Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-28 Thread Ken Brown
"James A. Donald" wrote: > Harmon Seaver: > >Why not the army? > > If it was only the executives and a handful of highly qualified > specialists, you would not need the army. Strikers are mostly oil industry. And better-paid workers, technicians, engineers & so on. They might include safety

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-24 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:53:04PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > > Perhaps they are exercising their will over the facilities of > production and distribution by CIA microwaves beamed into > people's brains :-) Given the general knownothing, lockstep mentality exhibited by the Bushites, th

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 23 Jan 2003 at 9:48, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:38:47AM -0800, James A. Donald > wrote: > > > > If it was only the executives and a handful of highly > > qualified specialists, you would not need the army. >Of course you would. Look, once again, this isn't

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: > > > > > Well, but only a strike of the executives and some > > > > > technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: > > > > When they bring out the army against the strikers as > > > > well as foreign scab labor, it is the workers. Harmon Seaver: > > >Nope,

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-21 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 05:44:59PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > Harmon Seaver: > > > > Well, but only a strike of the executives and some > > > > technicians. Not of the general workers. > > James A. Donald: > > > When they bring out the army against the strikers as well > > > as fore

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-21 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: > > > Well, but only a strike of the executives and some > > > technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: > > When they bring out the army against the strikers as well > > as foreign scab labor, it is the workers. Harmon Seaver: >Nope, not a chance. Most

Re: CDR: Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-20 Thread Marc de Piolenc
Harmon Seaver wrote: >It's pretty clear by now that last Spring's attempted coup and the current > strike was all engineered by the CIA and the current whitehouse scum. Chaves > must be a pretty decent guy if he's not rounding up all those bozos who were > making the trips to DC just before

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-20 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:56:26PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > On 20 Jan 2003 at 10:42, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > Well, but only a strike of the executives and some > > technicians. Not of the general workers. > > When they bring out the army against the strikers as well as > foreign scab lab

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-20 Thread Harmon Seaver
Here's a couple of articles that seem a bit more balanced: http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/1561494.php http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41444-2003Jan11.html -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-20 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:10:52PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > A recent news article described the nationwide strike in Venezuela, in > protest against the nascent dictatorship of Hugo Chavez, as seeming "like > something from fiction." Well, yes, it seems very similar to one work of > fiction

CDR: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela,

2003-01-20 Thread Matthew X
There's a theory that Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein had anal sex and nine hours later,Mongo poopped out...I don't buy that as I suspect he is a clone of cali survivalist,Leonard Lake but neither theory has been confirmed. Look Steve,if Chavez gets you hot and bothered so much then why not put a f

Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-19 Thread Steve Schear
A recent news article described the nationwide strike in Venezuela, in protest against the nascent dictatorship of Hugo Chavez, as seeming "like something from fiction." Well, yes, it seems very similar to one work of fiction in particular: Ayn Rand's prophetic 1957 novel, "Atlas Shrugged." The