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Venezuela’s President Chavez is to be commended for being the truth-teller!

by Open-Publishing - Monday 29 August 2005
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Edito Religions-Beliefs Governments USA South/Latin America Mary MacElveen

by Mary MacElveen

In light of Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez then apologizing for it, what I have witnessed is the sounds of silence coming from all of our elected leaders, be they Democrat or Republican, chiming in unison that this was wrong.

Then again, it goes hand in hand with the culture of death we are living with in this country.

Yes, you heard me correctly ... this is a culture of death where the benefactors are the rich and the powerful that control our lives on a daily basis.

I would like to know how we are protecting lives in this country when an alleged man of God can state what he did without the full weight of this government coming down upon him ... these are not the rantings of a person who does not have access to the media, but rather a person who does ...and has millions of supporters.

To further show how we have become a culture of death, someone sent me a clip called "Poisonous Legacy."

She wrote: “Very Graphic Mary ... you may not want to see it." My response to her was that “if I am going to be an anti-war activist, every horrific image must be witnessed."

– How can we as a country state that we are a culture of life if we condone the actions of Pat Robertson and do not address the very images you now have seen?

How can we bold-facedly state that President Chavez is a threat to our country, when we have done this to children?

To the ’Right to Life’ movement in this country, I dare you to view this clip. Depleted uranium is such an insidious killer, yet no one in our government is speaking of it. Our soldiers have been and continue to be exposed to this deadly killer and our government refuses to address this. Our military gets lousy pay, lousy benefits, no real protective armor ... but they do get depleted uranium.

I find it remarkable that many in this country can condemn socialism, praise capitalism where the end result as we have seen is death.

In Venezuela, President Chavez is promoting life!

Did I just say promoting life? He is feeding the poor which sustains life and that is evil? Through his governance, he has been able to give the citizens of Venezuela free access to medical care. In America, we gravitate towards anything free, but for the life of me, I cannot understand those who attack socialized medicine.

– Why do we as a society support a system that is failed and broken?

– Why is it so abhorrent to the American people?

I see getting medical help into as many people’s hands as being something worthwhile and where it promotes life. As it stands, millions still go without medical care in this country because they cannot afford it or where their employers do not offer it to them. The end result is where many continue to suffer and in many cases the most heinous end result is death. They will die from diseases where there is a cure.

Another clear example on how we are a culture of death is that the Downing Street Memo has all been forgotten by our media and our government. The Downing Street Memo will clearly show how this president fixed the intelligence to mesh with his plans to invade Iraq.

Thousands upon thousands of people have died as a result of Bush’s actions.

Yet, President Chavez is labeled by our media as being a dictator ... or a threat to our country? The true threat to life is president George W. Bush. You know, the man who stated during the Terri Schiavo case that "We must err on the side of life."

Well prove it, president Bush.

Then again, he is a coward when he will not even meet with Cindy Sheehan.

Frances Farrar just wrote a brilliant letter in VHeadline.com entitled "President Hugo Chavez is seen as an obstacle and impediment to easy plunder" where her assessment of the media concerning President Chavez is correct. But, I especially loved the way she ended her piece where she rightfully asks "By the way ... where is Karl Rove?"

If as alleged by many articles that Karl Rove did in fact leak the identity of Valerie Plame, he must be tried for treason. Through her work as a CIA agent her responsibility was protecting life. Had her cover not been blown she could have thwarted further attacks upon innocent people. We only have to look at the London, Bali, and Madrid bombings to know this to be true. With Mr. Rove still out there, free to walk amongst us and not being tried if the allegations are true, it goes to prove we are a culture of death.

But our media relentlessly targets President Chavez ... he wasn’t responsible for the deaths of any innocent people.

Who is the real threat to human lives America: Is it President Hugo Chavez or Karl Rove?

Which president endangers our lives world wide? Is it President Hugo Chavez or is it President George W. Bush? If you cannot answer this, you have been watching too many hours of Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC or better (?) yet glued to your reality (?) TV programs.

To further prove how we have become a culture of death is when we do not hold this president accountable where he promised us Osama bin Laden "dead or alive" He broke his promise, America to capture this monster. He then had the audacity to state "I do not know where he is, he is not important and not our priority."

What?!

This monster killed three thousand of our citizens and this president is letting him off Scot free? Has he just condoned the deathly actions of this monster by not going after him?

And now that we have helped establish a fundamentalist government in Iraq: How many more Osama bin Ladens’ do we have to look forward to when they do attack us?

President Chavez is to be commended for being the truth-teller when it comes to Bush and has gone up against him, clearly calling him for what he is ... "Mr. Danger!”

Mary MacElveen
xmjmac@optonline.net

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=45691

Forum posts

  • Give us Chavez ANYDAY... and take away these huge Corprorations that run the U.S.!!

  • Bush the monster stays the course even the American "ship" has already crashed on the cliffs.

    What happens to those American people who had already to stay in the bilge of that ship!

    The great satanic capitain does not care. He asks them to sacrifice more lives for his stupid/heinous cause.

  • People in the U.S. don’t deserve anything. They sit around and snivel about the cost of gasoline to get to their jobs, the rising prices due to the demand of a tiny amount of oil available having to be paid for by their insignificant wages. When really, they deserve to sit in cold homes, down-size to a bicycle, watch every light globe burning knowing that the electric bill will take their last dollar, hot water is not a necessity and they can always wash their clothes down by the river. Plus many of them get along just fine living under the bridges. What makes them think they are entitled to anything that would make their lives easier or more convenient? Their government is trying to get it through their thick heads that being a poor slob is inexcusable and punishable by the harshest methods possible. If these wanna be people don’t like the American way, they can shout it to the moon America allows free speech they can scream their lungs out for all anyone cares. Love it or leave it. Grandma can eat dog food and cut her pills in slivers its her own fault that she isn’t wealthy and born into the class that matters and deserves help from Uncle Sam, if she had any class she qualify for some "Pork". The U.S.A. is for the priviliged who deserve it, not some pathetic disposable "work animals" useless to all once they are too old and have outlived their ability to contribute to what matters. Let them go live with Chavez, apparently he will allow any pee-on to stink up his commie country.

  • right on..............

  • Please Mary,
    It is not irrelevent that 1/3 of those killed in the twin towers on 911
    were not american citizens. The twin towers were the WORLD corporate center.
    That doesn’t mean benLaden isn’t a monster, but it is important to know who he really
    was attacking.

  • Mary says, "I would like to know how we are protecting lives in this country when an alleged man of God can state what he did without the full weight of this government coming down upon him"

    Very simple, Mary:

    "Amendment I.

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
    prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
    of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
    the Government for a redress of grievances."

    It’s elegant in its simplicity, and it’s what allows Bellaciao to float outrageous, treacherous garbage on a daily basis. Free speech isn’t always pretty, as in the case of Bellaciao, the Klan, and many other groups, but it is, thank God, legal.

    I already condemned Pat Robertson and his comments on this site. After doing so, I saw video of Chavez looking hurt that anyone would call for his assassination. Of course, he was standing next to Fidel Castro, who didn’t become the longest-running communist dictator in the world by coddling his bad-mouthers. If Bellaciao wasn’t 100% irony-proof, it might see the dark humor in that scene.

    • . Oh yes, Mary is quite wrong in suggesting the government do something about Pat Robertson and Amendment 1 is the reason, pointing clearly at freedom of speech. It also points clearly at the separation of church and state, but I guess Pat, George and the Christian Coalition have more important things to think of than " render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto the Lord what is the Lord’s" . And the only outrageous treachery going on is the kind that allows 2000 of America’s finest soldiers to die and countless more to be wounded or radiated for bogus reasons. The real dark humor is that so many believe Iraq did 9/11, while Osama is totally forgotten.

    • Mary: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establisment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof"..........Pat Robertson’s religion is the new religion of hatred and murder for money and power, or the new "Christians". Yes they are an ugly hate group, but the country is full of them and not even Jesus could rein their hatred in. They are foul to the heart. Black hearted and vicious. Pat Robertson is a money grubbing sycophant for Bushco...the trade money between them you know....that should answer your question as to why the "government" doesn’t do anything to dissuade his hat speech. The new Christians are the antithisis of the old ones around Jesus’s time.

      Practicing Christians today comprise the largest hate group in the United States. They have the full backing of the government....maggots thriving together on the dead flesh of freedom that was once present in the U.S.A., but is now a thing of the past.

      Look at the Catholics, their "priests" rape and molest little boys and are never punished by the laws that apply to the rest of society (high government officials and high church officials enjoy the status of being above the laws). They are allowed to cover up their crimes, the pope himself is head of the largest pedophile ring in the world, and has himself participated in the cover up of chrimes against the little boys that have been sodomized and terrorized. When they can’t hide anymore, they throw money at the problem, after all, the money comes from the suckers that are too blind to see these old faggots in drag for what they are, so they keep on giving their hard earned money to this evil institute and wind up paying the hush money for those who rape their little boys. What could be more disgusting or wrong? Yet, it is business as usual down at the pedophile factory.

    • Religious people have as much right to make asses of themselves as the orthodox secularists on this website. Let freedom ring.

      You have a basic misunderstanding of the First Amendment. It’s a shield, not a sword. You don’t get to use the law to forbid anyone—religious or not—from saying things that offend you, no matter how stupid they are (with a few exceptions). Naturally, you’re free to rant in response, as you just did. And I’m free to think most of your scree is just plain silly.

      Where’s the ACLU when you need it? How about a seventh grade civics teacher?

    • So you think soldiers dying for bogus reasons is "just plain silly" ? Duly noted.

    • No, I was referring to the yammering about "separation of church and state." One of the purposes of the 1st Amendment is to protect the right to worship, not to outlaw religious expression, loopy or otherwise.

      I’m terribly disappointed in the intelligence failure on Iraq, and it will haunt the US for decades.

  • Why is Chavez strangling that poor Indian? Haven’t those people suffered enough already?

    • Does your medical coverage not provide for eye examinations or glasses.?
      That lady could be his first cousin as he is ancestry is one half indio.
      Could that be why he prefers red...such difficult question could strangle a person.

    • Yes, they have suffered more than enough. That’s the reason the PEOPLE voted him in office. Then they put him back in office after bush and his c.i.a. thugs put a coup on him. Reason corporate oil wants him out is because he wants a bigger percentage of oil profits from private oil companies to set forth social programs to eleviate the wretchedness of the poor. That my friend is factual.

    • "Does your medical coverage not provide for eye examinations or glasses.?"

      Actually, it doesn’t. Am I supposed to write my congressman?

    • I would do whatever you think appropriate and responsible.
      Fortunately in my country we have collectively solved these types of problems
      But getting this kind of national social policy might be a bit overwhelming in the US.
      The the huge profits generated by private health care providers make them formidable opponents, I can’t see them giving up such a cash cow.
      But that might be a social project worth undertaking.

    • Facts do not matter to Bush Butt kissers, they prefer lies that is why they love Bush.

    • Yes as you observe, the United States has a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations....big business rules, and they have the first ammendment to hide behind in their being in bed with the government "representatives" all on the bribe and kick back list....America a democracy to the highest bidder. "Donations" to their mafia politicians is protected by "free speech" isn’t that magical...who could have even guessed this was the intent of the framers....but in U.S. government the unimaginable and the unthinkable are just good business and business as usual. What rational people would have no trouble defining as bribery is just freedom of speech do you see the logic, because the U.S. Supreme court has a magic and wild imagination. If they ever get to make up their own dictonary, black will be white, day will be night, and honesty will be George Bush.

    • I don’t know what country you live in. However, I HAVE lived in another prosperous Western democracy, one with socialized medicine, and it was not pretty. In the areas where influential lawmakers and other elites lived, socialized medicine worked pretty well. Out among the little people, the results were quite frankly worse than what I have observed in the US. It’s safe to say that in both countries, where rights—including property rights—are not arbitrary and tentative, health care is much, much better than it is in Venezuela. A friend of mine just got back from Venezuela, and what he says about conditions there is disturbing. I encourage you to travel to Venezuela and spend a month or two traveling to out-of-the-way areas and decide for yourself.

    • *Yawn*

      Name-calling is boring. Got anything else?

    • Being a daily excuse maker for Bush is even more boring...get a real life, put on a uniform, kiss mother goodbye, and get your useless rear end over there to fight in Bush’s war....put your money where your mouth is, or do you only like wars that others fight?

    • Do you have to be a police officer to have opinions about law enforcement?

      Is this site about debate or group-think? Open question to readers: if you oppose the war in Iraq, do you want anyone who disagrees with you to post on this site or not?

    • I would think it is preposterous to compare any country in Latin or South America with a highly developed country like the US. Cuba perhaps would be a more appropriate country, in that region for purposes of comparison.
      I have lived in a number of Latin American countries and am aware of the massive problems they confront in terms of basic health care.
      The only point I would like to make,is that Chavez has undertaken an almost impossible task to raise the standard of living and health care to that of say any of the G8 countries but his policies are progressive and appropriate given the starting position he has been given. I watched the erosion of the public health care system in Mexico since the introduction of NAFTA, so little can be said for slash and burn "free market policies" in the ’third world’.
      I welcome dissenting opinions by the way,
      cheers, jt

    • Hey jt,

      Me again. I’ve spent a while in Mexico, too, living behind the Tortilla Curtain. I don’t know much about Chavez. What I do know is that Latin America’s biggest problem is huge, God-awful corruption from the top down. Property rights are meaningless when the side that pays the judge the most wins the contract dispute, and with meaningless property rights, Latin America will never make the huge economic progress of, say Hong Kong or Taiwan. Your point that free trade with corrupt regimes does no good at all for the people is correct.

      Maybe Venezuela’s so screwed up that socialism couldn’t hurt, but I doubt it. You mentioned Cuba. You might want to check this out:

      http://www.therealcuba.com/two_cubas.htm

      I also welcome dissenters. (I mean, I’m "it" in the greased-conservative-catching contest on this website, you know?)

      Happy Labor Day,

      MTT

      PS—admit it: the photo looks like the guy’s throttling that Indian. Damn it, it’s funny.

    • You are wrong in beleiving the ’framers’ of the constitution were to blame for the present power of the corporations. Actually, the corporations bought out a district judge to rule in their favor, now they can call themselves ’persons’,shortly after the bribe takers in congress passed the federal reserve act. Authorizing an international cabal of bankers to finance the u.s. economy. Thats the reason we suffer through depressions. There’s untold wealth to be made financing a nation’s government. Click on the the federal reserve at the silver bear cafe. You’ll learn what isn’t taught in economics 101!!!!!

    • Personally, I’m for free speech. civil liberties, the right of the PEOPLE for the persuit of happiness, etc. etc. etc. Unfortunately, those items are pretty hard to come by in the good old U.S. of A.!!!!