CHAVEZ THE KILLER

New York Post ^ | September 15, 2005 | THOR HALVORSSEN

[Cincinatus' Wife]

AS Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hit town for this week's special U.N. session, Chavez's flunkies were renting buses and offering to reimburse activists willing to create a "spontaneous" welcome crowd for the populist anti-American.

Tomorrow, Chavez will be the guest of Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger. And he'll speak Saturday at St. Paul and St. Andrew Methodist Church on 86th Street; Jesse Jackson is set to appear alongside.

...... Chavez has boasted that his intentions back then were not just to topple the government, but also to execute President Perez. In 2002, as the families of his victims mourned the 10th anniversary of their loss, Chavez memorialized his unsuccessful assassination attempt by decreeing that henceforth, Feb. 4 would mark a day of "national celebration."

Just last month, calls for President George Bush's death emanated from a Venezuelan government-funded conference —the 16th World Youth and Students Festival, Aug. 7-15, in which Chavez and His cabinet took an active part. (The "festival" is a communist gathering that in past decades had been hosted in Moscow, East Berlin, Havana and Pyonyang.)

Participants' political sympathies were obvious as the international delegates, some wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the image of Josef Stalin, networked in Caracas and discussed their respective struggles for communist revolution. Enormous portraits of Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh adorned the general meeting hall.

The multimillion-dollar extravaganza included an international tribunal, broadcast in Venezuela and Cuba. The presiding judge: Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel. Star witness for the prosecution: President Chavez. The accused: George W. Bush, charged with (among much else) being the cause of the world's terrorism. Delegates are on film chanting "Death to America" and holding signs that read, "Death to Bush."

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Oil aids Venezuela's influence (Chavez urges Cuban-style "socialism" as alternative to capitalism)***............Jawahar said Chavez also is trying to build regional support for his friend and ally, Cuban President Fidel Castro. The United States routinely backs resolutions condemning Cuba's human rights record in the United Nations. In recent years, votes on the resolutions have been close.

At a signing ceremony for the oil deals in Jamaica on Tuesday, Chavez urged Caribbean governments to consider Cuba-style socialism as an alternative to capitalism.

"Fidel, I think you were always right: It's socialism or death," he said. Yet Chavez can only go so far in eroding U.S. influence in the Caribbean, analysts say. The United States is the biggest trade partner of most Caribbean countries and their largest market for tourism.

The same day the Dominican Republic signed the Petrocaribe oil agreement with Venezuela, its legislature overwhelmingly approved a free trade agreement with the United States and five Central American countries.

"Only a crazy person would have turned down Chavez's deal with oil at $70 a barrel," said Miguel Ceara-Hatton, a U.N. economist in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. "This won't change relations with the United States."

Still, the Petrocaribe agreement left Caribbean countries indebted to Venezuela. Nine countries - Antigua, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Dominica, Suriname, St. Kitts, St. Vincent and the Dominican Republic - signed deals under the initiative in Jamaica. Cuba and Jamaica had previously signed.

............."Chavez has been generous," said Larry Birns, an director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs. "And in certain respects, he'll expect dividends."***

Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

U.S. civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson (L) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attend a news conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela August 29, 2005. Jackson on Sunday rejected U.S government claims that Chavez is a threat to regional stability and called on both governments to curb escalating rhetoric to resolve their differences. Chavez said on Monday his government would renew cooperation with Washington in the fight against drug trafficking in an effort to improve ties strained by diplomatic squabbling. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

David Horowitz: ***.......It would be difficult to recall, for example, the number of times I have been introduced on conservative platforms as "a former civil rights worker and peace activist in the 1960s." I have been described this way despite having written a detailed autobiography that exposes these self-glorifying images of the left as so many political lies. Like many New Left leaders whom the young Mrs. Clinton once followed (and who are her comrades today), I regarded myself in the 1960s as a socialist and a revolutionary. No matter what slogans we chanted, or ideals we proclaimed our agendas always extended beyond (and well beyond) the immediate issues of "civil rights" and "peace." ...*** Source

[stocksthatgoup]

Hugo is now taking over company after company, industry after industry. Look for other dictators in SA to emerge.

[kipita]

Note to public--read George Orwell's Animal Farm!

[mewzilla]

Chavez's flunkies were renting buses and offering to reimburse activists willing to create a "spontaneous" welcome crowd for the populist anti-American.

Rent-a-Mob.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's a crime to write critically of Chavez.

[roaddog727]

Robertson was right.

[nj26]

Avoid your local CITGO gas station... owned by the Venezuelan state oil company.

[RippleFire]

bump

[Monterrosa-24]

But remember that ANIMAL FARM may be anti-Stalininst but it is pro-Trotskyist. Remember the animals originally got things more productive than ever and were on the threshold of the perfect society before the usurper got his hand in....something that never ever happened in the USSR.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Tomorrow, Chavez will be the guest of Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger.

WTF??????

What's he going to do? Ask for tips on how to inject even more socialism into his college?

[rmlew]

The Columbia College Conservative Club tried to bring Mr. Halvorssen in to speak about Chavez tomorrow. However, the administration quickly prevented them from either holding a speak-out, a lecture, or a protest.
We, at the Columbia Conservative Alumni Association are working with the students to rectify the situation.

Should there be a protest of some kind, we will keep you informed, as we will need help.

[rmlew]

What's he going to do? Ask for tips on how to inject even more socialism into his college?

Probably.
Bollinger has installed an open Marxist to be the Diversity Commissar and review all hiring decisions. White males with the proper respect for minorities, wiomen and the oppressed will still be hired.

To think that Lee Bollinger claims to be a "First Ammendment expert"

[rmlew]

Chavez ping

[economist-student]

Thanks for the ping!

BTW, Did Chavez deliver the speech at Columbia University?

I know he did speak at the UN (after supposedly canceling due to security reasons) It was a hateful speech (with several cheap shots aimed at President Bush and the US) with tons of antiamericanism and calls for a "new economic order" and the usual commie stuff.

I think we should have shot Chavez when he was walking in NYC.

Regards,

[rmlew]

While Chavez's expidited delivery to the underworld would be a boon to mankind, I would preffer it occur in an accident in Caracas.
At any rate the speech will be tomorrow at 4PM.
http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/events.html

[rmlew]

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to speak at Columbia.
University provides a propoganda bio for him and prevents conservative students from protesting.

[muawiyah]

This is the Islamofascist anti-Semitic university in New York City, right?

[Rodney King]

bump

[Grampa Dave]

Jane Fonda's and Cindy Jihadisan's renta mob were available.

[rmlew]

Cancelled -- Chavez Address

Citing an unforeseen conflict with a meeting just scheduled by Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has cancelled his address at Columbia University's World Leaders Forum today.

The University regrets any inconvenience caused to those planning to attend the event.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/05/09/wlf_cancellation.html