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I've known for a long time that the people of the U.S. are a lot smarter and better informed than anyone gives them credit for. It's one of the secondary arguments for stolen elections. The peoples' views and Diebold & brethren's election 'results' often don't gel. For instance, back in the leadup to the Iraq War, I really wanted to know, had my fellow and sister Americans gone fascist, goosestepping to Bush, or was something else going on? So I started watching a range of opinion polls, and, lo and behold, nearly 60% of the American people opposed the invasion of Iraq (Feb 03--all polls).
Surprise, surprise! The 2004 stolen election then didn't surprise me too much (especially given what I knew about the horrendous insecurity of the Corpo/fascist voting systems that had been fast-tracked all over the country, via the $3.9 billion e-voting boondoggle, passed by the Anthrax Congress in the same month as the Iraq War Resolution--Oct 02). Seems like a lot of people weren't aware of the huge opposition to the Iraq War, but the people who destroyed the transparency of our election system, and put it into private Bushwhack Corpo hands, certainly were. It was to defeat that big anti-war majority that 'TRADE SECRET' code voting systems were designed. They could have made them transparent--easily. But somehow they forgot about that bottom-line requirement of democracy--PUBLIC VOTE COUNTING!
Anyway, these polls on Latin America do surprise me a bit. I was afraid that our people weren't paying attention on this matter, and thus were more vulnerable to Corpo/fascist propaganda--and I could see the evidence of a massive psyops campaign, for instance, to portray Chavez as a "dictator." And it would be funny, if it weren't so disgusting, how they've tried to extend that epithet to other leftist leaders as they have been elected presidents of their countries, and have strongly allied with Chavez--Morales in Bolivia, and Correa in Ecuador, in particular. They're all "dictators," don't ya know?! The stupid peasants are electing "tyrants" and "dictators" in the most transparent elections in the hemisphere.
Another thing I've noticed is the way the Corpo/fascist 'news' monopolies manage to ignore and blackhole the overwhelming evidence that the South American leaders are pulling together, and repelling "divide and conquer" tactics. Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay--they've all been helping each other, in really significant ways, for instance, Chile finally giving landlocked Bolivia access to the sea (a 130 year old dispute); and Brazil and Venezuela putting up the money for a highway stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, through Bolivia (which will make Bolivia an important trade route); and Brazil's president jawboning Paraguay's Brazilian hydroelectric customers to re-negotiate those contracts, to give Paraguay a better break (and help out its new leftist president); and on and on. They have each other's backs on 'divide and conquer' tactics, and they are moving forward swiftly and strongly on cooperation, mutual aid and political/economic integration.
Again, it would be funny, if it weren't so disgusting, how our Corpo/fascist 'news' hides these amazing developments from us folks up here in the north. It is also pathetic. The Bushwhacko and Corpo/fascist policies in Latin America are failing on a colossal scale, and, to admit these major democratic and integration successes in South America (now moving into Central America) is to admit how ill-intended the policies were in the first place, and--the thing they most want to hide--how the people in democratic countries can pull together and defeat them.
Anyway, I was very worried that this sneaky brainwashing--of "Big Lies", and of black holes in the 'news'--was having an effect on our people, who have so much to worry about these days. And it is a joy to me that it is not succeeding--just as it was a joy to me, and gave me hope, that the great majority of our people didn't buy the bullshit about Iraq either. Now we just have to work on getting the will of the people implemented by our government, as they are succeeding at doing in South America. Together we would make one helluva powerful "Common Market" stretching the length of the hemisphere, if the Latin Americans will have us. That's my dream--fairness, social justice and respect, at long last, between these two great cultures and peoples of the western hemisphere.
When we talk about "the American people," we should mean both. The Corpo/fascist 'news' sometimes calls Hugo Chavez "anti-American." They forget that he IS an American. All Americans, north and south, have fought for independence from foreign monarchies. Today, the South advocates for democracy, justice and human rights far more sincerely and effectively than we have ever done, and certainly provide a stark contrast to the Bushwhacks, with their torture, mass murder, and shredding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Baduel should be glad that he is being investigated, and possibly prosecuted, by the Venezuelan justice system. Can you imagine his fate at the hands of the Bushwhack Department of 'Justice,' if he were in the opposition here?
Does anybody know the facts of this case, by the way? I read somewhere that his underlings were stealing, he was subpoened by the court to testify about it, and refused to appear, and that is why he was arrested. I've read conflicting reports--some that he himself was stealing, others that he defied the court.
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That's a whopping number on the failure of the "war on drugs"--76%! And guess who first started rejecting the corrupt, failed, murderous U.S. "war on drugs"--our leftist kindred to the south, the leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador!
Now it's an issue throughout Latin America, with even a center-right Corpo president like Calderon in Mexico saying that small time marijuana and coke users shouldn't be criminalized. And it's furthermore become a "sovereignty" issue for a wide spectrum of Latin American governments.
When are we going to throw this dreadful "war" off our backs--as we did with Prohibition?
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