Students beaten by national guard, police, paramilitaries (pics graphic)

[Bacchus4.0]

[randys1]

1. This is what will happen to you in america if you try and vote without the 9 required id's

https://twitter.com/DidTheyLetUVote

[Bacchus4.0]

2. I doubt it, the US isn't as bad a Venezuela n/t

[randys1]

3. Just different, here they wont need to be beaten up because they just wont be allowed to vote at all

[Bacchus4.0]

4. Voting should be as easy as posting to the appropriate subject and category n/t

[peace13]

5. In the US you won't see pictures of it.

They won't make the news or the papers.

In the W years we took a bus to DC to join over 500,000 of our nearest and dearest friends in an 'anti Iraq war surge' demonstration. There were so many of us that on the march we surrounded the streets on all four sides of the Capitol Building. I called home to ask my husband if it was on TV and he said that Cspan had shown it for 30 minutes and that was it. No other coverage. Didn't see it on the evening news!

It was an experience that I will never forget. The lesson was loud and clear. Just because you were there doesn't mean it happened. It can go the other way too. Just because it happened to you doesn't mean that others know, care or believe it.

We live in a darker bubble than you know!

[Bacchus4.0]

6. there are plenty of blog news sites (like the OP) where info can get out quick

once something goes viral on social media US mainstream news often picks it up. In Venezuela however, it should be noted that mainstream news outlets in Venezuela are not legally allowed to show violence, war, blood, and images that "can cause panic" in the population so you are not going to see these images on your standard news sources in Venezuela.

[Marksman_91]

7. That's nice. Now please do stop trying to derail from the thread's topic n/t

[MADem]

8. That was because "United for Peace and Justice" organized that thing and had a thousand

groups on the stage. They diluted the energy with the "Free Mumia" and other issues that were unrelated to the war.

It was more than 30 minutes on CSPAN, they covered the whole day and reran the thing.

The nightly news did mention it but only gave it under a minute with footage.

[Bacchus4.0]

9. our president doesn't try to follow the failed policies of the previous president either nt

[MADem]

10. Yes indeed--that's the main point, really.

Distraction/derailment doesn't work. POTUS is nothing like Dumbya, he ends wars that Cowboy started.

[Bacchus4.0]

12. yes, nothing like Bush. While Maduro is an imbecile like Bush n/t

[peace13]

11. Wow.

They must have started the feed when he wasn't looking.