On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:10:52PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > A recent news article described the nationwide strike in Venezuela, in > protest against the nascent dictatorship of Hugo Chavez, as seeming "like > something from fiction." Well, yes, it seems very similar to one work of > fiction in particular: Ayn Rand's prophetic 1957 novel, "Atlas Shrugged." B
It's hard to tell from the US media reports what's really going on. Is the "nation-wide strike" a strike of the workers or just a lockout of the workers by the companies opposed to Chaves? Given his popularity with the lower class, it's difficult to understand why they would be striking against him. And if Bush, et al, is against him, doesn't that prove he must be the good guy? Seeing what the US gov't has become, and given the constant distortions of the media, I just have to automatically assume that anyone the US gov't is against must be a superhero. I really don't think the old left/right rhetoric works anymore. Fascism is just another form of socialism and the mega-corp and multinationals are just as much a threat to freedom as governments, and certainly incestously intertwined with gov'ts everywhere. When oil company mercs beat and kill protestors in third world countries, as they certainly have, and the law suits against them are blocked by the Bush administration -- just one example -- why should we see anything like a what is going on in Venezuela as a "good thing?" It looks more to me to be a conspiracy of the New World Order fascists to get rid of an extremely popular leader who's not one of the NWO gang. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
