February 25, 2008     We at ECrisis have noted with growing discomfort the juggernaut of money, power and greed behind the increased take over of- what do they call it-? sovereign nations run by liars, ninnyhammers, dimwits and dunces. What we have in Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba is a combination of self enriching schemes, also called extortion rackets, cloaked behind criminal cartels of the inner circles of the new power brokers in the Andes. This is a new trend which holds no use for law and order, establishing no independent judiciaries and controlling all military-police activities, ignoring soaring crime as the 'sovereign" enriches with the very criminals inside their operational machines. Some call this democracy: we call it a disaster.
 
Not just the farm worker rallying cry of the old Cesar Chavez, but reformed as a political movement in Mexico, Ecuador and numerous zones, the populist agenda- which is not populist at all anyway- sings SI SE PUEDE and croons CHE love songs while holding hands to sing Kumbaya. It is no coincidence that Ecuador's soccer team and just recently US AID's foolish campaign in Ecuador to sell fake rule of law reforms' rallying cry is used by Barack Obama's political campaign in the USA along with campaign pledges known to socialists, economic fascists and neo communists since about 1870...that is to hide the statist agenda behind the thin veneer of social obligations to "the poor" under some mythical state give-away system. While the poor do indeed need immediate attention and respect, fundamental charity is never found in statist machinations nor do societies thrive under their overarching strictures which kill the soul, remove creativity and denounce personal freedoms. Not a problem, you may claim...if you never had dreams, never exercised freedoms and cared nothing for your moral state. But we believe that all but the most hardened drug dealer/FARC operative actually cares somewhere/somehow about their freedoms. Surely we all note that apprehended criminals are the very first to scream their personal demands for JUSTICE! if apprehended. Somewhere in the recesses of each man lies some vague notion of justice- even handed- as a goal.
 
As in Cuba, there is no even handed justice in Venezuela or Ecuador today. While ninnyhammers are rallying to tell us Yes You Can / Si Se Puede, entire nations are molested by the scourge of their own criminality and lawlessness. Take for example the matter of this poor woman who made good on her promise to try to stop Rafael Correa's seizure of provincial oil controls over oil drilling. For her public speaking exercises, she was tossed in prison with no trial and no due process. Several judges urged her release. Rafael Correa, himself a dictator, refuses to release her and piles on more trumped up charges.
 
Read about provincial prefecta Guadelupe Llori here          and here  which notes that "La Fundación internacional Human Rights envió una carta al presidente Rafael Correa en la cual le manifiestan su preocupación por los hechos ocurridos en Dayuma."
 
Let us get this straight: this woman and almost 2 dozen more are imprisoned with no rights and no trial for objecting to Correa's seizures of what they believe to be provincial rights. In Ecuador under Correa, there are no courts, there is no justice and there remains no protection of human/individual rights. Insulza as head of the OAS calls this a "democracy." We call it a nasty new dictatorship where nothing is democratic. There is nowhere for these poor souls to turn to: they are defenseless and have only the tender mercies of the global community if and only if Ecuadoreans break out of their lazy and irresponsible modus operandi and reach some more worldly-wise ears and ethically inspired actors. In other words, Ecuadoreans only find help now when they abandon their own manipulative and deceitful in-home advisors and strike out to coalesce with like minded persons of values and ethics because there are none left inside Ecuador in general any more. In this case, it took the Human Rights Foundation to admirably cast a spotlight on Correa's criminality as it stated, "Tenemos conocimiento de las violaciones al debido proceso que han caracterizado los procedimientos de Llori: la negación, en dos ocasiones, de recursos de hábeas corpus y la presunción de inocencia; así como la ausencia de boletas de excarcelación emitidas a favor de Llori."
 
Not one to actually act with any legitimacy, Correa's inner circle quickly moved his overpaid lobbyists and mouth organs, also called communist kangaroos with a composite IQ of 14, at the now sacred shrine to idiocy and venal criminality called the Assembly in Montecristi, to stage a phony remedy to Correa's illegal seizure of Ecuadorean citizens. Their solution to the cry to release the illegally imprisoned prefecta is to jointly release drug runners, also called narcotraffickers and "mules" along with Sra. Guadelupe Llori in a sweeping gesture to deliver for Correa an end to his embarrassing imprisonment of innocent people while at the same time declaring that narcotraffickers are innocent, too. Or as Correa has told us about narcoterrorists: 'they are to be pitied...they just need the money.' In other words, because criminals and heinous murderers `just need the money,' Ecuador will abandon law and order, de facto declare itself a narcostate and will never prosecute appropriately narcoterrorists. Or as we have long said, Correa has rolled out the Welcome Mat to global money launderers, Iranian sponsors of terror, Chavez's state sponsors of terror, criminals and drug runners. In this singular action by Correa to free the innocents along with convicted drug runners, once again Correa shows his cynicism regarding what is even handed justice. More to the point: Correa is still single handedly running all arenas of Ecuadorean life, serving as judge, jury, police force, captor and mafia capo. Indeed, Rafael Correa is a dictator and a nasty state sponsor of narcotrafficking, fully enabling and aiding narcotraffickers at that.
 
It is our hope that U.S. Senators Harry Reid and Lugar are watching this tawdry drama unfold because the devil is in the details. As Correa intends to release all narcotraffickers from prison, we remind Reid and Lugar to demand that their own people cease and desist from listening to any more lies about how wonderful Ecuador is because Ecuador grows no drugs. We remind that Ecuador never grew cocoa plants and cannot anyway. But it is a narcostate in every other definable fashion from major drug runner, money laundering state and criminal support network activist. Even as Fenton Communications and Paul Reichler work with Ambassador Gallegos to tell the USA that Ecuador is fighting hard against drugs, the facts on the ground show a different story, especially with the release of Ecuador's drug runners, an irresponsible and craven release onto the world's stage of narcotraffickers who `just want the money.' Normal nations of the first and second tier status know well that nations never succeed when run by criminal gangs, cartels and state backed sponsors of terror who `just want the money.'
 
As it is, these self proclaimed populists such as all George Soros-encouraged persons such as his hand picked U.S. candidate Barack Obama as well as the pro drugs Rafael Correa and Hugo Chavez's miscreants, all enjoy telling us SI SE PUEDE. And while financiers like Soros aim true to make money off of life's miseries through speculation, we note that the downside to all this remains higher taxes to squeeze quality of life and an overwhelming growth in state controls...supposedly for our own good and to `help the poor.' The poor are not helped and removal of human freedoms helps nothing but rising taxation, sometimes called statism or neo socialism. Here is a good take on all this:

                                           YES THEY CAN

Cartoons by Chuck Asay

Recently we noticed a web site called Dr. Sanity's web site which notes this about all neo socialists: “The current crop of Democratic presidential candidates with all their Ivy League populism, promises wealth and happiness and justice and brotherhood. They talk about hope and change and fairness--if you do as they say (but not as they do, of course). They denounce their own wealth, even as they promise to get it for you. But what they and their brothers on the left have always delivered is an increase in poverty, a decrease in liberty; and ever more envy and entitlement."
More insightful comes this piece called The Fierce Urgency of Lies -read it here. On the newly minted Soros-funded waves of SI SE PUEDE populists, notably their new front runner and cult leader Barack Obama, this article notes, "What we hear from Obama is the eternal mantra of the socialists; America is broken, millions have no health care, families cannot afford necessities, the rich are evil, we are selfish, we are unhappy, unfulfilled, without hope, desperate, poverty stricken, morally desolate, corrupt and racist. This nihilism is the lifeblood of all the democrat candidates, even `hope you can believe in' performers like Obama. When Michelle Obama claims she is only newly proud of her country, she does not exaggerate. In her world as in Obama's, they believe we are a mess, a land filled with the ignorant and unenlightened, filled with despair."

In other words, socialists want to tell you that all is broken and that only through socialism can matters be fixed. This is a trap and a nasty one. Socialism never repairs anything, especially in Latin America where socialism always crafts a self enriching inner circle...because there is no rule of law and no transparency and no real democracy in what many call populist agendas but are inevitably communist actors to overlord everyone but themselves.

Lying to ourselves and to whole nations takes on an urgency when, like Chavez and Correa's new fake state religions, "They learned these things from places like Princeton and Harvard, they have it reinforced by propagandists like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, they embrace the fiction of Michael Moore and the fairy tales of the New York Times. They revere failures like Jimmy Carter and America's enemies like Castro and Chavez. They believe we have done nothing of value and brought no good to the world. Their arrogance is just below the surface and it is clear they do not know the country or people they presume to lead. Mrs. Obama reveals the depth of this pathology when she says, `That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.' This is a stunning revelation for those of us who live in the spiritually vibrant "flyover country." The Obama's would be our spiritual as well as political leaders...What Obama tells us distills down to this: if we were nicer, if we were more generous, if we were better people, if we played better with others, if we gave more to the disadvantaged in the world, then we could fix this country (which sounds perfectly rational if your starting assumption is that it is broken). He claims he loves this country, and he just wants to help it reach its potential.  In this, he is like a selfish husband, who says he loves his wife, but just wants her to have different hair, a different figure and a different voice. In the cognitive dissonance of the left, the consequences of applying that insipid philosophy as demonstrated by Carter and Clinton is lost. The shattering attacks of 9-11 were conceived and pre-positioned under the nose of a self-absorbed and scandal-distracted President Clinton; his Middle East diplomacy was a sham and crumbled in short order. Iran is the danger that it is today because of President Carter's foolish foreign policies. He continues to enable brutal thugs in the Middle East, where his recent book sells well, just after Mein Kampf. Consequences are inconvenient things. When Democrats look back in fondness to those times, it is the power that they miss; they dare not point to their achievements.

That is his appeal; he is an actor, a performer, a cinematic presence that stirs simple emotions, emotions that have little grounding in truth. His speeches are the inane lyrics to a popular song that endures only because it has a great beat. One must not think too deeply on what Obama says, for it turns to smoke and disappears in the light of day. Ezra Klein is correct, Obama's speeches do not inform, they pander, they propagandize, they harmonize with the mythology of despair and the chimera of entitlement. As his hagiographies proclaim, he represents a new Camelot, but one that does not hold America quite so precious, a Camelot of globalists, moral relativists and communitarians.

An Obama administration will be one of historical revision, of faltering American values, of ideologues crafting "progressive" policy, of radicals telling citizens how to live, what to drive, what to eat and what to believe. They will tell us that the constitution is a living document and should change to reflect the times. They will tell us that we must pay more and more for the common good. They will take away our choices and make more and more of us dependant. Obama's will be an administration of concocted class warfare, of racial exceptionalism and of pro-Islamist bias, and in the name of redefined justice and revolutionary inclusiveness; America will lose part of her soul and more of her freedoms. For all his rhetoric of hope, change and `coming together,' we still live in a perilous world."

Welcome to the now-familiar world of showmen Correa, Ortega, Chavez, Castro and the irresponsibly vapid Barack Obama who believe that they can buy public opinion and purchase wholesale governments while installing "new" constitutions to legitimize that which should never be legitimized. For these populists, change means more socialism and fewer liberties. For them, fake class divisions "because they just need the money" are the justifications and not the cure as they establish new fake classes of ruling elites, sometimes called the FARC political plan, for self enrichment. There is no entitlement program that ever works and no effort to remove despair that is not born of honest hard work.

What we have now is an epic struggle of truth tellers versus manipulators and criminal rackets.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis