[StBernard] Exxon Mobil-Venezuelan refinery continues operations

[Westley Annis]

So John, free speech is only free within the u.s. I'll keep that in mind.
Thanks for straightening that out for me.

 

Bob F.


	> ----------------------------------------------------- 
	> Randy, 
	> 
	> It's obvious the Venezuelan people are not as nuts as we might
have thought. 
	> They had gone along with everything Chavez wanted, but when it
finally came 
	> down to a public vote to give him supreme powers that would allow
him to 
	> ignore their constitution, the people overwhelming voted NO....as
if to say 
	> "Hugo we love you..but not that much." 
	> 
	> I still believe Rev. Pat Robertson had the right idea back in
2005...send a 
	> merc team down there to take out the son of a bitch. He has
repeatedly 
	> declared himself to be an enemy of the United States and publicly
vowed to 
	> do everything he can to "destroy the United States." That is why I
now 
	> boycott Citgo gas because it is owned by the Venezuelan
government, s o 
	> buying Citgo gas funds Chavez and his anti United States efforts. 
	> 
	> Also, if I was Secretary of the U.S. State Department, I would
pull the 
	> return visa of any American who goes to Venezuela and bad mouths
President 
	> Bush and/or the United States, thus preventing them re-entry into
the United 
	> States - the likes of Sean Penn, Danny Glover and other Hollywood
ingrates. 
	> They would be trapped down there. Let them live there for a while
and then 
	> they'll see which country is better. 
	> 
	> And the beauty of this is it would all be legal. If a foreign
government 
	> leader has declared himself an enemy of the United States and vows

	> destruction of the U.S., and you go down there, stand next to him
at a 
	> public podium and declare that he's right...at that point you have
legally 
	> made yourself an enemy of the United States government or made
yourself 
	> guilty of treason. At t hat po int the U.S. State Department has
the 
	> arbitrary powers to yank your visa and deny you re-entry into the
United 
	> States. I only wish Rice had the gutts to that. 
	> 
	> John