Venezuela leaps into autocracy with a unanamous vote

[mvpel]

Yahoo News: Chavez gains free rein in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez was granted free rein Wednesday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by presidential decree ? a move critics said propels Venezuela toward dictatorship.

Convening in a downtown plaza in a session that resembled a political rally, lawmakers unanimously gave Chavez sweeping powers to legislate by decree and impose his radical vision of a more egalitarian socialist state.

"Long live the sovereign people! [ ] Long live President Hugo Chavez! Long live socialism!" said National Assembly President Cilia Flores as she proclaimed the "enabling law" approved by a show of hands. "Fatherland, socialism or death! We will prevail!"

The law gives Chavez, who is beginning a fresh six-year term, more power than he has ever had in eight years as president, and he plans to use it over the next 18 months to transform broad areas of public life, from the economy and the oil industry in particular, to "social matters" and the very structure of the state.

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Here we go again with the enabling acts...

Hello? I'd like a sausage pizza! World War III? No thanks!

[CNHT]

Yahoo News: Chavez gains free rein in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez was granted free rein Wednesday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by presidential decree ? a move critics said propels Venezuela toward dictatorship.

Convening in a downtown plaza in a session that resembled a political rally, lawmakers unanimously gave Chavez sweeping powers to legislate by decree and impose his radical vision of a more egalitarian socialist state.

"Long live the sovereign people! [ ] Long live President Hugo Chavez! Long live socialism!" said National Assembly President Cilia Flores as she proclaimed the "enabling law" approved by a show of hands. "Fatherland, socialism or death! We will prevail!"

The law gives Chavez, who is beginning a fresh six-year term, more power than he has ever had in eight years as president, and he plans to use it over the next 18 months to transform broad areas of public life, from the economy and the oil industry in particular, to "social matters" and the very structure of the state.

And yet....still with all that oil money and 'socialism', 1/3 of all Venezuelan's live in abject poverty -- I mean the 'tin shacks by dirty rivers' kind!

[aries]

Is that Cindy Sheehan?
It looks like her

[mvpel]

You didn't hear about Cindy Sheehan snuggling up to Hugo Chavez a while back?  It was just about a year ago.

Chavez said Sheehan had invited him to join her April protest at Bush?s Crawford, Texas, ranch. ...

?Maybe I?ll put up my tent also,? Chavez said, to applause from an audience invited to his weekly broadcast on the final day of the World Social[ist] Forum, an annual gathering of anti-war and anti-globalization activists.

[mvpel]

Here we go again with the enabling acts...

Hello? I'd like a sausage pizza! World War III? No thanks!

Millions of Venezuelans have been cast under the heel of an autocrat and eventual dictatorship through the frenzied acclimation of their elected so-called representatives, and all you can bring yourself to condemn is "enabling acts?"

And that's all the indignation you can stir within yourself when meanwhile you work yourself into a tizzy over covert surveillance of foreign operatives planning attacks against Americans on American soil?

I thought this was nhFREE, concerned with individual liberty and freedom.  I thought here of all places there would be a ringing condemnation of socialist dictatorship and rubber-stamp legislatures.

If you think it's terrible that some busybody university chairman took down a quote he found offensive from someone's office door, thereby setting himself up for a major smackdown by the courts, just wait to see what happens to anyone who opposes one of Chavez's new edicts.

[CNHT]

You didn't hear about Cindy Sheehan snuggling up to Hugo Chavez a while back?  It was just about a year ago.

Chavez said Sheehan had invited him to join her April protest at Bush?s Crawford, Texas, ranch. ...

?Maybe I?ll put up my tent also,? Chavez said, to applause from an audience invited to his weekly broadcast on the final day of the World Social[ist] Forum, an annual gathering of anti-war and anti-globalization activists.

What is frightening is there are acutally seemingly intelligent Americans praising the way Chavez rules as a dictator, as if socialism was the answer to all our ills here in the USA...nothing like advocating for a step backward into communism and failure of the system.

This guy is very scary with this post being particularly disturbing: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2006/12/spirit-of-democracy-in-venezuela.html

[CNHT]

Here we go again with the enabling acts...

Hello? I'd like a sausage pizza! World War III? No thanks!

Millions of Venezuelans have been cast under the heel of an autocrat and eventual dictatorship through the frenzied acclimation of their elected so-called representatives, and all you can bring yourself to condemn is "enabling acts?"

And that's all the indignation you can stir within yourself when meanwhile you work yourself into a tizzy over covert surveillance of foreign operatives planning attacks against Americans on American soil?

I thought this was nhFREE, concerned with individual liberty and freedom.  I thought here of all places there would be a ringing condemnation of socialist dictatorship and rubber-stamp legislatures.

If you think it's terrible that some busybody university chairman took down a quote he found offensive from someone's office door, thereby setting himself up for a major smackdown by the courts, just wait to see what happens to anyone who opposes one of Chavez's new edicts.

As it is already a given that even women in sewing circles must be subjected to propaganda...and part of that propaganda is that Chavez is trying to drive home with the people: the US is going to attack Venezuela and thus he must pump up his army to get ready.

Thus he accomplishes two things: Incites hatred for America, and is able to have an excuse for his agenda of pumping up and army which he will use against his people and anyone and everyone else he wishes to dominate under communism.

On the other hand, inquiries to our embassy there about emigrating to the US have increased 100 fold.

Then we have 'progressives' like Lendman who IS A JEW AND SHOULD KNOW BETTER!!!!!!!!!!

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Here we go again with the enabling acts...

Hello? I'd like a sausage pizza! World War III? No thanks!

Millions of Venezuelans have been cast under the heel of an autocrat and eventual dictatorship through the frenzied acclimation of their elected so-called representatives, and all you can bring yourself to condemn is "enabling acts?"

And that's all the indignation you can stir within yourself when meanwhile you work yourself into a tizzy over covert surveillance of foreign operatives planning attacks against Americans on American soil?

I thought this was nhFREE, concerned with individual liberty and freedom.  I thought here of all places there would be a ringing condemnation of socialist dictatorship and rubber-stamp legislatures.

If you think it's terrible that some busybody university chairman took down a quote he found offensive from someone's office door, thereby setting himself up for a major smackdown by the courts, just wait to see what happens to anyone who opposes one of Chavez's new edicts.

My condemnation was a lot more indignant than yours, and it wasted no words.

What exactly do you propose people DO about Chavez?

[Russell Kanning]

that looks like sheehan .... she must love socialist leaders more than liberty ... nothing like a good unanimous vote for the leader.

[Pat McCotter]

It is Sheehan from January 2006, during her visit to Venezuela.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Here we go again with the enabling acts...

Hello? I'd like a sausage pizza! World War III? No thanks!

Millions of Venezuelans have been cast under the heel of an autocrat and eventual dictatorship through the frenzied acclimation of their elected so-called representatives, and all you can bring yourself to condemn is "enabling acts?"

And that's all the indignation you can stir within yourself when meanwhile you work yourself into a tizzy over covert surveillance of foreign operatives planning attacks against Americans on American soil?

I thought this was nhFREE, concerned with individual liberty and freedom.  I thought here of all places there would be a ringing condemnation of socialist dictatorship and rubber-stamp legislatures.

If you think it's terrible that some busybody university chairman took down a quote he found offensive from someone's office door, thereby setting himself up for a major smackdown by the courts, just wait to see what happens to anyone who opposes one of Chavez's new edicts.

My condemnation was a lot more indignant than yours, and it wasted no words.

What exactly do you propose people DO about Chavez?

If this was a truly 'free' country and people did not have to part with 25-50%  or more of their income to taxes and business regulation,  Mike and anyone with a cause, would have some funds to organize with others  to man or fund an army to go fix anything going on in the world that bothers them.

[mvpel]

Investor's Business Daily reports that the eerie silence over the demise of liberty in Latin America is widespread:

The Hemisphere: Two democracies fell in Latin America this week, heralding a new era of dictatorship not seen since the '70s. Regional leaders are silent. What will it take for them to notice?

A mere month after the Organization of American States declared itself "very satisfied" with last year's string of elections in the hemisphere, democracy's going down in flames.

It's not only in Venezuela, but in Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Suddenly, a small-but-growing coterie of dictatorships has formed in Latin America. It threatens us all.

Every one of these regimes is characterized by the consolidation of power into permanent one-man rule.

This week, Venezuela's National Assembly handed Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for 18 months.

He's declared he'll continue expropriations of private property, media shutdowns, Marxist indoctrination in schools, and most ominously, new "community councils" in all neighborhoods. These are nothing but Cuban-style block committees for neighbors to spy on neighbors.

... excerpt, click on link above ...

[CNHT]

This is an eerie tie-in with the last email post I made about global inteference in our towns at town meetings and about the regional groups the gov't is now trying to establish in NH to federalize the police and health care agencies.

The more oppressed you keep the people, the more they will swallow the autocrat's promises of delivering them via his particular brand of socialism.

[mvpel]

If this was a truly 'free' country and people did not have to part with 25-50%  or more of their income to taxes and business regulation,  Mike and anyone with a cause, would have some funds to organize with others  to man or fund an army to go fix anything going on in the world that bothers them.