Does anyone smell sulfur?
- September 20th, 2006
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I know Hugo Chávez is a little “out there”, I know he comes off as a bit crazy, but isn’t he saying what is really on 60% of American’s minds? He addressed the UN today and started by suggesting a book: Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) - by Noam Chomsky. In reference to this book, he made the following statement: _____ “I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because their threat is in their own house. The devil is right at home. The devil — the devil, himself, is right in the house. And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of…. I think we should call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday’s statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. ” _____ Wow, what a firebrand, what a psycho, what a LEFTIST COMMIE PINKO FAG! Not really. He is not alone in his beliefs. Most people in America believe that Bush should see a psychiatrist, I certainly do. Why is it that GWB can pick and choose what Democracies are good ones and which are a threat to the US? Mr. Chávez was democratically elected (twice) and has a different idea of how to run his country than Georgie. One of the first things he did was nationalize the national social security system, holdings in the aluminum industry, and the oil sector. The idea of taking certain industries out of the hands of the private companies should be used sparingly, but has the ability to help re-distribute wealth from people who don’t need it, to people who do. What is the problem with that? To neo-cons, that means you are a Socialist (Capital ‘S’) and in turn a Communist even though they are completely different. Maybe every American doesn’t need to read Noam Chomsky, but being more informed and constructing your own opinions based on fact, not rhetoric, would be a start. Full Speech Trascrip here