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from the voting rolls, and just let the rich people vote, who never....support dictators.
By the way, WHO has Chavez "dictated to"? What laws has he broken? What provisions of the Constitution has he violated? Who has he tortured? Who has he killed? Who has he invaded? Who has he even jailed unfairly? Whose property has been confiscated without fair compensation? Who has been prohibited from holding street protests? What elections has he stolen? Who has he silenced (other than ONE war profiteering corporate news monopoly, RCTV, that actively participated in a violent military coup against the legitimate government)? Who has he prevented from running for office, and speaking their minds on all the OTHER rightwing TV/radio monopolies of the public airwaves? What country has the MOST transparent elections in the western hemisphere, and the liveliest political culture with widespread citizen participation?
"Dictator, dictator, dictator" is 100% Bush State Dept./war profiteering corporate news monopoly DISINFORMATION, cuz the Andes democracies, rich in oil, gas, minerals and other resources (Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia--all now with ELECTED leftist leaders) is the U.S. War Party's NEXT "theater of war."
You think Saddam and the WMDs was bad? This is WORSE--assassination and destabilization plots, rightwing paramilitaries and the phony, murderous U.S. "war on drugs" forces, including U.S. military bases on the Colombian/Venezuelan border, to attack DEMOCRATIC countries. Fascist Bushite plots to destroy these democracies have failed thus far, and will fail, in the end. That doesn't mean they can't cause more suffering such as that of union organizers, peasant farmers and political leftists, in Colombia, who have been tortured, chainsawed and their body parts thrown into mass graves, or the peasant farmers on the Colombian/Venezuelan border getting sprayed with U.S. chem pesticides--animals, food crops destroyed, human DNA damaged--to drive them off the land so the major Bush-connected drug traffickers and Chiquita Banana, Drummond Mining and Monsanto can control land and resources.
And that doesn't mean the U.S. War Party is not planning a major offensive against these democracies, to follow assassinations and destabilization actions. I think it's very likely that they ARE. They are pouring billions of dollars in military aid into Colombia, and also Peru and Mexico, to prop up rightwing regimes, and to further militarize the war on the poor.
Chavez and the other Bolivarian governments (Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Nestor Kirchner in Argentina, and soon--this year--Fernando Lugo who will likely be elected in Paraguay) ADVOCATE for the poor, have formed strong alliances and cooperative institutions (such as the Bank of the South) to further Latin American self-determination, and ALSO oppose the very corrupt U.S. "war on drugs."
But the main thing that I hope Sean Penn brings back with him to this country is the need HERE for TRANSPARENT vote counting. The South Americans' hard work on clean elections is WHY they have good, leftist (majorityist) government-- and our egregiously NON-transparent system--electronic voting with 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations--is why we do NOT.
To help protect the democracy movement that is occurring there, we have to RESTORE democracy HERE. Step One is restoring vote counting that everyone can see and understand. They've done their democracy fundamentals in South America. We have not. We've been very stupid and negligent about our voting system, and have basically suffered a fascist coup in the form of secret corporate vote counting. Now we need to undo it! But we can take heart from the odds against South American democrats with a small d when they started out, after decades of fascist juntas and horrendous violence. If they can do it, so can we.
Our public vote counting movement needs to occur at the state/local level, cuz Congress ain't gonna do nuthin! And it has already begun, and got a major boost yesterday with Calif Sec of State Debra Bowen's gauntlet thrown down to the Bushite voting machine corporations. Bowen needs our strong support! She is fighting corrupt county election officials, as well as major Bushite players (Diebold and ES&S). Whatever you can do--letters, phone calls, spreading the word, donating to real election reform groups like www.votersunite.org--do it NOW!
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