Current Events — HabitableZone

Current Events » in reply to "Nemesis" - a review,worth a glance, depressing as can be.

Makes a good companion to the reviewer's other article...

Where he spends pages worshipping at the feet of Hugo Chavez, while continuing to hallucinate about the same impending Amerikkkan fascism the Left has been predicting since I was in college.

Favorite paragraph: His adoration of Chavez's passage of a law giving him dictatorial power:

On January 8, Hugo Chavez announced "we are now entering a new era, the National Simon Bolivar Project of 2007-2021" to achieve "Bolivarian Socialism" in the 21st century that will be "radicalized (and) deepened." He explained implementing the bold transformation will rely on five revolutionary "motors" including constitutional reform, "Bolivarian popular education," redefining and changing the organs of state power, an explosion of communal power at the grass roots, and the "mother (enabling) law" to make all other "motors" possible.

On January 18, the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved a resolution giving Hugo Chavez his requested "enabling law" authority. It then convened an open to the public session in Caracas' central Bolivar Square January 31 enacting the legislation shouting "long live socialism." The "mother law" will run for 18 months and then expire. It allows President Chavez authority to pass laws by decree in 11 key areas including the structure of state organs, election of local officials, the economy, finance and taxes, banking, transportation, the military and national defense, public safety, and importantly policies related to energy.

Chavez wants the power to accelerate democratic change ahead that's part of his socialist project. Venezuelans voted for it in December, and he promised to deliver. He had it two other times, used it responsibly, never abused his authority, and is the fifth Venezuelan president to use it as permitted by the constitutions of 1961 and in Article 203 in the 1999 Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.


I'll believe that law will "expire" when I see it. Some idiots aren't even useful.

Something else that is still the same as I was in college: The Left wouldn't know real totalitarianism if it bit them in the ass. Their brains don't work. It's a simple as that.

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