Re: NACLA on RCTV

[Matthijs Krul <mccaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This is not a helpful analogy. Let's say a significant section of the
> American army began to read the Militant (I know this sounds ridiculous,
> but I can't get Vincent Bugliosi's new book "proving" that Lee Harvey
> Oswald was a socialist because he read the Militant out of my mind). And
> then they seized the White House in a coup that was coordinated with the
> Militant, nobody would question the right of the state to close down the
> Militant and to jail the rebels. In fact, that is what happened to
> Chavez (and Castro). By contrast, the RCTV went unpunished. And now they
> have lost their access to the airwaves, although they can still use
> cable. This is not exactly what I would call repression.
>
>

Fair enough, but that requires proof that they played a similar role as
the bizarro version of The Militant did in your example, which in turn
would be a lot more solid ground to strip a single company of license
about than simply "undermining the government" and the like. That's all I
meant to say - I don't really have an opinion about the decision itself
either way.

Matthijs Krul