No American Vice President should be point man for the people of Venezuela. In my youth I sailed to more than forty countries and many of the major seaports along with countless islands. It was the average citizens, not government officials, who stand out in my memory as the nastiest people in the world in these two countries:
1. Venezuela.
It seems everybody forgot that Socialist Venezuelans are now getting exactly what they were asking for decades ago.
NOTE: Venezuela joined the queue of Socialism’s losers a long time ago. I remember being in Lake Maracaibo on May 13, 1958:
On this day in 1958, anti-American demonstrators pelt then-Vice President Richard Nixon’s limousine with rocks in Caracas, Venezuela.
In April 1958, seeking to improve U.S. relations with Latin American countries, President Dwight Eisenhower sent Nixon on a trip to South America. The journey ended up generating more ill will than good. In Peru and Ecuador, protestors accosted Nixon over America’s policy of giving military support to political coups in Central America. The Venezuelan government and the American embassy in Caracas had warned Eisenhower earlier not to send Nixon to Venezuela, where anti-American sentiment ran particularly high—he went anyway.
In his book Six Crises, Nixon recounted that day’s frightening events. With only 12 Secret Service agents for protection, his motorcade encountered hundreds of angry protestors who spit on his car, smashed its windows and rocked it from side to side, threatening to turn it over while chanting Death to Nixon! and Nixon Go Home! The Secret Service radioed for help from the Venezuelan military, which dispatched troops to clear the protestors and escorted the motorcade to safety.
When Eisenhower received word of Nixon’s ordeal, he ordered a U.S. naval squadron to the Venezuelan coast just in case the vice president had to be evacuated by helicopter and spirited away to a waiting ship. However, Nixon was able to fly out of the Caracas airport without incident the next day. He arrived at the Washington airport to the cheers of 15,000 well-wishers, including Eisenhower and his cabinet members.
Venezuelans should have thrown kisses instead of rocks when you look at what their beloved Socialism did to them all of these years later:
Once upon a time, as Murray recalled, Venezuela had a huge middle class, property ownership was high and a large slice of the population held credit cards. But a series of economic crises in the 1980s and 1990s convinced many Venezuelans they had to change their country’s direction.
“They thought their answer was Chavez,” Murray said. “They thought it was socialism. They thought that their credit woes and other problems were going to be cured through socialism, and the result is what you have in Venezuela today, which is always the result of utopian systems or utopian thought, and that is no clean water, undependable electricity, gasoline shortages in one of the greatest oil-producing countries, food shortages – I could go on.”
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He pointed to the former Soviet Union as an example. When a famine hit the country, the communist economy couldn’t adjust to the change because it was no longer operating according to the principle of supply and demand. Massive food shortages hit the USSR, just as shortages of food, water, medicine and electricity have slammed Venezuela. And the socialist “experts” have been unable to cope with the crises that have developed.
“This is why massive changes to the way government interacts with society are bad ideas,” Fitch insisted. “Once you go so far there is no going back. Experts try to refashion society quickly according to their ideas, and theories and socialism gives them the power to do so. Unfortunately, when things go wrong they cannot formulate a way out of the downward spiral.”
2. Indonesia.
Indonesians at least have historical justification for being nasty scum bags. Historically, there is something about living on some islands that breeds global ambitions. Just look at the British, the Japanese and ancient Greece. Will Indonesians follow in their footsteps?
There are more Muslims in Indonesia than there are Arab Muslims in the world. Indonesia is also extremely wealthy in petroleum and natural resources, yet you never hear a word about Indonesia sharing the wealth with Third World Muslim shit holes.
Parenthetically, I went to Indonesia when Sukarno was running the show, and I can tell you that Indonesians are some of the nastiest people on the planet. I am not giving Indonesia’s leaders a pass, I am saying that the average Indonesian hates westerners. It does not matter that their hatred probably increased when Indonesia was part of the Dutch colonial empire.
I list Indonesians as the nastiest of people. I am talking about average people, and Indonesia’s military who were worse than the civilians. Let me tell you a little story about the military.
I sailed break/bulk freighters in those days. That means the cargo was not in containers and had to be loaded and unloaded by hand onto pallets and cargo nets.
One day when the longshoremen where leaving the ship for their midday break two teenage boys were stopped by the machine-gun armed soldier stationed on the ship at the gangway. The kids had bags of candy stolen from the cargo wrapped in the waste of their sarongs. The soldier sent for his superior. When the officer arrived in a jeep and heard the soldier’s report he took the two boys ashore and shot them in the head. He then had his driver tie their feet to the back of the jeep and proceeded to slowly drive them past the long row of warehouses that lined the pier. Hundreds and hundreds of longshoremen were sitting in the shade of the cargo warehouses. That is the Indonesia I saw before and during the same time period (1967 - 1971) Barack Obama was living there.
Since so many Americans are big on voting in a democracy, they should be reminded that Sukarno was known for inventing “Guided Democracy.” Somehow those two boys did not get a vote.
Just to be clear. I am all for people voting on every issue that does NOT require tax dollar funding. Let the parasites vote for anything their little hearts desire —— EXCEPT voting themselves tax dollars under this or that pretext.
Aside from the cost of traditional necessary government; the military, the courts, roads, etc., the best way to accomplish it is prohibit tax dollars going to charities, political causes, welfare programs, foreign aid, public education, and so on. In short: No American should be forced to fund somebody else’s religious, cultural, or political beliefs.
Finally, lets call the Democrat Party the Democracy Party. That should tell us how Mike Dense likes the idea of Americans blaming democracy for the income tax, for infanticide, for socialized medicine, for brainwashing children who manage to avoid being butchered, for the welfare state, for the United Nations, for the EPA, for illegal immigration, for the secret government, and for every other tyranny democracy is laying on this country.
