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Monday, December 05, 2005 10:08 AM

Venezuela's true patriots ... unlike the cowards who stayed

home and griped!

 

Published: Monday, December 05, 2005

Bylined to: Mary MacElveen

 

Venezuela's true patriots ... unlike the cowards who stayed home and

griped!

 

VHeadline.com commentarist Mary MacElveen writes: With the outcome of

the Venezuelan elections now decided President Chavez' MVR party now

holds a convincing majority. No matter what the fevered opposition

says, it is still a majority since those who did in fact go to the

polls in torrential rains decided which direction Venezuela must

democratically take.

 

MVR won 114 out of the 167 seats and this boils down to 68% ... it

must mean that Chavez is doing something right if he gained such a

majority to push through further reforms.

 

As reported elsewhere: " Many voting centers had to open late, though,

because citizens who were asked to staff the centers did not show up,

particularly in upper middle class neighborhoods, where the opposition

parties that called for a boycott, are especially strong. "

 

I find this interesting for many reasons...

 

If the opposition feels the country is going in the wrong direction,

they should not boycott an election. Quite simply, they should show up

en masse ... staying away from a polling station that's kept open late

only shows cowardice on the part of Chavez' opposition.

 

If as reported this boycott was strong, those who chose to join the

stay-away failed in their mission. It also showed that boycotting the

election was weak. If those in upper middle class neighborhoods felt

left out of President Chavez' people-oriented government, where the

focus is on the poor of the nation, my message to them is: How do you

think the poor of the United States feels when our government cares

more for the rich?

 

Here in the United States, many did show up to the polls who wanted to

see a change of course within this country ... but due to voter fraud,

or being turned away from the polls, we have those that are friendly

to President Chavez' opposition in power. At least those who wanted

to see a change of course showed up here as opposed to the opposition

in Venezuela.

 

It almost appears that President Chavez' opposition threw a hissy fit

.... as if saying: " I am not getting my way so I'll throw a temper tantrum "

 

Maria Corina Machado. an outspoken force against many of President

Chavez' policies, said " from a mulit-party parliament we pass to a

single party parliament that does not represent the broad sectors of

the population. Today, a National Assembly is born that is wounded in

its legitimacy. "

 

If Maria Corina is that upset, she should have told her opposition NGO

Sumate to show up and not to boycott this election. Those that did

show up legitimized the election and the assembly by casting their

votes instead of staying home. No one turned them away or purged their

names off voter registration roles. There have been many provable

reports where the US Republicans did just that here in the United States.

 

As we all know, her friend Bush is the head of that party.

 

* Now, Maria Corina can see exactly how it feels living in the

minority ... perhaps that is her just reward and the opposition's just

reward for their sheer stupidity and arrogance.

 

Right now, many like myself, are living in the minority here in the

United States under the rule of her friend George W. Bush. Bush and

his supporters in our senate and House of Representatives act like

totalitarian rulers instead of elected officials.

 

Oops, I keep forgetting the Supreme Court installed Bush back in 2000.

 

Many like me feel shut out of our political process, but the big

difference here is that we say to our supporters: " SHOW UP to vote and

work towards voter reform in this country. "

 

* In the United States, voter reform means getting the big money

out of our political system and to do away with computerized voting

machines. Personally, I would like to take a base ball bat to every

single one of them.

 

If Maria Corina reads this column, I want to express to her that her

friend Bush denied help coming from Venezuela to help the citizens of

here in the United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and

ask her: How she feels about that? If the opposition to President

Chavez agrees with the denial of this humanitarian aid, then they

deserved to lose.

 

Just last night, I was reading an AP article asking how we will pay

for the rebuilding of Hurricane Katrina. Let me remind Maria Corina,

we would not even be having this debate had her friend George W. Bush

not spent billions upon billions for an illegal war.

 

Rest assured, Maria Corina those who were the recipients of discounted

home heating oil here in the United States are thrilled with President

Chavez, because it shows he cared and still cares for them unlike your

friend Bush.

 

What I find amusing is that one of our minority leaders went behind

Bush's back to get this done ... his name is US Congressman William

Delahunt ... he really deserves a pat on the back for that one.

 

In closing, those who went to the polls in Venezuela yesterday, and

exercised their right to vote, were truly the ones looking out for the

best interest of Venezuela.

 

They are Venezuela's true patriots ... unlike the cowards who just

stayed home and griped.

 

What they said through that vote was: we want to continue President

Chavez' people-oriented policies ... instead of going back into the

misery of the last forty years of governmental malfeasance and

corruption that characterized Maria Corina's soul-mates in Venezuelan

politics and their puppeteers in Washington D.C..

 

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Mary MacElveen

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