Under Venezuela’s constitution, we all have a duty to collaborate to re-establish the rule of law. The implications of that, today, are staggering.
CaracasChronicles: A couple of weeks ago, Juan wrote a tough, sobering post asking if we’ve really thought through how we would react if, having killed the Recall Referendum option, the government faced a coup.
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It’s a debate we’ve been avoiding for a long time. But Venezuela feels like it’s nearing a point-of-no-return where discussing the undiscussable becomes a sombre inevitability.
As I tried to puzzle through Juan’s question, I kept circling back to the standard bureaucratic/journalistic euphemism for a “coup” in Spanish: “rupture of the constitutional order.”
Well, whatever a coup might mean in Venezuela in 2016, it wouldn’t mean that: in Venezuela, there is no constitutional order left to rupture. more here
This article makes it abundantly clear why the framers wrote in the second amendment.
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I saw this at Gizmodo.com.
I have never even thought about this happening.
Gun shot and stab wounds are my specialty.
http://gizmodo.com/what-happens-if-you-swallow-your-cell-phone-nothing-go-1776977487
Looks like Gizmodo is getting desperate for clicks.
Now that’s a chilling concept. Venezuelans are not merely subjects of a sovereign govt that disrespects and violates their rights, Venezuelans also have a duty – are legally required – to re-establish their masters’ institutions if the govt’s activities fall outside of dictated boundaries.
It’s enough – or ought to be enough – to drive a man to anarchy!
Half evil is still evil. Evil is always evil half or otherwise. I hate moral equivalence thinking half evil is not as bad as full evil, both will still kill you just as dead either way. ANY QUESTIONS!
This looks like a job for …HOLLYWOOD! Since Senn Penn, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Kevin Spacey and Benicio Del Toro all think the world of swarthy grease-ball South American dictator types, maybe they can all schlep on down to Caracas and straighten this whole misunderstanding out. Because as they all told us, socialism is far superior to greedy western capitalism so it cannot be a systemic socio-political matter.