Are all the Libs who think that Hugo Chavez is so wonderful proud of his recent actions to promote free speech in his country? Oh wait,I forgot he shut down the last bastion of free speech within his country,so they wouldn't question his actions anymore. Isn't the left proud of this fine upstanding Liberal icon?
2007-05-28 02:16:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
My guess is you won't get many on the left saying they support him or saying "Don't group all the people on the left with the people who support him".
I have noticed a movement of ideas going on in recent years, the farther to th left you go the more opposed to free speech (well anything they disagree with) people become. While on the right more and more people are demanding more freedom of speech.
I have family in Venezuela and I know my family is scared. they are middle class and educated and because of that they are seen as the enemy.
(Far) Leftism is no longer about equality it is about getting their way and silencing others, and that is disturbing to think they once stood for the opposite (pre-Vietnam).
Funny they claim bush is silencing freedom and can not prove it, but they can prove Chavez is silencing freedom (something he claims to protect) and they applaud.
2007-05-28 02:33:00 · answer #1 · answered by Stone K 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Here in Venezuela we have always known Chavez to be a totalitarian monster who claims to be a socialist. Nothing farther than the truth, e.g., In 2003 he fired the entire personnel of the Venezuelan oil industry, 23 thousand persons, confiscating not only what was due to them by law, but also confiscating their life savings, throwing their children from their schools and their houses as well. Does this action seem to you as that of a modern socialist party of, say, Europe, or the dark doings of another Idi Amin?
2007-05-28 11:15:45 · answer #2 · answered by Tio Conejo 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm a mildly-left leaning moderate. Hugo Chavez scares me. You forgot to mention that thousands protested this action... THOUSANDS... maybe he isn't such a big hero after all to those who actually live under his rule. Personally I think that eventually what he is doing will backfire, they will get sick of his antics, and throw him out of office in disgrace - just watch, wait, and see what happens.
2007-05-28 09:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Now, imagine if Bush shut down CNN and NBC. Would the left be upset?
Why aren't they upset about this?
The Dems support Chavez and look at him as a hero even as he consolidates more and more power.
It's simply amazing. AND FRIGHTENING
2007-05-28 09:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by gorgeous george III 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Correct They worship Him, Danny Glover is making a Film
to Honor His Hero.
2007-05-28 09:21:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Libs love Hugo Chavez, Castro, Stalin, Leinn, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Daniel Ortagea and any other leftist commie. Libs wish they could be commies, since they think that is so cool.
2007-05-28 09:20:50 · answer #6 · answered by John 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think he just stepped in it, closing that TV station and in effect shutting down free speech. The citizenry is seeing up close and personal just what and who he is - a ruthless dictator and power-monger.
2007-05-28 09:23:39 · answer #7 · answered by amazin'g 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No one will ever be as good as Stalin to the Atheist left, but many have tried.
2007-05-28 09:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Danny Freakin' Glover must be so proud.
2007-05-28 09:21:03 · answer #9 · answered by libstalker 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
libtards all the same if America votes this kind of trash into office we should consider being Mexicans
2007-05-28 09:23:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋