Reply #39: Do you have a link

[ronnie624]

to a news item regarding the 70 murders in Caracas?

The "well" isn't really anti-US. The U.S. is a large nation, the people of which are being bamboozled by a criminal government and a complicit corporate media establishment, whose owners profit from militarist, interventionist policies. It's really more of a "well" of anti-interventionism by certain elements within our political system.

Decent, law abiding citizens have an obligation to petition their government for a change in policies that are harmful to other people in the world - thus ultimately harmful to ourselves (re: 'blow back' which resulted in 9/11) - and to speak out against them. It doesn't matter if these policies are the status quo and that they have been a part of how our government operates for a long time. They're wrong, and they must stop if we expect to cooperate with the rest of the world in solving the really big problems that threaten us all.

The fascist elements within our government must be purged, and this cannot be done through apathy and ignorance.


- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abby

- The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato

- The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference. - David Riesman

- For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life. - Arthur Schlesinger

- Anyone who tells you that "It Can't Happen Here" is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no 'house rule' that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos. - Mike Vanderboegh

- ...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. - Voltaire


And I'm still waiting for you to post some evidence of Chavez's association with and covering up for the FARC, other than his negotiations for the release of hostages.