M A I N P A G E


Monday, November 06, 2006

That's okay, Jimmy Carter is watching. 

posted by Joe @ 13:55

Vote early and vote often, I guess. BBC headline basically declared former Marxist flunky Daniel Ortega victorious - turns out he has 40% of the 15% of ballot boxes that were counted by 4 a.m. local time. What's funnier is that the BBC introduced him as having fought the 'US backed Contras", and consistently neglected to mention that the Sandinistas were created and funded by the KGB.

They evaporated when the Soviet Union withdrew funding prior to their collapse. But as far as “external meddling” is concerned, no mention is ever made of the KGB or the cold war.

As one would expect from the Guardian/Observer militant-industrial complex, a very familiar looking article by a formerly ambitious, young, starry-eyed Briton who volunteered to pick coffee beans to support the nascent Marxist beachhead regime in the 80’s reappears. Rife with the obsessions of the time, it mentions Thatcher and Reagan with the desperate tone of the times. This has to be at least the fifth time I’ve seen this story recycled in the Guardian/Observer, and is sure to stoke the reminiscence of a bunch of wretchedly unimaginative and ill-informed Marxists now in middle age who seek a kind of proletarian-Rococco hybrid lifestyle.

Those were the days, my friend. I thought they’d never end. Then again, to achieve peace, one didn’t have to try to become a Soviet as these empty souls prowling London wanted us all to be.

As for what it all amounts to, Fausta rounds up the familiar sounding threats that Europe and North America’s lunatic left are so willing to accept at the cost of any other individual’s freedom:

Rafael Ramirez, the government minister and head of PDVSA (the Venezuelan oil monopoly that owns CITGO in the USA) gave a speech last week where he specifically threated with firing from their jobs, physical force and "total anihilation" for those PDVSA employees who don't reciprocate Hugo's love of his people and who don't conform to the party line, and for those who don't support the Bolivarian revolution.
Coerted loyalties, poverty at the expense of all, an intellectually barren life... This is their future because of the western left being so enamored by the Marxism they supported 25 years ago, is willing to support it again today. They are willing to do for free what the KGB agents took home a paycheck for to fill some guilt or an empty place in their hearts.

Having lived four years behind the Iron Curtain, to them I say "move there, asshole. If you survive through your beloved purges you can tell us all about the glory and wonders of Socialism."


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