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Saturday, November 29, 2008

WILL THE POLICE PROTECT YOU?...or WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE AND DIE WHERE NO ONE CARRIES…..

By now, you’ve heard about the MASSACRE IN BOMBAY perpetrated by 10 Islamist gunmen who intended to kill 5,000 people.
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I have no idea what Indian law is like concerning the right to bear personal arms, but it’s pretty clear that people didn’t have weapons to protect themselves…..
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At the Oberoi hotel, the second luxury hotel to be assaulted, the gunmen called guests on hotel phones; some of those who picked up were then attacked, their doors smashed open and the guests shot. At the Taj, terrorists broke in room by room and shot occupants at point blank range. Some were shot in the back.

Posted by Earl on 11/29 at 08:11 PM
Politics • International • Venezuela • (5) Comments •

Friday, September 01, 2006

WE SPENT OUR FIRST YEAR OF MARRIAGE IN BOLIVIA

We were “student missionaries” in 1969-70, financed by our Seventh-day Adventist college to teach for a year at a small church high school and teacher training institute in Vinto, just beyond Quillacollo near COCHABAMBA, then the second-largest city in Bolivia. We learned to love the high, cold and spare land with its people of surpassing kindness despite their poverty. Our school, Universidad Adventista de Bolivia (then only secondary level) was virtually the only place with electricity along our road, and we also had running water and actual sewers. Most folks nearby walked a mile to the artesian well for water at the corner, or used the ditch in front of their houses for washing. Outhouses were the “modern” plumbing for most folks at our end of the valley.

Posted by Earl on 09/01 at 07:03 PM
Miscellany • Politics • International • Venezuela • (0) Comments •

Thursday, August 11, 2005

VENEZUELA HAS JUST HAD MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS…..

And PUBLIUS PUNDIT (aka A.M. Mora y Leon) is keeping us informed. The opposition to President Hugo Chavez had called for a boycott of the election, and first reports had the % of eligible voters participating somewhere between 8% and 50%, among numerous reports of fraud and manipulation of the voting machines. LATER REPORTING confirmed the higher participation figures, but also suggested that opporsition candidates MAY have done much better than expected. The official Venezuelan electoral board was delaying the official announcement, leading to widespread suspicion that the numbers were being tampered with. REPORTS on Thursday deepened the cynicism among the citizenry, and the disillusionment now includes the far Left (calling themselves Tupamaros, after the Uruguayan gangs of the ‘70s), from which come accusations that Chavez is trying to establish a one-party state…..duh.

Anyhow, this makes me very sad because after living in VENEZUELA for a couple of years back when it was relatively successful and free, it’s tough to see another South American country with abundant natural resources and an educated population succumb to tyranny and the resultant poverty and chaos.

(Hat Tip: Instapundit)

Posted by Earl on 08/11 at 10:52 AM
Politics • Venezuela • (0) Comments •

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