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Bacchus4.0

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20. the law that enabled farmers to acquire title to land, not to become a dictator

Reply to Peace Patriot (Reply #18)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 07:58 AM

Oct 2013

http://timhirsch.blogspot.com/2009/06/partial-veto-on-amazon-land-law.html

Enabling acts are common, enabling acts that grant the president dictatorial powers are not common. THe enabling act proposed in Venezuela is like the one approved in Nazi Germany in 1933 to give Hitler decree powers, not to help farmers or protect forest land.

Ruling by decree is what a dictator does, I don't care if you don't like it as it refers to supposed leftists. Maduro is no progressive that is for sure and neither was Chavez. THis is an admission that the Ven government is failing no matter how wonderful you think that government is. They wouldn't need this enabling law if things were so great.

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Enabling Law draft granting dictatorial powers to Maduro [View all] Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 OP

Limited executive powers used repeatedly Warren Stupidity Oct 2013 #1

If you read it, its not very limited. Grants dictatorial powers to that idiot Maduro Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #2

Please find an example other tan Chavez Socialistlemur Oct 2013 #5

No problem. Warren Stupidity Oct 2013 #7

Those laws weren't intended to fight corruption Socialistlemur Oct 2013 #15

Adolph Hitler in Germany 1933 n/t Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #11

A blog-entry on the enabling-law from a few days ago: (link) DetlefK Oct 2013 #3

of course its a ploy to rid the ruling class of the opposition Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #4

It is a move to shut down the National Assembly. Socialistlemur Oct 2013 #6

+1 n/t Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #8

Historically sound move... MinM Oct 2013 #9

Cuba certainly followed that strategy of a dictatorship Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #10

And here is what the proposed and very publicly discussed enabling law is really about. Peace Patriot Oct 2013 #12

why does Maduro need dictatorial powers to combat corruption? Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #13

Why did Lula da Silva need Brazil's "enabling law" to protect a wide swath of the Amazon... Peace Patriot Oct 2013 #18

Chavez got the enabling law for fighting against corruption ALREADY in 2007 spanza Oct 2013 #19

the law that enabled farmers to acquire title to land, not to become a dictator Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #20

Pure baloney from a government financed propaganda site Socialistlemur Oct 2013 #16

The repressive, dictatorship consecrating, enabling law is out Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #14

Eventually they'll have a revolution, new constitutional assembly Socialistlemur Oct 2013 #17

they are definitely moving toward a dictatorship Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #21

I'll bet that Carmona is so jealous. nt bemildred Oct 2013 #22

update: the chavistas are currently trying to expel 2 members of the opposition from congress Bacchus4.0 Oct 2013 #23