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In reply to the discussion: Chavez foe leads massive march in Venezuela [View all]Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)107. Come back when you grow up.
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Eh, you have to admit though the deathwatch isn't nearly as interesting as the electoral stuff.
joshcryer
Jun 2012
#3
dictators typically allow the opposition to hold large public demonstrations, don't they?
frylock
Jun 2012
#46
When you aren't allowed to run a TV station, or a newspaper, you have to take to the streets.
boppers
Jun 2012
#63
If you can control the media, *and* the streets, you have succeeded in gaining total control.
boppers
Jun 2012
#79
There are DU'ers who post here who live there NOW, who most clearly don't agree with you.
Judi Lynn
Jun 2012
#91
boppers, they broadcast for five more years, lol, until their license expired.
EFerrari
Jun 2012
#90
If you do not support speech which seeks to undermine your government, you are a tyrant.
boppers
Jun 2012
#95
You owe it to yourself to keep up on this information by doing your own reading.
Judi Lynn
Jun 2012
#69
Show me where any TV station could broadcast anything they wanted, and not carry official programs.
boppers
Jun 2012
#75
Show me a station in the US that hosts anyone who led or participated in an attempt to take down
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#114
Yes, we let powerful people off. Reagan was a President, Nixon was a president.
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#140
Our Founding Fathers engaged in a coup. Sometimes a revolution is justified. Sometimes it is not.
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#133
Venevision engineered the coup, they hosted the coupsters, they had them denouncing...
joshcryer
Jun 2012
#149
Don't trouble the Saint Hugo Fan Club with facts - it just makes them cranky. n/t.
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#15
Beautiful picture of brave men and women standing up to tyranny. May their cause triumph. n/t.
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#9
Yes, they are - if Chavez allows a fair vote. Every election to date he's been in he's stolen votes,
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#16
Evidence was provided at your OWN LINK - which you apparently failed to examine before posting.
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#70
Well, wrong again Hannah. But it's nice to see you back on the site, even if you are predictably a
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#73
Venezuela's elections are the cleanest in the hemisphere. It's the pre-vote purges that...
joshcryer
Jun 2012
#84
The elections in Venezuela are Transparent, Verifiable, and monitored by Internatioonal agencies,
bvar22
Jun 2012
#39
The elections in Venezuela have been stolen since Chavz first "won" - this is proven fact, period.
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#103
There are excellent sources already linked at D.U. regarding statements by international monitors,
Judi Lynn
Jun 2012
#108
The elections in Venezuela have been stolen since Chavz first "won" - this is proven fact, period.
bvar22
Jun 2012
#126
yet somehow you can't even manage to pull a link outta your ass to prove your assertions..
frylock
Jun 2012
#129
Once the names are on the ballots, the elections have been fair by all accounts I've read.
boppers
Jun 2012
#65
If he'd been a tyrant, he would have zapped them when they started violent protests,
Judi Lynn
Jun 2012
#35
Whoever said the paramilitaries were 18 years old? Some of them were former Colombian soldiers.
Judi Lynn
Jun 2012
#62
Right, there were like 2 or 3 adults with them... LOL. Why were they sent back to their homes...
ChangoLoa
Jun 2012
#146
Yes, given the Tascón List it is very brave of these people to show support for Capriles.
joshcryer
Jun 2012
#82
It's an argument that direct personal experience may be better qualified and more insightful
Zorro
Jun 2012
#59
They loved things just as they were when Vene. Pres. Carlos Andres Perez ordered his military,
Judi Lynn
Jun 2012
#76
So much ignorance of the history of South America in this country and of the role of the US in
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#100
Well then I guess you don't support the Founding Fathers of this country either. They would have
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#116
Good for Chavez for allowing that. If it were to happen here in the land of the free
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#50
Don't forget those dandy wooden dowels they sometimes like to use on U.S. citizens.
Judi Lynn
Jun 2012
#83
You want to support the view that anyone disagreeing with Chavez is a fascist and a tool of imperial
ChangoLoa
Jun 2012
#53
Perfectly clean elections... except for the blacklisting BY THE GOVT of 30% of the voters
ChangoLoa
Jun 2012
#144
You won't get far with stating the facts to some people. But thanks for trying?
nanabugg
Jun 2012
#153