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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela to create new workers militia [View all]Nimajneb Nilknarf
(319 posts)Last edited Wed May 29, 2013, 10:41 AM - Edit history (1)
how they should live them, what to say or do, or what to believe.
"Security" is really just code for "the stuff the rich want".
It's also stuff the poor want, and stuff the middle class want.
What we're discussing in this thread appears to be potential conscription by a partisan government of zealous, naive poor people into a cadre of thought police.
You're forgetting that in this country "security" is often a euphemism for "up the status quo"
I thought this thread was about something happening in Venezuela, but I'd certainly take the status quo here over a society in which my personal affairs are subject to monitoring by brown-shirts.
BTW, maintaining the status quo in Venezuela appears to be precisely the purpose of the proposed goon squad.