Posted on 01/31/2007 12:10:35 PM PST by tcrlaf
CARACAS, Venezuela — A congress wholly loyal to President Hugo Chavez approved a law Wednesday granting the Venezuelan leader authority to enact sweeping measures by presidential decree.
Meeting at a downtown plaza in a session that resembled a political rally, lawmakers unanimously approved all four articles of the law by a show of hands.
"Long live the sovereign people! Long live President Hugo Chavez! Long live socialism!" said National Assembly President Cilia Flores as she proclaimed the law approved. "Fatherland, socialism or death! We will prevail!"
Chavez, who is beginning a fresh six-year term, says the legislation will be the start of a new era of "maximum revolution" during which he will consolidate Venezuela's transformation into a socialist society. His critics, however, are calling it a radical lurch toward authoritarianism by a leader with unchecked power.
Hundreds of Chavez supporters wearing red — the color of Venezuela's ruling party — gathered in the plaza, waving signs reading "Socialism is democracy" as lawmakers read out passages of the law giving Chavez special powers for 18 months to transform 11 broadly defined areas, including the economy, energy and defense.
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IS ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION?
Yes. Hopefully he will be dead within months.
another Marxist fire burning in South America ping.
Of course the MSM will not call him a dictator.
The opposition party is very dense in many cases, and should probably think about succession.
They would have some of the military on their side.
"Socialism is democracy"
Gosh, our own Democrats believe this.
As far as Chavez becoming a classic dictator, does anyone think that this event will make a difference to Joe Kennedy and Citizens Energy Corp?
Naahhh, he's a "populist". Much like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, et al.
Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool.
Sort of odd that there wasn't a single detractor. I guess the "show of hands" was simply a survey regarding who wished to keep both of theirs.
Socialism is such a great model, isn't it? Why, just think of all of the great socialist societies and economies in the world today.
Hello?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Never mind.
I think we need to take this guy out.
Unless Chavez is interested invading other countries, I don't think you can compare him to Hitler...
Meeting at a downtown plaza in a session that resembled a political rally, lawmakers unanimously approved all four articles of the law by a show of hands.
"Long live the sovereign people! Long live President Hugo Chavez! Long live socialism!"
I expect a session like the one Saddam had when he was consolidating power where they have an assembly and he has a list of names red and the individuals hauled out, then makes the ones that aren't on the list execute the ones that are to prove their loyalty.
Someday, li'l Ugo too will swing.
The opposition party is very dense in many cases, and should probably think about succession. ..........................Yes but they can expect to be awaken at 3 am if they don't move on it or leave soon. Ever hear of the night of long knives? Its S.O.P. for dictators. All the AK 47's from Cuba are for whom? All the advisors from Cuba are there for what?
One can very well compare him to Hitler. Saying there are parallels and similarities doesn't mean he has to be identical in everyhing he does.
The scary part is how quietly our media will accept his ascendence....
I wish my grandfather were still around to ask him how this went in Germany...
Where's a guy with a sniper rifle when you need him.
My prediction is that this spectacle will turn out to be no different than the way Zimbabwe turned out under Robert Mugabe. Already, those with the means to do so are fleeing Venezuela.
Chavez may last decades as supreme dictator of Venezula, just like Castro in Cuba. When it all comes crashing down, the chaos will be terrific. I hope we don't send one thin dime to help anyone there. Not one Marine. Not one Christian Children's Fund commercial on my TV of a poor doe-eyed child living in poverty next to an open sewer.
How long will it be before Chavez abolishes it?
-PJ
"Execute order 66"
IS ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION?
Yes. The Marxist dimocrats are. They love it when one of their dictators have total power. They love it when power hungry dictators get this kind of power. It is the kind of power they lust for. They want that kind of power for themselves.
As for the "average American." The average American could give a rat's ass less. They don't care unless it screws up one of their reality shows, the super bowl, the BIG GAME on tonight, pizza man getting there on time, free government hand outs, free stuff in the mail, abortion on demand, porn movies on the internet, what have you. No, Americans don't care. That is why this country is going down the drain. Instead of being flush down quickly by a Three or four gallon toilet, we are slowing being flushed down by the 1.5 gallon toilet. Slowly, surely, this country is dying. No one cares. No one that matters that is. We few who actually care, are so in the minority, that we can only express our feelings here among ourselves on a posting web site, because our so called puking leaders in the power grubbing capital do not listen, do not care, are out of power, lust, and not a damned one of them gives a rat's butt about this Republic. I can guarantee you, they will flush anyone, any issue, just to stay in office. I do not trust any of them, from Bush on down. I don't trust any of them to protect the Republic.
Yeah (well, 1933, anyway), exactly. But it's OK with the MSM, Hollywood, etc. because he's a LEFT dictator, eh? /sarcasm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
Well said. You hit the nail on the head.
Anyone care to start a pool regarding when Hugo decides to annex a neighbor? Guyana is the obvious choice.
CARACAS, Aug. 21,2000 (IPS) -- Guyana, one of of the world's poorest
countries, is again fighting with Venezuela over the territory of
Esequibo, where the Guyanese government just granted a lucrative
contract to build a rocket launching site.
That area "is historically and legally Venezuelan," claimed
Pres. Hugo Chvez at a recent press conference. "Venezuela's rights
are irrefutable."
Chvez and his foreign minister, Jos Vicente Rangel, have
stated that they will use "all channels, except the military," to
recover the territory.
Plus, there is a dispute about off-shore oil in this area...
first line should have been in quotes, soory......
I think you're right. Chavez isn't another Hitler, he's another Mugabe, and Venesuela's economy and Chavez's abuses will only worsen over time.
Boyoboy...Pat Robertson has been right about a lotta things...esp. re that Venezuelan lawn gnome.
quite revealing when it a situation where MSM does not have to spin it to make it sound ok, huh?
Didn't the USSR try this for 70+ years?
Right. The guy's more like Joe Stalin or Bob Mugabe...or Mao...or Pol Pot...or Peron...
Who in Venenzuela is going to stop him?
What was that line from the Woody Allen film, Bananas? When the dictator takes over the Latin American country, his first order is something like;
"All men will wear underwear -- on the outside."
I wonder what Jimmy Carter thinks about this?
Time for the CIA to "Allende" Chavez.
Ein reich, ein volk, ein Fuhrer. This would be comic-opera except for the lives it's going to cost.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
""Fatherland, socialism or death!"
Or in other words _
Ein Reich!
Ein volk!
Seig heil!
Those shoes and that beret say U R Gay. .223
Too late. OK, how about the 2nd country?
Man-oh-man. Have things in Venezuela really been so great these last few years under Hugo that so many have forgotten their history?
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