Chavez: Halloween part of U.S. culture of terror

[jazz]

:gaytard:
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/10/30/chavez.halloween.ap/

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelan parents not to dress their children in costumes for Halloween, calling it a U.S. custom that has no place in the South American country's cultural traditions.

Speaking during his weekly radio and television show Sunday, Chavez called Halloween a "gringa," or North American, custom.

"Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches," Chavez said. "That is contrary to our ways."

Chavez said he was urging Venezuelans to reflect on the subject. In recent years it has become common to see Venezuelan parents holding parties for children dressed as ghouls, animals and witches.

In one odd incident a week ago, authorities found more than a dozen jack-o'-lanterns left in spots around Caracas bearing anti-government messages and what appeared to be bomb-like fuses. Police and firefighters removed the pumpkins with caution, though the jack-o'-lanterns reportedly bore messages saying they were not explosives.

Paper skeletons bearing anti-Chavez messages also have appeared in spots across Caracas recently, and government officials have blamed sectors of the opposition with aiming to create chaos.

Chavez did not refer to those incidents in his comments on Halloween. But he urged parents to think about whether it was appropriate to dress up their children as part of a foreign custom, calling it "the game of terror."
He said that is part of the U.S. culture -- "terrorism, putting fear into other nations, putting fear into their own people."

Chavez, a tough-talking nationalist, is a fierce critic of President Bush who blames Washington for "imperialist" actions in countries from Iraq to Haiti.

Chavez says that he is leading a socialist "revolution" to help the country's poor, and that it should include emphasizing Venezuelan cultural traditions over U.S. customs that have been adopted in various countries and reinforced by images of American life on television and in Hollywood movies.

[greg]

:gaytard:

fuckin' :werd:

[Capt]

what is the united states major problem with chavez? he was democratically elected three times this term..
isn't the war in iraq about democracy? or is it freedom?
oh wait, venezuela has both of those things..(as well as no weapons of mass destruction, unless you ask pat robertson)
so whats the problem? is it not democractic enough? it is not agreeable enough to american interests?
........oh and on a completly unrelated note there is oil in venezuela

[jazz]

i don't care about the united states' concern with venezuela, it's MY concern. from what i've seen and heard about the guy, he's castro's little apprentice, his little fuck buddy, and he's trying to lure venezuela into what castro lured cuba into 46 years ago.

venezuela is lucky though, they have the advantage of seeing what happened to cuba, not to mention the ton of information at their fingertips with the internet, history books, etc., stuff people in cuba in the late fifties didn't have access to. if they're so stupid that they can't see what's happening to their country, well, you know, tough.

another thing that bothers me is that chavez and castro spend their whole lives pointing the fingers at the united states hoping that it covers up whatever they're doing and since everyone loathes the united states, everyone takes their word for it. you know, they're the rebels defying the u.s. ooooooooh. let's lick their asses now.

yes, i agree the united states isn't the top nation in the world because they're nice, but you can't compare a country like cuba where they keep everyone wondering what they're going to do for food the next day with the u.s., please. i think we should take all the spoiled assholes around the world who complain about the stupidest things and stick them in cuba for a few years. they'll be singing yankee fucking doodle dandee within the hour.

shit, we all know hitler was a demon, but even he did something for his own people.

[paygee]

-- "terrorism, putting fear into other nations, putting fear into their own people."

that much is true..sadly

[jazz]

i agree with all the media hype putting fear into people, but he's making a comparison between that and little kids dressing up and going out to trick or treat. :crazy:

anyways, we know NOTHING about having the government really putting fear into us. maybe he's projecting or something.

[paygee]

actually if everyone would open their eyes, we know all to well what it is....its just subtle

[jazz]

:shrug:

i know what you mean, but hey, at least we have the rights we have. there's a reason people aren't desperately leaving the u.s. on a raft risking their lives to go to cuba.

[greg]

cuz we have teh alba! :woo:

[paygee]

:shrug:

said like a true apathetic american

[jazz]

i'm curious, what are you doing to right this ship?

[paygee]

:paygee:

[Bruce]

cuz we have teh alba! :woo:


:woo:

[jazz]

:paygee:
that's what i thought.

[paygee]

that's what i thought.
uh, right jazz

[deloresdelrio]

uh, right jazz

he actually has a point
since when do you even care about anything like this anyway?
how is jazz any more apathetic than you?
because you've talked about doing some habitat for humanity shit now all of a sudden you've got room to condescend?

oh and ps because i know you will take this post in ways it was not intended because that's what you do, i'm just seriously asking since when you care about anything like this and are you like, doing your research and such so that you even know what you're tsk tsking and so forth because i mean i've known you forever and never once until the past year or so have i heard you even use the phrase 'apathetic americans'

[paygee]

he actually has a point
since when do you even care about anything like this anyway?
how is jazz any more apathetic than you?
because you've talked about doing some habitat for humanity shit now all of a sudden you've got room to condescend?

oh and ps because i know you will take this post in ways it was not intended because that's what you do, i'm just seriously asking since when you care about anything like this and are you like, doing your research and such so that you even know what you're tsk tsking and so forth because i mean i've known you forever and never once until the past year or so have i heard you even use the phrase 'apathetic americans'



me saying i was going to go do habitat for humanity and not being needed there has nothing to do with why i post in this forum.

weve barely talked this past year, so how would you know what words i use and what words i dont.

"because you've talked about doing some habitat for humanity shit now all of a sudden you've got room to condescend?"

how was i supposed to take that?

[deloresdelrio]

you didn't even answer my question, you just assume that i'm being a bitch to you

[Capt]

you just assume that i'm being a bitch to you
thats true, but in your defense there was a question in there too

[Bruce]

You two should settle this the old fashioned way. :nod:


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[jazz]

i'm actually with :byrche: on this one. :what:

[greg]

there's always room for jello :up:

[jazz]

j-e-ll-o

:no:

[PatrickBateman]

i agree with all the media hype putting fear into people, but he's making a comparison between that and little kids dressing up and going out to trick or treat. :crazy:

anyways, we know NOTHING about having the government really putting fear into us. maybe he's projecting or something.


my daughter was a little witch this year, last year she was a princess, and nobody was afraid of her