nino_savatte
No pasaran!
No one should be allowed to rule because of the cirmcustances of their birth.
Chávez seeks changes allowing indefinite rule
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nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Why is it that "one must rule"? More importantly, why should someone, because they were born "into the purple", so-to-speak, be pre-ordained to rule?
Are you an advocate of authoritarianism, paimei01?
Are you an advocate of authoritarianism, paimei01?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
paimei01 said:
Not a noted characteristic of monarchy though the ages really though is it? How about a pope?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
fela fan said:
Because he knows that they'll get passed due to his massive majority -and he only offers some of them, a very very small minority of the total. That doesn't effect any other rights to rule by decree that he might have.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
paimei01 said:
Why? Neither of them are absolute monarchs.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I can do that without being king. Are you sure that you mean a king?
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
History is littered with rulers-for-life bringing about precisely the sort of state of affaris you mention in your 2nd paragraph.paimei01 said:
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
And if they grow unhappy with him (or her), and that ruler is in place "for life", the poeple have no means of changing them.paimei01 said:
lostexpectation
New Member
anyody in here to replace him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Hugo_Chávez
anybody else interesting in his cabinet
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/2007/01/chavez_swearsin.html
he seems to be doing the things he promised I see he bought back 86% of the telecoms company and he wants to scrap the central bank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Hugo_Chávez
anybody else interesting in his cabinet
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/2007/01/chavez_swearsin.html
he seems to be doing the things he promised I see he bought back 86% of the telecoms company and he wants to scrap the central bank
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Hmmmm...he's making all the right noises, what with seeking popular mandates and all that, but 7 hr TV appearances, having a 'vision' of anti-imperialism, that's largely being funded by an upswing in the price of the basic curency of the imperialists, oil, reliant on a docile, unquestionigly supportive electoral base that, as with the ANC in South Africa, is large enough to essentially encompass one-party rule...I'd like to be optimistic and say it'll all be good, but honestly I can't - leaving aside the whole 'Be foreign and say anything against me and you're out' business, it's the 'vision' thing that makes me nervous - he clearly sees himself as a man of destiny, who's fate is to acheive great things...
nino_savatte said:
To a degree Chávez rules by virtue of the circumstances of his birth. Coming from a primarily indigenous Indian background; he has broken the rule of the oligarch, predominantly ‘European’ Venezuelans. Hopefully, this trend can continue; and, indigenous Venezuelans can, in the future control their own destiny.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
copliker said:
I don't have anyone in Venezuela.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
copliker said:
It doesn't bother me, but I still have an opinion about him.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
copliker said:
I'm sorry to be dissing your hero.
butchersapron said:
Eh? Ain't that democracy in action, allowing for the rule of the majority. And if it's a massive majority, then viva chavez and most of venezuelans. If only british politicians could offer british people something so popular.
In fact, they don't even do referendums do they.
nosos said:
If you're referring to kings, then i can actually offer a real life example of it actually being the case: the king of thailand. I often think without his influence thailand would be run in a similar way to burma. And i'd quickly need to be changing my home in the world.
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