Venezuela's Maduro gives ultimatum to Caracas protesters

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51. There is such a thing as sedition.

Maduro knows this and has decided that, in the absence of any real desire to discuss the issues, in fact with no coherent alternative to the status quo, these nut-jobs are insurrectionists. With nothing but noise and violence these puppets of Wall Street are simply out to stop anything that restricts there choke-hold on the world's economy. This is a key difference between "protests" in the US which do not threaten the functioning of the government and are met with a heavy hand by authorities, and Right-Wing mob action with no plan, no theory, and no purpose (except a yearning for power). The scumbags that murdered Chavez are behind this, nothing could be more obvious. They have nothing else to offer. I call these fascists the insurrectionists they are, like the ones in the US in contempt of an organized society that does not keep them in a privileged status.


......The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name—liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names—liberty and tyranny.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty;
--A. Lincoln