Who's Been a Naughty Boy Then?
From International Herald-Tribune
CARACAS, Venezuela: An international press-freedom group expressed concern Tuesday over suggestions by President Hugo Chavez's government that it may revoke the broadcast license of an opposition-aligned TV station.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in a statement that if the government is threatening to take action against private broadcaster Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, "because it is an opposition network, then it is clearly a violation of editorial diversity."
Concessions held by some privately owned TV networks expire early next year, and Chavez during his recent campaign for re-election backed holding a national referendum on whether they should be renewed.
Reporters Without Borders said it was inappropriate to decide the future of the private broadcaster by referendum since RCTV's role as a media organization is not a question of governance.
"We call on the Venezuelan government to review its position," it said.
From KiwiBlog
Via Act on Campus Blog
The former Venezuelan representative to Transparency International has published a paper at Cato on how corruption is now rife in Venezuela. Some quotes:
The state-owned oil company ceased publishing its consolidated annual financial statements in 2003, and Chávez has created new state-run financial institutions, whose operations are also opaque, that spend funds at the discretion of the executive.
Corruption now permeates all levels of Venezuelan society. Bureaucrats now rarely follow existing bidding regulations, and ordinary citizens must pay bribes to accomplish bureaucratic transactions and have to suffer rampant neglect of basic government services. All this has been encouraged by a general environment of impunity: officers implicated in major corruption scandals have sometimes been removed from their posts, but they have not otherwise been held legally accountable.
According to the Venezuelan Central Bank, about $22.5 billion has been transferred to accounts abroad by the Chávez government since 2004. About $12 billion of that amount remains unaccounted for.
New Zeal Western leftists idolise this thug. As Chavez consolidates his power and his Cuban trained secret police become more and more repressive, the true nature of "Chavism" will become apparent.
The Western left has consistently lionised murderers and tyrants, from Lenin and Stalin, to Mao, Pol Pot and Hoxha.
When will they wake up to Chavez? When will they discard him like the rest? Who will they brownnose next?
posted by Trevor Loudon at
12/20/2006 01:41:00 PM
113 Comments:
I wonder where are those Chavistas now?
I was just thinking that MAH.
Usually they'd be defending their boy like crazy.
Trevor, seeing as you think that dodginess and corruption at the highest levels is something that permeates only a Communist or Socialist government, I have one word for you - Halliburton. Haven't seen you criticise all the no-bid contracts that that company got handed by Bush and Cheney. Trevor is against corruption, but only by governments he dislikes. Correct?
Three points anon.
Firstly-I don't swallow everything (or anything) Michael Moore says.
Secondly-when have I ever defended Bush, Cheney or the war in Iraq?
My main criticism of Bush is the way he has wasted lives and money on Iraq, when he should have been finishing the job in Afghanistan and trying to sort out the threats from Cuba, Chavez etc.
Three-when have I ever defended corruption by anybody?
I didn't write that you had defended corruption by anybody, or that you have defended Bush, Cheney, or the war in Iraq. Those two people have cost the lives of untold thousands of people, while Hugo Chavez has killed exactly how many people again? Please remind me. You go on about Chavez like he's the devil.
Isn't Chavez the same fellow who gave at least one million bucks to the Taliban regime of Afghanistan? You know, that same Taliban regime that didn't hand over bin Laden and other terrorist types that took credit for 9/11?
Maybe you ought to read the interview of Chavez's pilot who is now a firm critic of Chavez:
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2003/0109.htm
You're pandering to Chavez is simply pathetic. You look like like Justin Raimondo and Pat Buchanan in their pandering to Vladimir Putin on how he "coudn't" benefit from seeing his critics end up dead.
Didn't the CIA give weapons/finding/training to shady Muslim characters in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion?
Anonymous, stop going off topic. As for that, even Jimmy Carter's National Adivsor stated how the Communist Chinese, the Communist Czeches and the Soviet army themselves were aiding the "anti-Soviet" insurgency.
Just keep on pandering to your comrades. Simply pathetic.
To anon.
Chavez is best mates with killers like Castro, Mugabe, the FARC, Hu Jintao and Qaddaffi.
He has visited, Ahmadinejad, of "Holocaust Conference" fame at least four times.
He is a self described Maoist who wants to bring all of Latin America under Marxist-Leninist rule.
He is rapidly establishing a Cuban backed dictatorship in his own country.
Other than that, I quite like him.
Mah, you're the one who brought Putin into it. That would seem a tad off-topic, at least as much as the CIA.
No, you're the one who likes to go off topic anonymous. Anytime whenever there is a post about going after your boy Chavez, you always come and jump in to defend your boy. Even if it's allegations of Chavez being a dictator or being friendly toward dictators.
As for me using the Putin analogy here, you fit the bill. Like Putin's defenders over the death of the late KGB-FSB defector, you turn a blind eye to your boy's dictatorial reign. That was my point in my analogy.
I'll make another analogy while I am at it. You know anonymous, you're just like the defenders of this woman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur
Who was involved in the Black Liberation Army now residing in Communist Cuba under your boy's mentor-Fidel Castro.
Hey Anon, you must understand that Trev and Mah90210 are very immature people.
They've not developed beyond the 9 year old school-kid stage.
They know what/whom they love and they know what/ whom who they hate. That's all they need to know in their present bind. Their fixation with "commies" (Christ, even the word is midwest America 60s), reflects that immaturity.
Very B Grade western. Bilious "Bonanza". Democracy only democracy if Ben Cartwright wins.
Well that's tough girls because the adult world ain't like that.
Get over it !
"They've not developed beyond the 9 year old school-kid stage."
Wow, what an orignal insult. How childish of you.
It's quite typical for Chavez apologists to always come up with ways of making personal attacks like this. Pathetic.
Is there no one to condemn Venezuelan Communists openly backing Chavez in broad day light?
http://once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.blogspot.com/2006/12/latin-america-file-venezuelan.html#links
Sure, these folks don't have any totalitarian trends. Not.
Mr 90210,
Whether you're Jewish or Zulu or a can of Budget spaghetti I don't care.
I don't even care that you're a wacked zealot but I should be careful there. You are only 9. I do know a very good counsellor for disturbed kids, if your Mum and Dad are interested.
What I do care about is that you should continue to demonstrate in your feisty, naughty boy "I know it all and I'll save the World" way, that you are a silly wee fella.
And Lo, you have just done it, again !
"I don't even care that you're a wacked zealot but I should be careful there. You are only 9. I do know a very good counsellor for disturbed kids, if your Mum and Dad are interested."
Keep up this peddy insults steve the "nice guy". All this proves to my point is how ignorant someone like yourself truely is and how blind you are. You just keep on bringing up insult, after insult never providing anything to the debate.
It's quite typical of people like you to show their totalitarian trends. All this shows is that you're the child in this mess right here. Not me, I'm not the one that makes up these pathetic insults that someone like you really is. If this is where the "debate" is heading on ignoring Chavez's totalitarian pals, then I think that people like myself have already won because of your childish behavior and your inability to have a civil debate without going back and suggest that people like me or Trevor "are" nine-year-olds.
"What I do care about is that you should continue to demonstrate in your feisty, naughty boy "I know it all and I'll save the World" way, that you are a silly wee fella."
Please if you suggest what an "adult" you are. Why not act like one and stop calling people who are against Chavez to be "nine-year-olds". Chavez apologists like their boy Chavez love to make diabious claims.
Mr 9021 0h Dear,
You are upset !
How rapidly we change from a mocking, "pathetic" this and that, to sounding like some pinched the muesli bar from your lunch box ?
I'll bet it was that rotten Chavez boy at the next desk !
Ka Kite !
No, seriously Mahjong, I don't support Chavez, I really don't.
Thieving little prick should save up and buy a museli bar of his own !
"How rapidly we change from a mocking, "pathetic" this and that, to sounding like some pinched the muesli bar from your lunch box ?"
The only one who seems to be pathetic around here is someone like you. If all you can do is simply insult people into calling them "nine-year-olds" in a debate, then I guess I have already won since you can't come up with a proper way to defend your boy Chavez or how to ignore Venezuelan Communists coming out in broad day light to support someone like him.
You are just really truely pathetic. I don't need an image of Robert Mugabe giving Chavez a hug at the United Nations to know Chavez is a totalitarian thug like him. All I learn is that Chavez's own supporters are totalitarian themselves just like you when they refer to people like me and Trevor to be "nine-year-olds". Which then makes someone like Chavez to also be quite totalitarian as well.
You're doing a "wonderful" job into proving how your boy Chavez is a tyrant and you show that in your "debates" (i.e. insults).
"No, seriously Mahjong, I don't support Chavez, I really don't."
Your history of pandering to him suggests otherwise.
Trev, can you pass this message (Loud)On to Mahjong:
Have to 'fess up mate. That post from Anonymous, the one expressing outrage about the loss of your muesli bar, well that was me kiddo.
Just so you know Darling. Wouldn't want him/her further branded a Shi'Fis'Ta !
How pointless someone like you steve "nice guy" really are to the "debate". You do nothing to provide anything to the debate, but call people who disagree with Chavez names along with makinig other diabious claims. You're simply pathetic.
You trying to link me and Trevor to be "nine-year-olds" are on the right line of Mao referring his own people to be "counter-revolutionaries" when they asked too many wrong questions. If this is the way Chavez supporters act, I hate to see Venezuela going full Soviet-style Communism. Quite sad that Venezuela is heading down the road to totalitarianism and Chavez supporters themselves are behind full speed ahead.
Kia Ora Ye Troubled Young 90210,
De(only)bate you seeing is the one you keep taking, you egg !
Which all goes to show how flaky you neo-fascists are !
Where are your big fat proud principles that you can get so rattled by another 9 year old like me ? But damn, I'm a commie, so off to the principal for me !
"Which all goes to show how flaky you neo-fascists are !"
So now Chavez supporters are calling people like me and other critics to be "neo-Fascists" at the same time Chavez is quite friendly to the dictator who runs Libya who is pals with David Duke and other Western neo-Nazi/neo-Fascist types?
Pathetic. You're really trying to show how adult you really are. Not.
Could you boys just go outside and get some fresh air for goodness sake. I am sick of the school holidays already! Go kick a ball or climb a tree. Mah - you are quite good at flying kites but watch out for the power lines sonny!
Dear Mummy,
You promised you wouldn't interfere.
Mah-Jong-Ning-Nong will come around if you give him time.
It's just that he's on furlough from the IDF and well, those evil Palestinian street kids, they gave him a helluva a time.......how they scream with their little legs blown off !
Give the boy time !
Hey Mah Bro' !
I don't hide behind names. That "Anonymous" posting was an error on my part. Didn't get the point in the right circle sort of thing.
And as God is my witness I don't have any idea at all who "Mama Chavez" is.
Perhaps she really is .....
Mama C ?
Saw it somewhere, maybe it was you, My Stroppy Third Grader, that Robert Mugabe was seen hugging Hugo Chavez at the United Nations.
"I saw Mom-my kis-sing San-ta Claus....un-der-neath the New York sky last night....if on-ly I had known....poor Mah his mind is blown...."
Dear 9021 Oh - You Are Surely Going For It Now !
Contemplate this, and I'm not kidding in the slightest - your mention of "PLO propoaganda" makes you the equivalent of the The Holocaust Denier.
And with assuredness, I am not that ! So don't give me your bullshit about Anti-Semitism.
My offer of a link to the counsellor still stands.
And a little tuition re your writing style might be in order - it's not cool to commence your "onslaught" with the other guy's words.
Are you thick as well ?
"Contemplate this, and I'm not kidding in the slightest - your mention of "PLO propoaganda" makes you the equivalent of the The Holocaust Denier."
What you are promoting is PLO propaganda. The Palestinian Television promotes this sort of propaganda to radicalize Palestinian children to become future terrorists. It's quite interesting how you go on the lines of David Duke when it comes to defending Palestinian radicals and terrorists blowing up Israeli shopping centers or firing rockets at Israeli settlements.
Typical of a Chavez apologist to also condone Palestinian terrorism. Who the hell cares Chavez is also a pal of the Iranian President who has sought Israel's utter destruction along with inviting David Duke and other notorious holocaust deniers to a "conference".
Yet another exposure of Chavez apologists being totalitarian and deceptive along with being outright dishonest and brainwashed.
"Saw it somewhere, maybe it was you, My Stroppy Third Grader, that Robert Mugabe was seen hugging Hugo Chavez at the United Nations."
Hello, that photo with Chavez and Mugabe was on Mugabe's wiki bio in black and white or are you too damn lazy to go and get it that you have to go and ignore how totalitarian Chavez is or how friendly he is to totalitarian tyrants like Mugabe?
What this entire pointless "debate" someone like "steve the nice guy" and "anonymous" are trying to defend their boy Chavez is their obsession that America and Western civilization are the "ultimate evil" to the world. They are taking direct talking points from America's enemies.
Here are quite a few quotes to which they would agree with:
"If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States."-Mao Zedong
"We shall support whatever our enemies oppose; and oppose whatever our enemies support."-Mao Zedong
"We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it: to his home, to his centers of entertainment; a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move."-Che
“It is an imperialist government, one that says it fights against terrorism but protects it. The U.S. throws stones to Latin America.”-Chavez
“Long live the Unity of Latin America.”-Chavez
“Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention -- and saying no to death.”-Chavez
“The voice of Mr. Bush and the voice of Mr. Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq.”-Mugabe
This is the ultimate reason why Chavez apologists turn a blind eye toward his totalitarian trends. It's because he is pals with various dictators who seek the total destruction of the United States.
Mah Jongo Bongo Boy,
You getting well carried away wiv uself again Little Mannykin !
As an aside, where the hell you get all this cut and paste bullshit you gimme bro' ?
I know for a fact you're not that dexterous on the keyboard. At your age. And what with having the poorest Pitman's.
I'll say it in my plain guts: killing children is repugnant. Full Stop.
And TEN full stops for the Israeli regime which isn't happy with less than ten children for one child !
So don't talk your David Duke fantasy to me. You're more into it than me. You're both personality-disordered Nazis !
It's just that you've changed Jews/Blacks/Anyone Else I Care To Hate, for Palestinians/Chavez/Nga Tamatoa/just lately that sleeper for many evils, Phil Lewin/Anyone Else I Care to Hate !
Well Ask Your Self Man ! What is it with you ? God ! You crazies are like bloody vacuum cleaner salesmen - you never stop blowin' or suckin' or whatever it is you do.
Star-Pit, Star-Pit !
Mah Brotha' In Da Jongle,
Gotta dash to New World. Be back in 40. Promise me now Mah Man, you gonna word me up a douzy while I be gone !
Chur Bro-Mah,
I think you better jump on a silver bird and get over there to Old Donny Rumsfeld.
He's not in a good way. His oncle in Baghdad just snuffed it. He's taking it hard. They were close you know.
I got pics of Old Dazza shaking Oncle Saddo's hand in some palace over them Middle East ways, bout 83 or 4.
Damn, he's a cunnin' polecat that Rummy. Went there makin' out he was a visitin' old kith and kin -even took a friendly card from some hotshot lives in Washington. Ronnie someone. Wife called Nancy.
Boy ! Did did Rumzo make a heap of bucks outa them weaponry gadgets he took over.
And gas, I kurd you not, bloody gas we use to deal to the gophers wiv.
See, in '83 Oncle's stocks they already run out, up in Kurdland there. Well, look after the Oncle, that's the story !
Travel safely - advisable to stay in the Green Zone. Ya can't have Epiphany, Tiffany.
Someone, I don't speak your childish language "steve the nice guy". Your apologetic attitude toward Chavez along with Palestinian terrorists really prove that you are showing off your totalitiarian trends along with showing what an "adult" you truely are by going to name-calling.
I'm for one quite happy with the death of Saddam Hussein, the friend of your boy Chavez now hanging on a rope and noise. Saddam encouraged and supported much of the PLO propaganda you are promoting to "show" how the Israelis are "murdering" children while ignoring PLO propaganda on teaching Palestinian parents to teach their kids to become future terrorists.
Where's your outrage "steve the nice guy"? Your view is just typical among the anti-Israel crowd which is right in line with the Chavez apologist crowd too.
I have also yet to hear a condemnation on the part of Chavez apologists that Chavez sent money to the Taliban before the invasion of Afghanistan along with visiting the now late and former dictator of Iraq-Saddam Hussein.
Yea, that sure shows how untotalitarian Chavez is. Not.
To All The Fascist Libertarian/Fibertarian World - which is every single one of you nutters and nasties.
Mah Bro 92010 Jing Jong, she away for a time. She a visitin' wiv Dazza Donald Rumzo in mourning on some wind swept estate in Connecticut, Haliburton House I reckon.
Dazza's oncle got cruelly done away with in Baghdad ya see. Very sad but they eating turkey in the White House ! Humble Pie and Crow next year !
So ewes can all communicate with me from now on. Me's havin' email address TonPrash @ FragrantPandaRooms.Org - known throughout the civilized World as a jolly place ! More hits than Laura Bush goin' through red lights in Texas !
"To All The Fascist Libertarian/Fibertarian World - which is every single one of you nutters and nasties."
Wow, you certainly have showed me what an "adult" you really are. Not! And btw, I'm no Libertarian, Trevor is the one who truely is, not me though I can understand the philosophy of a small government and all that other sort of stuff.
As for you "steve the nice guy", it's such a "nice" thing that you side with a late former dictator like Saddam who was pen pals with your boy Chavez. Who the hell cares that Saddam gave money to families of suicide bombers who happen to be also members of Hamas and the PLO? How about Abu Nidal's body being found in Iraq? You know that terrorist who was repsonsible for Black September against Israeli atheletes? Yea, you're Jew-hating comments don't put you on the lines of David Duke and the folks who visited the Iranian President's holocaust denial conference.
"Fuck'n IDF DOES kill children you arsehole. You know it too you Maggot !"
Nice "come back" on how someone like you are on the right lines as someone like David Duke and other neo-Nazi/neo-Fascist types who joined in the holocaust denial conference. Do you protest the images of Palestinian children being dressed up as being future suicide bombers? I don't think so, typical of your kind.
Dear Mah Lunatic Fringe Person,
Where are you at with your bitch arrogance, you Fascist Mongrel? Slaughter children and say it's sweet. You're an arsehole with a big personality problem. Thank Christ (yes, I've done it again) it's only the Holocaust Nazis of Zionism who think like you.
And you can throw your facile Anti-Semitism jibe down the nearest drain too !
You Mongrels have dined out on the Holocaust for far too long !
Funny thing is, you just can't resist responding can you ? Even when you look a fool. I told you you're 9. And disturbed.
Counsellor ? Yeah, offer still stands.
Silly Man Mah,
Just remember that Georgie Bush gives milllions, no billions, to fascist Holocaust Nazi Israel to kill Palestinians.
You cannot deny that you Nazi ! Even with the spin of the Pentagon under Dazza Rumzo, you can't deny that !
"You're no better than Adolf, crud !"
Says the "steve the nice guy" who defends someone like Chavez who is quite cummy with the Iranian leadership that hosted the holocaust denial conference.
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