What say now, Martin?

Babalu Blog ^ | Jan. 26, 2005 | Val Prieto

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(Updated) A few weeks ago I posted an entry titled The Final Stages where I described the stages of castro's revolution vis-a-vis Venezuela.

I wrote:

One: Convince the have nots that the haves are evil. Two: Decry the evils of foreigners.

Three: Manipulate an election.

Four: Nationalize all media sources.

And the fifth stage: Expropriations.

I also mention the sixth stage, the Nationalization of Banks, which, if I am not mistaken, has already begun in castro's Venezuela.

In the comments of that post, I had a run in with a person named Martin who stated, among other things, the following:

A little on the dramatic side, don't you think? Government opponents have been using the threat of Cubanization since day one--Christ, I remember being in Venezuela three years ago and hearing women screaming bloody murder about how it was only a matter of time before Chavez exposed his Castroite roots. I'm still waiting. And:

Like I said earlier, Val, the threat of impending cubanization is thrown around all too often, much too freely, and with much to little regard for the truth. It's one thing to say you are concerned about the state of a country, it's quite another altogether to equate those concerns with the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship. I visit Venezuela regularly enough to know that the opposition has used the same argument for years, though interestingly enough, few of them have ever travelled to Cuba to make that comparison. Trust me on this one--Venezuela is nowhere near Cuba, nor is it going in that direction. Well, I wonder what Martin is saying now that mini-fidel Chavez has just given his mentor carte blanche to arrest anyone in Venezuela with no legal due process.

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Val tears a Castro apologist a new one, with the news that Chavez is outsourcing his security services to the Cuban communist goons. I can't think of anything scarier. And that anyone who would defend Chavez against charges of Castroism could be a bigger hypocrite than this one. Val exposes the little puke, Martin, for what he is.