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Sumate--a US-funded "opposition" group in Venezuela--and its "president," Maria Corina Machado, lays out the "mafia protection racket" script that is being used to try to undermine, destabilize and destroy the democratic process in Venezuela--to wit, 'unless the rightwing minority gets its way, there WILL be more violence."
We've seen this movie before.
Robbery gangs hit a neighborhood; then security companies hit the neighborhood, offering locks, security cams, security alarms, window bars, personal defense products and guard dogs.
Drugs and weapons traffickers murder 50 candidates, their family members or campaign workers in Guatemala, in the recent elections. The rightwing candidate (former head of military death squads that slaughtered 200,000 Mayan villagers in the 1980s) puts the image of a closed fist on his campaign posters and offers a "crackdown" on violence and a heightened police state as the remedy.*
Anthrax envelopes get mailed to congress members and news media. An antiwar Senator's state-of-the-art small airplane falls out of the sky for no reason, with two experienced pilots on board, on a clear day with no wind. Message delivered. Congress votes to give away its power to declare war to George Bush, and simultaneously (in the same month) passes legislation to fast-track electronic voting machines, all over the country, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations. The one thing guarantees unjust war (and massive war profiteering); the other provides the means to shove the unjust war down the throats of the American people.
Open the routes of illicit drugs and weapons traffic--indeed, fund it at the other end with billions of dollars in military aid, some of which makes its way to rightwing paramilitary drug traffickers and death squads, and some of which is used to destroy small peasant farmers and their small local coca leaf production, and drive them off the land in favor of big drug lords. Flood the U.S. with illicit drugs, then loot the taxpayers blind for the neverending "war on drugs" and the prison-industrial complex.
The invulnerable U.S. is shocked and awed by what would seem to be an impossible attack on its air defense system, skyscrapers are hit by commercial airplanes and collapse into their own footprints, 3,000 people are slaughtered--and the "remedy" is TWO TRILLION DOLLARS for a war against a country that had nothing to do with the attack, and curtailment of AMERICANS' rights under the Constitution, including loss of the right of habeas corpus, loss of privacy to massive domestic spying, and the creation of a lawless mercenary army (Blackwater) on U.S. soil.
Permit the pharmaceutical and insurance corporations to loot public health programs, then offer MORE pharmaceutical and insurance corporation control of those programs as the remedy.
Pollute the air, pollute the water, pollute the food and kill all nutrition value, pollute homes and yards with toxic cleaners, toxic pesticides and rug and furniture materials and additives, IMPORT poison-laden products from other countries, addict people to a sedentary lifestyle in front of their TV sets, then charge ever increasing prices for medical insurance and health care.
Create a nuclear power industry that uses extremely dangerous materials, then create a billionaire dollar industry for nuclear cleanups and the disposal of extremely dangerous waste products.
These are classic mafia protection rackets.
Whether the violence of them is swift and bloody, or slow and corrosive, the fascist M.O. is to create fear, danger, anxiety, anger, ill health, insecurity and chaos, on the one hand, and offer a profitable "remedy" for it, on the other, with the "cure" being as bad as--if not worse than--the "disease."
The operatives who create the "danger" in Venezuela, of course, are masked. It will be hard to trace the shooters of unarmed, rightwing protesters back to their employers. It will be difficult to sort out other "incidents" of chaos-making. And the "remedy," according to Sumate, is to suspend the democratic process, or else there WILL be more violence.
But how many times do we have to see this pattern before we recognize it--that the "mafia protection racket" of fascists like Machado--or Bush/Cheney--is laundered through "respectable" political groups, through innocent-looking "non-profit" groups, and through "legitimate" global corporate predator businesses.
Machado's US taxpayer funded, "non-profit," political group is a shill for Exxon-Mobile, which is smarting under the Chavez government's restrictions on its profits, and has appealed to the World Bank--those shoddy loan sharks--to "negotiate" a more favorable Venezuelan buyout of oil infrastructure. And they DON'T want the Chavez government to be given any more clout by the voters of Venezuela, to curtail their oil profiteering and their vicious worldwide power-mongering. And, of course, Machado is just a little mafiosa in the much bigger context of Bush Cartel shilling for the oil and war industries.
In Venezuela, the government (because it is legitimately elected and democratic) is RIGHTFULLY taking the side of the people in this world war for resources and profits. In Venezuela, we see a small piece of the war. In Iraq, we see a big piece of it. And it's all the same fascist gangsterism. Machado's little threat is an echo of the bigger Bush Cartel threat. If they don't get their way, they WILL harm us. The way to avoid the harm they promise, is to relinquish democracy.
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