Chavez orders supporters to give up extra possessions

CNN ^ | June 11, 2007 | Reuters

[mallardx]

Let's not forget to mention in these Hugo chavez threads, that America's assclown, Jimmy Carter, went down there to certify Hugo's "election victory."

Note to the GOP - if you want my money, make sure your TV and radio commercials show Carter, Pelosi, Rather, Albright etc. coddling the worst dictators of our time. Be mean, mean as a hornet if you have to. Or else NO MONEY. Got it?

[statered]

Maybe I am dense but could you explain that one to me? Is it some kind of koan or sumpin?

[oldbrowser]

But since coming to power in 1999, Chavez has proposed increasingly radical steps to drive Venezuela toward a socialist state and, after a landslide reelection late last year, he declared himself for the first time a communist.

I took him eight years. Hillary could do it too.

The missing ingredient is a militant underclass willing to take to the streets to support their leader.

An underclass that is poor and ignorant.

[DonGrafico]

“Whoever has a fridge they do not need, put it out in the village square. Whoever has a truck, a fan or a cooker they do not need, give something away. Let’s not be selfish. I demand you do it,”

-Chavez (2007)

“From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old! “

-Bananas (1971)

[Boston Blackie]

i was just thinking Hill is probably moist right about now ;)

Thanks ... I just lost my breakfast.

[Xenophon450]

Don’t you worry, Jorge is providing her with such an underclass as I type.

[tflabo]

And you Danny Glover? How many $ millions will you donate to your puppetmaster Hugo?

[TommyDale]

It was one of the more eye-opening scenes. Boris Pasternak was not accepted by the Russians for a long, long time.

[rovenstinez]

I heard Fidel Castro has 2 refrigerators, I think he will put it out for someone to take, maybe they can sell it on ebay.

[ichabod1]

We’re importing one.

[Moby Grape]

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”....Winston Churchill

[dfwgator]

If Hollywood remade Dr Zhivago today, they would portray the Commies as the good guys, and Zhivago as the bad guy.

[Humvee]

Let El Gordo speak! Demanding sacrifices while obviously not on a restricted calorie diet.

[Migraine]

Hillary reminds me more of Strelnikov.

Great analogy. And Bilk Linton is Komarovsky.

STRELNIKOV: "The private life is dead, for a man with any manhood."
ZHIVAGO: "We saw a sample of your manhood earlier, a place called Mink".
STREL.: "They'd been selling horses to the Whites".
ZHIV.: "No. It seems you burnt the wrong village".
STREL.: "They all say that, and what does it matter? A village betrays us; a village is is burned. The point's made."
ZHIV.: "Your point; THEIR village".
STREL.: "And what do you and your wife plan to do at Varykino?"
ZHIV.: "Just LIVE..."

That "private life is dead" part sounds chillingly like the hildebeeste.

[subterfuge]

This is what happens when you let ignorant, undeducated masses vote. Good reason why the Founders of this country wanted only literate land owners to vote. Mob rule is what you get from universal suffrage.

Yep. And this is why most all dictators seize and or kill the educated, first thing. LIke in Vietnam. They put the scientists, doctors and teachers in jail or killed them when the communists took power. This has been repeated throughout history---and Chavez is no different.

[tlb]

“From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old! “

-Bananas (1971)

We are on the same wavelength. For YEARS I have used the Bananas underwear speech to illustrate who Chavez was. They used to mock the comparison. Not so much anymore.

[RightWhale]

"I only want to be accompanied by true socialists," he said.

He is going to be marching alone soon enough.

[Truth29]

I think you are correct. The next step will be reeducation camps in the countryside and then the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

[Adder]

I demand you do it,” Chavez said

Sounds like something Hillary has said....

[Migraine]

sounds like you teach a great course - what subject are you teaching?

World History/Geography