Posted on 05/29/2007 11:03:23 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
I was curious whether the Kossacks had anything to say on Chavez' media crackdown in Venezuela. This is what I found:
"It is therefore, as I say, extraordinary to see the mainstream media in the U.S. and Britain insinuating that this move by Chavez somehow represents an attack on democracy and freedom. In fact, the move - totally constitutional - may well result in a media that is more pluralistic, not less...
"[Fear of a successful socialist Venezuela] is the true explanation for the hysterical anti-Chavez propaganda. It has nothing to do with concern for human rights in Venezuela, or a fear that Venezuelan freedom of speech is under threat. That is totally irrelevant to the corporate media, as evidenced on countless other occasions. The problem for the U.S. establishment (and hence the establishment media) is that Chavez represents an alternative to U.S.-imposed neo-liberalism and a direct challenge to U.S. domination.
"He, like Castros Cuba, represents the "threat of a good example". The deepest fear of U.S. planners is that if states like Cuba are permitted to follow a path of independence unchallenged, other states might start getting similar ideas. Hence the decades long American campaign of economic warfare and terrorism against Cuba."
Wow. Just... wow.
Ah, the left, so predictable in their support for socialism.
What’s the deal, lefties? None of you able to compete and succeed where “equality” isn’t forced at the point of a gun?
Yes, Venezuela is ALREADY showing the “success” of socialism.
Land is being taken away from farmers who know what to grow and where to grow it, and given to people who don’t, the net result is NOTHING being produced from the land except the Venezuelan equivalent of dirty hippies.
... Like Zimbabwe.
Personally, I would contribute to a fund which would send a one-way ticket to any third world hole to any lefty that applied. One catch. You must sign a document that promises you will denounce your US citizenship and promise never to return.
These people disgust me beyond all belief.
``Bonds are obviously absorbing all this political uncertainty, all these protests, all the inflammatory talk from either sides,'' said Nelson Corrie, head of trading at Interacciones Mercado de Capitales in Caracas...
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness" Isaiah 5:20 (It just seemed somehow appropriate.)
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness"
Isaiah 5:20 (It just seemed somehow appropriate.)
“dollar-denominated security”
Gee, I think I will email comrade hugo about his dissing of the Venezuelan currency and demand that only that currency be used. (wonder what the price of bonds would do then?/sarc)
Is that hillary on top?
Is she biting his head off?
**Gee, Bush is a bad guy. That makes it "OK" for Chavez to suspend elections, take over the military, the judiciary, the media, and the police, and act like what he is--a fucking dictator who wants desperately to be the next Fidel.
**Hey, if you think Hugo's --suspending the rule of law, --declaring himself Presidente Indefinitely, --halting elections, --tossing the Parliament, --shutting down all opposition media, TV, radio and newspapers, --enacting laws to strip dual citizens of their other-nation rights to force them to stay in VZ, --stuffing the Army, Police and Judiciary with cronies, --funding those agencies, and lining his pockets and those of his cronies with oil money, and --making it a CRIME to say anything bad about "the authorities" is a GOOD thing, well, you feel free to move there. In fact, I URGE you to--then you can report back to us...if you can get internet access out of the country, which is the next thing to go. You have no clue what that guy is doing to the country. But do cheer him on.
**Sure, many of the people there are poor. And that's not a good thing. But I don't happen to think the only way to ameliorate that is to f*** the working class, the middle class, and even those bastards in the upper class, by turning VZ into mini-Cuba.
**If you rob Peter to pay Paul, Peter quite sensibly gets out of there. And those Peters, they're lined up at the embassies, pleading for visas. Chavez SUSPENDED ELECTIONS. What part of "dictatorship" don't you understand?
Doncha think the Kossacks have just that idea in mind if the Dems get a White House victory to go with their Congressional majority? Reinstitution of the fairness doctrine will be coupled with a crackdown of conservative internet sites and an attempt to control cable outlets like FOxNews. It will all be done in the name of fairness and diversity.
He is a true democrat, doing what he must do for the good of Venezuela (22 votes, 35%)
He is a true democrat who may be starting to step a bit overboard in his methods. (3 votes, 5%)
He was a true democrat but has been swept up by his own ambitions and ego to do dangerous things for his country. (6 votes, 10%)
He says he is a democrat but he acts like a dictator. (3 votes, 5%)
He's a dictator plain and simple. (19 votes, 31%)
I'm just a dumb gringo who can't possibly have an informed opinion. (9 votes, 15%)
-PJ
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