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It's all part of the geography, unfortunately, to receive emailed comments to one's writings ranging from the more obviously pleasurable plaudits and roses to the more sublime and ridiculous ... usually peppered with expletives and invariably ending up telling me "to go burn in Hell!"
The incantation, when you think about it, poses an intellectual dilemma for, if at the end of my earthly sojourn, I will -- as I intend -- have my mortal remains cremated, how will it be possible for me to be incinerated yet again in Hell, if indeed it exists! On the other hand, the fiery furnaces must be extensively overheating in contemplation over the arrival, at some time in the future, of the bulk of the world's lawyers, politicians and soon to be former residents of the White House to boot!
It's all words!
If God indeed exists ... as well she must ... it's doubtful if she'll be anything like her Old Testament predecessor whose inculcated wrath could easily equal the butchery enlisted by George W. Bush in the furtherance of his own ambition to take over her role as ruler of the Universe!
But, when enflamed rhetoric comes from a former Education (?) Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, justifying a desire to "burn alive" anyone who attacks controversial President Hugo Chavez Frias, it surpasses any intellectual debate on the qualities of Christianic "hell fire and brimstone" and is brought down with a violent bump in brutal REALITY!
If so, what does it say for the moral, never mind the judicial, content of the PSUV's nascent political ethic?
What does the brutality of such contemplation contribute to President Hugo Chavez Frias' original ambition of bringing 21st Century-style socialism (...NOT communism) to benefit the Venezuelan people?
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Is Izturiz' brutal statement a further indication that the Chavez regime is digging its own grave?
Isn't it enough that George W. Bush continues to slaughter millions around the world?
Is it really "stomach-able" to regress to the horrific epoch of when Andean Merida's founder, Juan Rodriguez Suarez, was brutally dragged by galloping horses to have his bloodied body then savagely quartered and denied a Christian burial for the grievous offense of having sited the colonial city a few hundred meters out of kilter with what the Spanish King had ordained ... from several thousand miles away in Madrid!
Personally, I had always believed -- and nevertheless continue to believe -- and experience -- Venezuelans to be a warm and loving people, filled with welcoming 'mi casa es tu casa' (my home is your home) welcome and generosity.
So what's gone wrong to have former Minister Aristubulo Izturiz resurrect the brutalities of five centuries ago and justify the burning alive of anyone who dares to attack President Hugo Chavez Frias?
Can we conjecture that it is only feckless and reckless rhetoric?
Roy S. Carson
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