Posted on 06/01/2007 4:01:23 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
A journalist with some sense of ethics and truth telling.
Charles Barron is a socialist SOB!!
I missed it, don’t know what all was said. I just hope it keeps up down there.
I saw it! It made my day!
As long as communists have a safe haven in the USSA he has nothing to worry about.
Calling that meathead an SOB is too damn kind for that SOB!!
I wish Cavuto had asked him which stations in this country need to be shut down. That would be very telling.
Oops hell. Housley was soft on him.
I have a new reason to tune back in to Fox News.
LOL...it’s about time...
NYC Councilman Charles Barron claimed Chavez was
“duly elected” . That claim is false:
- Súmate, Venezuela’s non-governmental election watchdog stated that “the original recall rules called for manual voting. Chavez bought an electronic system with no impartial audits, no audit of the software and no source code was released, and finally, access was never allowed into the Totalization Room of CNE [National Electoral Council].”
- A multidisciplinary team in Caracas, Venezuela including the rector of Universidad Simon Bolivar, Frederick Malpica, and a former rector of the National Electoral Council, Alfredo Weil found that since 2003, Mr. Chavez has added 4.4 million favorable names to the voter list and “migrated” 2.6 million unfavorable voters to places where it was difficult or impossible for them to vote.None of these additions or migrations to the voter-register has been independently audited in Venezuela.
On the basis of this fraudulent manipulation, Mr. Chavez has claimed a national mandate for all of the following.
• asked his rubber-stamp Congress to let him legislate unilaterally including amending the Constitution, and 100% of the members of Congress voted for that;
• decreed under these powers that he can run for re-election to the presidency for life;
• plans to decree that cities and states will no longer be governed by elected mayors and governors, but by people’s committees named by him;
• owned or controlled all but a few TV and radio stations that either cover his endless speeches averaging 40 hours a week or risk losing their broadcast licenses;
• created one political party and denied the rights of citizenship to recalcitrant members of opposition parties;
• took over the Federal Reserve and spent the national Treasury as if it were a personal checking account;
• funded his campaign with government money and publicly and repeatedly threatened government workers to vote for him or be fired;
• dictated wages, prices, interest rates, profits, and currency exchange rates under the economic theory that he knows best;
• created an army reserve commanded personally by him that was 10 times the size of the existing military;
• nationalized the telephone and electric utilities along with thousands of private enterprises on the theory that collectives are better than private enterprises;
• put military henchmen loyal only to him in charge of government and civil institutions that they have no qualifications to run;
• declared that schools would submit to a curriculum that rewrites national history as he sees it, and mandated military indoctrination for all children;
• dictated the purpose and occupancy for private homes, apartment houses, and properties under the threat of confiscation if owners did not comply;
• prosecuted human rights and voter-rights leaders for treason, which is punishable by 16 years in prison;
• jailed individuals for five years who voiced opinions on TV he disagreed with;
• looked the other way as thousands of his police and military worked the murder, kidnapping, theft, drug, and money-laundering trades with impunity;
• began considering declaring a national religion with him as its spiritual leader;
• changed the way unemployment and poverty are calculated when the international standards of measurement proved embarrassing to his false claims of having solved those problems;
• ran an off-budget slush fund that rivals the size of the official government budget;
• increased the size of a corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy so grandly that he now has at least one employee in half the families of the country;
• traveled the world lavishly preaching about ending poverty, welfare, and theft — the three main characteristics of his government;
• advertised his model of government — with the highest inflation rate and highest murder rate in Latin America, and one of the worst human rights records — as the hope of the world.
Not to mention a new penal code that criminalizes virtually any expression to which the government objects — not only in public but also in private.
Start with Article 147: “Anyone who offends with his words or in writing or in any other way disrespects the President of the Republic or whomever is fulfilling his duties will be punished with prison of 6 to 30 months if the offense is serious and half of that if it is light.” That sanction, the code implies, applies to those who “disrespect” the president or his functionaries in private; “the term will be increased by a third if the offense is made publicly.”
There’s more: Article 444 says that comments that “expose another person to contempt or public hatred” can bring a prison sentence of one to three years; Article 297a says that someone who “causes public panic or anxiety” with inaccurate reports can receive five years. Prosecutors are authorized to track down allegedly criminal inaccuracies not only in newspapers and electronic media, but also in e-mail and telephone communications.
The new code reserves the toughest sanctions for journalists or others who receive foreign funding, such as the election monitoring group Sumate, which has been funded in part by the National Endowment for Democracy. Venezuelans or foreigners living in the country can be punished with a 10- to 15-year sentence for receiving foreign support that “can prejudice the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela . . . or destabilize the social order,” whatever that means. Persons accused of conspiring against the government with a foreign country can get 20 to 30 years in prison. The new code specifies that anyone charged with these crimes will not be entitled to legal due process.
Bush isn’t going to fight with the media. He needs them to carry his water an the amnesty bill.
I hope Mr. Housley doesn’t take any heat for calling a spade a spade as it were.
Lets all start a “TAKE BETS” forum on whom gets overthrown first.... the terrorist running IRAN or the one running VENEZUELA!
I love it!!! Good on ya Adam!!
I think he’s the same guy who was on Brit Hume’s show tonight. He thinks Chavez is just GRREEAAATTTT because he gives free oil to the po’ folk in his district. Argghhhh.
What I’d call him would likely get me booted from FR.
He lost CA for the GOP in POTUS elections permanently.
And remember if the illegals were members of the Swedish bikini team instead of Mexicans there would be a different dynamic to the debate.
What I am trying to say is that the GOP has managed to lose 90% of the black vote in spite of freeing the slaves.
Come out as anti hispican and the GOP is done nationally.
Some people understand this.
Some people don't.
What you are seeing here is the first attempt to implement the Fairness Doctrine...
Chavez gives lots of oil to folks in his district so anyone who gives his folks a handout is a-ok by him. Wonder how much kickback HE gets...
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