Stolen Democracy

Stolen Democracy

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

As was predicted, Hugo Chavez has swept the presidential elections of Venezuela and he has also garnered 68% of the popular vote. Some months ago Chavez declared that if he were reelected that it would be the “will of the people” to allow him to “rewrite the constitution of Venezuela” and allow him to consolidate absolute power and become the supreme leader of the Venezuelan nation.

In other words, Hugo Chavez would become Venezuela’s prince and a dictator. Adolf Hitler was initially elected under similar circumstances by the “people” before Hitler torched the Reichstag and then assumed total power in Germany.

Venezuela is the international community’s latest example of a democracy transformed into a perversion. The international community found that it had very little difficulty in agreeing unanimously that Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Germany was a perversion. When Hitler began cleansing Germany of undesirables such as Jews, gypsies, religious factions and religion itself (since Hitler made himself God) and placing those groups in concentration camps and ovens, those were clearly undemocratic actions. Since Hitler was voted in democratically into office by the German people, were his actions then the actions of a leader empowered by democracy?

No, they were the activities of the tyrant and atheist dictator.

Chavez’s reelection then is stunning since the international media made only a partial mention of it, instead focusing on the resignation of John Bolton, the interim US Ambassador to the United Nations. John Bolton’s resignation was more important to the international media than the rise of a Marxist dictator in Venezuela. When the presses were running to put John Bolton on the front page of almost every major newspaper in the western world, Hugo Chavez was shutting down the news bureaus, television stations and newspapers in his own country. Chavez claims that he is doing that for the “people” and to prevent “subversion” against the state. A global community cannot be a community unless it shares news with member states. If some states refuse to allow press freedom, they are not members of the global community and humanity must yet again relearn old lessons.

Now the typical Venezuelan citizen is probably picking up their telephones to call neighbors in Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and all the other neighboring states, to talk to friends and relatives there to joyfully tell them how wonderful their Marxist state is. Chavez has poured billions of dollars into Venezuelan socialist programs and pushed all the politically-correct leftist buttons that he needed to in order to propel himself to reelection such as providing entitlements to single mothers, land taken from landowners to give to the landless for free, the creation of a very large state bureaucracy to be staffed by Chavez Marxist functionaries and all the other entitlements necessary for an emerging police state mechanism. Chavez had a skilled teacher in Fidel Castro and the communist regime of Cuba as his guide.

The good news is that the perversion that is now Venezuela and its deteriorating democracy will be difficult to replicate elsewhere, but Chavez will put a lot of energy into making ideological expansion a reality. Chavez’s Utopia in Venezuela cannot be replicated by other states in the region because those states do not have the energy resources for exportation that Venezuela does. That is what makes the Venezuelan Marxist state so unnatural and so false at its very core. The Venezuelan citizen that talks to the citizens of surrounding states may deceive those foreign citizens by telling them to vote for the “revolution”. This is occurring elsewhere in Central and South America. The problem is that the “revolution” will not be the same for Nicaraguans and Bolivians as it is for the Venezuelans. Chavez’s Venezuela wouldn’t work if he was not financing it through Venezuelan oil.

The Venezuelan people then are getting their goodies from Chavez, and all that he wanted in return was reelection into office through democratic vote so that he could then dismantle the very democracy that put him into power. The Venezuelan people surrendered their rights as human beings and handed those rights over to the emerging dictator without any resistance. They voted for their prince as Germans in 1932 voted for theirs. The international media doesn’t understand this even as Chavez closes down all of the “subversive” media bureaus in Venezuela, well, at least the ones that were warning about his pending dictatorship. The media in Venezuela that will exist now, if you want to call it that, will be comprised of Chavez party loyalists that will ensure that the Venezuelan people get their daily dose of why America is the “evil empire” and why America must also be destroyed. The new Venezuelan media will explain why Chavez is making all of his diplomatic trips across the globe to secure allies to these ends, because America is the true enemy that must be eliminated and Chavez will lead the Venezuelan people to victory.

Venezuelan media will also begin to propagandize against neighboring states that are not falling into alignment with the Chavez revolutionary Marxist model, and those states will not do as well as the states that align with Chavez. Venezuela won’t sell those states fuel at reduced prices as “punishment” for ignoring Chavez’s “truth”, and Chavez’s truth is perversion.

There will be states that resist Chavez in South America. Chavez will reward those states with his revolutionary system of governance when the gates to his new Kalashnikov rifle factory opens and he begins to export those weapons to all of his revolutionary “brothers” seeking to “free” themselves from “freedom” and become willing slaves. Chavez’s new Kalashnikov’s will make their way into Columbia into the hands of the FARC, they will make their way into Nicaragua and anywhere else his revolutionary brothers need help to dismantle democracies in Central and South America.

Yes, we have seen all of this before in history.

Before Hugo Chavez begins exporting his Venezuelan-made Kalashnikov rifles to Marxist revolutionary movements all throughout the hemisphere, he first has to tie up some loose ends in his own country. Now that he is a dictator, as he will soon announce to the “people”, he will make it a priority to liquidate those who opposed his rise to power. Given that the dictator is a paranoid individual that creates vast government entities so as to give as many citizens as possible a greater stake in his “dictatorship”, any individual that spoke up against Chavez in previous years or formed anti-Chavez groups to save the Venezuelan democracy are going to be targeted by the Chavez regime. Hugo Chavez has already shut down the only independent media outlets in Venezuela, professional journalism that would report on political assassinations and political violence against Venezuelans who saw what was happening to their country. Chavez’s next important step will be to round up all of those “counter-revolutionaries” and do away with them as enemies of the state and enemies of the “party” apparatus. The Marxist dictator must accomplish these ends to secure absolute power, and the dictator will wonder why some of his own people didn’t take the free gasoline he was offering to them in exchange for all of their individual rights. Something must be wrong with them, he must be thinking, and so they must be eliminated.

The United States must get involved in Venezuela. The American people fought a long and brutal Cold War against communism that cost the American people trillions of dollars over 60 years. The fact that Chavez would even dare revise Marxism in our hemisphere is brazen and his exporting of it to surrounding states is intolerable.

In the end however, it is the American people themselves that are going to have to sort this all out. Under the Monroe Doctrine, the United States has the exclusive right to conduct diplomatic and military operations in our hemisphere. This is the hemisphere of the Americas and Chavez is implementing a form of governance that is alien to the Americas and hostile to the way of life of the people of the Americas. The Chavez situation also underscores the weaknesses of the modern democracy, where the citizen may trade their rights for socialism. That is not democracy—it is a perversion.

What has occurred in Venezuela during their last presidential election is not democracy. Chavez was able to campaign from a position of stealing private property to give to Venezuelan citizens in exchange for their votes. Chavez also built massive non-capitalist state bureaucracies and put as many Venezuelan Marxist loyalists as he could on the government payroll to vote for him, giving those Venezuelan’s a great stake in the emerging police state and their very own survival.

International media will claim that Hugo Chavez was democratically elected and the “people” have chosen. That is true, just as Adolf Hitler was chosen by Germany.

Christopher Farmer

MS, National Security

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