Posted on 01/29/2002 6:46:39 AM PST by patent
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Chavez fires friend from his Cabinet as 80,000 hit the streets (installs another '92 coup ally)
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Back in the days of Michelangelo the Pope himself would lead his Catholic forces into battle -- as shown in "The Agony and the Ecstasy"
In past months, Chávez has tried, unsuccessfully, to establish a Church loyal to his government (similar to that in China), separated from the bishops, with priests and former priests who subscribe to his Marxist ideology.
Interesting.
Thanks patent ...
Venezuela Catholics Condemn Church Bomb Incidents-- Interior Sec Miquilena told reporters on Tuesday those responsible were ''provocateurs who are trying to stir up trouble and distort certain realities.''
Venezuela on a crash course under President Chavez -- Most of the media, small opposition parties, the Roman Catholic Church and anti-government unions recently intensified their verbal attacks on Chavez and his ministers, accusing them of intolerable incompetence, authoritarianism and corruption.
The outburst of criticism prompted Venezuela's armed forces chiefs to issue an unusual public statement backing Chavez. But the declaration, aimed at dispelling nagging coup rumors, only increased speculation about simmering military discontent....
And the US gets a lot of oil from Venezuela...
For the security of our country, we must drill ANWR, we must drill offshore, and we MUST lessen our reliance on foreign oil...
Chavez is trying to politicize the Church, and if he succeeds in installing a religious regime similar to China's, it would be a good idea to remember that in the future...there have been and will be more martyrs...
I have visions that one of my 3 Catholic sons will be the next F-14 pilot bombing Chavez's Quaddafi-like butt into fried paste.
I know what you mean, but it would be nice if the Venezuelans could do something about this turd before it gets to that. The last thing the world needs right now is another dictatorship persecuting Christians.
Oh, and you should probably hope that by the time your sons get there that the Air Force has something besides an F-14 left to fly, or your sons are hosed. ;-)
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So what are you flying when the beat you, I mean the other side? If memories of my childhood serve, it never mattered how hard the parent tried, he could never beat the kid at the video games. The key, as an adult, is to simply take the humiliation like a man. I firmly resolve to do so, and even have a game plan to deal with it gracefully.
I'm not going to buy them any games. ;-)
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Hopefully, the Venezulan people will boot this imposter out. But if not, they can be my guest.
Liberation Theology. IMHO, straighten out the priest or remove him from ministry.
I have a lot of relatives in Venezuela, who have told me about the situation there. You have millions of urban poor living on the outskirts of Caracas in ranchitis (sp?), sort of like suburban shanty-town ghettos. These are made up of Columbians, other immigrants, etc., and their sheer numbers and abject poverty make it politically expedient for Chavez to fill their heads with socialist schemes of wealth. That's where his support comes from, so I don't think he will be very easy to displace--at least not peacefully.
Which is why Chavez isn't doing anything to improve their situation, he just incites their frustration, blames it on his opponents and uses it as an excuse to take more and more power. Once it blows up all the way, he'll totally take over. Chavez's embrace of Castro and his decree (one of so many) that no one can protest his Bolivarian schools and where praise of his failed coup and of him is mandatory, as is military training for students along with the installation of Bolivarian watch groups, send chills down my spine. And that just scratches the surface.
Einstein, an atheist, said,
"Being a lover of freedom, when the [Nazi] revolution came I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors o fthe newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks.
Only the church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for supressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the church alone has had the courage and persistance to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."
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