3 DEA AGENTS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN COPTER CRASH, FIRST DEATHS OF THIS KIND THERE

Three Drug Enforcement Administration agents were killed Monday when a U.S. military helicopter went down in the west of Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. The casualties mark the first DEA deaths in Afghanistan since the drug agency began operations there in 2005. Seven U.S. service members were also killed in the crash in the west of the country. Officials say the helicopter had left the scene of a fire fight with insurgents.

"DEA is an extremely tight family, and the death of these three brave [emphasis mine] agents is a devastating loss* for us," DEA administrator Michele Leonhart said in a statement. "No expressions of grief can adequately convey the depth of the collective sorrow that we feel for their loved ones."

In the same way that I wouldn't have been upset 200 years ago hearing that some government agent was killed while trying to stop a Black slave from the South who was fleeing for his freedom; in the same way that, since I consider the U.S. attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are criminal actions and, therefore, do not support the U.S. soldiers cum murderers over there—nor have any sympathy for any U.S. soldiers who are killed over there; as a Libertarian I have no sympathy for any person killed while working for any gunvernment agency that is involved in preventing human beings from having control over their own bodies (which obviously includes what they put in their bodies). Does this make me a heartless person? No. It makes me an honest person.

"Brave" agents. Do you know what brave is? Standing up against all gunvernment tyranny—not just the obvious ones like our criminal military wars.
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*How about the devastating loss to the families of many innocent civilians who die every day because recreational drugs are illegal and, therefore, has created a criminal class of people that commit murder during a robbery to support their drug habits? Without "brave" DEA agents to enforce the un-Libertarian drug laws, those civilians would not have been murdered.

UPDATE: William Thornhill adds insult to injury with this other story about the DEA presence in Afghanistan.