This Is What Dystopia Looks Like
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 6 months ago
So, you know Venezuela is on the verge of economic collapse. The price of oil has dropped precipitously over the past few years—that’s a budgetary nightmare for a nation dependent on its oil exports. As a result, basic necessities, like toilet paper, are being rationed. There’s limited access to television and long distance phone service. There are rolling blackouts due to energy shortages. And now the government is cutting back the workweek to just two days. This comes at a time when Venezuela’s citizens need government services the most. Supermarkets are not stocked regularly, so there’s a food shortage; people are starving. They’ve resorted to looting to survive. You would think that the government can’t really afford to print its own currency because it’s so broke would be the cherry on top of this socialist nightmare. Nope—the hunger games appear to have begun, as Venezuelans are now hunting stray dogs, cats, and pigeons for sustenance …
Do you think these poor folks would like to have a gun for protection, to prevent looting, and to kill animals (no, not dogs) for sustenance? But Hispanic and Latino cultures are totalitarian and statist, and there are very few legal gun owners. The government both failed the people in terms of providing the liberty to catalyze a well-functioning economy, thus ensuring its failure, and at the same time prevented the people from being prepared for that assured and certain failure by disarming them.
There’s a special place in hell for such rulers.
On May 10, 2016 at 6:52 am, Haywood Jablome said:
“But Hispanic and Latino cultures are totalitarian and statist, and there are very few legal gun owners.”
Something you have been saying (and I have been shamelessly stealing) for years when the subject of immigration comes up. I don’t understand how people are so stupid that they don’t see how unfettered immigration is going to erode our rights. Grrrrr….it’s frustrating.
On May 10, 2016 at 12:35 pm, Archer said:
In terms of certain NRA board members, it’s a case of “plausible deniability”.
Grover Norquist is a committed open-borders “one-worlder”. He supports mass Hispanic immigration to the U.S. and donates vast sums to politicians who push this world view. Yet, when called on how this affects gun rights (because Hispanic immigrants tend to overwhelmingly [i.e. 90% or so] vote Democrat and against gun rights), he hides behind the NRA’s “single-issue” stance, i.e. the NRA is a single-issue organization that promotes gun rights, and doesn’t get involved with other tangentially-related issues. That’s just ONE of Norquist’s conflicts of interest as a NRA board member.
I, for one, hope his recall election (to boot him off the NRA board) succeeds.
On May 10, 2016 at 3:46 pm, Haywood Jablome said:
Yep..I voted to oust him. I have been disappointed in the NRA for a while now. Sometimes they act just like the liberal weenies with their doublespeak.
On May 10, 2016 at 1:10 pm, Phil Ossiferz Stone said:
There’s a special place in hell for people that put up with such rulers — including us.
On May 10, 2016 at 7:13 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
Socialism works great until you run out of other people’s money. Why is that so hard to figure out, all you “feel the Bern” morons?
On May 10, 2016 at 10:25 pm, SunwolfNC said:
Have you seen the latest?
Pets are being eaten for good in some areas it’s that bad…
https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2016/05/04/in-venezuela-residents-resort-to-hunting-dogs-on-the-street/