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Miss Venezuela’s Silent Anti-Chavez Protest…
Weasel Zippers ^ | August 27, 2010

Posted on 08/27/2010 9:26:55 AM PDT by La Lydia

Beautiful beyond belief and anti-Marxist. Now, that’s a winning combination!… (Powerline)- We missed an important moment at the Miss Universe pageant on Saturday night. The outgoing Miss Universe made a little political statement on her final catwalk that was visible to Venezuelans but probably no one else, holding up an obsolete seven star pre-Chavez era flag. She did it to signal distress in her country, and nowhere is that move evident than in Venezuela’s violent crime. This week the news came out that Caracas is the most violent city in the world, a distinction it holds over Kabul, Baghdad, Sao Paulo and Ciudad Juarez.

Hugo Chavez has made Venezuela a real hellhole and that’s prompting little public statements amid public discord. Investor’s Business Daily brings the news in “The killing fields of Caracas.”...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: caracas; chavez; missuniverse; venezuela
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To: La Lydia

My kind of gal.


21 posted on 08/27/2010 10:11:43 AM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Ping to a thread that might interest you.


22 posted on 08/27/2010 10:14:37 AM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: La Lydia

Not guilty all night...


23 posted on 08/27/2010 10:14:45 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: rj45mis; Interesting Times
"Do you really know her motives for saying this? I don’t and I think I’ll wait to see how this plays out longer term."

That flag speaks for itself. It's the pre-Chavez national standard of Venezuela, and people display it explicitly to protest Chavez.

It's analogous to holding up a "Don't tread on me" flag prior to the US Revolution.

24 posted on 08/27/2010 10:19:45 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: La Lydia
this story is cute.

it will likely cost her and her family their lives.

good job. maybe the author should twit it to chaves... na, someone else already has, rest assured.

no one in the west will ever hear about her again.

she is probably already disappeared.

25 posted on 08/27/2010 10:20:36 AM PDT by mmercier (same as it ever was)
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To: El Sordo

Yes, yes it does.


26 posted on 08/27/2010 10:20:43 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand
Which US revolution....the first one or the almost upon us 2nd one?
27 posted on 08/27/2010 10:23:36 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: FormerACLUmember

Freedom BUMP!


28 posted on 08/27/2010 10:23:47 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

ping


29 posted on 08/27/2010 10:24:06 AM PDT by Perdogg (Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I know girls get mature sooner these days, but I really don’t remember 18 y/o girls like that 45 yrs ago when I was 18, LOL.


30 posted on 08/27/2010 10:26:02 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nmh
"She is stunning and courageous."

She was also born in 1990. Does that make you feel old, or what?

31 posted on 08/27/2010 10:33:26 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand; Interesting Times

“It’s analogous to holding up a “Don’t tread on me” flag prior to the US Revolution.”

I’ve become quite jaded with people who make political statements and then join the establishment when the opportunity presents itself. Unfortunately for this lady, she will encounter many socialists in this country as well. I hope she holds her ground but I will withhold my praise for now. I seem to recall that Ms. Estefan was conservative leaning at one time.


32 posted on 08/27/2010 10:40:35 AM PDT by rj45mis
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To: mmercier

If she is like every other upper middle class woman in Venezuela, her family long ago established a beach head in Miami and they all have some kind of visa that allows them to remain in the US indefinitely.


33 posted on 08/27/2010 10:43:55 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: OldDeckHand

She was also born in 1990. Does that make you feel old, or what
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Yes..my Granddaughter b 1989 when I was 50, so easy to remember.

But I am young....


34 posted on 08/27/2010 10:48:15 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) We need a straight flush in NOV.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Old and a little pervy...


35 posted on 08/27/2010 10:57:20 AM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: El Sordo
"Old and a little pervy..."

Me too. She's younger than everyone of my own children.

I'm going to go take a shower.

36 posted on 08/27/2010 11:04:42 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: El Sordo

I resemble those remarks! :)


37 posted on 08/27/2010 11:06:08 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: La Lydia

A few years ago I was working on a project for a refinery in Venezuela. Some of the engineers and maintenance technicians were here stateside for the factory acceptance test of the process control system. Most did not like Chavez, and this was before his major power grabs. Some of the techs already had property in the States, others were looking for refinery tech jobs in the local area.

One tech had on his laptop wallpaper a picture calling Chavez “La Constitucional Menaza”.

I am being vague on when and where this was so to avoid these people being recognized by Venezuelan “enforcement”.


38 posted on 08/27/2010 11:12:37 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (FUBO! I salute you with the soles of my shoes!)
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39 posted on 08/27/2010 11:16:08 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: FormerACLUmember
 

40 posted on 08/27/2010 11:18:56 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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