Biden is on it. I think.
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Posted on 12/15/2020 7:55:32 PM PST by xomething
SAN JOSE DE GUANIPA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Francisco Belisario, a Venezuelan mayor, retired general and member of the ruling Socialist party, had enough. His loudest local critic had accused him of bungling the response to the coronavirus outbreak and other big problems.
In August, he wrote a state prosecutor and requested an “exhaustive investigation” of his nemesis, Giovanni Urbaneja, a former lawmaker who had become a gadfly to the mayor and other Socialist officeholders. Urbaneja, Belisario wrote in a letter reviewed by Reuters, was conducting a “ferocious smear campaign” on Facebook and elsewhere.
Urbaneja not only defamed him and President Nicolas Maduro, the mayor wrote. He violated Venezuela’s Law Against Hate. The law, passed in 2017 but rarely used before this year, criminalizes actions that “incite hatred” against a person or group.
Charge Urbaneja with hate crimes, the mayor implored the prosecutor.
Days later, several dozen masked officers raided Urbaneja’s home and took him at gunpoint for “a chat,” according to the police report of his arrest and Urbaneja’s wife. Urbaneja remains jailed, awaiting formal charges and a trial.
The mayor, in a text message to Reuters, confirmed writing the letter seeking hate-law charges against Urbaneja. He defended the move, saying his foe’s critique was unfair because the local coronavirus response is managed by the national health system, not the mayor’s office.
It was an increasingly common maneuver: In a review of more than 40 recent hate-law arrests, Reuters found that in each case, authorities intervened against Venezuelans who had criticized Maduro, other ruling party officials or their allies.
Despite its growing use by prosecutors, the hate law is considered unconstitutional and illegitimate by many Venezuelan legal scholars consulted by Reuters. Not only does the law violate the right to free expression, they argue, it was also illegally enacted –
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We are only 10 years behind Venezuela. Biden will be sure to catch up.
Despite its growing use by prosecutors, the hate law is considered unconstitutional and illegitimate by many Venezuelan legal scholars consulted by Reuters. Not only does the law violate the right to free expression, they argue, it was also illegally enacted –
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The Madura government is following the same rules as Twitter, but with guns and the power to kill you. Twitter is envious.
Imagine this...
Deep State sabotages Venezuela as test
Rats & DS then use Venezuela as a template for what’s now going on.
The same tactics Maduro is using?
They will be the same tactics the deep state will use against President Trump the moment he leaves office. Beware the Ides of March.
If President Trump does not declare martial law then he best resign immediately with the intentions of President Pence issuing a full pardon.
And even at that, he will still stand very little chances.
Hate crime laws have been political from the beginning. Venezuela didn’t invent that.
Despite its growing use by prosecutors, the hate law is considered unconstitutional and illegitimate by many Venezuelan legal scholars consulted by Reuters. Not only does the law violate the right to free expression, they argue, it was also illegally enacted –
And the media is reporting this like it’s a problem, with a straight face?
Biden is on it. I think.
This is the communist dictatorship of Venezuela supported by Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan, Sean Penn, lots of black national politicians, the Obamas and Clintons and now the Biden Criminal Conspiracy organizations, plus much of Hollywood, the mainstream media, leftist lawyers, BLM leaders, Antifa and other assorted communists from Democrat governors/mayors to local city and state legislature members.
Not even going to mention academia where I’m seeing an exact duplication of the teachers who supported the Communist Party USA/Cuban propaganda front, the Fair Play for Cuba Committees in the late 50’s/early 60’s. Then later they operated under front groups such as the CPUSA’s Center for Cuban Studies, the Tricontinental Information Center (lots of KGB/DGI involvement in this one), the “Free the Cuban 5” front group, Pastors for Peace, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Pax Christi (red as can be), leftist Jesuits/Marxists, and related Latino Marxist groups including La Raza (the Castro family of HUD/New Mexico and the cofounder of La Raza, their mother), etc.
I’m waiting for any or all of the above to condemn the dictatorial Marxist oppression now crushing the first modern democracy in Latin America, Venezuela (1956).
All I’m hearing are “dead, red, crickets” and the MSM, for the most part (there are a few honest reporters still out there) are either complicit or silent, being the “brave gatherers and tellers of the truth”.
Democracy dies in darkness, in Communist and extreme Islamic countries, not in the NY Times except by cowardly omissions, disinformation, and Marxist sympathies.
Probably learned it from Woodrow wilson
Less than that I’d say - Obama and the Dems have already laid the groundwork to imprison Trump once he’s out of office.
How is that any different than a banana republic?
There’s only one way out of this now,
Historically and today,if you are on the list,you disappear with a bullet in the head or luckily to be in prison for as long as they feel.
bkmk
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