Pol Pot in Venezuela

The following article is scary… where is our Reagan making sure the resistance groups get armed!!

President Hugo Chavez's announcement at this week's innaugaral ceremony of plans to create a network of "socialist cities" run by "people power" in Venezuela's unsettled interior has some critics concerned he is moving his country toward a Pol Pot-type system.

The anti-American leader told the Venezuelan national assembly that large tracts, each 38.6 square miles in size, would be developed as new egalitarian communities run without mayors or municipal governments.

"I invoke and summon the constituent power, the people's power, the real fuel, so that the engines I am talking about may lead us to a better future," he said at the swearing-in ceremony where he declared "the new era on the road to socialism."

"Those of you who want to know what type of socialism I have planned for Venezuela should read Marx and Lenin," he said.

World Net Daily Article

I bet that most of my liberal democratic friends do not see this as a problem, the Pol Pot historian however, should consider this a move towards death. An excellent book I recommend to anyone is one called Death by Government, by Rummel. The more a government controls the people, the more death – historically – has followed. Another book that makes this point abundantly clear is the The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Dr. Stéphane Courtois. These two books should end any egalitarian concepts of equality and commerce. But this doesn’t stop the “Kimba’s” (liberal’s who unknowingly have their roots in Rousseau’s Social Contract) of our world in supporting socialist dreams wrapped in pacifist liturgy.

What did Voltaire think of this egalitarian societal aim?

“I have received your new book against the human race, and I thank you for it. Never was such cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit more than sixty years ago, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it.”

This is still my thinking on liberal socialist dreams.