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"The Interior Ministry, in charge of security, said the two men were members of a conservative Santa Cruz youth group that has led protests against Morales' leftist policies." --the Associated Pukes (AP)
The word "conservative" is frequently misused to describe murdering, torturing, lawless Bushites here, and fascist "brownshirts," coup plotters and assassins in South America. Since this article is from the Associated Pukes (AP)--publishers of egregious lies and disinformation about the South American Left, the social justice movement that has swept elections throughout the continent--it's quite possible that Bolivia's Interior Ministry used the more accurate term "rightwing" and AP changed it to "conservative." But whoever used it--whether deliberately or inadvertently--is contributing to corporate mayhem, even in this small, incremental way.
Mass murder, genocide, torture, greed, massive theft, gross injustice, egregious lying, massive exploitation, enslavement, callousness, inhumanity, sadism, bigotry, racism, apartheid, and tyranny of every kind are thus made respectable, by calling the criminals and fascists who are doing these things "conservative"--as if these horrible crimes are an acceptable political position, and permissible in decent society.
This is how freedom, the sovereignty of the individual, and the sanctity of one's home become Exxon Mobil's or Monsanto's "right" to own vast properties here and abroad, to control our government, to write our laws, to hijack our military for corporate resource wars, and to kill the planet--a twisting of language out of its true meaning and into corporatespeak, where "freedom" is the freedom to loot and exploit others with impunity. Small property owners and small businesses often succumb to this propaganda, and stupidly join in unholy alliance with those who are their worst oppressors--global corporate predators, war profiteers and monopolists. This is how Christian groups have somehow found themselves in alliance with the "shock and awe" bombers and slaughterers of one million innocent people to get their oil--the deliberate, corporate-sown confusion about the word "conservative." It is NOT "conservative" to slaughter a million people to get their oil. It is RADICAL WARMONGERING. It is beyond fascism and well into naziism.
The Santa Cruz separatists are NOT "conservative." They are radical racists and fascist greedbags in alliance with the Bush Junta, which has been funding, organizing and very probably arming them to steal Bolivia's natural resources by creating a fascist mini-state, separate from the national government of Evo Morales--the first indigenous president of Bolivia (a largely indigenous country). They don't want to share Bolivia's resources with the poor, indigenous majority. They want the profits all to themselves. They are anti-democratic and violent. They oppose the rule of law. They can't stand Morales' actually very mild reforms. And the truth of the matter is that it's the indigenous majority in Bolivia who are the conservatives! It is the indigenous majority that seeks to uphold the rule of law, to preserve pro-environmental traditions in farming and the use of resources, and to PEACEFULLY and DEMOCRATICALLY heal the great breach that has arisen between rich and poor.
A society with a few super-rich people and a vast, dirt-poor population is an INHERENTLY unstable society. To CONSERVE the peace, to CONSERVE resources, to CONSERVE the rule of law, the breach between rich and poor MUST be healed. Those with the means should be the CONSERVATORS of society--using their wealth for the common good, and promoting fairness, decency, education, humanitarian values and upward mobility--rather than rapaciously looting everything in sight. For instance, when I was a kid, the Savings and Loan institutions in the U.S. were sacrosanct. Small savers--workers, small businesspeople, the elderly, the poor--could entrust their small savings to these institutions, for a small return on the investment (approx. 5% interest, as I recall). The S&L's were expected to invest this money wisely and CONSERVATIVELY, to protect the nation's savings and this small edge of wealth belonging to the middle class/poor majority. I grew up thinking of this as a REPUBLICAN value. It was the one thing that I (born a Democrat) admired in Republicans--their respect for the welfare of ordinary people as exemplified in the S&Ls. In the 1980s, the RADICAL Reaganites de-regulated these institutions, and the financial sharks went to town, looting and destroying the savings of millions of small investors. This was NOT "conservatism." This was MASSIVE THEFT--and a RADICAL departure from traditional values of fiscal responsibility in the interest of the common good.
We now have totally out-of-control greed, theft and unfriggingbelievable fiscal irresponsibility--the Bush Junta--described as "conservative." It ain't so. Creating the biggest "Banana Republic" on earth is NOT conservative. It is a lawless coup d'etat, much like the tyrannies that the U.S. used to inflict on Latin America, the small vestiges of which we see still trying to overthrow democracy in Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina and other countries, with Bushite support.
I trust that the Bolivian government will do everything in its rightful power to find out who was funding and arming these assassins (if they are guilty). Who is behind this? And is it traceable to the U.S. embassy? (Note: The U.S./Bush ambassador to Bolivia was just recalled to Washington DC for "security" discussions. The Bolivian government has accused him of supporting the white separatists.) The Republicans used to use the phrase "law and order" as cover for police state/military profiteering. Now it's time for some REAL "law and order" from the "conservative" left, which actually believes in it.
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