Posted on 01/10/2026 6:08:52 AM PST by MtnClimber
If you haven't heard of Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela's detested interior minister who commands an army of motorcycle goons, and who has a $25 million reward on his head, second only to former dictator Nicolás Maduro, now's a good time to get a whiff of what he's about.
He actually said this on Venezuelan state television, with his motorcycle goons all around him:[X post in Spanish]
Grok translate:
BREAKING NEWS | Diosdado Cabello: "The country is calm because the monopoly on arms in Venezuela is held by the State". "Holding the position of arms has allowed us the control so that no group or anyone can claim acts of violence"
Except for him, of course. His violent goon squads and death squads hunt down and kill anyone who dissents with the regime. They also deal drugs as the country's biggest drug lords, closely affiliated with Colombia's FARC and ELN Marxist narcoterrorists. The United Nations has put out entire reports about his death squad regime. And no surprise, in 2017, he sent out hit squads to take out then-Sen. Marco Rubio.
He's an ogre who lives by his state gun monopoly, borne of a disarmed population.
Now he's admitted as much -- that the disarming of the Venezuelan population has led to his power and thuggery.
This is a textbook example of what Second Amendment proponents warn about when leftists here in the states call for the disarming of the population. States that do that are left with monsters like Diosdado Cabello, whose source of power rests in an a population without a Second Amendment to protect them.
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Everyone should know why the left wants to confiscate privately owned firearms. They can offer to do a “buyback”, but do they really want to pay the price?
Black clothing. Covering the face. Armed. Violently attacking their political opposition. Where have I seen that before?
BUMP! Never....
Cabello‘s comments are illustrative, but nothing new. Leftists everywhere have the exact same view.
Just one example:
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
- Vladimir Lenin
AND/BUT they scoot around on motorcycles...
Hmmmm... what to do, when one is not armed with a weapon of one's own???
That's a question.
(Motorcycles, indeed... Hmmm...)
Do these armed thugs use pagers?
I think I might know where you might be going with this... :)
The “T” shirt gives Him away.
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>Cabello‘s comments are illustrative, but nothing new. Leftists everywhere have the exact same view.
Just for clarity though it predates communism by several millenia. Whether Japan/Okinawa, Normans/English, ancient Egyptians/Jews, take your pick. Job #1 of creating a serf or slave group is to disarm them so that the oppressor can do things that the oppressed ought to kill them for.
As the Founders recognized (but didn’t invent), that’s contrary to the Creator’s desire for us. The 2A only recognizes the fact that we’re created for freedom and freedom includes being able to say ‘no’ to tyrants.
Che Guevara T-shirt, rainbow scarf, and ski mask? That right there is a target. No legitimate person in authority would dress like that. That is the uniform of an Antifa faggot. IOW, a legitimate threat, and therefore a target. I would not respect any authority claimed by that person, as long as I remain armed.
His getup reminds me of that Routh character, the failed Trump assassin. There’s a photo of him dressed nearly the same including the neck scarf thing.
Interesting how leftists the world over have chosen black as their team color.
You volunteer for slavery when you let gov’mt take away your guns — you give away your human right to self defense. You declare that you are less than human.
“Cabello” in English means hair, specifically referring to the hair on a person’s head,though the general word “hair” can also be translated as “pelo” in Spanish, which can refer to any body hair or animal fur.
Since there is a price on his head for his scalp.
These thugs are like the civilian national security force Obama spoke about wanting to implement here.
Obammies “War Machine” is mostly
College indoctrinated Young Lady
MARXISTS.
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Agreed DZ
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I'll take ANTIFA for $500, Antihero.
Inner-city gang members would have been in the mix too, because we know how much the lady marxists dig them.
From an AI search...
In Mexico, basic rights are increasingly compromised due to a crisis of enforced disappearances, with over 130,000 people reported missing, often linked to organized crime and state complicity. This situation reflects a broader pattern of human rights violations, including the right to life and protection from arbitrary detention.
And, excerpted from an online article...
The gun laws in Mexico are among the strictest in the world.
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