his government-leased home.

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U.S. State Department officials flew Peterson out of the country the same day. He was investigated by the State Department and Peace Corps but never faced charges and resigned in 2021.

In response to criticism following USA TODAY’s investigation, Peace Corps director Carol Spahn noted that federal law does not allow foreign service workers to be suspended without pay while under investigation.

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At a nearby police station, Tanzanian police tried to give Peterson a breathalyzer test but stopped after a U.S. embassy security official asserted that Peterson’s diplomatic immunity exempted him from such testing.

Records show Peterson did not have diplomatic immunity, a privilege meant to protect diplomats and their families from unfair punishment in foreign justice systems. Peace Corps employees are not typically granted that exemption.