-Caveat Lector- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On September 13th
September? >In the bad old Cold War days, the US Establishment used to attack its >opponents for not holding multiparty elections. > >Well, Venezuela did hold multiparty elections and Chávez won by a landslide. >But this was not sufficient. > >In the New World Order, democracy is not defined any longer as holding >elections. Democracy is defined as supporting US polices. There is nothing new about it. Back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s the U.S. did the same thing to Vietnam, Guatamala, Chile, Iran, to name a few... The overriding philosophy of TPTB is "democracy be damned" if democracy results in the election of someone who opposes the interests of big oil, United Fruit, or any number of other big capitalist conglomerates... Ever wonder why there were no elections -- one of the most basic tenets of democracy -- held in South Vietnam while we were fighting the Vietnam War ostensibly in the NAME of "democracy"? Because it was known that in all probability that if free elections were held, it was highly likely that the South Vietnamese would elect someone who at best would have leftist ideas and oppose the U.S.-installed puppet-regime, and at worse they would outright elect a Communist government.... Because you see, "democracy" is all well and good if a people elect a rightwing government that is in bed with TPTB of the west, and especially is aligned with "U.S. interests" (interests that are NOT in the best interest of the U.S. people themselves), but it is quite a disposable commodity when a people dare to elect a government that holds its constituency's interests as more important than the interests of a handful of huge international conglomerates.... >Thus when the military took over Venezuela three days ago and installed a >pro-Washington big business leader as President, the Times did not describe >this military coup d'état as a threat to democracy. Rather, they described >it as *ending* a threat to democracy. Yes, we have reached and surpassed 1984 in both the literative, figurative, and actual sense, and "Newspeak" is not only alive and well, but thriving... >But this time the Times gloated a bit too soon. Perhaps not. The whole thing is a tad too suspicious to me, and smacks of orchestration. Notice how Chavez, upon 'regaining power', immediately disbanded the state agency that was overseeing the oil cartel? It would seem that Chavez perhaps 'learned his lesson', and is starting to kowtow to Big Oil. Time will tell if this is indeed so; I suspect we will start seeing that Chavez is a little less energetic in opposing the Big Oil interests, will be less strident in calling for higher oil prices.... >Since the New World Order has re-defined democracy as subservience to US >diktat, As I pointed out above, it is not the NWO that redefined it, it was redefined immediately after WWII; but one could argue that the NWO really goes back that far, only under another name, if it had a name at all. The bottom-line is that the U.S. has ALWAYS interfered in democratically-elected governments if it suited U.S. interests, and this interference goes back at least as far as the Spanish-American War, but really erupted once the U.S. emerged as a world power after WWII... >Venezuelan President Chávez had weakened "essential elements of democracy" >by appointing as leaders of the state-owned oil company people that were >(horrors!) loyal to his administration rather than to Chevron Oil and, >perhaps even worse, by selling oil to Cuba at an affordable price. And as I pointed out above, immediately upon 'regaining power', Chavez disbanded this oversight committee, returning the state-owned oil company back to the pro-U.S.-interests who ran it before. As I stated above, such an action suggests that Chavez 'learned his lesson', and that this whole coup thing was orchestrated just for that reason... >Because they wanted the military takeover to appear as a "Change of >Government" (which, by the way is the title of the State Department >declaration) rather than what it was: a US instigated military coup d'état. The same thing happened to Chile in the 70s, when Nixon was president of the U.S. The Nixon Administration -- most pointedly, Nixon himself -- were apopletic when the Chilean people, in democratic elections, elected a 'leftwing' government which the U.S. press painted as being only slightly less of a bogeyman than Cuba itself...and indeed the Nixon Administration was not happy that Chile was opening diplomatic and ecomic channels with Cuba, while at the same time cracking down on the U.S.-backed Big Business interests in Chile... 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