Reply #29: Oh, boy, here we go again. The school of "Two Wrongs Make a Right" [View All]

Let's pretend we're from Tonga, why don't we, and discuss what Chavez is doing on it's merits--not against a backdrop of "Ooooh, Bush is a BAD man, and he was MEAN to Hugo" for a change.

Is it "OK" to politicize the military and judiciary?

OK to politicize the oil industry to fund/support/strengthen your party and political base?

OK to shut down "critical media?"

OK to abrogate civil rights? To shoot rubber bullets at teenagers who disagree with you?

In my book, it isn't. And coups, no coups, Bush or no Bush, that's the behavior of a power-mad dictator.

That coup attempt happened a while ago--when was it, 2002?

FIVE years ago? What took old Hugo so long???

Apparently treason is a dish that needs to age? If "treason is treason" and it takes five years to get upset about that, then how long do they wait to arrest you for murder? Twenty, thirty years?

Horseshit.

He waited until the license ran out, and then swiped the station.

No one but pipedreamers think what he did was right. Certainly none of the major nations in the UN think his behavior was acceptable. It's the behavior of a THUG, and there's just no way to put lipstick on that big pig.

But hey, he hates Bush, so that makes the crazy bastard a hero. Whatever.