Posted on 07/30/2016 4:37:55 AM PDT by Islander7
A new decree by Venezuela's government could make its citizens work on farms to tackle the country's severe food shortages.
That "effectively amounts to forced labor," according to Amnesty International, which derided the decree as "unlawful."
In a vaguely-worded decree, Venezuelan officials indicated that public and private sector employees could be forced to work in the country's fields for at least 60-day periods, which may be extended "if circumstances merit."
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They are Stronger Together. Commies always have such cute slogans to hide their madness.
He did. What’s worse was that it was the result of laughably stupid farming policies, literally thinking at the level of a kindergarten child who had never been on a farm or seen how plants grow. So one can’t even chalk up the death toll to deliberate malice like Stalin. Mao’s idea of improving farming was literally “hey I bet this would work, so let’s do it” and woe to anyone who even hesitated to agree, let alone voice concern.
Only tax paying whitey will have to work on the farm here. Like in South Africa. Whites are 6% of the population and pay 99% of the taxes.(true numbers)
This was common practice in New England, and was still done in Vermont in the 50s and 60s.
If you couldn't, or didn't want to pay your property taxes, you could work it off on the road crew or other duties as needed by the town.
I wasn't considered a big deal, and a lot of poor folks were able to keep their houses and other property by working off the taxes rather than losing it to a tax sale.
When socialism fails the answer is never more freedom; it’s slavery. Governments never, ever relinquish power voluntarily.
Pol Pot, Cambodia, Killing Fields; it’s all baked into the same communist cake. Like Solomon said, “nothing new under the sun”.
Perhaps I should have been clearer in indicating that the Venceramos Brigades knew full and well that native Cubans were forced into the harvesting work, yet all, almost without exception, sang glory hallelujahs praising the communist regime in Cuban. And continue to do so to this day, as well as aligning themselves with the BLM faction.
And the media of the day was complicit in the presentation of them in a positive light.
Thousands of Walter Durantys blossoming to present the leftist slant on the news. Many, such as the lefts highly respected writer I. F. Stone were outright paid prevaricators. The Venona files and other documents reveal the extent of the KGB infiltration and direction of the wests leftists.
What he did not say (may be he does not knw) is that it would take one hundredth of that to eliminate communism in America.
“That’s what we need here. If you have been getting welfare etc for years then you get bussed out to the farms and make yourself useful.”
GMTA. When the illegals get deported there will be a need for farm labor. Simple physical labor, ideally suited for the education level provided by public schools in Detroit, Chicago, DC and Baltimore. No workee, no eatee.
I’m all for it. Bring those ladies off the beach in their bikinis to pull the weeds in my garden. They’ll get a more even tan that way.
Was in the region many times, aware of FARC, yet most of my threat briefings were about Sendero Luminoso aka Shining Path in Ecuador, Peru (their home base), parts of Columbia. Communists pure and simple, fake political idealism, pure profit based pieces of shit running cocaine to all points of the compass.
The deadliest and best killers the Sendero Luminoso have are women ..... 40% of the terror group are women..... 90% of said 40% are stone cold killers.
These drug gangs running under the communist flag are growing now at a rapid rate, unchecked they own the Andes regions.
On a scale with ISIS terror group or Sinaloa Cartel the Sendero Luminoso are number one in efficiency . Especially in their home playing field. But they will travel to eliminate threats or for monetary gain. Columbia and Venezuela are resource resorts for them.
If BLM sorts use Venceramos Brigade leadership as advisors then consider any thing the BLM group does real (not wannabe) terrorist activity.
Stay Safe..
Correct you are ...... reloading ammo and tending my victory garden today....... stay safe !
So true. Herbert Matthews was one of the big cheerleaders for the New York Times. I'm ashamed to say my wife's aunt (a revolutionary at the time) was the one who took Matthews to Castro in the mountains. She and other family members later had a crude awakening to who Castro was and "defected" to the US.
But this idea worked so well in Cambodia under Pol Pot.
If slavery were even nearly as productive as paid, incentivized labor, it wouldn’t have faded out for economic reasons.
The productivity is even worse because you need guards who are essentially doing nothing.
The end result will be minimal output due to poor productivity, deliberate sabotage and lots of mistakes.
What I find interesting is the “pick up ten pieces of trash on Tuesday” and similar volunteer efforts. A lot of those on SSDI and welfare should be doing exactly that sort of work in parks, trails, along roads.
And we need to be giving the women and teenaged daughters in those households long term contraceptives. If you can’t feed yourself, you can’t be allowed to have children or have more of them. If you economically support yourself or marry someone who can, then you can have the IUD or Norplant removed. For those on welfare to have three to four children while working families struggle to have one or two is a recipe for disaster.
I thought kine was an old archaic term for cows.
Stalin's Forced Famine 1932-33 7,000,000 Deaths
Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, set in motion events designed to cause a famine in the Ukraine to destroy the people there seeking independence from his rule. As a result, an estimated 7,000,000 persons perished in this farming area, known as the breadbasket of Europe, with the people deprived of the food they had grown with their own hands
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Reminiscent of Russia and China.
***Conscripted labor is not unlawful. It is a government function in times of social stress. ***
Back around 1970, there was a story going around that there was already an Executive Order for the forced removal and forced labor of citizens in the USA in case of “invasion”.
All it needed was to be signed and implemented.
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