Hugo Chavez is creating an army under his direct control. Arming fervent supporters for the purpose of, now get this: to “promote grass-roots democracy.”
Gen Alberto Mueller, an advisor to Mr Chávez, told The Sunday Telegraph: “Some communal groups have already received military training. They’ll train in their own neighbourhoods and will be equipped with any arms – guns, grenades, knifes – the community can provide. We have a right to defend ourselves, like the UK has, and be sure we’ll do it.” ~telegraph.co.uk
There’s something heartwarming about this. It just warms my heart to see so many people joining the NRA for the first time. And to think it’s all due to socialism! I may have to rethink my ideological opposition.
A million man army will certainly ensure the dominance of ‘democratic’ socialism (as well as the dictat of Chavez) for years to come.
The move has caused alarm among Mr Chávez’s critics, who claim the groups will be used to repress internal dissent. They point out that, unlike Venezuela’s military reservists, the communal councils come under Mr Chávez’s direct control, including the appointments of their oversight committees and allocation of funding.
They are being created in tandem with plans to expand Venezuela’s military reserve fivefold, from about 200,000 people to one million – a move Mr Chávez has introduced in the belief that his sworn foe America is planning some kind of military intervention. ~telegraph.co.uk
The one thing I love most about socialists are their amazing capacity to create the most tasty and enigmatic –what’s the word I’m looking for here?– euphemistic bureaucratic terminology.
The communal councils project is being overseen by David Velasquez, a communist who is the president’s new “minister of the popular power for participation and social development”.
Although the favoured blueprint for the scheme is the Paris Commune of 1871, under which socialism briefly reigned in the French capital, critics say it is more reminiscent of “mini-Soviets”, which will be used to monopolise Venezuelan local politics. ~telegraph.co.uk
Eric, please get in touch (here’s a bad article on vt and gun control for you).
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/159184.html
That’s the Bee for you. After all McKlatchy is one of our illustrious average run-of-the-mill liberal news organizations. It doesn’t surprise me at all when it’s columnists are 98% liberal, and 2% moderate and/or centrist. (Moderate and centrist being synonyms for liberal, of course.)