Reply #48: "And I though Chavez couldn't piss me off even more." pure comedy gold

[IggyReed]

Yeah, because the president of that "democracy" has surely not done anything as "authoritarian" as Chavez, right? Like, with RCTV, I'm sure you were up in arms when Saakashvili outright shut down opposition newspapers (not, in accordance with domestic law like in Venezuela, where the government didn't renew the license of a media company working with an attacking foreign power, helping to establish a military dictatorship) for no other reason than they opposed him, you didn't need the media to tell you to be outraged, and to post about the evils of the Georgian government. I'm sure you did the same in Colombia when Uribe killed journalists who simply asked the wrong questions, and simply removed opposition media. I'm sure in Georgia when there was reported wide spread vote tampering you criticized Georgia, just like the rest of the propagandists in the US said the Venezuelan vote was rigged (despite seven, seven more than the US during the last election, international organizations, including the Carter Center, saying the vote in Venezuela was clean and legitimate), even though it wasn’t. I’m sure you also were up in arms about the obviously rigged Mexican election a few years ago, which human rights organizations noted consistently.

Quick question: Russia sends some military assistance to Venezuela, you object. Do you have the same objections to the US, through “Plan Mexico”, sending billions of dollars of weapons to the Mexican police and military, who have extensive and systematic human rights abuses (if you want links I have them)? Do you object to the US sending as much military and financial assistance to the Colombian government, who is even worse? How about Turkey? Have a problem with the US militarizing countless countries and relying on the means of war for economic survival? I’m just trying to figure out if you have the same standards for every country, including our own, or if it changes depending on what argument you want to make at the time.