Archive for June, 2008

As Chavez backs down on intelligence Bill, everything these days seem to be an error by the revolution…

June 8, 2008

It is part of the clueless nature of this fake
revolution that after a Bill is conceived, drafted and executed by Hugo
Chavez under the umbrella of the Enabling Bill, his servile collaborators
all defend the Bill, telling us in grandiose and pompous words why it was
necessary and indispensable and how the law does not violate the rights of
anybody.

But can you get anymore bizarre than the autocrat himself
coming out and saying he can not defend the undefensible…

Can they
be any more incompetent and inefficient than that?

I mean, who wrote the Bill? Why did Chavez sign it into Law? Or even, did he sign into Law or is he
so far removed from the day to day operations of Government that some of
his close collaborators wrote it and executed without his
knowledge?

And after none other than his Minister of Justice
defended the Bill, Chavez comes out and says “The Law is bad…we made a
mistake”

To say nothing of the blind and dumb followers who
attempted to convince their readers (if any) that the Bills was necessary and had
merits and how the stupid opposition human rights defenders, bloggers and
the like were utterly lost in the face of the wisdom emanated from the
Bolivarian Presidential Palace.

Can they be more stupid than that?

It
now seems to be that my thinking and that of my fellow bloggers,
politicians and writers is closer to Chavez’ thinking than the stupid
Chavista herd, who hails, follows and defends anything the autocrat may say
and suggest.

And they have have never looked as stupid and empty
headed as today, proving how idiotic their worship of the fake
revolutionary is.

Because the oxymoronic “intelligence” Bill in the
end simply shows the lack of intellectual depth and consistency of the
stupid Bolivarian revolution, which ten years after being in power is still
searching for definition and direction and bows under the pressure and
criticism of national and international opinion.

Because nothing
seems to be going well for it lately. From the capitalistic decision to charge for
broadcasting the revolutions messiah, to lowering public transportation
fares, to the intelligence Bill, everything is labeled an error, not by us
in the opposition, but by the creators of the ideas.

Sadly, it is
not that they have changed their minds, but it is simply that after ten
years in powers the same brainless and superficial yes men surround an Hugo
Chavez looking for direction, but reacting to every flip and flop of his
dwindling popularity. Meanwhile his supporters act like the deaf and dumb
pinball wizards of yesteryear, cheering the verbosity and errors of the
autocrat, acting like the religious fanatics they have become.

So
now we have a commission to review the new intelligence Bill, for which
there was no commission, or discussion as established in Article 211 of the
Bolivarian Constitution, which calls for the citizens to be consulted in
the process of creation of formation of laws.

But in the end the
truth is that Chavez believes in neither the representative democracy that
he has spent so much time destroying, nor the participative democracy that
he spends all his time ignoring.
Because once again, he shows that
he only believes in Hugo Chavez and whatever his whims and desires may be
on any giving day.

Even if he changes his mind the next day, calling
it an error. In fact, the whole revolution is just a gigantic error, which
has troubles getting even the most basic things right.

When the Rule of Law is non-existent and abuses by Government officials are the norm in Venezuela

June 6, 2008

The Head of the Venezuelan Intelligence Police
(DISIP), in the face of the outcry over the new “intelligence” Bill issued
by the Chavez thuggish Government, defended the Bill and its provisions
that force Venezuelans to become informants, using this wonderful argument
which reveals how this guy’s brain has no concept of what a democracy is
and I quote word by word this jerk’s words:

“Rangel Silva (The Head
of DISIP) disqualified those that say the Law will create “informers”,
because, according to him, DISIP already has a wide network of
collaborators that informs it, among other things, of everything candidates
do, both pro-Chavez and opposition”

There you have it imbecile
PSF’s, try to defend that one!

When your Minister of Justice and the Interior is a thug and a badass

June 5, 2008

I am still traveling but friends always keep me informed of
the most up to the minute news.

You have to love it when the
Minister of Interior and Justice in charge of police and on the enforcement
of the new “intelligence” Bill is called a thug by Investors Business Daily
(), however IBD will never have to buy a used car
from the man anyway.

But when old reliable Der Spiegel tells us that
the FARC thinks that Rodriguez Chacin is a “real badass” that was
seeking such “humanitarian” and “caring” aid aid from the FARC such
as explosives, ambushes and the like, it really makes you proud to be part
of this glorious country with such a gentle and generous Government
()

Acc
ording to Der Spiegel:

The interior minister — described by FARC as
“a real badass” — was
apparently so impressed by the guerillas that he asked them for
assistance in training Venezuelan militias. “Rodríguez Chacín asked
about possible ways in which we could share our knowledge of guerilla
war,” Marquez wrote on Nov. 14, 2007 in an e-mail to Reyes. According
to the message, the Venezuelans were seeking information about “modes
of operation, explosives, camps in the jungle, preparing ambushes,
logistics and mobility … Everything that would be required to react
appropriately to a US invasion.”

What is never clear is if these
techniques were being sought to fight the outrageous crime levels the
Chavez Government has allowed in Venezuela, or to have the Chavez
Government fight its own citizens some day.

Hope we never find
out.

The new “intelligence” war of the Chavez Government

June 3, 2008

It is
perhaps symbolic of this Government that while crime in the country is
reaching civil war proportions at around 40 homicides per day, the
Government is more concerned at trying to turn Venezuelans into informers
and collaborators in order to protect the country’s “sovereignty” and
“integrity”. Who cares if crime is a problem if they have their own war to
fight?

Which at the end of the day are empty words from a Government
that lets Cuban intelligence officers run the country’s intelligence
services and turn over identification technologies to a foreign Government
(Cuba). Or that buys debt from foreign country’s, gives aid to others while
Venezuela’s health care system is falling apart together with its
citizens.

Because in the end these guys like Chavez or Minister of
the Interior and Justice Chacin, seem to be like boy soldiers, playing at
spy games, war games and whatever other neurotic fantasy drove them to the
military 30 years ago and to the feverish and useless adventure they have
embarked our poor country on.

So, Venezuelans are now supposed to
become “support” elements in this war to protect our secrets and defend our
sovereignty from the war that the US Government secretly and silently
declared on these clowns that pretend to run our country. If you don’t
participate in “supporting”, you can go to jail for two to four
years.

I can already hear the idiotic supporters of the revolution
suggesting that Venezuelans are not patriotic and we are making much ado
about nothing, but that explanation is wearing out. How the these people
claim to be “leftwing” but have a total disregard for human rights and the
abuse of laws by Governments is a mystery that I hope to have some PSF
explain to me some day.
Unfortunately, the clowns are using our own
money to control and destroy the country. No matter how ineffective and
inefficient they may be, they somehow manage to screw us at every step.
Last weekend we saw an electoral process paid and financed by the
Venezuelan people so that PSUV could go through its democratic farce, while
the Head of the CNE Tibisay Lucena, a pubic servant also paid by us, gave
us periodic reports as to how well that political party’s primary was
going. Of course, we are still waiting for the third report from December’s
referendum, but Ms. Lucena seems to have more important things to do.

Of course, Chavez says that anyone criticizing the new law
intelligence law is a de facto Bush supporter, the same way he views that
anyone not in favor of his favorite baseball team is his enemy. It is as
simplistic as that at the end of the day.

But while most worry
about the fact that we have all become “supporting” elements of the
Government’s intelligence service, it seems more significant to be
concerned about the fact that prosecutors and judges have to cooperate with
intelligence services. Isn’t that sweet? You want to get rid of a judge
because he is inconvenient to the Government? Simple, ask him to
cooperate!

Of course, in the end, the “intelligence” services will
just have their name changed, like 98% of the country’s institutions in the
last ten years, some of which have had their name changed even three times,
to no avail. The law will only be used and abused inefficiently in
selective cases that are of interest to the Government, like the Land Bill,
and will in the end simply become another stumbling block to getting
anything done in Venezuela.

June 1, 2008

The new Law of Intelligence and Counterintelligence of which President
Chavez claimed to be so proud of today, represents a first nugget of the
type of stuff that we will be seeing in the next few weeks under the
Enabling Bill, which allows Chavez to legislate by decree.

I will not dwell on the details, this will be done soon, but on the fact
that the new law violates due process, the Chavista Constitution of ’99 and
removes the right to defense. It was created to create fear in people and
its objective is simply repressive.

Now someone will go to the Supreme Court, which will strike an article or
two, but will leave the rest unchanged.

You have been warned, as I travel for work related reasons..