Chavez Gets His Capital D
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." - Edmund Burke
Today Hugo Chavez goes from being a dictator to being a Dictator. He will now embark on an aggressive transformation of Venezuela that will plunge Venezuelans deep into oppression.
Note this passage:
"The law also allows Chavez to dictate unspecified measures to transform state institutions; reform banking, tax, insurance and financial regulations; decide on security and defense matters such as gun regulations and military organization; and "adapt" legislation to ensure "the equal distribution of wealth" as part of a new "social and economic model."
Two of the time tested tactics of subjugating a populace are denying citizens the ability to benefit from installment credit and disarming them. The lack of installment credit quashes entrepreneurial activity and any other source of self-sufficiency making your only source of sustainment the government. The second tactic should be obvious, it is easier to take over someone's home, business or other property if you have guns and they don't.
Venezuela's economic collapse will be hastened and individual freedoms will disappear. Depending on the pace and extent of Chavez's transformation, Venezuela could erupt in chaos and bloody mayhem in a few short years.
I fear for the Venezuelan people, but I don't weep for them, they are getting exactly the government that they asked for. They have fallen for the delusion whereof Burke spoke.
On another note, Rafael Correa isn't wasting any time in Ecuador launching his post-election putsch, and they wonder why so many Ecuadoreans are hightailing it out of there.
Today Hugo Chavez goes from being a dictator to being a Dictator. He will now embark on an aggressive transformation of Venezuela that will plunge Venezuelans deep into oppression.
Note this passage:
"The law also allows Chavez to dictate unspecified measures to transform state institutions; reform banking, tax, insurance and financial regulations; decide on security and defense matters such as gun regulations and military organization; and "adapt" legislation to ensure "the equal distribution of wealth" as part of a new "social and economic model."
Two of the time tested tactics of subjugating a populace are denying citizens the ability to benefit from installment credit and disarming them. The lack of installment credit quashes entrepreneurial activity and any other source of self-sufficiency making your only source of sustainment the government. The second tactic should be obvious, it is easier to take over someone's home, business or other property if you have guns and they don't.
Venezuela's economic collapse will be hastened and individual freedoms will disappear. Depending on the pace and extent of Chavez's transformation, Venezuela could erupt in chaos and bloody mayhem in a few short years.
I fear for the Venezuelan people, but I don't weep for them, they are getting exactly the government that they asked for. They have fallen for the delusion whereof Burke spoke.
On another note, Rafael Correa isn't wasting any time in Ecuador launching his post-election putsch, and they wonder why so many Ecuadoreans are hightailing it out of there.
posted by Donny Baseball at 12:37 PM
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