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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela to create new workers militia [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)as a gesture of good faith.
Read about what happened in Chile. It was done YOUR way, and Pinochet's takeover was the result.
Sorry, but some of us don't want the poor to be dispossessed again in the name of "purity".
"Free speech" is meaningless when you're poor and all your gains have been taken away from you.
If you really want things like this to stop, organize campaigns to get the U.S. to agree never to intervene in any Latin American country again.
If you're against doing that, you really have no right to judge these countries as they try to prevent the nightmare of new Pinochets or new Videlas or new Somozas seizing power and soaking the streets with blood.
A uniform is just a uniform. DO you get this freaked out about U.S. National Guard uniforms?