Reply #26: I'm the fan club for the people of Venezuela, who have actually read their Constitution, [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

and acted to defend it, when a violent rightwing military coup kidnapped their elected President and shut down the National Assembly (Congress) and the court system. I'm the fan club for the people of Bolivia, who rose up and threw Bechtel Corp. out of their country--after Bechtel privatized the water in one Bolivian city, and then jacked up the prices to the poorest of the poor, even trying to charge poor peasants for collecting rainwater--and elected the first indigenous president of Bolivia, Evo Morales. I'm the fan club of the people of Ecuador, who just gave their newly elected leftist (majorityist) president, Raffael Correa, a 75% mandate to form a national assembly to re-write the Constitution and end fascist corruption in Ecuador. I'm the fan club of their president, Correa, who, when asked what he thought of Chavez's remark at the UN that Bush is "the devil," said that it was "an insult to the devil." I'm the fan club of the people of Argentina, who rose up against the fascists who had incurred crippling World Bank/IMF debt, and went round with tiny hammers breaking every bank ATM display window in the country, in protest. And I'm the fan of their new president, Nestor Kirchner, who, when the Bushites told South American leaders that they must "isolate" Chavez, responded, "But he is my brother."

I would "rubber stamp" the people of these countries any day. They have done the hard work of developing transparent elections and grass roots organization. And this hard work has born fruit, at last, in the election of governments of, by and for the people. You--much like the Bush State Department and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies--want to make this about Chavez, one man. But it is not about one man. It is about DEMOCRACY in South America. It is about a vast, new, peaceful, democratic revolution in South America, throwing off decades and centuries of brutal fascist plundering in collusion with US corporate interests.

Your snide "hit and run" post about a Chavez "fan club" is insulting. And, much like Bush and his bullies, the insult is profound. It is an insult to the people of these countries, and to democracy itself.