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Peace Patriot

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3. Interesting to read what the 1% think of their failed effort to overthrow Venezuelan democracy.
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:49 PM
Apr 2012

When they were hatching their plot to subvert the armed forces, kidnap the elected President and suspend the Constitution, the courts, the National Assembly and all civil rights, did they ever think of those who might be killed because of their lawlessness?

Now they think of advocating for the dead?

Such hypocrites!

El Universal speaks for the 1% just like the Corporate Press here. And they are not just full of crap, they are "Alice in Wonderland" nuts, presenting an upside down, inside out, backwards view of the world, in which the lawful government of Venezuela is somehow responsible for the violence unleashed by the oligarchs in Venezuela in cahoots with the Bush Junta.

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This article is upside down, inside out, backwards and insane crapola from its opening phrase: "Political intolerance and radicalism thrust upon the Venezuelan society..."?

This fascist political tract reads like the attacks of "organized money" on FDR and the New Deal here, during the 1930s. Talk about "radical"! Fascists cannot bear it when democratic forces kick them out. They go on like lunatics, and, in Venezuela, took their lunacy as far as an attempted coup d'etat.

The people threw the oligarchs out of power in the 1930s, here, for their greed and malfeasance, just as the people of Venezuela threw their oligarchs out of power, in 1998, for the same reasons. That is not "radical." That is democracy. And the people of Venezuela went on to re-elect the Chavez government by big majorities in 2000 and in 2006, and to defeat a USAID-funded recall election in 2004, as well as defeating the fascist coup d'etat in 2002, the oil bosses' lockout in 2003 and every other fascist effort to destroy their "New Deal" and return greed and malfeasance to office. They are most certainly "intolerant" of greed, malfeasance and chaotic, violent, unjust, oligarchic rule.

Wall Street is radical. Our Corporate Rulers are radical--and seething with anti-democratic plots and mindboggling greed. The U.S. military-industrial complex, with its corporate resource wars, its torture, its thousand military bases around the world, and its trillion dollar price tag for U.S. taxpayers, is radical. Floating states like Exxon Mobil, with loyalty to no country or people, are radical. The bastards who are bent on looting Social Security, Medicare and all social programs in the U.S. are radical. Their counterparts in Venezuela, of which El Universal is one of the propaganda rags, are radical. They are radical fascists and neither we nor the people of Venezuela are obliged to have any tolerance whatsoever for their wars, their looting, their coup d'etats (whether by fascist coupsters or by Diebold), or their goddamned lies.

Upside down, inside out, backwards and insane fascist propaganda is what you are touting here, as worthy of our attention? Fascists weeping over those who died in the violence that they unleashed? Fascists calling universal free health care, universal free education through college, decent wages and benefits, vastly improved civil and voter participation, the biggest reduction of poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean and the many other achievements of the Chavez government and the people of Venezuela "radical"? We're supposed to take this seriously?

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