If the United States government does try another coup d’etat against Chavez...

If the United States government does try another coup d’etat against Chavez, it will show both their arrogance and stupidity...

VHeadline.com commentarist Mary MacElveen writes: To my readers, you may have noticed no columns from me since I am presently serving as a juror in a civil matter. While I am not able to relay the particulars of the case that I am serving on due to the oath that I took, I feel like screaming.

After I wrote the piece "Blow Back" ... then to read Roy Carson’s Intelligence sources warn Venezuela’s Chavez: Beware the Ides of January!, I was livid.

If these sources again pan out, it shows that America is meddling in the affairs of another country to serve its own selfish agenda. I honestly felt like shouting in the courtroom: You are hearing this case when your government is taking the lives of so many and greed is their motive?

I truly hope that by writing that piece Roy Carson was able to put those who may try to topple President Chavez on notice that we the people know something is up. By exposing this ... should anything happen to President Chavez ... we can honestly say that the trail that led to his toppling leads to America’s doorstep.

If the United States government does try this, it will show both their arrogance and stupidity.

Before heading to court today, I was already in a foul mood ... but, I took an oath to hear the case and to put my personal experiences aside to just listen to the facts as given. Even the foggy, damp weather was representative of my mood. I sat there through one testimony that took one hour long and I felt the bile rising in my gut.

When I was originally questioned by both attorneys in this one particular case ... and again, not going into the specifics involved ... I was asked how I felt about the pain and suffering experienced by some. As you know, I’ve written about the pain and suffering of many people. I told these attorneys that I can be open and objective and I am trying with all my might to do so. After the case is adjudicated by we the jurors next Wednesday, I’ll write about the judicial system here in America as it relates to the pain and suffering so many are feeling across the globe and at our (USA) hands.

Another point that leads me to scream tonight is where Senator Max Baucus (D? Montana) stated: "outsourcing white-collar jobs to low-wage countries such as India has become a global fact of life — and that America must learn to live with it."

Okay, Senator Baucus, let’s see you try to sell this idea to those who no longer have a job here and are trying to put food on their family’s table.
The Democratic Party here in the United States was always worker’s rights party. If you are poor, or of the middle class, the Democratic Party had your best interests at heart. Perhaps the party leadership should relay this message to Senator Baucus. In a statement to the AP Sen. Baucus stated: "Everybody is concerned about job losses and so am I!" Well, he has a job and with hefty benefits to go along with said job so I am not buying into his concern. By the way, he stated this while on a trip to India, while many American workers who have been laid off, cannot even afford a trip to their neighborhood markets.

Then another story caught my attention and also led me to scream: Clinton backs Blair as future UN chief ... former President Clinton as reported by the AFP: "Clinton told BBC television Blair would make a "good" head for the international organization when he leaves office" Isn’t Tony Blair Bush’s right hand man or puppet when it came to starting the Iraq War? So, how is Tony Blair the best man for this job when he helped Bush lie about our respective countries invading a guiltless country?

Doesn’t anyone remember the Downing Street Memos?

I just do not understand Bill Clinton when he made this statement of Blair: "That would suit me. He would be a good one." Has rationality and morals left the Democratic Party leadership if Clinton believes that Blair would be a good replacement of Kofi Annan? Yes, I admire Clinton especially for his AIDs work by helping to get medicines into the world’s most needy, but how does he rationalize this opinion especially when Blair helped Bush murder tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis?

Has Clinton like Baucus left the building when it comes to the pain and suffering felt by so many?

As I read these various stories and situations at the hands of America’s elected officials and former officials, I have come to feel absolute disdain at the entire political process here in the United States. Like the case I am a jury member where I am trying to be honest in deciding along with the situations above, I feel like screaming. As the midterm elections approach here in the United States and knowing what I know at the hands of these politicians: Just how am I supposed to get excited, get motivated and where I feel the need to help them either get elected or re-elected? If anyone with far greater wisdom can help me, I would be open to listen to them as I am open to listen to the arguments presented by both attorneys in the case I am adjudicating.

I feel as if we are all living in the Dark Ages and where I pray for a new Renaissance period to begin.

My greatest fear is that this will not happen and it should be yours as well.

Mary MacElveen

mary@vheadline.com

http://www,vheadline.com/MacElveen