Posted on 02/12/2006 7:31:55 AM PST by FreeKeys
...Does a woman who accepts America's money to build democracy deserve 16 years in prison? Only to a brutal dictator. But that doesn't excuse Congress, NOW and Jimmy Carter for having nothing to say.
...a politicized court is about to throw Venezuelan democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado into prison for "treason." Her so-called crime: Accepting a $54,000 grant from U.S. Congress' National Endowment for Democracy.
...all she and three others did was inform citizens about their supposed rights under Chavez's own 1999 constitution.
For Chavez, that was a crime.. his prosecutor handed the one-man judge and jury his demand for the most draconian sentence ever imposed on a National Endowment for Democracy recipient anywhere in the world.
That's why the silence from our nation's Capitol is so strange. Is Congress admitting, right along with Chavez, that its open-books bipartisan democracy-building arm is an instrument of conspiracy?
Where now is Rep. Lynne Woolsey, fresh from hosting "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, whose last whistle-stop was a Venezuelan foreign-ministry-sponsored trip to kiss Chavez in Caracas?
Or Rep. Delahunt and Sens. Chafee, Bill Nelson and Dodd, all of whom have junketed to Caracas to be at the dictator's side and...robotically repeat that he was "democratically elected."
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More morally bankrupt silence comes from ex-President Carter. Never at a loss for public words, he's famous for certifying Venezuela's 2004 recall referendum...
Carter has put his stamp of approval on the way Chavez runs his voting operations, but he has nothing to say about the dictator's vengeance on those who organized the petition to recall him.
Carter worked with Machado in his 2004 observation mission...
The sham of it is that Chavez has tried to convince us — using the words of Congress, NOW and Carter — that he's as much a democrat as we are...
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I was just a young kid when Carter was the president, so I don't remember much about his politics...but I do remember the poverty that swept the united states and especially our state. I remember there was no work..no money for food, grown men with families were literally BEGGING for work. My husbands family lost the family farm during this time and it took them a decade to recover even somewhat.
kids coming to school in ragged clothes.
people putting wood stoves in their houses in droves because of the energy crisis...leading to homes burning and families dying.
I remember PRESIDENT REAGAN saving us...I remember jobs and money and happiness after reagan came into office. I remember President Reagan restoring Pride into the adverage american who had just spent quite a few years humbeling themselves for a crust of bread....
I hate carter...I always will
I LOVE Reagan...I always will
"Thanks, but what value do you see in posting the link to the Marxist GlobalResearch nonsense?"
Even the Marxist think he is a dimwit.
Oh, I see. Ha!
Pat Robertson was right!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
"Thanks to Ronald Reagan for this man's short term."
And to God and the American voters.
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