Are rules different for "negritos" of the outer world?
www.vheadline.com Posted: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 1:59:41 AM By: Paul Volgyesi
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:04:29 +0200 From: Paul Volgyesi sanbasan@operamail.com To: Editor@VHeadline.com Subject: Re: A gringa's experience
Dear Editor: When Priscilla arrived in Caracas to begin work the state-run oil company PDVSA, "Hugo Chavez was a newly-elected President riding high on the wave of popularity."
A year after she left, the wave has become a tide.
Chavez supporters "were a minority at her office..."
You bet they'd be!
But "the debate among (her) co-workers was a healthy one. Non-supporters gave him the benefit of the doubt..."
That is, nobody ever dreamt "el negrito" would really dare touch their privileges.
Priscilla doesn't like "...his maniacal cling to power..."
Which is well within an electoral mandate that Priscilla would never dare to question in her own country. Did anyone hear Priscilla complain about how Dubya was not-elected?
- Or is she suggesting early elections or a referendum on the War on Iraq or any other Bushery she may not like?
When she says "It is no secret that Chavez is a recovering communist," she seems to ignore that "recovering communists" happen to rule half of the world ... one of them, Putin, making out quite well with Bush. As a matter of fact, better a recovering communist than a reborn fascist.
As for "The division between supporters and non-supporters shifted toward the class/income lines," Priscilla forgets colors (how many token niggers in Vassar?), on which a friend from Trinidad commented recently: "In our region, 'negro y pobre' are synonyms."
Which is exactly where said division was long before Chavez was even born, except that there was a huge "silent majority" kept that way by means of state-class terrorism.
And ... while Priscilla believes opposition slogans like "The people of Venezuela vehemently reject his rule." zillions of rotten 'lumpen' have had the gall of showing her she's dreaming on January 23.
All the rest of Priscilla's diatribe can be found in Gustavo Coronel's "Complete Works" and other opposition sources ... that huge mistakes will be made by a class taking over the public life and management of a country they've been forcibly kept away from for untold generations should surprise no one.
- What is much more surprising is the vehemence of US citizens in the support of criminal behavior (not the protests which are OK, but the sabotage and other niceties) that would land them in jail at home.
Or are the rules different for the "negritos" of the outer world?
Given that it took your politicians some two weeks of 24/7 study of the opinion polls to figure out they should distance themselves from Trent Lott...
Paul Volgyesi sanbasan@operamail.com Budapest, Hungary