Posted on 06/04/2005 9:38:27 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Jeff Cohen suggest that an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week and an easy way to help alleviate global poverty is to buy your gasoline at Citgo stations.
Cohen identifies Venezuela as one of the top oil producing countries in the world and the only one that is a democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor. The President of this utopia is Hugo Chavez, who Cohen says is "the Anti-Bush."
Cohen urges you to buy your gasoline at Citgo, a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, so you can contribute to the billions of dollars that Venezuela's democratic government is using to provide health care, literacy and education, and subsidized food for the majority of Venezuelans.
Cohen says, "Instead of using government to help the rich and the corporate, as Bush does, Chavez is using the resources and oil revenue of his government to help the poor in Venezuela."
Cohen concludes by urging you to, "get your gas at Citgo and help fuel a democratic (Marxist) revolution in Venezuela."
Jeff Cohen is an ACLU lawyer who serves on the board of the ACLU of Southern California. He was the Communications Director of the failed Kucinich for President campaign and the proud senior producer of the short-lived "Donahue" show. Vladimir Lenin referred to people like Jeff Cohen as "useful idiots." Jeff, like most Marxists have a twisted view of what a democracy is.
The president of Venezuela is Hugo Chavez, who considers Cuban President Fidel Castro a political ally and close personal friend. On 30 January, 2005, at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Chavez declared his support for democratic socialism.
Democratic socialism is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. It emphasizes a program of gradual legislative reform of the capitalist system in order to make it more equitable, usually with the goal of a socialist society as a theoretical endpoint.
The Wall Street Journal reports that since winning a presidential election in 1998, Castro's Venezuelan protégé, President Hugo Chavez, has pursued precisely what the Russian researchers in Santiago described as the methodical consolidation of absolute authority under the guise of democracy. Along with paramilitaries and community snoopers, the Chavez power grab has entailed converting the congress into a unicameral body, rewriting the constitution to enhance his power and purging potential opponents in the military.
After "legally completing" these initial steps to consolidate his power, Chavez then militarized the government, packed the Supreme Court, imported a large number of Cubans to indoctrinate the citizenry and began choking off the private sector with capital and price controls.
So the goal of what Jeff Cohen calls a "democratic revolution" is to convert Venezuela into a Cuba-like Marxist state, led by a strong-man with dictatorial power.
Cohen, Howard Dean and that card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Bernie Sanders all call themselves "Progressives." So when you hear politicians refer to themselves as progressive, what they are saying is that they are in favor of turning the United States of America into Venezuela, as constructed by Hugo Chavez.
How about a boycott on CITGO instead? There's plenty of other places to fill up.
Thanks for your comment! Right-on!
Char :)
Sounds good to me. I will make it a point to avoid CITGO. Anything good for Chavez sucks.
Been avoiding Citgo stations since hubby (retired oil industry) told me Citgo is Venz oil. Communists ain't gettin' our money!
A Russian owned company, Lukoil, has purchased almost every Mobil gas station in my area. In one week, every red white and blue colored station turned just plain RED.
A telling metaphor for our country, I fear.
Anyone have the skinny on Lukoil? Are they mob owned?
Sorry, Cap'n. Hubby is asleep or I'd ask. I'll try to get you some information tomorrow.
Around here the Citgos are a lot cheaper than the other gas stations, plus the guy who runs the closest one is a real sweetheart, so I'd hate to boycott him, but I might.
But arent' the others all Arab oil? That's why I've been using citgo.
What is a good gas to buy, politics-wise?
I think if it were possible, the Democrats would be glad to nominate Hugo Chavez as their next presidential candidate.
He's been retired for five years so take this for what it's worth...
He says Lukoil is supposedly behind the election of Putin. And the fact that they've bought up Mobil stations in your area doesn't mean much more than the fact that they've bought up a bunch of independent franchises.
He really doesn't have an opinion as to whether or not you should buy Lukoil though. He's been out of the loop and hasn't heard the latest trade gossip.
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