"Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit."
---Emma Goldman
9/20/06: Populist Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez had the sheer audacity to stand before the United Nations and deliver an angry diatribe against the enemy of humanity. Dispensing with mealy-mouthed pleasantries, he verbally savaged Bush in his fiery oration. Chavez knows an abhorrent war criminal when he sees one and he isn't one to mince words or use polite euphemisms.
He made a few choice observations:
"The devil came here yesterday. And it smells of sulfur still today."
Bush may not actually be the devil, but he certainly qualifies as one of his Earthly agents. And Chavez may very well have smelled residual sulfur fumes which had emanated from Satan himself. It is a virtual certainty that Lucifer was present for Bush's virtuoso performance on 9/19. How could he have resisted watching his favorite sociopath's attempt to beguile listeners into believing he is pursuing noble causes?
Chavez went on to assert:
"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. An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: 'The Devil's Recipe.' "
Underscoring his blasphemy against the predatory capitalism inflicted on the world by the economic and military titan "affectionately" known as the American Empire, the champion of humane social democracy waved a copy of Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky, a vehement domestic critic of the United States political and economic systems.
Chavez also noted that Bush "stole the elections" and "is, therefore, a dictator."
Tough point to argue given that Bush came to power via two bloodless coups, one engineered by Katherine Harris and the other by Diebold.
In the aftermath of Chavez's blistering verbal attacks on US imperialists and the miscreant conducting their symphony of the macabre, "patriots" emerged to defend "our president". Given the overt fascism and aggressive militarism emerging in the United States, it is almost inconceivable that such a regime would continue to enjoy popular support. Yet economic tyranny, consumerism, and relentless pressure to conform to the American Way are so powerful that many US Americans have sold their very souls by offering their voluntary complicity in the subjugation, exploitation, and (in some instances) extermination of billions of human beings around the globe.
And some of these "patriots" originate from some surprising segments of the United States' population.
New York Democrat Charles Rangel, a member of the treasonous US Congress which has enabled the Bush administration in its steady march toward becoming a tyrannical regime, took serious umbrage to Chavez's remarks:
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