YOUTH LOSE TO CIA
A DEFEAT FOR FDR-STYLE POLITICS AND DEMOCRACY
Special Election Report by the Creative Youth News Team
December 3, 2007
Yesterday, youth around the world were preparing to celebrate the Venezuelan referendum that would have lowered Venezuela's voting age to 16. This referendum, proposed by popular Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, would have firmly established Venezuela as another nation that cares about the youth and about the poor. The exit polls showed Chavez's pro-democracy referendum winning by a substantial margin. Then came shades of Florida, 2000. The resulting close failure of the referendum did not match the exit polls. Were the people Debolded? Diebold supplied the Venezuelan voting machines. Diebold's CEO promised to deliver Ohio to Bush in 2004. Perhaps, Diebold is the real story here.
Hugo Chavez has had eight landslide victories. Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President Jimmy Carter has verified Chavez's landslide margins in the past. Did Chavez's over-confidence in democracy the reason for the loss. Unlike two years ago, Chavez didn't feel the need to call in outside observers. The Creative Youth News Team believes that, if Chavez had called Jimmy Carter back to help, the results might have matched the exit polls. The youth would have gotten the voting age lowered and the masses would have received a larger distribution of the oil wealth.
BBC journalist Greg Palast puts it best in saying, "It's the Oil."
Palast, in an email that went out today, stated,
The CIA acknowledged that Chavez's referendums had 57% approval in their memo titled "Advancing to the Last Phase of Operation Princer," a memo documenting plans to destabilize the referendum vote and coordinate the overthrow of the elected Chavez government.
American youth are waiting for a leader in this country to take Chavez's initiative to lower the voting age. National organizations of youth were largely responsible for the Democratic victory in 2006. Many of them hoped the victory would translate into legislation to lower the voting age. As 2008 approaches, many feel betrayed as they see no legislation in sight to lower the voting age.
Hugo Chavez has a career of remarkable courage. When he became President of Venezuela, 95% of the citizens were poverty-stricken with no hope in sight. He gave them part of the oil profits and unused land and made sure all had food and universal health care. In return, the peasants of Venezuela gave him their full support, seeing him as a Venezuela Robin Hood. While America is talking about the possibility of electing a black President, Venezuela already has one in Hugo Chavez, who is hated for his black ancestry by racists who oppose "The Black President."
Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil in the Western Hemisphere. For that reason, the Bush Administration has long opposed Chavez's people-oriented approach to an industry Bush Administration officials believe belongs in the hands of the rich, alone. When Chavez started socialist reforms of the oil industry, the U.S. Government stepped in to encourage protests. Rich oil executives would ride to the protests in their chauffeur-driven limousines while their chauffeurs would be quietly rooting for the other side.
In 2002, when the CIA kidnapped President Chavez, the peasants revolved against the coup and demanded Chavez's return. Hundreds of thousands of peasants took to the street. The CIA caved and returned President Chavez.
Chavez's programs have been extremely popular with his people. He has survived numerous referendums with landslide victories, despite documented attempts, in 2004, by the CIA to rig the referendums against Chavez's Presidency. . As expected Chavez landslided to victory in that vote. Carter himself verified the legitimacy of Chavez's victory.
In 2005, Pat Robertson, on television, encouraged the assassination of Hugo Chavez. The American public was shocked and came to the defense of President Chavez. That same year, Hugo Chavez offered assistance to the Katrina victims before the President of the United States and long before Pat Robertson did anything in support of the victims of Katrina. Robertson collected money for aid. However, Robertson's organizations distributed Bibles and propaganda to people and children who were in need of medicine, food and shelter.
Venezuela has one of the most humane justice systems in the world. The running joke is that Venezuela is the best place to get incarcerated. It has no death penalty and foreign criminals, who are not sympathetic to the government, have found the prisons easy to escape. One example of an escapee is convicted airline bomber Luis Posada Corriles, who has been allowed to live in the United States, a country that made sure the Bin Ladens were allowed to leave safely after 9/11.
In 2005, the California Democratic Party unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the U.S. Government to respect the Government of Venezuela.
In 2006, Hugo Chavez received a five-minute standing ovation after calling Bush the devil at the United Nations in New York. After than American groups and clubs eagerly invited to speak at their events. While he did accept some speaking engagements, there is always a concern about his safety, given that there is evidence linking the Bush Administration to attempts to assassinate President Chavez.
It is no surprise that Hugo Chavez has championed the cause of the youth. Will the United States do as well by the youth by allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote in the 2008 election? Will anyone in Congress introduce the legislation?
For more information on Hugo Chavez, check out these videos with Cindy Sheehan and Greg Palast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7K2HdFZiKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhs0u1IIc3o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_WRuzPO6Yg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjzSbgl9Be0&feature=related
Palast believes that the failure of the referendum shows that it is the opponents of Chavez who are the real tyrants. The analysis by the Creative Youth News Team is that the referendum likely won the vote but was Diebolded. The National Youth Rights Association of Orange County is planning to call upon Hugo Chavez to redo the election with Jimmy Carter watching. This will give the Venezuelans the courage to expand democracy to the Venezuelan young and redistribute more of the Venezuelan oil profits to those to the Venezuelan citizens.
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Yesterday, youth around the world were preparing to celebrate the Venezuelan referendum that would have lowered Venezuela's voting age to 16. This referendum, proposed by popular Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, would have firmly established Venezuela as another nation that cares about the youth and about the poor. The exit polls showed Chavez's pro-democracy referendum winning by a substantial margin. Then came shades of Florida, 2000. The resulting close failure of the referendum did not match the exit polls. Were the people Debolded? Diebold supplied the Venezuelan voting machines. Diebold's CEO promised to deliver Ohio to Bush in 2004. Perhaps, Diebold is the real story here.
Hugo Chavez has had eight landslide victories. Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President Jimmy Carter has verified Chavez's landslide margins in the past. Did Chavez's over-confidence in democracy the reason for the loss. Unlike two years ago, Chavez didn't feel the need to call in outside observers. The Creative Youth News Team believes that, if Chavez had called Jimmy Carter back to help, the results might have matched the exit polls. The youth would have gotten the voting age lowered and the masses would have received a larger distribution of the oil wealth.
BBC journalist Greg Palast puts it best in saying, "It's the Oil."
Palast, in an email that went out today, stated,
"Big
Oil has better ideas for Venezuela, best expressed in several Wall
Street Journal articles attacking Chavez for
spending his nation’s oil wealth on 'social programs' rather than on
more drilling platforms to better fill the SUVs of Texas."
For big oil to win, the people and youth of Venezuela had to
lose. How far were big oil and the CIA willing to go? The
shooting of Chavez supporter José Anibal Oliveros Yépez
and the post-shooting mistreatment of Yepez's body by the opposition
was a a tragic example that other Venezuelans did not want to see
repeated on themselves if they dared to vote with Chavez. In
2004, Chavez supporters did not allow shots fired at the Chavez voters
by the opposition to deter theChavez supporters from voting. It
may have been
Jimmy Carter's presence that gave them to faith to continue. This
time, without Carter, enough of the common people stayed away from the
polls that the opposition was allowed to claim a narrow victory, as it
did in Florida in 2000. A great supporter of democracy, Chavez
expected the people to come through for themselves. Maybe they
did. Only Bush and Diebold know for sure.The CIA acknowledged that Chavez's referendums had 57% approval in their memo titled "Advancing to the Last Phase of Operation Princer," a memo documenting plans to destabilize the referendum vote and coordinate the overthrow of the elected Chavez government.
American youth are waiting for a leader in this country to take Chavez's initiative to lower the voting age. National organizations of youth were largely responsible for the Democratic victory in 2006. Many of them hoped the victory would translate into legislation to lower the voting age. As 2008 approaches, many feel betrayed as they see no legislation in sight to lower the voting age.
Hugo Chavez has a career of remarkable courage. When he became President of Venezuela, 95% of the citizens were poverty-stricken with no hope in sight. He gave them part of the oil profits and unused land and made sure all had food and universal health care. In return, the peasants of Venezuela gave him their full support, seeing him as a Venezuela Robin Hood. While America is talking about the possibility of electing a black President, Venezuela already has one in Hugo Chavez, who is hated for his black ancestry by racists who oppose "The Black President."
Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil in the Western Hemisphere. For that reason, the Bush Administration has long opposed Chavez's people-oriented approach to an industry Bush Administration officials believe belongs in the hands of the rich, alone. When Chavez started socialist reforms of the oil industry, the U.S. Government stepped in to encourage protests. Rich oil executives would ride to the protests in their chauffeur-driven limousines while their chauffeurs would be quietly rooting for the other side.
In 2002, when the CIA kidnapped President Chavez, the peasants revolved against the coup and demanded Chavez's return. Hundreds of thousands of peasants took to the street. The CIA caved and returned President Chavez.
Chavez's programs have been extremely popular with his people. He has survived numerous referendums with landslide victories, despite documented attempts, in 2004, by the CIA to rig the referendums against Chavez's Presidency. . As expected Chavez landslided to victory in that vote. Carter himself verified the legitimacy of Chavez's victory.
In 2005, Pat Robertson, on television, encouraged the assassination of Hugo Chavez. The American public was shocked and came to the defense of President Chavez. That same year, Hugo Chavez offered assistance to the Katrina victims before the President of the United States and long before Pat Robertson did anything in support of the victims of Katrina. Robertson collected money for aid. However, Robertson's organizations distributed Bibles and propaganda to people and children who were in need of medicine, food and shelter.
Venezuela has one of the most humane justice systems in the world. The running joke is that Venezuela is the best place to get incarcerated. It has no death penalty and foreign criminals, who are not sympathetic to the government, have found the prisons easy to escape. One example of an escapee is convicted airline bomber Luis Posada Corriles, who has been allowed to live in the United States, a country that made sure the Bin Ladens were allowed to leave safely after 9/11.
In 2005, the California Democratic Party unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the U.S. Government to respect the Government of Venezuela.
In 2006, Hugo Chavez received a five-minute standing ovation after calling Bush the devil at the United Nations in New York. After than American groups and clubs eagerly invited to speak at their events. While he did accept some speaking engagements, there is always a concern about his safety, given that there is evidence linking the Bush Administration to attempts to assassinate President Chavez.
It is no surprise that Hugo Chavez has championed the cause of the youth. Will the United States do as well by the youth by allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote in the 2008 election? Will anyone in Congress introduce the legislation?
For more information on Hugo Chavez, check out these videos with Cindy Sheehan and Greg Palast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7K2HdFZiKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhs0u1IIc3o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_WRuzPO6Yg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjzSbgl9Be0&feature=related
Palast believes that the failure of the referendum shows that it is the opponents of Chavez who are the real tyrants. The analysis by the Creative Youth News Team is that the referendum likely won the vote but was Diebolded. The National Youth Rights Association of Orange County is planning to call upon Hugo Chavez to redo the election with Jimmy Carter watching. This will give the Venezuelans the courage to expand democracy to the Venezuelan young and redistribute more of the Venezuelan oil profits to those to the Venezuelan citizens.
Copyright ©2007 by the Creative Youth News Team. All rights reserved.
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