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In reply to the discussion: Chavez foe leads massive march in Venezuela [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)50. Good for Chavez for allowing that. If it were to happen here in the land of the free
there would have been robo cops armed to the teeth out, arresting and beating up the demonstrators.
Actually it has. You cannot demonstrate freely and peacefully in the US without this kind of thing happening.
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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