tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post2642770214544076340..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: The scenery gives you the scenarios for VenezuelaDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-15300730852555177492012-03-01T18:36:14.888+01:002012-03-01T18:36:14.888+01:00Dr. Faustus:
I couldn't agree with you more. ...Dr. Faustus:<br /><br />I couldn't agree with you more. The thing is it may not be October - it could be as soon as next month or the month after. If he dies the rats will; come out of the sewers are use it as an excuse to attack anything & anyone they perceive as having something.<br /><br />We must be prepared for this. There are a significant numbers of crazies or semi crazies in this country that we are not going to be safe.Island Canucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-11311628575121103302012-03-01T18:27:47.864+01:002012-03-01T18:27:47.864+01:00'For these people the loss of Chavez, cancer o...'For these people the loss of Chavez, cancer or vote wise, is a real tragedy because a whole system of belief is questioned. The trouble with cults, nothing new there.' Best line i this post Daniel!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-28958422797623619642012-03-01T18:26:42.844+01:002012-03-01T18:26:42.844+01:00Jealous as Malbec is my wine of choice!Jealous as Malbec is my wine of choice!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-25031029742867372172012-03-01T18:05:00.407+01:002012-03-01T18:05:00.407+01:00One of the most iconic scenes in moviedom is the l...One of the most iconic scenes in moviedom is the late 60's film "The Graduate." In it a businessman pulls a young Dustin Hoffman aside and gives him some sage advice as to what the future is all about,..."Plastics!"<br /><br />Let's fast forward to mid-October 2012. The future is coming,...fast. Capriles has won, ...but,...but all of Venezuela is in chaos. Armed thugs are running rampant through the streets. Terror everywhere. The kalishnikov's have come out of the closet. The Chavistas are choreographicing untold civil insurrection on a massive scale. They lost. They're bitter. What government there is has pulled back from the streets. No one is sure as to whom to trust within the police and armed forces. Not possible you say? Unrealistic?<br /><br />The single most important thing for Venezuela's future, assuming an electoral victory in October, is so ugly, so despicable, that no one, not even Voldomort, dares speak its name. Most people living in civil societies cringe when the topic is even brought-up. It touches on the evil in human beings. Without 'them' however, all of society would collapse, as Venezuela may do in October of this year. If it's ignored, there is no hope, there is no future. It's quite simple, you need someplace to put 'them.' The word is jails, of course, or detention centers. If you have no place to put those who will threaten a free society, and come October they surely will, you've already lost the fight. It is with great regret that I must post this obscene thought. Forgive me. But if you stop and think about it,....Dr. Faustusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-46839351945821493092012-03-01T17:05:29.003+01:002012-03-01T17:05:29.003+01:00Could be.... I was drinking a delicious Malbec bu...Could be.... I was drinking a delicious Malbec but it was at least two hours before I started writing.....Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-6704378732076467402012-03-01T16:56:28.589+01:002012-03-01T16:56:28.589+01:00Maybe some wine?? :-)Maybe some wine?? :-)Island Canucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-16410142340358224782012-03-01T16:46:11.199+01:002012-03-01T16:46:11.199+01:00APOLOGY: the post above came last night incomplet...APOLOGY: the post above came last night incomplete, a draft version, quickly written and thus on occasion not understandable. I do not know what happened. I just fixed it now. Sorry.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-33194901223826733972012-03-01T15:33:32.929+01:002012-03-01T15:33:32.929+01:00I love your well reasoned analysis , very similar...I love your well reasoned analysis , very similar to the kinds of logical moves I envision in my head as well, however:<br /><br />If this were an ordinary game of chess we might be able to speculate ourselves into a win,or at least a prediction, but I suspect that in Venezuela the ordinary rules of the Universe don't apply .<br /><br />Remember the old chess grandmaster who had a checkered tablecloth and it took him two hours to pass the salt :)<br /><br />I suspect there are some underlying factors we are not privy to at this time.firepigettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17348890269608169297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-46422541776224041382012-03-01T14:54:04.362+01:002012-03-01T14:54:04.362+01:00My money's on "Chavez comes back and will...My money's on "Chavez comes back and will be healed enough to win and maybe rule for a couple of years." His slow martyrdom will distract from the economic collapse.jsbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16526596147319229399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-53523489413375753252012-03-01T14:22:48.144+01:002012-03-01T14:22:48.144+01:00A very interesting analysis, thank you! Your thir...A very interesting analysis, thank you! Your third group, which you call "transactional Chavistas" reminded me of what Vaclav Havel said about Czech totalitarianism: it is the nature of the system to force people into personal acts of compromise, be it bribe-taking, kickbacks to party superiors, or attendance at political meetings to denounce "imperialism". Havel thought that there was a real thirst among those people to return to a normality where "the progressive forces" could not extract these acts of personal betrayal. In my opinion, this is an important reason that, once forced to fair elections, "left" regimes of this sort quickly collapse.Jeffry Househttp://jeffryhouse.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com