Posted on 05/01/2006 9:06:04 AM PDT by neverdem
Mmmmm What does one do with a rabid dog?
Good. I predict that the weapons he's handing out will be used against him within 5 years.
So much for the headline.
Anything we can do to push Chavez "over the edge"? Someday these folks , whose economy declined 28% last year, will realize their problems are within.
A couple Texas Rangers could take that whole place down in a weekend... Dick Cheney in reserve.
Sounds like he's creating a force to allow him to assume emergency powers and become dictator-for-life just like his buddy Castro. When it comes time for him to step down as required by his "constitution", he'll merely raise the alarm that US invasion is immenent and arm the trustworthy menbers of his militias to enforce his decrees against any domestic political opposition. It is looking more and more like we'll get another wave of highly educated middle class refugees from there, just like the first waves of Cuban refugees after Castro too over.
Cuba’s defeat of a CIA–trained force at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 is the model Chavez wants to follow.
The Bay of Pigs tragedy is solely the fault of Jack Kennedy. The leftists in America won that day. This makes Jack Kennedy as despicable as his brother, Ted, the drunken woman killer.
The Kennedy motto should be known as, "Each Kennedy for the Clan, and the Clan for each Kennedy. They really could give a rat's a$$ for anyone else.
Can we conclude that Chavez has no other way to solve the unemployment problem? Classic.
and so it begins.....the arming of supporters to be out in the community, thus spying on other citizens and turning them in.....when will the mass executions begin?
and so it begins.....the arming of supporters to be out in the community, thus spying on other citizens and turning them in.....when will the mass executions begin?
At some point these people are going to realize that the American gringos aren't coming. As the unemployment rate reamins high, they will perhaps realize that they have been duped and that Chavez now has a well-armed militia to use against the citizens and to keep him in power. Either a severe crackdown will occur and the people will be repressed and freedoms taken from them, or blood will fow in the streets. What a madman.
Agreed. When the US fails to show up as predicted, those weapons and training he is handing out will be turned on each other when the economy collapses, with disasterous results.
It won't be pretty, I bet.
I'll bet he allows them to drill with the old rifles but issuing ammo will be another thing...
Chavez reminds me of an annoying little brat running around stomping his feet yelling "look at me! look at me!"
I, too, was looking for evidence of wholesale distribution of firearms to be chronicled in the article. Sadly, it was nowhere to be found. I am sure that, on further review, we will find that the folks are given guns, sans bullets, to run around and practice with, "crawling around in the mud", etc, only to check them back in to be held under lock and key.
There is no way that a dictator ever lets ordinary people have guns. Too bad the article is not more clear on the matter.
Anyway, I would hope that this idea eventually backfires on him.
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