Torture In Venezuela (Update: Post fixed)

It appears that Venezuela is cracking down hard on student protestors in that country. And by hard, I mean medieval. Despite Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ denial, the evidence says otherwise (warning: graphic pictures at link)
This story is at least as important as the Iranian protests, which after an initial rush has largely faded from the public eye. These are the tactics of a brutal dictator, and need to be exposed. That Chavez is actually lionized by so many on the Left is disgusting. That this is not the lead story in every newspaper and at the top of every newscast is far worse.

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  • http://Array sayanything-5371

    ellinas, the Shah may have been an ahole, but he was a better alternative than what happened to Iran after the ultimate loser Carter failed to support him and allowed him to be deposed. This opened the door for the Ayatollah to step in and begin to export worldwide islamic terrorism.

    We can thank Jimmy Carter and the scum who elected him for allowing the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Father of all Modern Day Terrorists to return to Iran from exile in France. Carter allowed him to return and seize Iran and all its OPEC assets and to begin issuing endless Fatwas. It was Jimmy Carter who let this Terrorist get a hold of a fortune in petrodollars to fund and sponsor terrorism ever since.

    It was Carter who made World Terrorism all possible. Carter allowed our ally, the Shah to fall, when he should have supported him. It was Carter who promoted OPEC in its beginnings. Since then OPEC money has been responsible for millions of deaths.

    Thank you Jimmy Carter, you traitor, and you lib traitors, for allowing muslim extremists to have access to wealth and the means to terrorize the world.

  • sayanything-2

    More lies from the whiny lying c*nt.

    Where is all your proof that Christians are using terrorism to force people to convert to Christianity, whiny lying c%nt? All you have to do is prove you did not say it, easily done. Why will you not do that?

    And whilst we are here,where is all your proof that W had intimate, detailed knowledge of Al Queda’s operational plan and refused to stop it?

  • sayanything-4204

    The Left is worried about Chavez……….yet they’ve crawled into bed with Soros for decades since Hillary & Media Matters were set up…..

    The SCOTUS decision finally lets the people compete with Unions in the political arean….I’ll trust Corptns before Unions & big Govt any day..

    the real scary part of the SCOTUS discussion………dissenting Judge Stevens that any and all 1st amendment rights are not vested…for Indiv or Corptns……..

    Funny how a Lib blue state such as Mass can see the dangers……but Libs in flyover country, blue dogs……….continue to crawl up Obamas underwear and protect his vital areas with their mouth

  • sayanything-5371

    It wouldn’t matter what proof or links I gave you. You’d still only believe what your leftist idiology allowed you to believe. You love to lick the boots of dictators. You are one sick imbecile.

  • sayanything-3035

    I want Chavez to play it out to the end AV…play the socialist hand to the bitter end. It will result in a Cuba like DEAD ZONE of economic development OR a revolution. Either way it points out to the world yet another example of how foul a system of governing socialism truly is…. and historically always has been.

    How stupid are liberals? beyond rational explanation.

  • robert108

    Your pathetic, ignorant mistake is to confuse American conservatives with the type of fascism practiced by Chavez and the Dems in this country.
    American conservatives embrace personal, economic, religious and political freedom. You are simply playing word games to smear people who don’t agree with your Marxist blather.

  • sayanything-5371

    First you got out your race card, now the gay card, you are a loser terrorist sympathiser, vegetable. You support dictators and totalitarian rule. You are a sick imbecile.

  • I don’t like today’s GOP

    The back injuries are definitely from rubber shot from a shotgun. The gruesome keg injury looks like a close range shotgun blast. Almost anything shot from a 12 gauge at close range, including less-lethal ammunition will remove flesh. The head wound and the blood on the girls shirt obviously indicate injuries of some sort, but it is telling that you assume torture.

    A lie about a bad guy is still a lie.

  • sayanything-2

    So, all we have here is leftards defending a socialist who is murdering innocent people in the name of their mentally ill ideology, as usual.

    AV:TFR? Chavez, even with ballot stuffing and voter suppression, never received more than 51% of votes. But hey! Keep spewing your lies, just like e its all you have, anti-human c*cksuckers.

  • robert108

    If you had any integrity, you would be asking why Carter went there to kiss Chavez’s butt.
    You leftie liars are always squealing about conservatives meddling in the affairs of other countries and “forcing freedom on them”, and now you’re squealing because we didn’t.
    Have no nothing other than lies?

  • sayanything-5371

    I seriously doubt you are any good at R&D. I wouldn’t buy anything you researched or developed. All you are good at is spouting off failed marxist nonsense and failed economic theories. You are a bootlicking leftist ideologue who never saw a dictator you didn’t love.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    You know Idiot Sockpuppet Against today’s GOP: Your faux outrage over Hugo Chavez and how he might corrupt the political process in the US with free speech might be more convincing if your buddy Obama wasn’t BFF with Hugo.

  • sayanything-5371

    None of the leftists that get on here will ever express regret or remorse for the many times they have supported Chavez and his brutal regime. This includes such inhumane and shameless freaks as Davinski, Vert, RBB, herpitized, sparkie, woof and many others who know who they are.

    I take comfort in the fact that to all dictators comes an end as brutal as what they dished out.

    I refuse to view any movies that have celebutards that kissed Chavez azz.

  • sayanything-5371

    Carter is an imbecile. Worst president we ever had up until now. A totally failed idiot who is a pro-muslim anti-semite. Yeah, I can see why you would believe him. You are a foolish ideologue, a brainwashed idiot who buys anything the marxists are selling.

  • sayanything-2

    Why is anyone surprised that our resident leftards are defending terrorists? What made anybody ever think that AV;TFR, elinas, IDLT, etc etc give a sh*t about innocent people being totured and murdered by their hero tHugo Chavez? They support terrorists on a daily basis here, why would that change? Ever?

  • robert108

    Real Americans know the difference between torture and interrogation; sorry you don’t, but then, you’re not a real American. That’s what is wrong with you.

  • sayanything-5371

    Kenny, these leftist clowns only believe what they want to believe. These protesters who were maimed and tortured are just normal people fed up with the oppression of Chavez’s regime. When Chavez gets strung up on a lamp post they will worship his memory.

  • robert108

    Chavez is a right-wing nutjob, so you lie again, AV. Do you have any evidence for your speculation, or is it just more Marxist partisan hackery from you?

    “…pro-democracy Chavez supporters.”

    This is a joke, right? You can’t be that far out of touch, can you? Chavez is a commie thug dictator.

  • sayanything-5371

    It’s very telling that Carter was the one who declared the elections in Venezuela were fair, thereby effectively installing a leftist government which practices terrorism on it’s own people and it’s neighbors.

    So once again Carter is complicit in the degradation of an entire region. Carter is a traitor.

  • sayanything-5371

    Didn’t take you long to pull the libstains favorite, the race card.

    And the pictures show mostly white people yet only 21% of Venezuelans are white. They’re just pissed a darker-skinned bloke got elected president. A conservative is a conservative no matter the country it seems.

    What a LOSER you are angry vegetable.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    leftwing newspapers repudiate torture consistently.
    the right in the US does not. period.

    Arsewiple: Don’t you ever get tired of being wrong? People on the right condemn torture. They just don’t agree with the Left that every harsh interrogation method is torture.

    Stick up a few more straw men to knock down, Sparkless. Then, go take some Midol, because I suspect you are on something. Period.

  • sayanything-5371

    This creepy lib AV would lick the boots of any tyrant. He is a total statist idiot.

  • robert108
  • I don’t like today’s GOP

    Why do you right wingers celebrate the Supreme Court giving this guy a political voice in America through his corporate political contributions? You right wingers are just so confused.

  • I don’t like today’s GOP

    By the way, I don’t want to stand up for Chavez (which is why I don’t think he should have been given a political voice in American politics by the conservative supreme court justices), but it looks like they used rubber shot, not torture in these pictures.

  • sayanything-5371

    It has nothing to do with Chavez and his “regime.”

    You are full of it here, ellinas. Crowd control for race riots, or riots at a soccer match is one thing, but this about a leftist thug using brutal force to maintain political power and control.

    It has EVERYTHING to do with Chavez and his thuggish leftist regime.

  • robert108

    Moron necrophiliac: People who need to use force to get people to do what they want are by nature totalitarian. If they believed in free people making free choices, they wouldn’t be rioting. Are you really too stupid to know that? I guess so.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Chavez is it’s (sic) puppet master.

    Wankertized: Is that you?

  • robert108

    Those aren’t conservatives, you lying Marxist! They’re your fellow totalitarians.

  • sayanything-2

    Go ahead, call Human Rights Watch liars. Keep defending terrorists, they are your heroes, since you are too cowardly to do your own murdering of children.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Think beyond the tip of your nose.

    So it is your “belief” that every American company, individual and organization (except of course media outlets and labor unions) should be punished because there exists a possibility that Hugo Chavez might take advantage of the opportunity to spend the money made by an American company in the United States purchasing newspaper ads, magazine ads, billboards, radio and TV ads from other American companies, trying to inform Americans as to what one or more of their choices might be in any given election?
    Wow. You really are a liberal!

  • robert108

    You are the one who is confused, sockpuppet. By throwing out the unConstitutional McCain/Feingold crap, we took power away from the most pernicious foreign influence on our politics: George Soros, who inflicted Obama on us.
    BTW, your extreme left wing positions doesn’t make real Americans who oppose you “right wingers”; that’s just moronic.

    Thanks for another opportunity to smack your lies with the truth.

  • I don’t like today’s GOP

    The Chavez Regime, it’s Citgo’s puppet master.

  • sayanything-5371

    We’ve been through all this before you reality denying imbecile.

    Chavez was “elected” because his goons beat up the opposition, beat up opposition voters, tore down posters, vandalized radio stations, beat reporters who wrote unfavorably about him and brutishly practiced information control and propaganda.

    Chavez maintains power in the same manner and has bankrupted Venezuela, which should be a wealthy nation given it’s oil reserves. Chavez nationalized oil and the media and has now isolated himself from neighboring countries who are horrified at his cruelty.

    You are a brainwashed and willfully ignorant ideologue who worships tyrants, hates democracy and has no problem with oppression and torture of those who oppose your sick and failed idiology.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    I thought I noticed apostrophobia in some of your other posts, so if it is not you, Wankertized, it is an equally “educated” victim of the public school system!

  • sayanything-5371

    I can’t help but think this is yet more Goebbels-style propaganda.

    Yeah, from YOU, you leftist freak.

  • sayanything-5371

    Idiot vertibrate you are openly an advocate for the use of brute force to impose your idiology. Chavez and his goons are going to die for what they are doing.

    You are one sick and creepy freak, vert.

    the “official” name for the iron claw, as used by the Venezuelan National Guard, is the Garrampiño, and evidently Chavez is quite upset about the coverage its use is receiving in the international press which, he complains, is giving the impression that he is a “bloody tyrant.”

  • robert108

    As usual, you have no argument, and are reduced to lying about what someone else said.
    Of course, I said nothing of the kind; you just made that up about “had it coming”.
    I was smacking the liar AV with the truth when he said that rioters were “conservative”. You don’t even have the intelligence to understand what your betters are actually saying, necrophiliac. Go threaten someone with homosexual rape. That’s about your speed.

  • I don’t like today’s GOP

    I spelled “now” as “Know” a while ago too. Thanks for not smacking my knuckles with a ruler, Mother Superior Proof.

  • sayanything-287

    Ever notice how Angry Vegetable always defends this insane dictator? I guess he should move there, it is obvious he hates liberty.

  • I don’t like today’s GOP

    Citgo is an American Corporation. Chavez is it’s puppet master. That is legal, he has an unlimited voice now. Think beyond the tip of your nose.

  • sayanything-5371

    I didn’t know Korea and Egypt were in Venezuela. When did that happen?

  • robert108

    Leave it to the lying necrophiliac to try to play the race card. Lame.

  • robert108

    The lying necrophiliac can’t do logic, either. No surprise.

  • robert108

    Idiot AV: American conservatives are freedom-loving moderates, and so condemn all big govt violence and oppression, whether the thugs are socialists or fascists. I will again slap you with the truth that American conservatives are not “right wing” and so are not sympathetic to any sort of totalitarian govt, be it Chavez’s or Obama’s.

  • sayanything-2

    Where is all your proof that Christians are using terrorism to force people to convert to Christianity, whiny lying c%nt? All you have to do is prove you did not say it, easily done. Why can you not do that?

  • sayanything-2

    And here we have AV:TheF**kingRetard spewing its lies, yet again. Tell us, why is water, electricity, food and gas unavailable for the common citizens in Venezuela? Why are only the members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela allowed these commodities, and all others must live with what small amounts are rationed to them? Why are there far more people living in poverty and border line starvation today than there were in 2007? Why are poor people being rounded up and marched off to labor camps, with your approval and support, to labor for the personal profit of tHugo Chavez? Why do you support killing innocent Venezuelan citizens, the rape and torture and imprisonment without trial of innocent Venezuelan citizens? Why do you hate the human race, you f**king c*cksucker?

  • robert108

    “I did not support the invasion of Iraq.”

    Where Saddam Hussein used brute force(real torture, not interrogation) to impose his ideology.
    You are a hypocrite, Marxist.

  • sayanything-5371

    The media in Venezuela is state controlled. You are a joke, dude. In case you haven’t been keeping up on the real news Chavez’s regime is collapsing. He’s going to be found hanging on a wire.

    http://www.realclearworld.com/2010/01/25/hugo_chavezs_revolution_collapsing_108283.html

    Your leftist hero is going to go the way of all leftists.

    I hope it’s painful.

  • sayanything-2

    Poor e, having another of “those” days? Out of midol? Keep defending terrorists, sweety, its what you do best.

  • robert108

    Carter’s weakness toward the ayatollahs is the cause of the mess in the ME today, and for thousands of deaths due to dictatorial islamic terrorism since then. His Iranian buddies are the center of world terrorism right now. Well done, Jimmy! (for the Dems, that is).

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Why do you right wingers celebrate the Supreme Court giving this guy a political voice in America through his corporate political contributions?

    Is this supposed to be one of your beliefs that “frustrate” me? Well, in a way, you’re right! It is frustrating to see such ignorance on parade!
    The Supreme Court did nothing to change the illegality of contributions from foreign corporations. One might think that if foreign contributions were a concern, you would have been much more upset at all the obviously phony contributions that Obama received from overseas in his last campaign.

  • sayanything-2

    tHugo was not elected by a majorityof Venezuelans. Even with the ballot rigging and voter suppression he only took the last one by 51%, and that is not even close to a majority.

  • robert108

    “If students in the US had rioted and killed a guy, fired on the cops with an assault rifle (two were treated for bullet wounds), trashed the neighborhood, and stolen cars, would a police crack-down be appropriate?

    Why the double standard?”

    Since even the present fascist in the White House hasn’t been anywhere near as oppressive as Chavez, there is no reason for any of that to happen. You do understand cause and effect, don’t you, AV? Your phony hypothetical is not applicable to Americans, so why the double standard?

  • sayanything-5371

    I did not support the invasion of Iraq.

    You don’t say. Who’d have thunk it that you wouldn’t want to have anything to do with deposing a brutish thug who killed and tortured thousands of people who opposed his regime.

    It’s totally sick how you approve of leftist thugs and dictators who oppress people. These people in Venezuela are not rightists, they are just people sick of the thuggish oppression of Chavez. You are a crazy leftist ideologue to whom reality has no meaning.

    It’s all some big theoretical utopia out there somewhere for you, not real except in your sick mind. All your politcal idiology and economic theories are based on failed ideas. You are a loon.

  • robert108

    Things are so much better in Iran now, lying necrophiliac. Educate yourself with some facts, instead of the little voices in your diseased mind:

    http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/the_islamic_republic_of_torture_rape_and_murder/

    Carter made things worse; a lot worse. You lefties are destined for some serious blowback; in fact, it’s already started. Obama is now whining for the Republicans to support his fascist takeover. Too bad.

  • sayanything-2

    AV:TheF**kingRetard? If the “police” in America where rounding up people and marching them off to labor camps, raping and murdering citizens for their personal entertainment, and selling young girls into slavery, as the “police” of tHugo Chavez are doing in Venezuela everyday, Americans would rise up and wipe them from the face of the Earth.

    Now, tell us again how tHugo Chavez has the right to do anything he wishes, simply because you think so. We love laughing at your mentally retarded sh*t.

  • sayanything-2

    Where is all your proof that Christians are using terrorism to force people to convert to Christianity, whiny lying c%nt? All you have to do is prove you did not say it, easily done. Why will you not do that?

  • I don’t like the GOP

    Grappling hooks have lots of uses. The one in the pic looked like it was going to be used for a police line.

  • sayanything-2

    You do support tHugo Chavez rounding up the poor and putting them in labor camps. You told us that those people should just be happy the State lets them live.

  • sayanything-453

    It is about race in Venezuela.
    The white minority is trying hard to keep the Indians and the mestizos subjugated.

  • sayanything-453

    No one in the US believes that waterboarding is torture. Sorry.

    There you go lying again!
    Dude, what is wrong with you?

  • sayanything-453

    Oh my! you finaly found something I have been saying.
    Who would have thought the Governmet of the USA supporting dictators in far away lands.

  • sayanything-1317

    Why? I’m against any sort of “crowd control” unless there’s legitimate violence. Cops have no problems abusing their power against the little people. This is not to say it doesn’t have it’s place in EXTREMELY limited circumstances.

    Your example would be one of the few I support such measures as they’re throwing MOLOTOV COCKTAILS at the cops.

  • sayanything-453

    Good catch AV.

  • sayanything-453

    None of the leftists that get on here will ever express regret or remorse for the many times they have supported Chavez and his brutal regime.

    It has nothing to do with Chavez and his “regime.”
    It has everything to do with the truth, which Jay W. and you seem unable to grasp or intentionally ignore.
    Rubber bullets/shotgun rubber pellets are produced in the USA and Israel, and are sold worldwide.
    And yes as gruesome as the injuries seem, they are an acceptable method of crowd control.
    Every prison and law enforcement agency in the USA has them, and will not hesitate to use them.
    Now get a life.

    rubber bullets for sale.

  • sayanything-256

    Before Mr Chavez was elected half the country lived in poverty. Now it is only about one third. Education and health-care has improved too. That’s why the reelected him.

    “Chavez was “elected” because his goons beat up the opposition, beat up opposition voters, tore down posters, vandalized radio stations, beat reporters who wrote unfavorably about him and brutishly practiced information control and propaganda.” — Mr Food
    Where’s the evidence? Ol’ Peanut Farmer supervised the elections and he said they were free and fair. I think I’ll believe him over some right-wing nutjobs.

    Most the media is privately owned too. If not, why would the “pro Chavez thugs” vandalize the radio stations as you claim? Your own story is riddled with inaccuracies. Clearly you haven’t engaged your brain.

    Bush’s buddies rigged an election and you claim it was fair, Chavez wins a fair election and you nutters say it was rigged. A pretty safe rule is that the opposite of whatever a conservative says is probably true.

  • sayanything-256

    Mr Food, Mr Chavez was elected by a majority of Venezuelans, and come the next elections, Venezuelans can elect someone else if they choose. I don’t know why you’re getting your panties in a twist over some dirt-floor poor country in South America. And why do you hate democracy?

    As far as this thread goes, some dumb conservatives started a riot and attacked the cops, and subsequently, a few of them came out a little worse-for-wear. Where is your sympathy for the injured cops who put themselves in harms way to protect people and property?

  • sayanything-453

    If the elections were fair what choice did he have?
    What do you know about Reagan and the election of Marcos in the Philippines?

  • sayanything-453

    AV:TheF**kingRetard? If the “police” in America where rounding up people and marching them off to labor camps, raping and murdering citizens for their personal entertainment, and selling young girls into slavery, as the “police” of tHugo Chavez are doing in Venezuela everyday, Americans would rise up and wipe them from the face of the Earth

    Any proof of the above?
    Or should we place it on you drunken stupor file?

  • sayanything-453

    51% and above of the vote is the winning number required by democratic standards to win elections.
    Any proof to the contrary?

  • sayanything-81

    kenny makes the point that the leftwing newspapers repudiate torture consistently.

    the right in the US does not. period.

    if you want to gripe about torture, you need to repudiate it consistently.

    chavez is trying to get noticed.
    he needs external tensions.
    he needs that artificial unity and patriotism it provides.
    perhaps his mandate is weigning.

  • sayanything-256

    Last time pictures like these showed up it turned out that the victims were actually Chavez-supporting students, attacked by anti-Chavez, right-wing nutjobs.

    We know that the righties staged a coup in Venezuela, and people were killed, and then were overthrown peacefully by millions of pro-democracy Chavez supporters. And we all know how much conservatives love violence, especially against civilians, and that most students are liberals (except for many of those from the wealthy families in Venezuela). I can’t help but think this is yet more Goebbels-style propaganda.

    But then again, there is so much propaganda from both sides coming out of Venezuela I doubt many people outside the country really know what is going on.

  • sayanything-453

    Per robert180 the protesters had it coming because they are totalitarians seeking to impose their will through violence.

  • sayanything-2804

    Which does not absolve this democrat. Why the double standard E? Why are you a Hypocrite?

    Is it because Greeks are parasite in any land on which they choose to squat?
    Is it because as a democrat you have no core values?
    Is it because you are the love child of Georgios Papadopoulos and you don’t want to let the old man down?

  • sayanything-453

    Nothing is wrong with my question other than it somehow makes you uncomfortable. Whats the matter E you have a problem with telling the truth?

    You know I would answer you, but the post is about torture in Venezuela.
    Nice attempt at distraction.
    Now if you excuse me I have to take my dog out to piss and shyt.

  • sayanything-453

    Hmmm! Just checked their website. Nothing of what you say.
    Here is the link:
    Human rights watch/Venezuela

    How about you provide us with a link to your claims, or should we place it on you drunken stupor file?

  • sayanything-453

    Those are not pictures of torture. They look like bird shot or rubber bullet injuries.
    However I intend to write a letter to Hugo and recommend Guantanamo Bay treatment.
    You guys are not opposed to waterboarding, are you?

    Students shot in the USA while protesting

  • sayanything-453

    Come on Kenny you can do better the this,

  • sayanything-453

    You are a liar as I have no friends or beddies in Iran.

  • ReaganiteRepublican

    Who is that Obot yutz-

    that you, “Dino”?

  • sayanything-1317

    Is THAT what happened in Iraq? Well, perhaps if you’re an idiot child with no understanding of history or logic.

    Only to a halfwit leftist is enforcing the ceasefire and preventing genocide “advocating for brute force to impose your ideology.” You really are a sick dude, AV. Try rooting for the good guys once in a while.

  • sayanything-1317

    Depending. A lot of countries have banned rubber bullets, and most others have restricted their usage.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/24/health/main510084.shtml

    From a short distance, they are fatal.

    And what about that claw…that was bloody nasty.

  • sayanything-1317

    No one in the US believes that waterboarding is torture. Sorry.

    People signed up to be waterboarded. Many people were waterboarded multiple times at demonstrations. I’m sure it’s not orgasmic or anything, but it’s hardly torture. No one signs up to have a finger or toe cut off, or to be burned. That people kept having this done to them, speaks to what it is.

  • sayanything-2804

    No you have always say Republicans, What’s the matter Greek, inbred cultural problem with telling the truth?

    I give you Johnson you scurry toward Nixon, now why the double standard? unless you finally care to admit the truth is not in you.

  • sayanything-2804

    Nothing is wrong with my question other than it somehow makes you uncomfortable. Whats the matter E you have a problem with telling the truth?

  • sayanything-453

    And a democrat at that… Telling, very telling and you voted for the democrat Telling, very very telling.

    Nixon, Agnew and Kissinger all upstanding republicans continued the policy of this democrat. Nothing changed.
    Therefore it was the policy of the USA supporting dictators in far away lands.

  • sayanything-256

    If students in the US had rioted and killed a guy, fired on the cops with an assault rifle (two were treated for bullet wounds), trashed the neighborhood, and stolen cars, would a police crack-down be appropriate?

    Why the double standard?

  • sayanything-453

    I didn’t know Korea and Egypt were in Venezuela. When did that happen?

    You scream against one dictatorship, but play dumb for another.

  • sayanything-453

    Which does not absolve this democrat. Why the double standard E? Why are you a Hypocrite?

    I have always said that it was the USA government policy to support those brutal dictators.
    I never differentiated between democrat or republican dictator lovers of the USA government.

  • sayanything-453

    It is to point out to you that who is in power in the USA matters not.
    The policies of the USA are carried out no matter who is president or which political party is in power.
    But you already knew that.

  • sayanything-256

    Kenny, I see you’re still stooping to your usual dishonest lows. You know that two of the links you posted are from 2007 right? And what year is it now?

    And why would the corporate media not push a pro-corporate message?

    And you also know that Venezuelans voted to abolish presidential term limits just last year? They must really hate Chavez.

    And the pictures show mostly white people yet only 21% of Venezuelans are white. They’re just pissed a darker-skinned bloke got elected president. A conservative is a conservative no matter the country it seems.

  • sayanything-1317

    More “right wing propeganda” at teh SF Gate:
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/23/international/i112227D25.DTL

    Surely the BBC wouldn’t push right wing propeganda:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7059309.stm

    And, of course, the far right wing CNN:
    http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/26/venezuela.protests/index.html

    Protestors seem to have been provoked by the police, and pro-Chavez thugs assaulted and killed anti-government protestors.

    Are you happy I looked around now?

  • sayanything-453

    Per robert180 the protesters had it coming because they are totalitarians seeking to impose their will through violence.
    Case solved.

  • sayanything-256

    I notice you are still light on proof indicating that Chavez rigged any elections, or any evidence that he’s somehow a dictator, or rules using censorship and force.

    We all probably think his socialist experiment will fail. But all evidence suggests he is popular, though divisive, in Venezuela, was elected in fair elections, and that his policies have helped the poor.

    You’ve got to stop getting all emotional and irrational over this, it just makes you seem like a right-wing nut. It’s up to the Venezuelans to choose their own president, and they have.

    And why haven’t you condemned the riots by right-wing thugs in Venezuela? They stole cars, rioted, smashed up small businesses, and even killed someone. Is this really what you advocate? And should you be surprised that the police eventually responded with force?

  • sayanything-453

    We’ve added many restrictions to the use of the weapon,” he said. “Rubber bullets are still in our arsenal and still have a certain purpose.” He wouldn’t elaborate on what the new restrictions were.

    In the study, the scientists documented for each patient which regions of the body were hit, whether the bullets penetrated the flesh, the severity of the injuries, surgeries that were needed and the final outcome.

    There were two types of rubber-coated bullets used during the riots.

    The first type, recommended for firing at the legs of a specific person from at least 131 feet ( 39 meters) away, is a blunt cylindrical missile composed of three metal cores coated in hard rubber shells. It is fired from a special canister that fits onto the muzzle of a gun. The bullet splits into three after it is shot.

    The other bullet type is composed of 15 tiny rubber-covered metal balls packed together into a cartridge. When fired from the recommended distance, they disperse to form a circle about 22 feet (6.5 meters) across. This type of bullet is recommended for use against groups of people.

    The researchers found the bullet injuries were randomly distributed all over the body. They were mostly in the limbs, but also frequently found in the head, neck, face and chest.

    Bullets that hit the legs caused the least damage, while those that hit the face usually caused the most harm, often permanent.

    “This type of inaccurate ammunition — one missile that breaks into three components immediately after firing — and the resulting ricochets evidently make it difficult or impossible to avoid severe injuries to vulnerable body regions such as the head, neck and upper torso,” the study said.

    Nearly 60 percent of the bullet wounds were above the belly button, which suggests the police were not always aiming at the legs, the study said.

    The researchers determined from the pattern of wounds and bone fractures that bullets were also sometimes fired from close range.

    Almost half the injuries were mild, but 35 percent were considered moderately severe wounds and 19 percent were severe.

    Three people were blinded and one patient turned psychotic, the study said.

    Two people were killed after bullets went through the eyes and pierced the brain, the study found. Another patient died from a complication after surgery.

  • sayanything-453

    I seriously doubt you are any good at R&D. I wouldn’t buy anything you researched or developed. All you are good at is spouting off failed marxist nonsense and failed economic theories. You are a bootlicking leftist ideologue who never saw a dictator you didn’t love.

    But you did love Reza Pahlevi, did you not?

  • sayanything-1317

    From the left wing Huffington Post:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/venezuelan-protests-polic_n_441098.html

    Protests are in response to the shutdown of freedom of speech. Even the HuffPost writes off protestor violence as a response to police force. If these students are right wing loons, why isn’t HP reporting it like that? Hmmm?

  • sayanything-256

    Sounds like the conservatives are having fun down there: rioting, shooting students, burning shops, and stealing cars. All the sorts of activities that get them in the mood for a little ‘bagging. Maybe Mr Food should go down and teabag with them.

  • sayanything-453

    The British rubber bullets were designed to be fired at the ground so that they would bounce up and hit the legs of demonstrators. Britain stopped using rubber bullets in Northern Ireland in 1975 in favor of shorter, less inaccurate plastic ones.

    Other variations of rubber bullets are used in several countries, including the United States. These include rubber-coated metal bullets, rubber plugs, plastic bullets called baton rounds, and beanbag rounds — fabric beanbags about the size of a tea bag filled with lead pellets.

    Each type has a different effect on the human body under different circumstances.

    Mike McBride, editor of Jane’s Police and Security Equipment, said the Israeli findings have no bearing on other types of crowd control ammunition.
    “There are lots of different manufacturers out there making lots of different types of riot control projectiles,” McBride said.

    Baton rounds, or pure plastic bullets, are used in Northern Ireland today. They are lighter, faster and more accurate than their rubber predecessors, McBride said.

    “They’ve been used 166 times in Northern Ireland, twice in mainland Britain, and there have been no deaths associated with the use of those,” he said.

    In the United States, local police make their own decisions on what to use for crowd control, and methods vary across the country.
    The study, conducted by doctors at the Rambam Medical Center at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in northern Israel, involved 152 people who were admitted to hospitals in early October 2000 with a total of 201 wounds from rubber-coated bullets.

    Israel says it uses rubber bullets and tear gas as non-lethal methods of crowd control to reduce casualties. However, former police commander Alik Ron told a public hearing last September into the Arabi Israeli riots that police were not trained to use rubber bullets and sometimes shot from a short — and lethal — distance at rioters.

    Israeli police spokesman Gil Kleiman said Friday that officials had revised rules on using rubber bullets last year, but they had no plans to stop using the weapon.blockquote>

  • sayanything-4744

    ellinas said:

    Those are not pictures of torture. They look like bird shot or rubber bullet injuries.
    However I intend to write a letter to Hugo and recommend Guantanamo Bay treatment.
    You guys are not opposed to waterboarding, are you?

    Students shot in the USA while protesting

    My goodness, but you do enjoy your deflections. You changed direction so many times there it was nearly incredible. Let’s lay them out:

    1. Those are not pictures of torture. They look like birdshot or rubber bullet injuries.
    No, they don’t. And even if they were, since when is shooting people with birdshot an accepted form of crowd control in a civilized nation? And, no comment about the claw on a chain device be carried by the policeman? What other used for that device is there?

    2.However I intend to write a letter to Hugo and recommend Guantanamo Bay treatment. Sure, go for it, I guess. Because the prisoners at Guantanamo are so completely equivalent to student protesters in Venezuela I’m sure he’ll nod his head in vigorous agreement.

    3.You guys are not opposed to waterboarding, are you? Who was talking about waterboarding? Have I ever posted anything in support of waterboarding, here or anywhere else? What are you talking about?

    4. Students shot in the USA while protesting (link) Kent State? That’s the most recent episode you could find? No, never mind. Let’s pretend Kent State happened today. What would be the outcome? 24 hour news coverage? The officers involved arrested. International outrage. Is any of that going on in Venezuela right now, do you think? ANd if you counter with, we don’t know, then great. I agree with you. If only I had mentioned my disgust at this story not getting more coverage. Oh wait, I did.

    The only thing that was missing in your post was any hint of outrage over students being treated like this by their government.

  • sayanything-2804

    Yes, step away from the monitor when that vein in your temple starts to throb.

  • sayanything-453

    As usual, you have no argument, and are reduced to lying about what someone else said.
    Of course, I said nothing of the kind;
    you just made that up about “had it coming”.
    I was smacking the liar AV with the truth when he said that rioters were “conservative”.

    What you realy said:

    Moron necrophiliac: People who need to use force to get people to do what they want are by nature totalitarian. If they believed in free people making free choices, they wouldn’t be rioting. Are you really too stupid to know that? I guess so.

    Why do you lie so much?

  • sayanything-256

    Good point Sparkie, and they love to see left-wing students getting beaten by the cops, but when it is right-wing students it must be torture by the evil govt!?

  • sayanything-2804

    so tell me E, when you were tuning in your fellow citizens during the Junta, did you used to tell yourself “I’m a good government lackey”?

    Were you proud of the services you provided the Colonels, I mean other than delivering dissidents for torture?

  • sayanything-81

    Wait, I thought we tortured people and, moreover, that you rightwing partisans love that sh*t?!!?
    Another thing your party has in common with yet another brutal dictator?
    Thanks for posting it.

  • sayanything-453

    That their currency was devalued, means nothing. Worldwide economic problems.
    The US dollar has been devalued recently.
    Now if Chavez was going to quit and or lose in elections and a new president elected that would be a good thing.

  • sayanything-256

    “You’d still only believe what your leftist idiology allowed you to believe.” — Mr Food
    Yep, it makes life tricky wanting actual evidence, it must be easier to simply believe what one wants to believe, based upon their feelings.

    But unfortunately I wouldn’t be a very good at R&D if I relied on conservative methods.

  • sayanything-453

    If Carter is an imbecile, why not one conservative went there to monitor the elections?

  • sayanything-2804

    And a democrat at that… Telling, very telling and you voted for the democrat Telling, very very telling.

  • sayanything-81

    Wait, I thought we tortured people and, moreover, that you rightwing partisans love that sh*t?!!?
    Another thing your party has in common with yet another brutal dictator?
    Thanks for posting it.

  • sayanything-453

    You are full of it here, WHFF.
    Here is a different example.
    The riots in Korea by the people against their government.
    Violent suppresion,not a word from you cons.
    Why is that? Why no call for the South Korean government to step down?

    Riots in Korea

    How about Egypt? What do you think?
    protests in Egypt

  • sayanything-453

    The rioters are totalitarians?
    Now I heard it all.

  • sayanything-453

    so tell me E, when you were tuning in your fellow citizens during the Junta, did you used to tell yourself “I’m a good government lackey”?

    Were you proud of the services you provided the Colonels, I mean other than delivering dissidents for torture?

    Well, let me tell O, these dictators that he USA supported were right wing conservatives.
    Something is wrong with your questions, as you frequently accuse me of being a leftist.

  • sayanything-256

    “Idiot vertibrate you are openly an advocate for the use of brute force to impose your idiology.” — Mr Food
    You’re projecting here. I did not support the invasion of Iraq.

  • sayanything-1317

    I’d also like to point out that my occasional errors, which I always apologize for, hardly give YOU a claim to call me dishonest.

    I mean, after all, you are the chump who keeps claiming that I said that Vietnam begged France to colonize them, despite me disproving it.

    Run along little boy. Grown ups are talking.

  • sayanything-453

    ellinas, the Shah may have been an ahole,

    WHFF. Thr shah was installed as the king of Persia, by the USA.
    Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA on orders from the US government, overthrew the demcratic government of Iran.
    Blowback.

  • sayanything-453

    No! I step away from the keyboard to take my dog out to piss and shyt.
    You are jealous because I pay more attention to my dog’s needs.
    Who wouda thunk it?

  • sayanything-2804

    You have an excellent point there E, about doing ones own research I mean.

    I looked around and was able to find evidence of the type of disrespect that needs to be opposed by legitimately recognized Governments.

    The best part was that the corroboration for your position that I found, was unwittingly provided by Fox News.

    Kudos.

    http://video.foxnews.com/v/3987430/violent-political-protests-in-venezuela/?playlist_id=87249

  • sayanything-453

    Good night WHFF.
    Talk to you tomorrow.

  • sayanything-81

    Wait, I thought we tortured people and, moreover, that you rightwing partisans love that sh*t?!!?
    Another thing your party has in common with yet another brutal dictator?
    Thanks for posting it.

  • sayanything-453

    The protesters in this instance (in Venezuela) were burning private property, and throwing Molotov cocktails among other things.

    Local university students from the notoriously violent right-wing student organization known as the M-13 blocked three of Merida’s major avenues by burning tires and stolen vehicles. Wearing masks, they broke down city walls, looted and burnt local shops, and threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at police over the course of twelve hours.

    I am not providing you a link with this, because you need to work on your web SEARCH skills.

  • sayanything-1317

    Mea culpa. I did indeed make this mistake.

    However, it does kinda establish a pattern on the government cracking down on protest, don’tcha think?

  • sayanything-256

    In 2006, Chavez got 62.84% of the vote, his main opponent 36.90% .

    Carter says it was fair, Mr Food says he is wrong. I may just believe Carter over Mr Food.

  • sayanything-453

    Name some that have banned their use.

    From your link:

    Rubber-coated bullets are intended to inflict superficial painful injuries to deter rioters. But a study of their use by Israeli security forces has found police often fire from too close and aim poorly. Even when fired properly, it said, the bullets are so inaccurate that they can cause unintended injuries.

    The study, published this week in The Lancet medical journal, examined the effects of rubber-coated bullets used by the Israeli police force during riots by Israeli Arabs in northern and central Israel in early October 2000.

    Those bullets are in fact made of metal encased in a rubber shell, and are different from the original rubber bullets first used in 1970 by the British in Northern Ireland.

    The British rubber bullets were designed to be fired at the ground so that they would bounce up and hit the legs of demonstrators. Britain stopped using rubber bullets in Northern Ireland in 1975 in favor of shorter, less inaccurate plastic ones.

  • sayanything-453

    I did not call human rights watch liars.
    Knowing your past, I questioned the veracity and truthfulness of your claims.
    Now, how about that link?

  • sayanything-453

    Yes it looks nasty, and is terrible if it is used against the protesters.

  • sayanything-256

    “Local university students from the notoriously violent right-wing student organization known as the M-13 blocked three of Merida’s major avenues by burning tires and stolen vehicles. Wearing masks, they broke down city walls, looted and burnt local shops, and threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at police over the course of twelve hours.

    State security forces appear to have done little to prevent the repeated riots, and, as was the case yesterday, usually resort to containing them within a geographic area using tear gas and plastic shrapnel, while the downtown area is filled with smoke, gas, traffic, vandalism, and fear.”
    http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5104

    Sounds like hate-fueled conservatives causing trouble again. They injured 20 police officers too.

  • sayanything-453

    What? Kenny dishonest?
    You don’t say!

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