Re: NACLA on RCTV

[Walt Byars <wbyars@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know what you are going on about. I just don't know why it is more
appropriate to compare Venezuela under Chavez with Pinochet's Chile than
with any other capitalist countries.

> Gee, I thought we were comparing actually existing freedoms under
> actually existing systems, led by actually existing people.  I could
> care less about Friedman.  He's a dead right-wing ideologue whose
> brazen dishonesty helped support at least one mass murderer.  His
> arguments are specious, one-sided, sloppy, and full of holes.  To
> repeat them on this list with no hint of awareness of their
> baselessness deserves rebuke.
>
> So, instead of comparing Chavez to Pinochet --- where there is no
> comparison, evidently --- Chavez, and by extension "socialism", is
> accused of something the US government has done in the past, in
> glorious spades.  They make his supposed crimes seem like child's
> play.  Read McChesney and for that matter Tocqueville or Zinn if you
> don't believe me.
>
>
> Bill
>