SHOCK, HORROR: Disgraced Halvorssen goes into opposition homophobic overdrive
www.vheadline.com Posted: Friday, January 24, 2003 - 2:27:35 PM By: Roy S. Carson
Disgraced former Venezuelan Drugs chief Thor Halvorssen claims in today's issue of the Moonie's Washington Times (note: not the Washington Post) that "Venezuelan is now an abyss where there is no rule of law."
The rogue former government official, now in exile in Philadelphia (USA) claims Chavez Frias to be leading "a rogue government (that) tortures innocent civilians with impunity while paying lip service to democracy and buying time at the negotiation table set up by the Organization of American States."
- If one is to venture to believe Halvorssen's hype, Venezuela's Foreign Minister (MRE) Roy Chaderton, "has funded an effective multi-million dollar public relations campaign to smear the opposition as coup-plotters and fascists intent on bringing about violence."
Without a shred of evidence, Halvorssen launches into a dubious history of a 24-year-old second-year law student described as a cheerful and happy young man who had volunteered as a member of a group that brings together moderates who support the government and opposition members seeking a peaceful resolution to the current crisis.
Halvorssen's warping of reality begins when, on December 6, Soriano is said to have witnessed a "massacre" during a "peaceful" protest in Plaza Altamira ... Halvorssen then attempts to connect the alleged killer of three persons (and 28 injured), identified as Joao De Gouveia, as having "an unusually close relationship" with Mayor Freddy Bernal. The underlying theme is to allude to homosexual relationships which pervade Halvorssen's Washington Times tirade.
Soriano was captured by "the militia" during a subsequent demonstration at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) ... "The militia identified Soriano and captured him ... they then tied his hands and feet, lifted him up, and paraded him through the street like a sacrificial lamb chanting Judas! Judas!" and was then beaten severely before being left at a hospital emergency room where he was detained by the DISIP, described by Halvorssen as Chavez's secret police ... despite the fact that as a renegade government official he had made constant use of the DISIP's services during the Caldera regime...
What happens later is still the subject of debate, but Halvorssen doesn't let the legal niceties stand in the way for his epistle from Philadelphia. He claims that the DISIP interrogation Soriano, tore out the fingernails in his left hand, tortured and injected him with drugs ... and then sodomized him as well!
Halvorssen claims that killing suspect de Gouveia was one of the ones who allegedly committed buggery on the young man and that de Gouveia is allowed to roam freely around the DISIP HQ "with the only restriction is that he must sleep in the precinct, lest Chavez's police are revealed as allowing a confessed killer to roam free."
Ignore the fact if you will that any killer awaiting trial on as conclusive evidence as that as against de Gouveia would immediately make a beeline for the nearest border, but homophobic Halvorssen then alludes to the Foreign Minister's sexual preferences claiming that Chaderton Matos had advised Chavez that the case "could filter out of Venezuela and become a human-interest story with the potential to derail their PR campaign."
What PR campaign?
The democratically elected government of Venezuela has denied that Soriano has been mistreated by them. Admittedly, a medical examination has revealed that lacerations, severe bruising, and cracked ribs support Soriano's claims that he had been repeatedly raped while in custody.
Regrettably, Venezuela's prison system is deplorable and rapes do occur, almost daily, in correction facilities across the country (as they also do across the United States) ... but to claim the personal participation of the Foreign Minister or the President in any such acts is going even further than the usual Moonie's suppositions and into the wildest fantasies of extraterrestial visitations...
While we have every sympathy for the young man who was brutally and painfully buggered against a wall in a prison cell, Halvorssen's blatantly homophobic mud-slinging is more than simply incredible ... it is part of the corrupt opposition-led PR offensive against the government that Halvorssen would wish to claim is government-sponsored while nothing other than his own.