Posted on 03/04/2009 1:16:44 PM PST by bs9021
Well-Oiled Tyranny
by: Heather Latham, March 04, 2009
Hugo Chavez is the president of Venezuela, but, as Michael Rowan, author of The Threat Closer to Home, asserted a recent Heritage Foundation event, “Venezuela is not a democracy… Chavez controls the voter rolls, the electronic voting machines. He does a centralized count on every election; no one knows the actual voting tabulation from 2004 to today.” In effect, Chavez is the “elected” dictator.
The question of the day is: how can Chavez get away with this? There is no answering voice. Though usually the world would turn to the United States as the global police, they are no help. In fact, the United States is helping to fund Chavez’ illegal, and often terrorist, actions. Chavez gets his money from Venezuela’s oil production and exports. In 2008, Venezuela was the fourth highest exporter of crude oil to the United States. Of the more than three billion barrels of crude oil imported in 2008, more than 370 million of those came from Venezuela. Petroleum imports from Venezuela show similar numbers.
“Chavez is a state sponsor of terror,” Rowan says. “He has supported the FARC in Columbia, and terrorists in Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas with oil, money, with weapons, with passports, with political support…” He goes on to tell, “Two governments are now investigating a plot where Hezbollah, in Venezuela, will kidnap Latin American Jews and sequester them in Lebanon. Last month, seven of the eleven people arrested for trashing a Caracas synagogue were in the employ of Hugo Chavez, who called the break-in a simple robbery—a two-bit burglary....
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Sounds like ACORN and Obama.
I clicked into this thread with completely different intentions.
Never mind ;)
Some day, the Democrat party members will find that 0bama and the bots will come after the dem, too.
The Jews under the NAZIs went to the ovens because why? Because they just couldn’t believe their countrymen would willingly participate in depriving others of their rights and freedoms under a republic.
Also, they ‘didn’t know’. No one in Germany ‘knew’ except those who did the deed, right?
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