Reply #66: "Entitled" to Nationalize? A sovereign people are entitled to do whatever they

[Peace Patriot]

want with their land, their resources, their economy. And, gee, they just keep electing Chavez, by ever increasing margins--in elections that put our own to shame by their transparency--to do just that: RE-assert their sovereign RIGHTS as a people, after decades and centuries of the rich elites SELLING their sovereignty to global corporate predators.

Fuck Exxon Mobil. It has NO rights, as far as I'm concerned (me and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who said PEOPLE have rights, NOT corporations). No right to exist. They are chartered entities. PEOPLE give them PERMISSION to operate, IF the People feel like it. No right to profits. PEOPLE determine the rules of business, the laws they will follow, the taxes and tariffs they will pay, and the level of corporate responsibility they must show TO THE PEOPLE. No right to accumulate vast wealth and power in perpetuity, so that tiny billionaire elites take over governments and hijack PEOPLES' militaries, and rob their treasuries, for corporate resource wars. No rights! None!

Really, it's time WE nationalized Exxon Mobil--without compensation, for all the shit they've done to us, and money they've stolen from us--and for destroying our economy and our democracy. I would not give them one fucking penny. The Venezuelan people are giving them 40%--which is coming out of the hides of the poor, as it is! They have no RIGHT to it. None! They OWE the people of Venezuela, as they owe us! Not the other way around. Them and their goddamned secret energy meetings with Dick Cheney, carving up the Iraq oil fields, like the fascist pigs they are carving up babies for dinner. 1.2 million dead people in Iraq--babies, children, innocents of every kind. 1.2 million!

"Fair Market Value," huh? What's the "fair market value" of 1.2 million peoples' lives? What's the "fair market value" of the millions of dirt poor people--near starving, no food, no shoes, living in hovels--that Venezuela's previous (prior to Chavez) 10% share in their own oil created? And WHERE did all that money go?