Protest photo of the day
Via Yahoo! News, the caption reads: “A student protestor holds a placard during a demonstration against constitutional reforms in Caracas November 1, 2007. The placard reads, “The reform smells like sulphur”. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA).”
The sulfur reference, you’ll recall, is an allusion to Venezuelan thug-o-crat Hugo Chavez’s unhinged U.N. speech.
The “reforms” are a naked power grab:
Venezuelan riot police broke up demonstrations opposing President Hugo Chavez’s plan to overhaul the constitution, using tear gas and water cannons to send student protesters fleeing through downtown Caracas.
Thousands of students and other citizens tried to push through lines of shield-wielding police to reach the elections regulator building, demanding Chavez delay a referendum expected next month on his constitutional plan. The proposal would increase the president’s power and help implement socialism.
A group of students made it into the regulator’s office and tried to chain themselves to a staircase to demand a meeting with government officials, according to images broadcast on Globovision cable news. Others sought to break through a barricade of Humvees and riot police outside. Globovision showed one student with a bloody face held down and being searched.
“We’re playing with our country’s future,” said Luis Rodriguez, a law student at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, in comments broadcast by the cable news station. “All youth, all Venezuelans who believe in democracy, have to stop this.”
Keep the brave student protesters in your prayers.
Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Kevin Spacey, and Naomi Campbell were unavailable for comment.
Oh, no, wait! I found a comment from socialist supertool Naomi Campbell:
“I’ve been here for 24 hours and I’m amazed to see the love and encouragement for the social programs that you have here for women and children in Venezuela,” the British fashion model said.
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So, Kevin, Sean, Naomi, and Danny- Who dies first?
and in a safe house.
In fairness to Naomi Campbell who is unavailable for comment – her phone is usually broken.
Seriously, these protestors are in real danger, and the Consitution in Venezuela is being thrashed, and these idiots from Hollywood are down there encouraging the western hemisphere’s biggest thug. (Sorry Fidel, you’re passe.) Remind me to boycott their movies. Oh, yeah, they aren’t in movies, they’re passe too.
OF course the BBC praises Chavez for giving the poor “Music Lessions” in the “Simon Bolivar Symphony” to where they want to push this for other countries
Talk about Fiddling while rome is burning
Speaking of Chavez’s Hollywood friends, how did this country produce so many people who are so incapable of recognizing evil in the world? I don’t envy anyone who is trying to stand up to such a fiend.
Put Chavez in with Achmadinnerjacket, and Putin and we’ve got a boatload of trouble. Our first step is to break our dependence on foreigh oil. Drill in Anwar, the Gulf, and the Arctic region.
Then these goofballs can play their games without us.
If ya wanna know one potential branch of americas futrue watch Venezuela devolop. You do not believe me??? Watch our lefties also.
Hillary should run for president of Venezuela…seems she would be a better match for that country than for the democracy-loving (I hope, I really, really hope) people of America.
Don’t think it can’t happen here, huge numbers of Hugo clones invade across our southern border every year.
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7852.html
Not to sidetrack the discussion, but how in the heck did that guy get a digital image onto an old piece of cardboard?
How? Paste, blogagog.
The combination of being ugly and stupid is not attractive.
Venezuela – University students protest their President, who is killing democracy. The military attacks the students.
United States – University students protest their President, who is defending democracy. The students attack the military.
O_o
Very nicely stated. Maybe even some Hollywood dunces can see the light with this simple but brutal juxtaposition.
Sean, Danny, Kevin, Cindy — pay attention!
Where’s Cindy Sheehan in all this? Shouldn’t she be defending Mr. Chavez, too? Mr. Mahmoud, Fidel? Anyone?
We have to ignore their cries. We can’t acknowledge that there is strife in the country with “beautiful waterfalls…”
Liberals and their celebridolts live in a world of constant “suspension of disbelief”
Hugo envy: a temporary affliction affecting the central nervous system characterized by delusional thoughts, hysteria, excess hormonal production and total and complete brain shutdown.
Yes, do. I have a missionary friend in that GOD forsaken country. He has evaded the “spy” rhetoric so far. This demonstration will be crushed and the people will go to a jail that would make Gitmo seem like the 5 star resort that the liberals have made it.
The FBI should bring all these stars (gag) in for questioning for plots against the United States. Who else is this Dirtbag meeting with that are under the star(gag) radar? What are they doing when they get back to the U.S.???
What a suprise! The champion of social justice that all the Hollywood dolts love is actually doing what they accuse Bush of doing.
I’ve often wondered how the “truth to power” types in this country have avoided the dungeons of Club Gitmo. After all, Cheney’s got a fevah for torturing political adversaries because it’s so much fun!
What the hell good is a modern Gulag if can’t use it on your favorite Democrats!
Tear gas and water cannons? Sounds like torture to me.
The useful idiots of the elite media and Hollywierd whores backing this dictator will become silent when reports of anyone defying his policies start to disappear in the near future. Unless the Army rises up to take this madman out the torture and executions will begin very soon I fear. This lunatic is a big fan of Castro and I’m sure there is another Che waiting in the wings to implement his rule for life by taking care of anyone that defies him. Those publicly opposing him are risking everything and will need more than our prayers to keep them safe.
Absolutely, Boomer. So many students in So. America including a cousin of mine from Argentina…just simply disappear without a trace.
Las Madres de Los Dessaparecidos - The Mothers of the Vanished (English translation) is an organization set up (in Argentina) for those who have lost love ones (mostly students) that have participated in government protests.
Many of them, like my cousin, were believed to have been tortured, sedated, stomach cut open and thrown over boats into the Atlantic Ocean for the sharks. All of this was organized and carried out by the government during the 1970’s.
One account is of a mother who was thrown from a plane, after they allowed her to go into labor, suffer, and then threw her out.
Do these tactics sound familiar?
Many of the tactics used in Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and El Salvador in what my mother says they call “The Chamber of Horrors” – (South and Central American jails), were taught by Nazi’s who were given a safe haven by paying off the Central and South American governments when fleeing Germany in World War II.
Che was originally from Argentina. He worked with Castro to refine these torture methods.
My cousin, along with his family, one Sunday was abducted by the government in a van. They took him, his wife, his 8 mo. son and his sister. My aunt lost her entire family one Sunday afternoon.
The baby most likely was adopted out by someone close to the government. I may be talking about Argentina here, but we have heard the same stories from family friends EVERYWHERE in Latin America, including close friends of ours from Venezuela. Students you see here in these pictures are VERY brave. We probably never know if harm befalls them.
Shame on Glover, Campbell, Penn, Spacey and Belefonte. They are absolutely shameful, ignorant, arrogant and horrible people.
These ‘loons’ from Hollywood think that if socialism or communisim is enacted here,they will be at the top tier where the power is; and they do not have to worry. The really, really rich like they do not end up at the bottom being screwed like the rest of us. They know or think this, so why should they care?
Their money and power has gone to their heads and created a bubble of reality that blinds them to the plight of the Venezuelans. They don’t see anything wrong with this Chavez, truly. They cry that Bush is taking the country towards a dictatorship, yet when they see a real dictator they don’t recognize one.
FYI: The rest of the placard reads “No to the Constitutional Fraud.”