Petkoff slams Internet tin-pot generals and gung-ho armchair analysts

www.vheadline.com Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

Talcual tabloid editor has lashed out at Internet know-alls that hide behind anonymity and launch gung-ho solutions to get rid off President Hugo Chavez.   Petkoff says these “generals” have "big chests" and call on others to do the job for them.

It now seems that moderates in Coordinadora Democratica (CD) have become targets of their habitual bad language … something VHeadline.com has been receiving on the receiving end hourly for the last couple of years.

Talcual also attacks so-called political analysts and hell-raisers on TV chat shows that blast the “weak-kneed elements of CD ... when one thinks they are going to propose some 'new methods, they always end up asking the military to put their theories into practice … if the military don’t do it, they are on the receiving end of the tongues.”

Recalling his guerrilla past, Petkoff says that in the 60s, some people thought the answer was the gun and started an armed struggle for eight years and more … “they accepted the practical consequences of their political criteria and didn’t ask anybody to sing for them.”

Petkoff challenges Internet "tin-pot generals and armchair analysts" that criticize the CD for not mounting barricades and marching to fight the Chavist brigades to put themselves on the front line and lead the troops to Avenida Sucre and 23 de Enero instead of Altamira and Chuao.

“If they aren’t prepared to do that, then they should stop talking rubbish … Talcual will continue, as we were, chewing flowers."