Message from Venezuela to Bush: This Ain't Florida, Gringo!
The New York Times sent out two special e-mail bulletins when Chavez Frias
was temporarily driven from power but for some reason didn't seem to feel that
the reversal of a US-backed coup, the day after it took place, was worthy of
special notice.
All the U.S. cable networks and Sunday morning network news shows fixated
on Colin Powell's this morning because they wouldn't have had time to cover
his meeting with Arafat and reverse all the lies that they disseminated
concerning Venezuela.
Nationalist procurement deviser Condasleeza Rice did tell NBC resident
asskiss Tim Russert that Chavez has "been given another chance to right his
ship." No need to worry there Sleeza, it is much easier to keep ships on course
when they are divested of mutineers.
It must be very scary for Rice to see collaborators brought to justice.
In just a sentence Rice told a lie big enough to spend a lifetime analyzing and
refuting. Her implication was that Chavez was given his chance by the United
States and implied that he was somehow put on notice by the scurrilous attempt
to subvert Venezuelan democracy. The truth is that Rice and Bush and the rest
of the slime that infests the executive branch of the US government are the
ones with a lesson to learn here. They made their move and it failed in
spectacular fashion. Chavez Frias was supposed to be in jail or dead for
representing the will of the people rather than kowtowing to the greed of
corporate riffraff. Instead the traitors will go on trial and Venezuelan
democracy is stronger than ever.
Bush hasn't failed this badly since the last time he took a breathalizer.
Chavez Frias knows his "chance" emanates from the same source that made
him president of Venezuela in the first place -- the people. They stood up to US
covert imperialism, they told the devil he's a liar and they deep-sixed the
corporate junta that took illegal control of their country. As an American I must
say I am deeply impressed by the Venezuelan people, not to mention humbled.
The US made a big mistake in Venezuela -- it planted lies and distortions in the
US corporate media meant to besmirch Chavez Frias but it failed to remember
that very few people in Venezuela read the New York Times to find out what is
happening in their own country. So despite Wolf Blitzer's best insights, the
people knew that they were being robbed and they defended what was theirs
and routed the intruders.
The Court-appointed Bush Administration got its smarmy ass kicked by a
country that will not allow the illegitimate leader of the USA to impose an
equally bogus president upon them. This is a great, great, great day. Just
tremendous.
You lose, Bush. You lose CIA. But I repeat myself.
And now that the cards are on the table, Venezuela's chances are great to
remain an autonomous democracy controlled by its people. The US has tipped
its bloody hand and it's now clear that lies and prefab insurrection, constructed
in Langley and assembled in Caracas, aren't enough to drive democracy from
Venezuela. This gritty sovereign state is lead by a man who owes the people
everything and they are the only special interest he must service. The wealth of
its natural resources will enrich the nation rather than a few privileged
quislings. A wonderful precedent has been set.
The people of the USA are so politically illiterate that they cannot understand
that the words "leftist" and "democracy" go together. The truth Americans
need to learn from Venezuela is simple -- democracy means that the will of the
people must be respected. The average person in the world is poor so the
average person in the world is naturally going to favor the idea that there is a
need for redistribution of wealth. So if the world were truly democratic, like
Venezuela, there would be a lot more redistribution of wealth.
This does not mean people want Stalinist police state aberrations of socialism,
it means they just want to be paid a living wage for their labor and have basic
human rights like health care, good nutrition, literacy, a clean environment,
public transportation and decent housing. It means they do not want to live in
squalor so that parasitic fat cats can engorge themselves on their very lives.
In other words, everyone should get a home before anyone gets a summer
home.
If that seems like a dangerous idea to you, then you better watch yourself, Fat
Cat, because a big dog just moved into the neighborhood.
Viva Chavez! Viva Democratic Venezuela!
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