Posted on 04/24/2017 7:33:51 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Amnesty International says a new decree in Venezuela that says the government can make any of its citizens farm the country's fields in order to combat its current, punishing food crisis "effectively amounts to forced labour."
"The decree, officially published earlier this week, establishes that people working in public and private companies can be called upon to join state-sponsored organizations specialized in the production of food," Amnesty International reported.
"They will be made to work in the new companies temporarily for a minimum of 60 days after which their 'contracts' will be automatically renewed for an extra 60-day period or they will be allowed to go back to their original jobs."
Venezuela's economy has been in a tailspin since 2014, a year after the death of the architect of the country's decade-plus-long socialist revolution, Hugo Chavez.
His successor, Nicolas Maduro, then took over only to face a swift and brutal decline, turning Venezuela into what economist Steve Hanke calls "the most miserable" country in the world. Aside from a food shortage, the country is also experiencing almost 300% inflation, frequent and violent mass protests, a massive public health crisis, and intense political repression.
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The Who were prophetic:
“Out here in the fields...
have to fight for our meals...”
Run out of other people’s money-— initiate slave labor.
“The Hunger Games” in real life..
CC
Just like Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, Kim Jung Un and Fidel Castro.
Cambodia redux
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Utopia is here!
Standard marxism. Who will be the new kulaks?
This is at least the second time I’ve heard about decrees like this in Venezuela. There was definitely a similar one a few months ago...
Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
[ “They will be made to work in the new companies temporarily for a minimum of 60 days after which their ‘contracts’ will be automatically renewed for an extra 60-day period or they will be allowed to go back to their original jobs.” ]
Oh yeah. This will end well. I’m sure they’ll need to microchip or tattoo them at some point, too. For “peace and security”.
They’re going to need a scapegoat.
http://www.folkways.si.edu/negro-prison-camp-worksongs/african-american-music-folk/album/smithsonian
They really should look into slavery songs and spirituals. It helps the work go by!
I wonder what the “or else” is ?
even though “or else” wasn’t mentioned.
Pol Pot lives.
Kill Maduro, dig up Chavez, handcuff their children and wives to them. Pile on dried cow manure and then diesel fuel. Let one of these communists victim families light the match. No tyrant deserves a natural death. I might add, all tyrants deserve to be burned handcuffed to their families. It is just to send a message to future criminals who may think of doing this. They would know the consequences.
See, see you mean-old right-wing capitalist pig FReepers! Socialism does work! Everybody has a job and will be put to work, and the ones who can’t keep up will be gunned down in cold blood! Let’s try it here, shall we?
It worked out for Pol Pot, didn’t it? At least until the Vietnamese took care of him. Too bad Manure-o doesn’t have a bunch of Viet Minh on his border.
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