Where did I say, "white rabbit" did anything, Mr. Rabbit? I'm thinking more of Olyblog as a whole. There are numerous posts/threads dealing with FRO and the "criminal" acts of the FCC trying to silence them, ala free speech. I don't always agree with them but I know they are out there.

Were a similar event to happen in the U.S...... So suddenly we are the yard stick that everyone is measured upon? Did you miss the posts about global warming our our country's terrible emission policies? How about the detainee's in Gitmo? Heck of a civil rights yard stick there. The war in Iraq? Take one look at our healthcare system. Just because the U.S. would throw a fit, doesn't mean it's "the right thing to do". If the newsmedia is so bad that it incites a coup, then there is probably something pretty wrong going on with the government.

Did any of you bother to look at the pictures of the demonstrators who were opposed to the governments decision? By the people for the people? Chavez is/was wrong. AS wrong as G. Bush is/was just in different areas obviously. Is it any wonder why these two hate each other? They are so similar that they can't stand the competition.

Saw the movie, quite awhile ago and I'm assuming I saw it because a link to it was posted from this site. JUST in case though, I watched the first 10 minutes again before I realized I had certainly seen it. So I went online and read a few articles pertaining to it, and a few reviews.

I STILL think Chavez was wrong. Obviously, given the demonstrations that occured after this decision, some folks there did not want this station shut down. You complain that they incited a coup, that they broadcasted false information. So setup an FCC to make sure they are toeing the line. Start fining them, start proving their stories wrong. Eventually they will either tell the truth, or nobody will watch them any longer. Chavez made this move and simply looks like a dictator (foreshadowing anyone?).

"the radio frequency that RCTV used for over half a century is being returned to its original owners—the Venezuelan people—under the management of its democratically elected leadership. Still, while the decision about how to use the airwaves might be the prerogative of the government (as many critics concede), critics of the move have a point when they complain that the freedom to use the airwaves cannot be solely a matter of majority rule. After all, shouldn't minorities (in this case a mostly relatively wealthy minority) also have access to the megaphone, so it may use it to convince the majority of its point-of-view? At least, progressives who defend the rights of traditionally disenfranchised minorities would argue that minorities should always have access to the media.[1] Even though Marcel Granier and his friends cannot be considered to be a disenfranchised minority, surely this minority deserves to be heard in the media, at least a little bit, in the name of pluralism."

THAT is what I'm talking about! Some of you on this blog are SO into the minority getting their voice heard but you are NOT into that idea when you no longer sympathise with the minority. Does the term "Hypocrite" come to mind for anyone else?

And as far as coups:

As an army paratrooper in 1992, Chávez himself participated in a bloody attempted coup, as he still proudly acknowledges. In 2003, he arrested the leader of Venezuela's largest chamber of commerce (take that, bourgeois capitalists!) for - what else? - allegedly fomenting rebellion against him.

Yet it has to be said that “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” is only a partial picture of what happened. Clearly Bartley and O’Briain were fans of Chavez from the start, and saw his denunciations of “neo-liberalism”--the revival of pure, Smithian capitalism he sees as the essence of conventional “globalism”--as a heroic defense of the poor against economic exploitation. Their admiration might have been why they gloss over the more questionable aspects of his career (his failed 1992 coup gets only the briefest mention) and carefully arrange their footage of his opponents (mostly the wealthy elites) to make them appear almost unutterably smug and contemptuous of those they consider their inferiors. The sense of triumph at Chavez’s eventual victory over his foes is palpable, and of amazed adulation at his post-coup generosity even more so. It’s also true that the picture’s suggestion of American involvement in the coup--while perhaps, even probably, correct--isn’t examined with sufficient rigor. On the basis of the meager evidence offered here, the verdict on that score would have to be “Not proven.”

Yep, Chavez has participated in his own coups.

Here's a picture for you. If you changed the lettering in the background it could very well be evergreen behind these college students. Now that Chavez has chosen his path it seems that it will all go to the internet, youtube will pick most of it up. What will Chavez do next, refuse to renew the contract for ISP's that allow access to youtube?

Chavez = Dictator in training.

If not, please do. Then we'll be able to have a conversation.

"As for Chavez, it would be very good for the USA if he came up missing much like Jimmy Hoffa."

Whom do you mean by USA?  The business interests that would love to expoit resources that Chavez nationalized?  Or the low-income working families, senior citizens, and disabled people in our nation whose energy bills are subsidized by Chavez' Venezuela?

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