Venezuelan lawmakers hurt during punch-up in parliament

[Zorro]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014470688

[naaman fletcher]

1. beating opposition lawmakers

is progressive

[joshcryer]

3. Well, look at the responses in the other thread.

There are supposed "progressives" here who are cheering it.

What a weird ass world we live in where this sort of thing is cheered or supported.

[Marksman_91]

2. "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" -Isaac Asimov n/t

[joshcryer]

4. Clearly it's the fascist oppositions fault. They were told not to speak.

Holding up a sign in silent protest = speaking.

Bad fascists.

[spanza]

5. Videos

http://globovision.com/articulo/exclusivo-video-muestra-la-golpiza-que-ocurrio-en-la-asamblea-nacional-este-martes


Borges speaking after the incident
http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/actualidad/politica/video---julio-borges-a-golpes-quieren-retirarnos-d.aspx

Sad day for the Parliament. Today, for the 1st May's gatherings the situation is at its most tense point. We're very worried here.

[joshcryer]

6. Yeah, the May Day celebrations are going to be tense.

The fascist chavistas are going to try to use the day to promote their corrupt concept of socialism while Capriles is calling for peaceful protest. University teachers aren't getting paid fairly (see Oaxaca for a similar situation), unions are being blamed by the chavistas for the disrepair of the country and of expropriated companies. It's going to be a very tense day today.

[joshcryer]

7. Propaganda video soon to be posted and get 15+ recs.

Note: this is totally misleading and dishonest portrayal of the events as they transpired. You'll note that the guy puts the helmet on after the violence starts, so they show a video of him smugly wearing it before the fact, as if he came prepared. Whether he brought it intending a fight is immaterial, he was being assaulted, I'd put on a helmet too. You don't back down from thugs. If anything that would prove foresight knowing the thugs would attack you. Also, they show a still image of a woman blowing a horn and act as if it was part of the protest, but that horn blowing was after the assaults began.

[joshcryer]

10. ^- lol I totally called this btw.

Fucking lying scum. They even posted a doctored image from ND (a popular Venezuelan forum where chavistas and opposition talk crazy to each other and neither side is particularly sane, thus don't ever get your information from there).

Unsurprising.

[Bacchus4.0]

8. violence comes natural to chavistas, they are like animals pigs mostly

but they lack a pigs intelligence. its really not surprising in a place with the highest murder rate in the southern hemisphere where only 3 percent of homicides are brought to trial. The chavista followers just mimic their leaders.

[Marksman_91]

9. And now Cabello claims that it was all staged up by the opposition

Right, especially when there's enough photo and video evidence to show that it was the chavistas who started the whole thing, and Diosdado himself just sat in his throne without calling for order. He was actually letting his lackeys attack the opposition. Does this idiot know that it's very hard to conceal the truth nowadays with modern technology?