Reply #35: He Did Jail Time, Sir, Under the Rule Of the Government He Failed To Overthrow [View All]

[The Magistrate]

There are consequences to failure in the revolution business, you know. Had that government executed him after fair trial and conviction, it would have been well within its rights.

The contrasting case of Columbia is adduced to show the hollowness of most protestations against Col. Chavez' rule in Venezuela: people who portray themselves as boggled in horror by the arrest of a man who took part in a coup against one government seem to be wholly untroubled by another government, right next door, which has overseen the murder and torture of thousands, mostly without even a pretense they were actually guilty of anything. People who display such selectivity and disproportion in their outrage cannot be taken seriously as defenders of human rights and liberty.