Ricardo Bello on Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:13:14 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Venezuelan Political Soap Opera or why are you so Liberal |
If 36.000 employees and workers in the state owned oil industry go to strike, they belong to the rotten oligarchy. If all organized industry paralyzed in solidarity, they also belong to the oligarchy, we have so many of them, we resemble a Middle Age kingdom or France in the XVII century; and if they asked for a referendum, they are, of course, fascists. I mean, you must be extremely liberal, everyone is a fascist, coup perpetrating, poll manipulator, indecent anti-democratic, and what's worse, you don't believe in the left! If a shooter, who traveled to Cuba in the begginning of 2002, shoots dozens of anti-Chavez demostrators, killing several of them, he is a poor tormented soul and should be protected by the State, with no open trial. When the opposition organizes a rally, Chavez followers attacks it with guns; if Chavez organizes his rally, the opposition remains at home, a classic example of neurotic behavior. If Chief of Army Lucas Rincon announced last April that Chavez had resigned and that he has the signed paper with him, the President accused the opposition of a coup d'etat. Today Lucas Rincon is Minister of the Interior with absolute control of the Police and Courts. And all key government post are run by the military or Chavez's family. But they are true revolutionary of course, and we must not forget, very rich. If the private media reports the situation, it's because its journalists moves in circles of money, power and influence. If the opposition, following article 70 of the Constitution, submits to the Consejo Nacional Electoral, the public organization responsible for elections, over 2.000.000 signatures asking for a referendum, and the CNE approved it with a majority vote of 4-1, Supreme Court then decides the CNE is illegal (it was legal before its Director turned their back to Chavez). I'm not saying you have fixed ideas regarding what's wrong or good, or what a political correct discourse or a fascist one should sound like. Not saying either you have never gone to Cuba and lived for weeks at end with a normal family nor felt in your heart the poison of hatred and fear flowing from the speech of a head of State, with poverty and unemployment increasing. No, I'm just saying you are such a liberal! # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net