Dictatorships make peace easy

I listened to a reporter in Venezuela today report on the shutdown of the last non-government controlled television station. He was clearly stunned that not only was the station shut down, but that the other stations weren't covering the huge riot that was ensuing by the few still sane people of that country.

Apparently, people didn't understand that voting to allow Hugo Chavez full control to change any law he wants means he can do anything he wants.

What I don't understand is why people are surprised. Frankly, shutting down the station isn't even newsworthy IMO. Of course he shut it down. Duh. Of course he doesn't want the others to report that people are rioting. Double duh.

What part of dictator did people not understand exactly?

Exactly which part of one man deciding what everyone else is allowed to do is appealing to anyone but that one man? Especially to free people. What say you Danny Glover? Is free speech just another useless trinket to toss away in the name of "peace".

It's easy to keep the peace when you are standing on everyone's throat. At least there is no war. Nobody can say anything but how great Chavez is, but hey, at least there's no war.

Well guess what you peace-mongering morons? There is war. Chavez is oppressing his own people. Those people are not free. They are not at peace. Just because they are so oppressed that they cannot put up a decent resistance does not mean there is peace.

So it was with Iraq. No matter what you think of the situation we are in now, there was no peace there before us.

A dictatorship is not peace. A dictatorship is the appearance of peace by force.

You want peace? Silence anybody saying there is not peace. If you don't hear about how many soldiers died today, then obviously everyone is at peace. Keep thinking that as you sit in your comfortable homes in a free land watching tv and eating junk food.

Obviously what this world needs is more dictators - so they can tell us we are at peace.