Posted on 02/04/2015 9:54:55 AM PST by John Semmens
The Venezuelan Ministry of Defense has authorized the Army to shoot any protesters that do not obey orders to disperse. Minister of Defense, General Vladimir Padrino López defended the decree as both “necessary and proper. In this time of crisis everyone should be working together in support of the government. Public complaints alleging that the government has not fulfilled its promises encourages people to oppose the government’s measures to deal with the crisis. Such disloyalty cannot be tolerated.”
There is also a pragmatic aspect to the policy. According to the General, “to the extent that shortages of food and other necessities have provoked the crisis, the physical elimination of anti-government individuals helps to close the gap between supply and demand. This will decrease the number of shares into which limited supplies must be divided and leave more for those loyal to President Maduro.”
María Esperanza Hermida, leader of some of the protests, called the authorization “a violation of both the Venezuelan Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Ministry of Defense cannot legally issue such a policy. Shooting people for publicly expressing their grievances against the government is a gross violation of civilized behavior. It is analogous to the terroristic threat to behead those who insult Islam. Imitating the policies of those barbarians is not a direction our country’s officials ought to be taking us.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://theconservativecitizen.com/2015/02/02/semi-newssemi-satire-4/
Pretty much the same here in the US for the last 6 years, it's just that Obama is few steps behind Chavez's Venezuela.
But he is catching up fast.
This is taking “satire” to a really stupid place. Too much of history is exactly this happening (just change proper nouns involved), and it’s too likely to happen soon for real. We’re too close to WWIII to take such ideas as laughable.
Satire can be amusing when it’s based on reducto ad absurdum.
It’s stupid, even dangerous, when indistinguishable from what has/is/will happen and has voluminous historical precedent.
At least it’s marked “[satire]”. Thanks, JR, for requiring it.
At this point they might claim mercy killing.
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