Surrender to Criminals in Not an Option
 
January 14, 2008   While we at ECrisis commend the unrelenting efforts of Rafael Correa's paid governmental minders and his creative writing team from his pet lobbyist Paul Reichler and the Soros-Democratic Party of the USA's massively profitable PR group- Fenton Communications for their massive swindle of the media, the U.S. government and revisionist history to make a buck, a FARC lined buck that is, it is still a fraud. We also note that their good money is going after bad. That is, the Ecuadorean tax payer is paying these propagandists to lie a lot about the FARC and its role in Ecuador, Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela. This effort helps keep the dirty money movers in power long enough to corrupt the Andes and get ready to move on like locusts, having decimated these lands for years to come, creating once vibrant nations as narcodemocracies and criminal playgrounds where all is ruled at the point of a gun.
 
The Chavez-Correa-Cuban-FARC current strategy is to lie a lot about fake so called labor union persons, also called FARC members and actors, who supposedly are shut down by Uribe's mililtary even though every Andean soul knows well that labor union members comprise the bulk of their governmental payrolls and while in most instances their work output is vapid, useless at best, their full rights to exist are enshrined in every sense. This labor union matter is also a distraction tactic... a diversionary tactic to punish Colombia while insuring that their other paid client- undeserving Ecuador- gets a give away on no merit of yet another ATPDEA extension by coupling with the deserving Colombia. Democratic senators in the USA spend a lot of money on their pet NGOs to tell us their fake data and fake stories about how wonderful the FARC are and how terrible Alvaro Uribe remains because of alleged deaths of labor unionists over 20 years ago. These same tacticians tried to deter the Peru-USA FTA by using paid activists from animal rights advocacy groups in a stunningly stupid lobbying effort from PETA. But in Colombia, those labor unionists were killed by the same criminals who killed Uribe's father: the FARC. This myth making needs to stop. In fact, there is no dark conspiracy by any Andean nation to take out labor unions, which we add do indeed have no meaningful existence in Castro's paradise called Cuba and in faith, will have nothing meaningful in Venezuela or Ecuador any longer...because these three countries care nothing at all for free speech, rights of workers, right to assembly, or democracy.
 
Lying about fake labor union abuses is the fake/dishonest claim by pro Chavez/pro FARC activists funded by Chavez and the FARC with U.S. monies from the U.S. Democrats to pay the pro FARC Soros ngo actors. They see this strategy as working. U.S. ambassador Brownfield shared full disgrace with the U.S. Department of State over the week end by promoting this charade of the evil Colombian government by touring around the most deeply compromised and on the Chavez take leader of the Speaker Pelosi-Soros backed triumvirate called the U.S. Congressional democrats in the person of Bill Delahunt, Democrat-Massachusetts. Delahunt claims to be on a secret mission to dig out the facts about how wonderful the FARC is in helping the so called labor unions in Colombia.

These lies should not be underway at the hands of the USA.
 
U.S. Democrats have lied to the U.S. Congress and the world to tell us all that Colombia cannot be awarded a legal FTA because they are not nice to their labor unions...20 years ago. This is a bald lie. But this lie, a virulent cocktail cooked up by the Fenton-Soros anti Colombia activists, has permitted Brownfield's abandonment of his post as diplomat again and insured that he would provide any tool necessary for the Soros NGOs and Chavez/Soros-backed U.S. democrats to sell their fake story. Chavez meets Soros and the two masters of dysfunction join to elevate the legitimization of the illegitimate FARC. No one alive can take Chavez credibly any more. No one alive should take Soros credibly any more...and that goes for all his vast minions of manipulative propaganda, sometimes called paid US AID reports of deeply flawed data to promote Soros's deeply flawed world view, which is his own. In fact, the Soros groups are guilty of U.S. contract fraud. We remind that it was Soros who mostly funded the Iraq war statistical report that exaggerated war data by an exponential data fixing of ten. This became the basis of the Soros lie that "Bush lied." It was a fraud. And it was Soros who had sole contracts to train the so called democracy lovers, the hapless Buddhist monks in Burma. Their sole trainer, the Soros gaggles, in a blaring justification for never ever relying on Soros’s gaggle again.... is of course now all dead.

Those poor Buddhist monks were abandoned in the hour of dire need by their NGOs who symbolically were safely back in Manhattan in their limousines. This is a stark difference between the Soros minions and how the U.S. Marines do business. One cuts and runs, abandoning their hapless victims. The other stays to protect their own. For these deaths in Burma, not once have the Soros perps returned their black box/hidden from sight NED foolish/illegal contracts for which they failed nor have they apologized for their fraud and failures. And because Soros commandeers the U.S. State Department and the entire U.S. Democratic Party, there has been not one investigation in to what were essentially murders of these unprepared and ill guided, albeit ill fated Buddhists, left to the sole guidance and tender mercies of the Soros squads, leaving more dead proportionally than in Iraq. But Soros thinks this is just all right. It is a known fact that Soros would have the FARC legitimized. Chavez agrees. The FARC have killed hundreds of thousands and plan to go right on killing. It is absurd to have any dealings with these agents of terror, training now as they do inside Venezuela and Ecuador. But Correa thinks this is just... all right. When tens of thousands are murdered by the FARC, indefensibly Correa tells us all to be neutral about the FARC and then supports their legitimization. Correa is now a state sponsor of terror just as Chavez is. Were Soros the statesman that Insulza says that he is, he too would be accountable. For now, he is accountable to the Inspectors General if they would do their job...which they will not because Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, along with Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama are beholden to Soros as are Delahunt and the Kennedy clan are also beholden to Hugo Chavez plus Soros. All of this makes the best the enemy of the good.
 
It is incredibly embarrassing that the "Western Hemisphere" team at State Department, itself lacking any clear mandate for anything whatsoever except abandoning their post in troubled times- mimicking the Soros ethic that to run away for another day is better than defending life, has once again failed itself by refusing to deliver the facts surrounding the Chavez-Soros coupling for lies and propaganda, which has been rampant since about 2004, reaching its nadir today. We can only hope that this phoenix of dishonesty will soon burn for its own failures; primary in all things needed...are the facts. These facts have been subcontracted to politically biased contractors of the Soros -pro Chavez ilk. There is nothing useful and nothing fact based from these politically biased schlub who jigger data to sell their propaganda. But there is a moral hazard arising too for their paid chaos from undermining what Colombians actually seek: law and order. State Department needs to stop selling out the basics of functional living for the Soros-laced political satisfactions of enabling the anti law and order schlubbs so popular with their "diplomats" today.
 
We run here a superb analysis of the current matter in Colombia. This is the tip of the iceberg.
 
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http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB120027020311287237.html

The Wall Street Journal 
January 14, 2008   

THE AMERICAS
  

A Hollywood Yarn Unravels

By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY

January 14, 2008; Page A12

It was Christmas week in the Colombian city of Villavicencio and the events, as they were set to unfold, had all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster. If only the "heroes" hadn't been exposed as liars.

A 3-year-old boy, his mother and another woman, all hostages of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), were about to be freed. Credit for their release was to go to Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela. Former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner had flown up from Buenos Aires to take part in the show. Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was on hand too, eager to document the Christmas spirit of the revolutionary killers and their socialist sympathizers. The child, as luck would have it, was called Emmanuel.

Americas Columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady has the latest.

The part of the villain was bestowed on Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, a U.S. ally who as a matter of policy has refused to give in to FARC demands for Colombian territory in exchange for the release of hostages. Mr. Uribe had also recently announced that Mr. Chávez was no longer welcome as a negotiator in the broader effort to free former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three American contractors and 41 other politically valuable FARC hostages. He had jerked away the welcome mat after Mr. Chávez tried to bypass him and talk directly to the Colombian military. According to the script, even Mr. Uribe's stubbornness couldn't stop the big-hearted Mr. Chávez from winning the freedom of these three.

For Mr. Stone, an anti-American Christmas miracle was in the offing. His film would portray Mr. Chávez as a humanitarian hero while demonizing Mr. Uribe. But it wasn't to be an obscure foreign film with no American message. It would also complement the assertions of U.S. unions, other trade protectionists and President Bush's political adversaries, all of whom insist -- against the evidence -- that the Colombian president violates human rights.

Of course, the American left's current obsession with Mr. Uribe is not really about concern for human life. It's about the pending U.S.-Colombian free trade agreement, which they want to kill on "moral" grounds. Depicting Mr. Uribe as an intransigent right-winger is critical to their narrative. In this, the protectionists are allies of the rebels. The truth is that Mr. Uribe's restoration of law and order in Colombia has thrown the guerrillas back on their heels, and they are now frantically pulling the levers of international propaganda.

Over Christmas week the suspense surrounding the promised release was building. Mr. Chávez reminded TV viewers daily that his dramatic rescue plan had nothing to do with him and everything to do with his tender concern for the hostages. Mr. Uribe had agreed to allow Venezuelan aircraft to swoop into Colombia to pick up the two women and the child. The FARC had only to say where. But no word came.

The rebels blamed the delay on bad weather and on Mr. Uribe, who they said had mobilized his armed forces in the area. Mr. Uribe denied the charge, as did his top military commander. Mr. Chávez said Mr. Uribe could not be trusted. Meanwhile the Venezuelan minister for FARC relations, Ramon Rodríguez Chacín, made excuses for the rebels, who, he said, had to be ready for Colombian military actions against them after the handover. The guerrillas, he said, should "prepare their retreat strategy and take all the security measures they need."

Finally, on Dec. 31, Mr. Uribe held a press conference to give his "hypothesis" of why the liberation hadn't occurred: The FARC had lied when it said it had the child, and it had been trying to buy time to find him. In fact, the boy was in a foster home in Bogotá. The suggestion was a bombshell, but after DNA tests confirmed the fact, Mr. Uribe was vindicated.

Among the more shocking revelations was the FARC's inhumane treatment of the infant. His mother, Clara Rojas, who had been Ms. Betancourt's vice presidential running mate, was kidnapped in 2002. The child was born in a rebel camp in 2004, and was less than one year old when he was left with a local peasant. After about a month, his humble caretaker realized he could not treat the child's serious illnesses and took him to a local clinic, which transferred him to a hospital.

Press reports say that doctors diagnosed the baby with anemia, malaria, a parasitic skin disease, malnutrition and an arm that had been broken at birth and not treated. "Anyone would have fallen apart before this child, with so many diseases," the hospital director told the Miami Herald. "He didn't raise his eyes. He got toys but did not pick them up. He did not stand but dragged himself on his butt. He cried but no tears came because of the malnutrition."

When the news of the child's whereabouts broke Mr. Stone went away spitting mad, not at his FARC heroes, who had been exposed as child abusers, but at Mr. Uribe and Mr. Bush. Of the FARC he said, "Grabbing hostages is the fashion in which they can finance themselves and try to achieve their goals, which are difficult. I think they are heroic to fight for what they believe in and die for it, as was Castro in the hills of Cuba."

Meanwhile, with Mr. Chávez looking like a fool, the two women were finally freed on Thursday. The FARC had reason to help him try to salvage his image: As this column has frequently noted, it needs Venezuela as its main transit route for cocaine and as a safe haven.

Mr. Chávez tried to paint himself as a neutral, third-party peacemaker but a day later he peeled off his mask. We already knew that a diplomat from Cuba, which has been sowing terror in Colombia for 50 years, accompanied the hostages to Caracas, underscoring the ties between Mr. Chávez, Cuba and the rebels. We also knew that as the helicopter carrying the hostages took off Mr. Rodríguez Chacín called to the rebels, "keep up the fight and count on us!"

On Friday, Mr. Chávez went further, arguing that the FARC has a "true" army that "occupies space" and is therefore a "belligerent" -- a term that would give it standing under international law. He demanded that its terrorist status be revoked. Colombia called his speech "off-the-wall" but it knows better. Following the hostage release, this was a calculated move and is only the latest step in what is now Mr. Chávez's war, waged by the FARC, against Colombia.

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Real armies are beholden to the military conventions and certain transparencies. Real armies do not last long with murder, rape, slavery and torture as the secondary weapon. Hugo Chavez is delusional to certify the legitimacy of the illegitimate FARC. For this, he needs to leave office and be held accountable.

Were Rafael Correa serious about his own citizens, he would perform a fact based review of the stubborn rumor that the FARC snatches and imprisons Ecuadorean children for child laborers for their FARC drug fields. With no valid census any more in Ecuador and no valid effort to stop crime, murder, white slavery, money laundering, racketeering and dirty money movements, Correa is simply unaccountable and is an incompetent fool who is too clever/duplicitous to be readily served up as a traitor against Ecuador, which is what he is. In fact, he has his own charm offensive underway with tax payer propagandists and lobbyists ensuring that the USA is deceived about his acts and is consistently lied to and debased. Correa even has the U.S. ambassador enthralled in some love fest of projections- not fact- to aid and abet the Correa-Chavez lobbyists and propagandists, organized now by the pro drugs NGOs of the Soros family tree of actors promoting non facts and political propaganda. As we have said before, the only ones wanting ambassador Linda Jewell to remain in her current post as propagandist for Rafael Correa are her Soros-Chris Dodd backers whose real intentions are known inside the USA but apparently ignored across the U.S. Department of State which increasingly appears incompetent and embarrassed for its failure to deliver standard job performances in the field.
 
Besides, the only ones reporting on job performance are the same ones performing the tasks. Thus, although barred by U.S. law from complicity in oversight, these actors rate themselves on their own jobs. This is also called contract fraud in nations where rule of law is supposed to exist.
 
Carlos Alberto Montaner has a new piece which is also superb, read it here. Montaner astutely asks why, in the name of God were Venezuelans so stupid as to surrender to Hugo Chavez? In these last years, Venezuelans suffer from the identical psychological aftershocks known to rape victims all around the world. But even rape victims must pick up the pieces and prepare to keep living life...not abandoning the living, as if miraculous Lourdes like cures will be found in a shopping mall or the canyons of Brickell Avenue. We cannot be sure, but as yet, no miracle cures have been cited in any shopping mall or on Brickell Avenue. But if we are to learn from our mistakes, then we have far to go. Montaner notes," The lesson deduced from the Venezuelan experience is quite simple. The fragile republican structure, with its three independent powers, limited authority, accountability, and periodic and pluralistic elections can survive only if the entire society, led by the politicians who manage it, places itself humbly under the authority of the law.

Simultaneously, the whole of the population, in addition to perceiving that the rules are equitable and submitting to them, must look at the future with some hope. They must rationally believe that the system will allow them to gradually improve the quality of their lives."

Montaner also correctly notes that nations that suffer mass exoduses of their own, fleeing to other nations, are in fact failed nations. Venezuela is a failed state under Chavez and Ecuador has been failing since the Mahaud-Sachs years of 1999 in stages until it has bottomed out with the bottom feeders running Ecuador today, exhibiting as in Venezuela, not one leadership person of any moral fiber or character. With the world's highest murder rate and over 30% in exodus [with more to come], Correa poses no solutions and cares nothing anyway for the common man in Ecuador: just ask him. You will hear him blame the USA, blame the oligarchs but take no responsibility for his own democracy and freedom ending cabal, even as the schools and clinics get worse and jobs grow more scarce while the poor are poorer still.

No amount of built in propaganda and manipulative dysfunction can hide these facts. It is time for the adults to act like adults in Ecuador and stop abandoning their nation to these kindergarten antics of the Bolivarians.
On February 4, 2008 in every major city not yet run by the pro FARC sub denizens of the criminal underbellies of the world, sometimes called Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Zimbabwe...to list a few...will host peaceful anti FARC demonstrations. Oddly, some Venezuelans will join the anti FARC list too and we wish them well although their own government has succumbed to the lures of cheap drugs and deadbeat leadership. Nations that applaud the FARC and its terror tactics will not permit anti FARC rallies. We are known by the company we keep. Check your local listings for you will not see this on AL JAZEERA or TELESUR who are too busy running pro FARC fairy tales anyway to satisfy their owners who control their content anyway.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis