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TCJ70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 12:58 AM
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29. If an anti-Bush student protester...
...was killed by an unknown gunman here would you be so willing to write off the government?
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  -Student opposition leader gunned down in Venezuela Bacchus39  Oct-01-08 07:51 PM   #0 
  - Hmmm  bluestateguy   Oct-01-08 07:57 PM   #1 
  - Must be normal..  Pavulon   Oct-01-08 08:07 PM   #2 
  - I do not want...  iandhr   Oct-01-08 08:25 PM   #3 
  - huh?  harmonicon   Oct-01-08 08:53 PM   #4 
  - you do know that he was an opposition leader who has been assassinated though  Bacchus39   Oct-01-08 08:56 PM   #7 
  - sure  harmonicon   Oct-01-08 09:33 PM   #12 
  - what we know about venezuela is that the universities are mostly  Hannah Bell   Oct-02-08 02:22 AM   #32 
  - Really? All westernized rich kids in all universities in  WriteDown   Oct-02-08 09:51 AM   #34 
  - i didn't say "all", i said "most". nice straw man there.  Hannah Bell   Oct-02-08 01:12 PM   #41 
  - I call them the Gucci protestors. During the coup, they were out there  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 01:07 PM   #40 
  - is being "indigenous" a qualification for a student leader?  Bacchus39   Oct-02-08 01:54 PM   #42 
  - Your exploitation of this death to make weak political points is disgusting.  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 03:47 PM   #47 
  - I have made no connection of Soto's assassination to your beloved Chavez  Bacchus39   Oct-02-08 07:05 PM   #55 
     - "unconditional devotion"?!  harmonicon   Oct-03-08 03:01 PM   #85 
     - You have done nothing but use this kid's death to score points.  sfexpat2000   Oct-03-08 03:07 PM   #89 
  - by indigenous i meant self-originating, rather than originated by elites.  Hannah Bell   Oct-03-08 03:06 PM   #88 
  - Are you sure about that?  Dorian Gray   Oct-03-08 08:01 AM   #74 
  - The point wasn't that his death isn't wrong but that he wasn't  sfexpat2000   Oct-03-08 12:27 PM   #83 
  - this is a public university..  Mesteryo   Oct-05-08 05:24 PM   #98 
  - That would make too much sense  ChazII   Oct-03-08 08:02 AM   #75 
  - We know he had about $180K flowing through his bank account every month and about $1.3 million cash  struggle4progress   Oct-06-08 07:28 PM   #102 
  - If an anti-Bush student protester...  TCJ70   Oct-02-08 12:58 AM   #29 
  - I can only answer for myself here: I would immediately suspect them highest.  tom_paine   Oct-02-08 01:14 AM   #30 
  - who says he accepted the loss?  Mesteryo   Oct-05-08 05:37 PM   #99 
  - There's no reason to write off anyone right now.  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 01:49 AM   #31 
  - probably  harmonicon   Oct-02-08 10:51 PM   #61 
  - What if Bush had won in two legitimate elections?  bluestateguy   Oct-03-08 02:27 PM   #84 
     - what if pigs could fly?  harmonicon   Oct-03-08 03:04 PM   #86 
        - "Tim, that's a hypothetical..."  bluestateguy   Oct-03-08 03:06 PM   #87 
           - in what respect, Charlie?  harmonicon   Oct-03-08 03:13 PM   #91 
  - What?  bitchkitty   Oct-01-08 08:54 PM   #6 
  - The kid was a fundie fascist; why the concern?  An Intellectual   Oct-01-08 09:36 PM   #14 
  - Right, there's no way that the murder of a political activist we disagree with should bother us.  Bucky   Oct-02-08 11:42 PM   #66 
  - Because murder  Dorian Gray   Oct-03-08 08:03 AM   #76 
  - Really?  bdab1973   Oct-03-08 03:34 PM   #92 
  - LOL  ohio2007   Oct-01-08 10:34 PM   #18 
  - For what reason would supporters of the Bolivarian movement avoid this thread?  ronnie624   Oct-01-08 11:57 PM   #25 
  - Nice post.  Billy Burnett   Oct-01-08 11:38 PM   #23 
  - Do you know that? He could be one of the instigators of the cowardly  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 12:11 AM   #26 
  - Sweet!  WriteDown   Oct-02-08 09:53 AM   #35 
  - You didn't bother to read the link, did you?  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 01:04 PM   #39 
  - do you consider his murder a cowardly act too? n/t  Bacchus39   Oct-02-08 01:56 PM   #43 
  - Have you read this thread? Another waste of time. n/t  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 03:46 PM   #46 
  - Good thing someone  Pavulon   Oct-02-08 06:33 PM   #53 
  - No. My position is that he is not associated with some kind of  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 11:07 PM   #64 
  - prove it...  Mesteryo   Oct-05-08 05:40 PM   #100 
     - Please prove Chávez was behind hit. n/t.  freedomnorth   Oct-17-08 02:38 AM   #122 
  - And We Don't Want to Hear From Corporate Stooge Propagandists  Crisco   Oct-03-08 09:20 AM   #79 
  - This was obviously a false flag operation  Rage for Order   Oct-01-08 08:53 PM   #5 
  - In no way,  ronnie624   Oct-02-08 12:15 AM   #28 
  - Poor child.  bitchkitty   Oct-01-08 08:56 PM   #8 
  - Not Chavez personally  Rage for Order   Oct-01-08 09:00 PM   #9 
     - Well, that's quite a leap.  bitchkitty   Oct-01-08 09:08 PM   #10 
  - The security situation in Venezuela is deteriorating.  Pterodactyl   Oct-01-08 09:31 PM   #11 
  - heaven forbid his country has industry!!  harmonicon   Oct-01-08 09:34 PM   #13 
     - Chavez is just Bush in a red shirt.  Pterodactyl   Oct-01-08 09:46 PM   #15 
        - how do you figure?  harmonicon   Oct-01-08 10:18 PM   #17 
        - Obviously, he doesn't "figure," or think for that matter.  bitchkitty   Oct-01-08 10:40 PM   #19 
        - nope  Pterodactyl   Oct-02-08 09:51 PM   #59 
           - People spouting outrageous, stupid statements  bitchkitty   Oct-02-08 11:06 PM   #63 
              - No, you go to Jupiter to get more stupider.  Pterodactyl   Oct-03-08 12:00 AM   #67 
                 - Explain to me how Chavez is "Bush in a red shirt" and I"ll take it back. n/t  bitchkitty   Oct-03-08 01:08 AM   #70 
        - One way?  Pterodactyl   Oct-02-08 09:49 PM   #58 
           - Wow there are many ways and all wrong  AlphaCentauri   Oct-02-08 11:33 PM   #65 
              - Your hostage article link cracked me up.  Pterodactyl   Oct-03-08 12:05 AM   #68 
              - Wow wow!!! only Uribe' trophies count, the peasants and the poor are less valuable than Betancourt  AlphaCentauri   Oct-03-08 10:23 AM   #80 
              - Appreciate your links, and most clearly the link to information on opposition violence against  Judi Lynn   Oct-03-08 03:13 AM   #72 
        - It is a shame you are so ill-informed  carla   Oct-02-08 12:15 AM   #27 
           - Yep....  WriteDown   Oct-02-08 09:55 AM   #36 
           - True. The student opposition leader changed from alive to dead.  Pterodactyl   Oct-02-08 09:53 PM   #60 
  - Add it to the list of Atrocities  StClone   Oct-01-08 09:53 PM   #16 
  - R.I.P.  AlphaCentauri   Oct-01-08 11:12 PM   #20 
  - Hopefully the Zulia government will be more conscientious about finding the murderers of this man  Judi Lynn   Oct-01-08 11:21 PM   #21 
  - Older than I thought he was.  bitchkitty   Oct-01-08 11:47 PM   #24 
  - That's horrible. That poor family. n/t  sfexpat2000   Oct-01-08 11:29 PM   #22 
  - Looks like a conflict over local student government elections (!)  Satyagrahi   Oct-02-08 09:26 AM   #33 
  - Update: Some accused Soto of being responsible for the death of two students in November 2007.  Satyagrahi   Oct-02-08 03:18 PM   #44 
  - Interesting. nt  Guy Whitey Corngood   Oct-02-08 03:42 PM   #45 
  - Am I reading this right? Two opposition groups were in conflict  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 03:52 PM   #48 
  - They're two phony opposition groups fighting over who'll get the graft  Hannah Bell   Oct-03-08 03:11 PM   #90 
     - Just found an article written in Spanish which says he was a lad of only 31 years.  Judi Lynn   Oct-03-08 03:37 PM   #93 
  - ahhh well, those two comments on a blog site clear everything up  Bacchus39   Oct-02-08 06:15 PM   #51 
  - I quoted a local newspaper, a report by Venezuelan TV, a video of the clashes,  Satyagrahi   Oct-03-08 07:14 AM   #73 
  - Hope you have seen the most recent findings in his story. He was up to his  Judi Lynn   Oct-15-08 04:23 PM   #108 
  - Julio Soto allegedly involved with local "ticket mafia".  Satyagrahi   Oct-02-08 07:33 PM   #56 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-02-08 10:24 AM   #37 
  - It's not like they sit around waiting for a Chavez post  StClone   Oct-02-08 12:56 PM   #38 
  - Let's see what the investigation reveals  Zorro   Oct-02-08 04:24 PM   #49 
  - That's true. And the Chavez government has no history of political assassinations. n/t  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 05:19 PM   #50 
     - Well, there's always a first time  Zorro   Oct-02-08 06:24 PM   #52 
     - Neither did the CIA  Pavulon   Oct-02-08 06:35 PM   #54 
        - Our history of political assassination may go all the way back to  sfexpat2000   Oct-02-08 10:56 PM   #62 
        - Actually,  ronnie624   Oct-03-08 12:24 AM   #69 
           - Thanks for posting this group of documents. Going to keep them for future reference. n/t  Judi Lynn   Oct-03-08 02:53 AM   #71 
  - the CIA is known for staging incidents and blaming the left  Umbriage   Oct-02-08 07:49 PM   #57 
  - Chavez is paranoid about opposition in Venezuela.  robcon   Oct-03-08 08:30 AM   #77 
     - The Bolivarian government has no history of committing assassinations.  ronnie624   Oct-03-08 09:11 AM   #78 
     - The opposition has been caught over and over red handed.  sfexpat2000   Oct-03-08 12:23 PM   #82 
  - I have been gone too long.  RedCloud   Oct-03-08 12:16 PM   #81 
  - More on this schoolboy, from a Spanish article, google translated:  Judi Lynn   Oct-04-08 05:19 AM   #94 
  - Kicking for this information. n/t  Judi Lynn   Oct-17-08 01:26 AM   #121 
  - Odd article from Caracas discovered late overnight:  Judi Lynn   Oct-05-08 03:22 AM   #95 
  - This is perhaps related to the reports about the local "ticket mafia".  Satyagrahi   Oct-05-08 08:43 AM   #96 
  - The gist of the article it seems,  ronnie624   Oct-05-08 09:45 AM   #97 
  - Venezuela: 3 suspects in student's killing IDed  Judi Lynn   Oct-06-08 05:10 PM   #101 
  - Investigation is being hampered by the fascist thug friends of certain US moral lepers,  Judi Lynn   Oct-13-08 03:49 PM   #103 
  - From El Universal, opposition newspaper:  Judi Lynn   Oct-13-08 05:17 PM   #104 
  - Contract murdered victim's cell phone implicates him in drug trafficking, stolen cars, tickets  Judi Lynn   Oct-15-08 03:58 PM   #105 
  - More heartbreaking news in the final pages of this young man's history:  Judi Lynn   Oct-15-08 04:09 PM   #106 
  - So, he was apparently involved in numerous illegal activities,  ronnie624   Oct-16-08 12:38 AM   #110 
     - So driven to get a good kick in at an elected leftist leader they nearly wet themselves,  Judi Lynn   Oct-16-08 02:31 AM   #111 
        - Thanks.  ronnie624   Oct-16-08 08:40 AM   #114 
  - The needs of the many outweigh the life of a non-believer  wvbygod   Oct-15-08 04:15 PM   #107 
  - How do you connect this "student's" criminality to Hugo Chavez?  Judi Lynn   Oct-15-08 04:25 PM   #109 
     - I didn't know getting murdered made the victim a criminal  wvbygod   Oct-16-08 04:30 PM   #115 
        - Your reading comprehension could use some work. No one said that.  Judi Lynn   Oct-16-08 06:42 PM   #116 
  - Señor Presidente, somebody is responsible for this and should be held accountable  Jack Rabbit   Oct-16-08 02:46 AM   #112 
  - What keeps you from being aware they have already arrested 8 people,  Judi Lynn   Oct-16-08 03:13 AM   #113 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-16-08 06:53 PM   #117 
  - They're trying to pretend there aren't any articles like this one, from the HUGE Venezuelan paper,  Judi Lynn   Oct-16-08 07:17 PM   #118 
  - Thank you, Judi Lynn...  clixtox   Oct-17-08 07:04 AM   #123 
     - You know the right-wing has had the upper hand a long, long time. They crave power,  Judi Lynn   Oct-17-08 01:47 PM   #125 
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