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Venezuela's new decree: Forced farm work for citizens
CNN Money ^ | 7/29/2016 | by Patrick Gillespie, Rafael Romo and Osmary Hernandez

Posted on 07/30/2016 4:37:55 AM PDT by Islander7

A new decree by Venezuela's government could make its citizens work on farms to tackle the country's severe food shortages.

That "effectively amounts to forced labor," according to Amnesty International, which derided the decree as "unlawful."

In a vaguely-worded decree, Venezuelan officials indicated that public and private sector employees could be forced to work in the country's fields for at least 60-day periods, which may be extended "if circumstances merit."

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; marxist; socialism; socialists; venezuela
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To: Islander7
Conscripted labor is not unlawful. It is a government function in times of social stress. Some fellow in Florida, years ago, objected to Florida law that required a few weeks of labor on road building crews, or pay a fee. The objection was that this was conscripted labor or slavery. The US Supreme Court said "Nope, work or pay, your choice."

-- It scares the beejeeses out of me that nearly half the population of the USA has NO CLUE that the democrat party and Maduro sing from the same hymnal. --

Democrats see the government as benevolent. They could not be farther from the truth.

21 posted on 07/30/2016 5:30:39 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Islander7

Take note young socialists. In the end the yoke will be placed around your neck.


22 posted on 07/30/2016 5:35:56 AM PDT by pb929
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To: BRK

This all started when Chavez convinced the people that unequal prosperity was evil. I wonder if they even think about what they inflicted on themselves. They are suffering from a major self inflicted wound.


23 posted on 07/30/2016 5:36:50 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: DeFault User

Castro welcomed the US leftist stooges who volunteered to help with the cane harvest. Dubbed the Venceremos Brigade, they returned singing the praises of Castro’s totalitarin regime. Hard core commie agents of change.

Would be startling to learn who they were and where they are today.

FBI knows, but so far as I know they’re not telling.


24 posted on 07/30/2016 5:39:21 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Islander7

That’s what we need here. If you have been getting welfare etc for years then you get bussed out to the farms and make yourself useful.
Transpiration must be provided. This is only obstacle. I can visualize all the obese piggies claiming they have diabetes and other illnesses that prevent them from doing farm labor.


25 posted on 07/30/2016 5:42:36 AM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: silverleaf

Bill Ayers said, “upwards of 30 miilion people will need to be eliminated in order to have communism in America”

Least I know I’ll be one of the early deaths.


26 posted on 07/30/2016 5:42:38 AM PDT by stockpirate (BEST F'ING ELECTION EVER)
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To: Original Lurker

I have read that Mao’s program was the largest man caused starvation famine in history ( I guess succeeding what Stalin did in Russia and UKraine)

Yet Mao has worshippers in the WH and his face on Christmas tree ornaments


27 posted on 07/30/2016 5:45:28 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Islander7
The Norks can over and tell the Venezuelan officials how It's done.
28 posted on 07/30/2016 5:45:49 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (The reality about reality TV shows is they really ain't reality.)
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To: DeFault User; Travis McGee; Squantos; archy

Correction re: Venceramos Brigade.

We do know some of the original US participants.

From wiki Venceramos Brigade page:

“The Venceremos Brigade is a politically motivated international organization founded in 1969 by members of the Students for a Democratic Society and officials of the Republic of Cuba.[1]

Carl Oglesby, Bernardine Dohrn, Julie Nichamin, Brian Murphy, Allen Young and other members of SDS were primarily responsible for the idea, organization and negotiations with Carlos Rafael Rodríguez[2] and other members of the Cuban government.

The first trip in November 1969 numbered 216[3] and left from Czechoslovakia to skirt the U.S. government’s restrictions on travel to the island.[2]

It was formed as a coalition of young people attempting to show solidarity with the Cuban Revolution by working side by side with Cuban workers, challenging U.S. policies towards Cuba, including the United States embargo against Cuba.

The yearly brigade trips, which as of 2010 have brought more than 9,000 people to Cuba, continue today and are coordinated with the Pastors For Peace Friendship Caravans to Cuba.....”

Additional searches show current ties with Black Lives Matter organisers.


29 posted on 07/30/2016 5:49:32 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: The Working Man

‘Do not bind the mouths of the kine that tread the grain.’

That is a Bible verse. A newer English translation would read “Do not muzzle the oxen that tread the grain”. Oxen walked on top of grain stalks within a circular enclosure to separate the grain from the stalks and were allowed an occasional mouthful as a reward for working.


30 posted on 07/30/2016 5:50:30 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: Islander7

When is Sean Penn headed down to pitch in?


31 posted on 07/30/2016 5:55:17 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: Islander7

0 passed a law that could force Americans to do the same thing but for much longer than 60 days


32 posted on 07/30/2016 6:02:07 AM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: BRK

It has become a slave state—a true form of Communism. Worse than the Middle Ages.


33 posted on 07/30/2016 6:03:41 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: BRK

“People just want toilet paper at this point.”

People who don’t eat don’t need toilet paper.


34 posted on 07/30/2016 6:10:37 AM PDT by DrPretorius
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To: Islander7

Socialism is forced labor at its core. They’ve been doing this for years and no one noticed.


35 posted on 07/30/2016 6:18:13 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Covenantor

Venceramos Brigade...

I was referring to earlier forced labor in 1965 and 1966 (called UMAP). The government rounded up Cubans who didn’t have their mind right (anti-revolution or those not working) and hauled them off to harvest fruit and cut cane (no volunteers).


36 posted on 07/30/2016 6:18:53 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: The Working Man
"For it is written in the Law of Moses: "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain. Is it about oxen that God is concerned?"

1 Corinthians 9:9
37 posted on 07/30/2016 6:19:23 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: NotchJohnson

The gov’t keeping of “lists” jis a good way to keep the bureeaucRATS busy while giving optical cover for actually doing nothing to proactively improve a situation.


38 posted on 07/30/2016 6:21:33 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: The Working Man
"How much of that food do you think the ‘forced laborers are going to be allowed to eat?"

Russia... Wasn't it Stalin that killed many millions of farmers after stealing their crops..(?)

39 posted on 07/30/2016 6:22:01 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: silverleaf

Hey Mao cured obesity in 20 million Chinese!


40 posted on 07/30/2016 6:26:34 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,)
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