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Natalia Brandler Is Dishonest

Submitted March 6, 2004 - 12:58 pm by Al Giordano
Her title - that of university professor - is no more or less credible than that of other university professors who disagree. But here's why I don't respect her: She is being knowingly dishonest... hardly the qualities students deserve at institutions of higher learning...

Brandler claims in that link that Chavez must go because of alleged...

Economic problems: "fiscal crisis... unemployment... national oil company's production capacity... raised crime..."

FACT: Every single one of those economic problems was caused by the "opposition," especially the "strike that was not a strike" of December 2002, when the bosses locked the workers out of their jobs, and the corrupt bureaucrats leftover at the state oil company locked the workers out and sabotaged the facilities there.

So she's blaming Chavez for the problems that she and her anti-democracy ilk caused.

Judicial problems: She claims Chavez "attacked and discredited the Supreme Court."

FACT: She doesn't understand the system of checks and balances - which is also that of the United States and other lands - in which an executive branch or legislative branch leader is not only free, but is expected, to have a somewhat adversarial relationship with the judicial branch. She uses an overcharged word like "attacked" to describe nothing more than free speech criticism (he did not physically "attack!"). And, for that matter, right now it's her oligarchy "opposition" pals who criticize the court more than Chavez anyway. The changes in the Court that she complains about were done democratically according to the overwhelmingly popular Constitution, approved by the people in 1999. She wants it both ways. She's not only anti-democracy. She's a moron.

The rest of her accusations - supposed relations with "bad" countries (hey, Venezuela is a member of OPEC, it's an oil producing country, and frankly the US has relations with most of those countries as well), with Colombian "guerrillas" (unproved), her libelous claim that he has funded "armed groups" in Venezuela... - simply reveal her as either incredibly gullible or intentionally dishonest or both.

If she really hates it so much, there is a place for oligarchs like her who like stolen elections: Miami.

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