How Exciting: The Birth of a New Official Enemy! By Jacob G. Hornberger

[Demeter]

http://fff.org/2015/03/13/exciting-birth-new-official-enemy/

There are few events more exciting in people’s lives than the birth of a child. Similarly, there is always a tremendous air of excitement that comes with the birth of a New Official Enemy of the U.S. national-security state. This past week, the American people got to experience this exciting event in the life of the national-security state. Through an official decree issued by President Obama declaring that Venezuela now poses a grave threat to the “national security” of the United States, a new official enemy — Venezuela — was brought into existence as the latest Official Enemy of the U.S. Empire.

How exciting is that!

How exactly does Venezuela pose a grave threat to U.S. “national security”? Unfortunately, Obama didn’t exactly make that clear, but who cares? What matters is that United States has a brand new member of the Official Enemy family. Making Venezuela a new Official Enemy enabled Obama to unilaterally impose sanctions on select officials within the Venezuelan government. But as the Iraqis, Iranians, Cubans, Russians, North Koreans, and others will attest, limited sanctions are just the beginning. Gradually, Obama will use his decree powers to expand his Venezuelan sanctions with the aim of causing as much economic harm to the Venezuelan people as possible.

What’s the purpose of the sanctions? The same purpose sanctions served in Cuba, Iraq, and others: regime change. The idea is that by economically strangling the Venezuelan people to the maximum extent possible, they will oust Maduro from power and replace him with a pro-U.S. dictator, perhaps even through a military coup, like in Chile.

And make no mistake about it: No amount of death and destruction is too small in the attempt to achieve regime change. Recall U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright’s infamous declaration that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions against that country were “worth it.”

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[Warren Stupidity]

1. They are very very dangerous.

The details of how dangerous are however an Official Secret.

[newfie11]

2. The US persecution of Venezuela is a long one

All about the rich and money and has been for many years. I wonder if this has to do with the BRICKS.
What I don't understand is why Obama is doing this.
Is he now doing the olagargs bidding.

[Demeter]

3. He always has before

[Scrabbleddie]

5. Yes to the BRICS.

U.S. Hegemony requires the Dollar as world reserve currency.
Venezuela, amongst many others, are bucking this system.
They've not only pissed off the banks, (financial oligarchs)
(whom are more powerful than god in Washington)
but Israel for being friends with Iran and right-wing extremist
of all stripes for being leftist.

Our foreign policy is either a machine in which the pres is but a cog--
or perhaps, the pres is acting in his best self-interest. I'm not sure--
perhaps both. I'm sure he's drank the policy wonk cool-aid by now.

[COLGATE4]

6. I'd love to learn more about tha "long persecution" of

Venezuela by the US which has been occurring "for many years". Some examples?

[Chan790]

7. Why is RW libertarian tripe being promulgated on DU?

I mean, really...The Future of Freedom Foundation...recipient of the Ron Paul Liberty in Media Award.

The Future of Freedom Foundation was founded in 1989 by FFF president Jacob Hornberger with the aim of establishing an educational foundation that would advance an uncompromising case for libertarianism in the context of both foreign and domestic policy.

The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.



-from http://fff.org/about/

[yurbud]

8. so, you think Venezuela IS a threat?