To: KLP who wrote (64569 ) 1/6/2003 2:08:43 PM From: david Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500 KLP... Right now if I had to leave I can do that , there is freedom of travel, Foreign exchange and most of the liberties of a Democracy,, Problem is we don't know for how long, right now the State human rights, General Attorney. State Controller and most court houses are Buddies of Chavez and wont function for any thing in his detriment. If you follow what happened in most Communist, Dictator or Fascist Regimes (For me they are the same just difference of color: Red, Green and Black) the process is similar,, No independent from the Executive :: Judiciary, Legislative or Controller System, I WILL not leave ( yet) as long as I can put my grain of sand for the Democratic mountain Thanks for your wishes but right now in Venezuela safety is very temporal and relative. I have been telling my Fellow Democrats that I am still waiting for the REICH STAG BURNING well, on friday two Chavez followers were shot in the head in the last manifestation, Chavez is accusing the Municipal Police in order not to fulfill the supreme court order to hand back the MP to the Mayors Command.. I KNOW as a FACT that we the Democrats have the intention and gave the indications to all followers and Municipal Police Sectors to avoid any confrontation and just back off instead of giving Chavez ANY excuse. Those deaths are done by the same sharpshooters that killed 19 opposition on April!11. You ask if would come to that: it might very well come to that, today is one of those days that I feel a bit pessimistic, we see he does all he wants, he doesn't care a bout the country or its peoples suffering, Lately we got Algerians, Libyans, Brazilians and Cubans coming in to help the REVOLUTION and break the oil strike, TODAY we got a CHAINED TV TRANSMISSION with Chavez telling us that he is going to get tougher and he is having to attend the IRANIAN delegation that came with Iran's presidents blessing to help in ANY WAY the revolution, we all ready have the axis of evil in here , where are the democracies ?? It reminds me of the silent majorities in the USA until 1941, how many American life's were lost because of that ?? Sorry for the depresive tone..:-)