Venezuela to Prosecute 2 Ppl for Tweeting About Banks...Chavezistas out in full

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Holy crap.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8739148

Catherina  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 04:29 PM
Response to Original message
9. Good for Venezuelan Law. I applaud this. n/t

blondeatlast  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 04:31 PM
Response to Reply #9
11. Wow, if that law applied in the US DU would be toast and we'd all be doing time. 
 I've fallen for many things that turned out to be just "false rumors" here. 

blondeatlast  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 04:54 PM
Response to Reply #17
21. What that poster fails to realize is that if the law applied under the Obama administration,
 she'd be subject to the same fate as the tweeters.

Dreamer Tatum  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 05:03 PM
Response to Reply #21
25. It would take no effort at all to recover hundreds, if not thousands
 of "we are SO ****ed" posts on DU relating to the US dollar and our financial system.

Under the Bush AND Obama Admins.

And we're as free as birds. Say that in VENEZUELA, however, IN 140 FRICKIN CHARACTERS OR LESS, and you get
JAILED.

That's the point.

Catherina  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 05:34 PM
Response to Reply #21
31. Utterly ridiculous hyperbole. n/t

 

Hosnon (1000+ posts)       Tue Jul-13-10 08:25 PM
Response to Reply #99
101. Come again? nt.

 

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 08:20 PM
Response to Reply #93
96. That's what every oligarchic felon has claimed
 when the government intervened in their crimes. Wha! I'm being politically suppressed! Wha! Forget I don't pay my taxes, rip off working people, try to overturn an election, wha! I'm a political victim!

Yeah, right.

Hosnon (1000+ posts)       Tue Jul-13-10 08:22 PM
Response to Reply #96
98. So political suppression doesn't exist?
 Interesting.

 

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 08:24 PM
Response to Reply #98
100. It's only political suppression if you are a right wing perp. Got it?

Hosnon (1000+ posts)       Tue Jul-13-10 08:25 PM
Response to Reply #100
102. Riiight.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 08:30 PM
Response to Reply #102
105. You seem to know very little about Latin America.
 When their right wing perps get popped, they scurry up to Washington where they are greeted with open arms by the Republicans. And between them, they do brisk business.

Hosnon (1000+ posts)       Tue Jul-13-10 08:31 PM
Response to Reply #105
107. That has no bearing on whether political suppression exists. nt.

 

Catherina  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 08:11 PM
Response to Reply #51
90. Thanks. The law about that is very clear in Venezuela Law 448
 

Art. 448. Any natural or juridical person who spreads fake news or uses other fraudulent methods capable of causing distortions to the national bank system which affect the economic conditions of the country,will be punished with prison, from 9 to 11 years.

Hosnon (1000+ posts)       Tue Jul-13-10 08:29 PM
Response to Reply #90
104. Good lord is that verbatim? What awful drafting.
 At a minimum, "intentionally or with reckless disregard" should precede "spreads".

 

Nye Bevan  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-13-10 07:05 PM
Response to Original message
54. Wow. Just when I think the DU Chavez-bots cannot surprise me any more.,
 I have a feeling that if these twitterers had been sentenced to death the Chavezistas would still be out in force, dutifully defending their hero.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 07:20 PM
Response to Reply #54
59. When you can't argue the issue, the next best thing is to call other posters names.

 

Nye Bevan  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-13-10 07:28 PM
Response to Reply #59
64. People jailed for 11 years for twittering? The issue practically argues itself. (nt)

 
 

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 07:30 PM
Response to Reply #64
66. Right, just like Obama is coming for your guns does. 
 These people were arrested for breaking the law. No one has thrown them in jail for eleven years.

 

Dreamer Tatum  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-13-10 08:05 PM
Response to Reply #78
87. Man, you Chavez monkeys are holding tight here
 
Try to get this: people in Venezuela can be arrested for tweeting something the government doesn't like.

TRY wrapping your head around that.

They were arrested for stating an opinion on Twitter. That is not yelling fire in a crowded theater. Amazing how law in the US is held to a critical standard here on DU, but all you Chavez bots ever revert to is, "well, they broke the law."

It's the LAW in Venezuela that you can't disparage a BANK in 140 BYTES, while here people jump for joy at hordes of people stalking the home of American bank executives?

Gosh, the silly and Kafkaesque existences of Chavez lickspittles. Amazing.

[Ballygrl]

No idea why the Chavezbots don't just up and move to Venezuela.

[miskie]

No idea why the Chavezbots don't just up and move to Venezuela.

Because the fantasy is so much better when one doesn't have to face the reality the fantasy is hiding.

[Ballygrl]

Because the fantasy is so much better when one doesn't have to face the reality the fantasy is hiding.

That's so quote worthy it's going into my quotes folder, very good!

[BlueStateSaint]

Because the fantasy is so much better when one doesn't have to face the reality the fantasy is hiding.

Damn, miskie, you're good.

[delilahmused]

Poor Bethie! She's gone from being married with a comedian to being obsessed with a communist she can only worship from afar like a school girl with a crush on the latest boy-toy pop star. It's so sad to see someone who was once part of the "in" crowd deteriorate, a has-been in a group of losers who can't think beyond the herd or get past their silly stereotypes.

Cindie

[Mike220]

Scratch a DUmmy, find a fascist.

[Texacon]

Scratch a DUmmy, find a fascist.  Find a nit or get scabbies.

Had to fix that one.

KC

[Karin]

I always enjoy the Chavez threads.  It always results in Beth saying monumentally stupid things, and the DUmmies all squabble.  It's a peck of fun. 

[IassaFTots]

It's the LAW in Venezuela that you can't disparage a BANK in 140 BYTES, while here people jump for joy at hordes of people stalking the home of American bank executives?

Gosh, the silly and Kafkaesque existences of Chavez lickspittles. Amazing.

I just don't know how they miss that point.