The opposition denounces a huge fraud but not even the international organism and observers listened. Everyone said that the Electoral council was very objective and didn’t try to help neither the government nor the opposition. And now take a look, that “objective, neutral” man… Jorge Rodríguez slaps everyone in the face by being the right hand of Mr. Chávez, nothing less and nothing more than the vice president. And now some international observers say that they have some doubts about the latest election process in Venezuela; too late my friends, just too late.
It's too late is correct, written by Julia in her blog The end of Venezuela as I know it
"This is a blog about Venezuela from inside. The silent scream of someone who has lost a fight but still cant shut her mouth. Before start reading I must warn you: I dont speak english, so excuses in advance for all the following grammar and spelling mistakes"
To obtain a full view, as you watch a country die, read Venezuela, Your Three Minutes Are Up
Column by Jeffrey Perren - Feb 20, 2007 The Atlasphere
In January 1969, Ayn Rand published an essay titled “The ‘Inexplicable Personal Alchemy,’” in which she discussed a New York Times editorial about the Soviet trial of several young dissidents. After hearing his sentence for the crime of merely speaking his mind about the Soviet Union’s then-recent invasion, one of the young men stated, “For three minutes in Red Square, I felt free. For that, I’m happy to take your three years.”
These words rang in my ears as I read Julia's blog. History has an unfortunate way of repeating itself.
Not only is history repeating itself, it's also happening in the United States as well, and as I sit back and watch having shrugged many years ago, these words of Rands below ring in my ears, as they do in Jerrrey Perren's.....just differently.
The truly deliberately evil men are a very small minority, it is the appeasers who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, uninformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.
Watch Julia's blog as she may not live long enough to keep writing, as you watch a country die and a lone voice cry out...it's too late!
The United States, does not need to philosophically return to a morality...it needs to discover it.
I quote from Galt's' speech: "Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice--and the alternative his nature offers him is; rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man--by choice; he has to hold his life as a value--by choice; he has to learn to sustain it--by choice he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues--by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality."
If man choses to live, a rational ethics will tell him what principles of action are required to implement his choice. If he does not chose to live, nature will take it's course.
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Followed you over from Julia's blog. Thanks fro speaking out about what is happening here.
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