On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:38:47AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > > If it was only the executives and a handful of highly qualified > specialists, you would not need the army. >
Of course you would. Look, once again, this isn't a normal "strike", this is a conspiracy of traitors working with an evil foreign power to overthrow a legitimate government. So obviously the installation would, at the very least, need to be protected from possible sabotage. Besides which, if you wanted to get that operation back up and running, the army has a command and control hierarchy already in place which could achieve at least some functionality in place of the absent management. Let's compare this with Saudia Arabia or Kuwait -- what do you think those governments would do in the same situation? The spooks from another country conspires with Saudi dissidents to overthrow the government. They start a strike in the oil industry -- what would be the Saudi response? The army would move in, the strikers would be in the Saudi dungeons being tortured, then executed. Chavez is a pretty benevolent guy - he hasn't even arrested the people they know for a fact were in Washington conspiring with Dubbya. Which is pretty amazing -- can you name another country which wouldn't arrest it's nationals found to be conspiring with foreign agents and attempting a coup? Maybe he will yet -- probably should, in fact. The fact that he's being demonized in the mainstream (corporate) media as a commie is irrelevant. Don't we all know that that CNN, et al, are going to do everything possible to minimize an anti-corporate leader? Because I'd say that's what Chavez is -- not a commie, but anti-corporation, anti-US. Which is a good thing. Read what Washinton, Jefferson, and all the rest of the founding fathers said about corporations. Jefferson wanted to ban them totally, and they should have. The First American Revolution was just as much a war against corporations as it was against England. "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Thomas Jefferson We need to understand that corporations are not humans, they have no civil rights. They need to be banned from making any sort of political contributions or advertisements. They need to have their corporate charters yanked and replaced with a maximum 2 year charter issued and reviewed by a citizen review board. Of course, I have no illusions that, at this point, this will happen without a total revolution of the govenment. However, if some governments can, anywhere, come into power in a country like Venezuela, then they should be aided and bolstered in any way possible by all freedom loving peoples, because they are probably our only chance of maintaining at least part of the world free from the mega-corp ruled NWO. Let's hope Brazil follows Chavez's path (although Lulu has his work cut out for him in getting rid of the death squads and human rights abusers there), since Brazil is very close to have nukes, or possibly already has them. Other Latin American countries are also looking up -- the leader of the coca growers federation was very narrowly defeated as president there in the last election. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
