Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Six Years and Beyond – Venezuela's Cliché Road to Self-destruction
Although the very biased Associated Press paints the recent election victory in Venezuela in rather positive terms, most of what has come out of that country since Hugo Chavez has taken power has been quite negative for most in the long term.
I was unable to find in link to a recent (December 03) article on Associated Press's web site but my printed copy has the following ridiculous statement; "…giving the firebrand leftist six more years to redistribute Venezuela's vast oil wealth to the poor and press his campaign to counter U.S. influence in Latin America and beyond…" One can be certain that George Bush will never receive the same lack of skepticism given to dictators and tyrants.
It's rather well known even among Chavez's supporters that the poor have not benefited at all from his "revolution." Poverty, like crime, has increased outside of some Potemkin photo shoots and token rhetoric of support for, "the poor." Chavez's stolen oil money has been pumped into keeping the Cuban gulag afloat while building up the Venezuelan military for his hoped for confrontation with the "great imperialist aggressor" up north.
How clueless do talking heads and Chomskyite papered elitists need to be before they can see the writing on the wall?
Chavez is an ego-maniac with a firmly stated friendship with some of the most undemocratic governments in the world, Iran and North Korea standing out among them. He's fully supportive of Islamo-fascism, Communism, and any other ism that will gratify his own self-image as a heroic enemy of free and successful capitalist society.
Chavez has clearly been handed the baton of the "Socialist Revolution [T.M.]" that has inevitably always led to bloodbaths, political prisons, and "equally distributed" poverty.
Oil will of course float this latest incarnation of Robespierre, Stalin, and Mao…for awhile, and some people will remain impressed with the "compassion" of a demagogue who tosses stolen crumbs to "the poor." (At this point he's only begun the usual course of events that inevitably play out in the name of "socialist revolution," the comparisons to Stalin et al. is an exaggeration for the time being but the affinities in plan and purpose will no doubt play themselves out in time).
The U.S. has officially begun to make some bland and bureaucratic statements about concerns regarding "instability in the region" – clearly the American State Department is as clueless as an unemployed peasant looking for freebies. The U.S. will, of course, have to respond eventually with something more than rhetoric, and when it does it will be accused by a world press of being a "bully" for trying to keep a Latin Armageddon from occurring or an American city and its population from disappearing (it's quite clear by now that Chavez is an all too willing facilitator in assisting the cause of Islamo-fascist terrorism).
For now, Chavez is happy with solidifying his friendship with assorted fellow dictators (yes, I know, dictators can get and maintain power through the electoral process) and buying up supplies of small arms, some jets, and helicopters. I'm fairly certain it won't be long before we'll be hearing of a Venezuelan "need" for a nuclear program and a sale by Iran of long range missiles (to "defend" against "an American invasion"). The world's "anti-war" left will, of course, be thrilled at such news and any sober American response will be seen as "war-mongering." Get a clue folks. "Socialist Revolution [T.M.]" has never been so cliché.
Venezuela's best and brightest (yes, that often means wealthiest) will be soon scurrying away to safer havens as the "Revolution [T.M.]" begins to eat itself and Chavez continues his hyperbolic paranoid rants regarding assassination plots and U.S. imperialism. This is about the time where the "Revolution" decides to pass laws making it illegal to leave the country – remember; to the left, not loving Big Brother is an act of betrayal against "The People [T.M.]".
The face of dogmatism and dictatorship should be clear to anyone with even the scantest notions of history and human psychology, but we live a time when nothing is clear to most.
…"The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity…"
