Hollywood, are you listening? Liberals who think at least Chavez isn’t the monster he’s often portrayed as, are you paying attention?
President Hugo Chávez has risked international ire by lauding Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan terrorist notorious for a series of bombings, kidnappings and hijackings across Europe, as a "revolutionary fighter" unjustly imprisoned for trying to defend the Palestinian people.
The leftist Venezuelan leader praised Carlos — whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sánchez — as "one of the great fighters of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation", denying he was a terrorist and claiming his lifetime imprisonment in France was unfair.
"I defend him," he said during a speech on Friday night. "It doesn’t matter to me what they say tomorrow in Europe."
Of course, this is now in addition to all his other BFFs.
The fiery anti-American leader sought to defend leaders he said were wrongly branded "bad guys", heaping praise on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is to visit Venezuela later this week, and the Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, who he called "brothers".
He drew the wrath of Ugandans after casting doubt on the crimes of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. "We thought he was a cannibal," said Mr Chávez of Amin, whose regime was notorious for torturing and killing suspected opponents in the 1970s. "I have doubts … Maybe he was a great nationalist, a patriot."
Hat tip: Betsy Newmark, who wonders if those Hollywood leftists who have made common cause with Chavez will ever get asked about this latest news. Yeah, probably not. After all, it is the leftist media most likely to do any interviewing.
Doug Payton blogs at Considerettes.
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2 users commented in " A Question for Chavez Supporters (or Even Chavez Ignorers) "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIn the other side of the word, the narrative of who are the bad guys is far different. We western citizens think in terms of our account and values of the history, we treat with Puritanism the atrocities made by others but we’re very relax and blind minded about our generals, soldiers and police officers, when they have done more or less the same in our past to our population, or in the present to other populations. Of course, those facts seems invisible in the media and we pretend the other corners of the word sallow our account without objections.
Chavez is challenging our double standard selectiveness regarding the good and bad guys. He’s pulling the cord of the bucket of water. Nobody registered the fact that was Chavez who highlighted the human value of Michael Jackson, after he was allegedly killed by his doctor, or more importantly by the enormous enterprise of imperative and compulsive 40 consecutives concerts in the O2 Arena in London, and Chavez is doing more or less the same with Carlos The Jackal, highlighting his human value. I don’t agree with Carlos’s methods and some of his objectives, and is vital that no one in this world emulated the Jackal. And that is the risk that Chavez is taking, preparing the situation for a possible full scale contention, once the US far-right-wind made public what they are doing underground, possible without Obama’s knowledge.
If we have done everything in the recent past to portrait Chavez equal to notorious murders, even if Chavez is not one, and the distance and differences between them are enormous, then Chavez may ask himself what is really the true in the western account about those murders. Was Idi Amim really a cannibal? and that is exactly what he is doing in my understanding.
How many of them has been misplaced for the convenient shake of big western interest to get collaborative control over very needed natural resources.
Yuca: Yuch.
Moral relativism is a uniquely disabling feature of those who follow and approve of the acts performed by evil clowns like Chavez.
Your post reflects an immature acceptance of the basic tenants of progressive/socialist/marxist apologism for dictators, tyrants and terrorists who have brutally ended, ruined and derailed the lives and hopes of countless millions.
Carlos is convicted of murder, terrorism and kidnapping. ““I defend him. I don’t care what they say tomorrow in Europe,” Mr. Chávez said.” He called Carlos a freedom fighter. That is not an acknowledgement of Carlos’s human nature. That is an affirmation and celebration of Carlos’s evil deeds. Other than the souls of those killed by Carlos which left their bodies, who did he free? Noone.
Go on Yuca, put on your Che t-shirt and show how cool you are to support a mass murderer. Mouth your unthinking acceptance of evil acts to show how well you can parrot the words of others. Support unspeakable acts in the guise of anti western civilization.
Show us your hate and intolerance so we better understand your kind. Wrap yourself in a false ideology to disguise that which is putrid underneath.
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