>>You liken thugs to revolutionaries.
What did the Tea Owners call the folks who dumped their cargo into Boston Harbor?
Do the Venezuelan people think Chavez is a thug? Has he built a wall to keep them in? Does he murder them for not rendering proper religious belief before the King?
There are varying degrees of thuggery.
What if Chavez colonized a foreign country and then transported opium through it. Would that be “thuggery” or just bidness as usual for the British Empire?
You've got as much grasp of the Boston Tea Party as you do Venezuela.
Do the Venezuelan people think Chavez is a thug?
Yes.
Has he built a wall to keep them in?
Net emigration is zero.
Does he murder them for not rendering proper religious belief before the King?
Well, he has declared himself President for life, he controls the courts and the military...and told the citizenry that showering once a week is a luxury...sounds pretty medieval to me.
There are varying degrees of thuggery.
...but you admire all of them.
What if Chavez colonized a foreign country and then transported opium through it. Would that be “thuggery” or just bidness as usual for the British Empire?
You mean like the time Chavez sent tanks into Colombia to break up the Colombian/US anti-drug-trafficking operations? Yeah, that sounds like something the Founding Fathers would do, too.