This is what the thuggish redistribution of wealth looks like
A.M. Mora y Leon tipped me to this video last night of Chavista thugs confiscating farms across Venezuela. A.M. notes the parallels to what Lenin, Mao and Castro did: “But this time, some farmer had the presence of mind to turn on his cellphone camera and film the thuggery as it happened. This makes it really different. Can you imagine what things would be like if Kulaks had had a cellphone camera? It’s incredible what dictators have gotten away with and might not with this clip:”
Fausta Wertz provides translation:
A group of red shirt-wearing Chavista thugs show up at a farm and seize the farm in the name of the government, under the pretext that the 103 hectare farm is “idle land” and that the law allows them to take it over for “food production.”
The farmer protests politely, explaining that he’s been raising cattle on his farm for 23 years. He is rebuffed by another guy, who says, “this is not going to be a debate; this is a public act approved by the Venezuelan people. I’m governor and I’m here to ensure public order. There won’t be a debate, I ask you to listen to the document, after which the public will take charge of the land.”
When the farmer’s wife protests, he tells her to discuss it in court.
Chavez controls the judiciary.
The farmer is told to sign the form, and then to gather the animals so they can be accounted for.
When another one of the people who lived at the farm tries to ask a question, the man who identified himself as the governor insists that “this is not a debate, this is not a meeting, and if there’s any disruption, the public force is here,” pointing to the crowd in red shirts.
The American Left refers to this as the “persuasion of power.”
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Proving how wise the Founders were to write in the Second Amendment.
Those thugs should become real life “red shirts”!!
I anticipate a severe shortage of food in Venezuela in the near future as these highly competent “forces” take over the farms.
I can SOOOOO see SEIU shirted thugs doing this under the Obama administration, which will just go on and on and on…
Venezuela had a constitution. Once.
The Democrats can view the video wistfully, and think “some day here, too.”
Ah yes. Susan Sarandon’s pal Hugo Chavez. She apparently supports this action since she loves to smile for pictures with Hugo.
She needs to be booted out of the USA. Maybe she’ll get a nice farm in Venezuela from her good buddy Hugo Chavez.
What scum Sarandon is.
Those red shirts remind me of the purple shirts of the SEIU…
I thought we were all citizens of the world now. Since the US Constitution is now being used to redistribute American wealth globally, can’t these people invoke their second amendment rights?
Mugabe did the same thing in Zimbabwe, only with more force and against white farmers.
*Whistles.*
It’s already happened here. Albeit in a slightly different way. But its likely a sign of whats to come if the liberals have their way.
This type of attempted land confiscation here will not have a peaceful outcome. Although I’m willing to bet that an agenda item of a leftist SCOTUS would be to expand the scope of Eminent Domain laws to enable the government to do exactly this, at will.
greenfairie said:
You read my mind, I guess I will be called a racist if I coin this action by Dear Hugo”The Mugabe affect”
That’s Duh One coming to take ever larger chunks of our paychecks, and the late, great General Motors, and Chrysler, and the banking industry, and the health care industry, and …..
If it was my land I would dead by now. I will fight for my freedom and my land to my last breath.
I am utterly dismayed at what has happened to Venezuela. This is what happens when thugs like Chavez woo poor people to such an extent that they receive things not earned or achieved. It is really quite disgusting how the Chavistas now think they can boot this cattle farmer off his property.
This farmer wasn’t booted off his property because of the interests of the State. No, he lost his land because Chavista has stolen everything good about Venezuela from those whose blood, sweat, and tears helped the country. How much have the poor helped this country?
Just because you’re poor, doesn’t entitle you or your thug dictator to take stuff away to give to those who don’t deserve it. This is just like Zimbabwe with Mugabe kicking white farmers off their lands to give to unqualifed, inexperienced, itinerant black farmers who turned the land into dust. Zimbabwe is currently experiencing a food shortage.
On top of this, Chavez, Lula of Brazil, and Obummer have interfered so much in Honduras that it’s close to a civil war. Why does this part of the hemisphere, with our help, invest so much in leftist leaders who think tearing up their Constitution and taking away the rights of their people is right? Why are poor people getting more of a say than the rest of the South and Central American populations who work for a living to make their countries better?
South and Central Americans will always mystify me and what they’ll tolerate. I’ve met many educated people from that part of the world and even they are puzzled why their part of the world is prone to such dictatorships. It’s like their countries lack some common sense and aren’t interested in solving some of the big problems like poverty, education, and unemployment.
I’d like to ask these poor people one question: does having no rights suddenly make you feel better? Does having somebody else’s land, home, property wipe the slate clean for you? Is bowing to Chavez worth losing your freedom and your rights?
This is why I would never visit Brazil or the likes of South America. I know too well not only how weak its leadership is, and the abusive tactics they employ, and the even more weak people who follow them. This would serve as a lesson to Americans, if they were paying attention, including the poor, and weren’t so busy trying to take from the rest of us.
How sad.
Paul – It’s not your land. You are obliged to pay tribute annually in the form of property tax or you will be evicted from it.
As did their daddy Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Obama’s friends will be able to take over some fine farmland in the central valley in California soon enough. These confiscations always cause deaths-millions in Russia and China but not to worry–there are always plenty of peasants.
In these earlier “famines” there was always the United States to pop up with some grain–those days seem to be ending–we do not wish to eat too much and offend Obama.
There’s a reason it’s so hard to get ammunition these days.
Not in all states. In some states, like Alabama, there is no property tax. Many in the South learned the hard way some important lessons from the Civil War such as if you don’t have the money to pay the property taxes, your property will be “confiscated.” This happened to a lot of the ante-bellum plantations in the South.
I’ve always thought it a great mistake to tax and continue to tax people to guilt them into paying for schools and services (like the cities in our country) that don’t work. As a former teacher, when I substitute taught I always felt incredibly uncomfortable that property taxes funded at least part of my meager paycheck. I wonder if teachers ever think about the property owner when they get paid?
I wish we could come up with a better system. If you don’t have kids in the public school system (either you home school, private school, or childess) and you own a home, you should be able to opt out. Then again, without property taxes, the public schools would go belly up and we can’t have that.
Your observation is why I’m reluctant to purchase a home. Many view homes as “investments” and like any “investment” it goes up and down. We now have a whole market that, after living on borrowed time, has been obliterated by that cycle. It should give anybody pause before purchasing a home. Where are your taxes are going…. and why.
this has been common place throughout history which is WHY our founding fathers allowed us to keep and bear arms. this is a perfect example of chavez/obama/mao/putin/kim/every commie who ever lived. we will take from the productive because we can if we control the thugs. worked throughout africa, and rhodesia is soooooo productive now.
Exactly.
OT
BTW – what’s a fair price to pay to a gun dealer for his “fee” to bring in a stripped lower for a Rock River? Mine wants $100 – seems high…
AlohaGuy: I had a dealer here in CA last Dec. tell me $75 for a firearm transfer. Many of the dealers wont even touvh FFL transfers because it is such a hassle for them.
Chavez sucks. Don’t these people realize that this has been tried before. Communism fails.
Ya got to love that Second Amendment and neighbors willing to band together.
And THAT IS WHY the 2nd amendment is so important.
We are locked and loaded.
They do not care, as long as they are the pigs walking on two feet. What do they care about everyone else or the state of the country. They have theirs and the means to keep it.
Remember they get their “cut’ from this and all the other farms.
Everything’s more in Hawaii. The whole firearm – ok, but just the lower receiver seems high, but I guess their paperwork is the same.
eminent domain does not mean the government can take land at will. see the 5th amendment.
Gun safes are in short supply too. Damn BitterClingers again, go figure
They’ll have to confiscate our guns first.
Socialism is theft.
I don’t think that’s quite the right picture. Instead, imagine those thugs bleeding out on the ground from multiple shotgun blasts. That’s the picture I’ll be happy to “paint” should such persons come for me, my family, or our home.
I can so see this happening in the USA unless we stand up. You can quote the Constitution and the 2nd amendment all day but its going to take guts and fortitude to stand up. This is what I am questioning on behalf of the American people. Who is going to have the balls to stand up against this? Who is ready to lay down their lives for their freedom? Once the new status quo is established anyone standing up will be branded a terrorist or “un-american”. I want to see people standing up to this. Get involved or your home or farm will get controlled by the state. Folks we have seen this all before in other commie countries. Its like a play where we know what the next act is. The banks, auto industry, homes and now health. Damn the writing is on the wall. We already know whats coming down the pike. Be ready, willing and able! Impeach Obama now and retake our government. Anyone standing in the way must be eliminated.
RTater was talking about property taxes, not eminent domain.
He makes a very important point about all taxes on wealth. If the government can tax it, they can seize it if you are temporarily unable to pay, and if the government wants to make you unable to pay, it can do that, too.
BTW, what is happening in Venezuela is exactly what the current President of the United States of America is trying to force on the Hondurans. He would force it on us, if he could get away with it.
But there is ‘no difference’ between him and McCain. Riiiiiiiiiight.
Don’t worry. The B.O. will be there with bailout dollars and food. Of course, by that time, the dollars will be worth less than pennies and the food will be what you would expect when it’s from one socialist gov’t to another.*
* During the socialist terror in the old USSR, the gov’t was always reporting how much food there was. The people had a saying: “If you want milk, go to your radio.”
fuseman, look at Kelo V New London and you’ll find that indeed they can take land at will.
In a very direct way, this is exactly why I am an American. My gradparents were farmers in eastern europe. When the Russians came in and took the land ‘for all of the people’, the farmers were displaced with nowhere to go. In their case, they came here.
How long will it be before the US will be accepting refugees from Venezuela?
And what will be Sean Penn’s reaction to the US even accepting such terrible people? Will Penn be condemning them to death for owning some land? Will Penn be demanding that those criminal land owners be returned to Chavez for appropriate re-education?
(Of course, feel free to substitute the name of your favorite idiotic hollywood moron for Penn’s in the paragraph above.)
I try to be law abiding in most things, from driving to payment of taxes.
My weapons, however, are unregistered, and will remain so.
Come after our farm … and I guarantee we will not stand passively and sign off on it!
This is the reason we need the FairTax. Both Federal and State versions. All other taxes, fees, etc. would be repealed and only the FairTax would be collected on new items sold at the retail level only. This way, there is no property tax.
I understand the need for taxes. Police, Fire, road work, water, sewer, etc. But property and income taxes have outlived their usefulness. That’s assuming they ever were useful.
If you don’t think that can happen here, remember the Supreme Court ruling that allowed confiscation of private property for the “common good,” including giving it to a developer who will (hopefully) produce something that will generate larger tax revenues. Right, New London, CT? Or how about Jerry Jones getting the city of Arlington, TX, to “make room” for this new football palace? It looks more dramatic in Latin Amercia, but it’s already happening here. Even allegedly conservative Texas Gov. Rick Perry was in favor of creating an international corridor from Mexico through the state for truck traffic — at the expense of stealing millions of acre of private property “for the public good.” We’re further down the road to socialism than we imagine.
Is that the farm Sean Penn had his eye on?
They won’t take it that way
Take a look and tell me what you see now
California farmers to abandon farms due to marxist takeover of…
water
and a possible corresponding increase in illegal aliens coming across our borders??
Arizona does not have gun registration and no control on private sales. But RUBY RIDGE does loom large on the conscience.
Pray for work for the day the ATF goes the way of their heroes–the Keystone Cops.
This is what Obama and his crowd would like to do to people. What did people think “spread the wealth around” (Obama) meant?
RTater, I do not consider my property taxes to be tribute. I do not have a problem with paying taxes that were passed leagally by my state. I do not pay the federal government property tax and niether does anyone else. This video shows the federal gov. taking away land. As a veteran I took an oath to this contry to defend the constitution against all threats foriegn and domestic. If the federal gov. ever comes to take my land or my freedom they will be met with as much resistance as I can give before I am gone. That was the message that I was trying to send with a shorter post. I hope this clears it all up for you.
Cicerokid ~ My thoughts exactly.
Our gov’t.’s take-over of farms is more subtle.
Go “green” get a judge to rule in favor of a bait fish then turn off the water.
Avoid scenes like the one in Venezuela.
I still want to know who’s buying the Calif. land???
Anyone else suspect GE wants it for solar panels?
I wonder if the school kids are singing songs of praise of their leader too. How much longer do we have?
Obama’s ACORN/SEIU, etc. are getting closer to doing the same here.
The farms here are fallow because water is controlled by the Greenies and Congress. Will outright confiscation of private property be next?
What are law-abiding citizens to do?
This sounds very much like the kind of story you’d hear on old-time radio programs. Where’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto when you need them?
Absolutely dead on, rightwingmom. Well said.
Hollywoods hero…
I only hope that the farmer has the presence of mind to utterly destroy his farm before he leaves.
then he was ot. the farmer in venezuela lost his land without due process. no mention was made by any chavez thug about unpaid taxes.
Actually, I think the opposite is true. We have seized the initiative. We have had to “defend” since 2006. I think the August town meetings and the ACORN tapes have reversed that. We are on the attack.
Do not believe me? Ask Van Jones. Ask the Olympic Committee. The cracks are beginning to appear everywhere.
Keep up the pressure.
Excellent idea!
In the above video, it seems to me as though there is more than one camera recording this action. It almost seems like the Chavista thugs want this scene to be spread around as a message to other farmers to get in line. What sand they have to be proud of what they are doing.
Law biding citizens do this
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I don’t see the difference between the video of the ranch confiscation and this video of spreading the wealth.
Same philosophy. Different colored shirts.
SEVERAL barrels of salt mixed into the soil???
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President Obama (PBUH) aided and abetted the Venezuelan Castro–Hugo Chavez. He backs the commie Zeyala in Honduras as he trashes their constitution.
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Birds of a feather flock together. It may be coming to the new United Socialist States of America soon. Fidel was a “good guy” just getting rid of an evil dictator and doing good for the people of Cuba–until he had control and the mask came off 50 years ago. Deja Vu all over again.
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John Bibb
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It really is a pity that the Venezuelan people don’t have a Second Amendment.
Why not? Would the consequences be any worse than what we have right now??
I had a conversation with a friend who teaches at a local high school. He told me that the teachers were getting a lot of pressure from district administrators not to fail students. In addition, they were instructed that homework assignments could not comprise than 10% of the grade in the class, because a number of students were flunking because they weren’t doing any homework.
I am sooooo glad that my youngest child will be out of high school in a couple of years.
Sorry for being off topic. But in a way, property taxes are just as much a seizure of property as what the Chavistas are doing.
It’s already here, and it’s more peaceful than it should be. We already allow them to take cash and other property from our fellow citizens under much the same protocols.
We’re consistently receiving messages that people wearing uniforms, carrying badges and guns are here only to protect us. (Which isn’t true – they protect the state.) The gleeful celebration of the strength of the state displayed recently in Pittsburgh serves as a prime example that the brainwashing works.
And on the rare occasions when one of us does get a wild hair and stands up to tyranny, the media usually takes the side of Law Enforcement, or doesn’t report the story at all. They’re never allowed to achieve hero status.
The camera is our best weapon.
Whats the problem here? This guy and his family will now get free food and housing from the Government since they just lost thier land and their livelihood.
Thats living the life of Riley. What a deal. No longer having to feed those darn cows or till that land or struggle to just put food on the table. I’ll bet they are thanking Hugo right now.
Too bad we can’t have all that free stuff in the USA. Maybe in 2016 when the One take over for good, we can finally get this country back on track, take all that excess from the rich and spread it evenly to the masses.
Well, somewhat evenly. I hope to get a bigger chunk for myself by sucking up to Obama a little bit. Why didn’t we think of this before?
On October 6th, 2009 at 3:41 pm, rightwingmom said:
Worked on Carthage didn’t it?
Ultimately they will exercise that right, by clubbing a local policemen and taking his gun. Then they will use it to take a weapon from an unlucky militia man. Then those two guns will take more and then more and then more.
Redistribution of wealth will trigger the redistribution of guns.
Better…..
T-Bone you have been in the Kool-Aide again! Because its the easy way out. They purposely know human nature and they know you will cave. If you suck up to Obama then you will have made the bed you are sleeping in. The Guillotine knows no difference.
Someone in California needs to accidentally dynamite that canal in the middle of the night so the water flows to the land.
ECS
Then what T-Bone?
My favorite all time cartoon is of two little hunters who have just shot a HUGE elephant. They are standing in front of this GIGANTIC dead carcass. One hunter looks at the other and says, “Now what?”
Good question. When y9ou have killed off the means to generate wealth then what? See the history of the Soviet Union for details
Can you say Prebble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse? The one you can’t tell from a regular mouse until you dissect the skull? Here in Colorado, if you have a suspected Prebble’s habitat, you have a problem.
If I ever discover an “endangered species” on my property….guess what will happen the that endangered species.
But everyone loves Obama…well, except for the IOC, the president of France, Osama Bin Laden, rich white guys,…..
Well nevermind. But its freeeeee…!
Give it to me
as long as its free,
I come to you on bended knee
asking what can you give to me,
I can be all I can be
when you charge no fee,
I long to be
given charity,
mmm, mmm, mmmm
Obama, my leader you see
is a modern day Robin Hood, yippee!
/sarcbot malfunction
paging Dr Howard, Dr Cheddar. Lobotomy in progress. Defcon 4. All systems go. Dave? are you there Dave? I wouldn’t do that if I were you.
It’s too bad the Venezuelan people have been disarmed …
T-Bone,
Just as long as we can film you when they come for your stuff.
Then what.. We start taking from Mexico and work our way to Rio.
Canada has such a great health care system, we can take that from them. They don’t have much of a military so it should be easy pickings. Maybe a few thousand SEIU thugs from Chicago can do that.
Or wait, we will send Michael Moore and Oprah. Their sheer size will ward off any counter attack. Okay, Moore to Cuba and Oprah to Canada. Cuba has the best health care in the world. Their problem is death by bullet.
Anyway, by the time we run out of stuff, we will be dead and our heirs will be set for life. The masses will never get it anyway. We will just blame Bush for any problems. Yeah, thats he ticket. Its working so far. See, it’s not that hard if you use your brain. Wheres my Dachau in the mountains?
Socialists are generally wicked and willfully ignorant fools. Eventually they become aggressive then violent unless they are challenged. Trust me, there is an easy tipping point in red state America. They know this and will tread lightly. But their slow bleed tactics may not be enough to forestall armed opposition.
You meant “Dacha”.
I hope.
I had the pleasure of spending several weeks in Venezuela in the months before Chavez managed to get into power. It was a country with beautiful women, a vibrant night life, with a real democracy. There was really no antiSemitism then and Israeli tourists were everywhere having a great time. Chavez is an antiSemite and does not try to hide it. Whether it is genuine or just a payoff to Khameni is unclear but really irrelevant. Chavez seized Jewish businesses and closed radio stations where any Jews had an ownership interest. He closed the Israeli embassy and joined fellow antiSemite Danny Ortega (Chris Dodd’s BFF) in demonizing Israel and Jews. Yet this is never mentioned on CNN or the NY Times. Nor does anyone ever ask celebrity sycophants of Chavez such as Danny Glover or Sean Penn to defend the antisemtism of their friend Hugo. The left wing in the US has become openly antiSemitic so it is no surprise that they love antiSemite Chavez so much. The NY Times has spiked the whole story of Chavez’s antisemitism.
Barack Obama, the USSA Tsar for life takes T-Bones record collection. Film at 11.
Government spokeshole John McCain says “When I was in Vietnam (along with John Kerry), they didn’t allow us to have records or even play music. Therefore we have deemed it in the best interest of society to take T-Bones collection and let music lovers everywhere hear it for free.”
T-Bone was unavailable for comment although his many girlfriends went on the record to say that he had abused the collection and used it to seduce them for his own gain. “He didn’t believe in sharing and he didn’t need to” said one former girlfriend identified only as “Bambi”. His favorite quote was “If music be the food of love, play on.” It is rumored that T-Bone will be learning to raise Siberian Huskies in his new home.
Tsar Obama praised T-Bones sacrifice for the good of the people. “How else could we give away all this free stuff without the sacrifice of T-Bone? Now get out of my face” Tsar Obama was quoted as saying.
off topic…very sorry.
Michelle, have you seen this?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2009/10/dial-an-army-the-american-police-force-web-site.php?page=2
be well everyone & happy Fall.
Keep in mind that Bill Ayers has been to Venezuela no less than four times and has praised what Chavez is doing!
Ayers was also videotaped (by Fox News) wearing a black shirt with a red star just like the one on the cap the guy is wearing in the photo above.
It’s a Marxist symbol.
On the eve of the seventh anniversary of 9/11, (September 10, 2008, less than two months before our Presidential election), Ayers posted to his blog:
A post I wrote last year is just as applicable today:
If Obama is not a Marxist, he will immediately condemn this activity by Chavez’s government.
If Obama is not a Marxist, he will immediately condemn Bill Ayers’ support of Chavez’s government.
But guess what? Obama won’t do that, because he thinks just like them.
Obama is not constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President and Commander-in-Chief. How can a natural born British subject be considered a natural born U.S. Citizen?
Every day that we allow this usurpation to continue, we are weakening our Constitution and our country.
If we don’t support and defend the Constitution of the United States, what you see going on in Venezuela right now is only a short time away from happening right here in the USA.
I am a physician and can assure you that I feel just as this farmer must with the Obamacare. Our leaders are not listening to me or my peers who likewise do not want socialized medicine. So what should we now do in the US?
There’s a reason it’s so hard to get ammunition these days.
Gun safes are in short supply too. Damn BitterClingers again, go figure
Large-diameter PVC pipe and cosmoline are getting short to.
Gee whiz.
This is already happening here. Each time ACORN and SEIU thugs break into a forclosed house.
Luckily (so far) it doesn’t stand with the homes.
Boy, would I love to introduce them to “my little friend” straight from of Springfield should this be an ACORN or SEIU crowd on my property. God bless the founders for the 2nd amendment!
Dontcha just love the red star in the middle of the one guys cap?
I have a pet Spotted Owl at home. If they come for my property, I’ll hold a gun to its head and threaten to shoot it.
flyoverman said: “…by clubbing a local policemen and taking his gun. Then they will use it to take a weapon from an unlucky militia man. Then those two guns will take more and then more and then more.”
Bingo! And there are so many people who just don’t get or believe that. And really, they never even have to get to the leader. Just keep picking off local officials…….the low hanging fruit, and soon no one wants to be a minion and the cheese stands alone, or near enough to it.
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In 1969–a few days after my Mexican wife and I were married–we had dinner with my father in law in Juarez, Mexico. He asked me to check the condition of a .32 caliber Colt revolver he kept in his house. I looked it over–it was in good shape. Then he told me why he owned it.
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Twenty years earlier he owned a 20 square mile corn and bean ranch in Namiquipa, Mexico–in the Sierra Madre foothills. The farmers lived in a small town a few miles from their land. Each morning they rode burro carts or horses to their land.
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One morning they found the road blocked by a barb wire fence. Four “special police” with badges and guns told them they did not own their land any more–that it now belonged to a rich rancher.
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They took their land titles and tax receipts to the local police. The police had been paid off by the rich guy and told them they couldn’t do anything to help them.
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They then went to the Mexican State Government and police in Chihuahua City. They had been paid off also and refused to do anything about the land theft.
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Some of the older farmers had fought with General Francisco (“Pancho”) Villa in the 1910 Revolution. When the war was over they didn’t turn in their Mauser Rifles–they claimed they had been “lost in combat”. The rifles and ammunition had been buried on their ranches.
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A few days after the land grab the ex soldiers got into position near the roadblock before first light. When the sun came up and the “special police” showed up in their truck they shot the hell out of them. Two dead, and two wounded ran away in their shot up pickup. Then the farmers tore down the roadblock and took back their land. The ex soldiers protected the land for the next few years.
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My father in law and the other farmers armed themselves to keep from being picked off one at a time in the little town.
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Simon Bolivar is buried in Venezuela. He must be rolling over in his grave. I hope the Venezuelan Military and people can use the same approach on Hugo Chavez and can take back their country.
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John Bibb
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Great yarn, rocketman. There’s a movie in there somewhere.
John Bibb,
Great story. Exactly why the 2nd Amendment is crucial to our survival. I fear the day is coming for us to have to take our country back or die trying.
In America they call it “eminent domain”, as ratified by the Supreme Court Nitwits in the Kelo case in 2005. The only difference is some measley compensation to the poor sap who owns the land. Of course, this makes liberals smile.
Venezuela Attempts Gun Control by Limiting Bullets
By Jeremy Morgan
Latin American Herald Tribune staff
CARACAS – Legislators at the National Assembly are set to take what appears to be a rather unorthodox approach to law and order in a society notoriously renowned for gunslinging and one of the highest per capita murder rates on the planet.
The defense committee at the legislature has been looking at a proposed reform of the 70-year-old Arms and Explosive Law, which apparently has yet to be brought into line with the Bolivarian Constitution adopted by referendum at President Hugo Chávez’s behest in late 1999.
The head of the committee, Deputy Juan Mendoza, said work was “90 percent” complete. Among the proposals is one particularly eye-catching item.
This envisages what Mendoza called a “specific prohibition under which any person cannot buy more than 50 bullets a year.” Mendoza, a middle-ranking member of Chávez’s governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), said the proposal represented “a form of reducing the parameters when it comes to the use of firearms and ammunition.”
On October 6th, 2009 at 6:57 pm, Bogtrotter said:
Just like the one on the shirt worn by Obama’s “family friend”.
Just like we are to listen to what Obama says, and not debate or question.
No difference. Exact same principles.
It always amazes me that dictators like Chavez can keep the military loyal to their regime. Soldiers are just sons and daughters of the people. What does it take for a dictator to keep them loyal to communism?
The threat of a great deal of harm coming to their families, not so different than if the government comes to your house to confiscate something here, if you fight, you and your family will lose all that they have, one way or another the government will be harsh for having the courage to stand up against authority no matter how wrong authority is.