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Brooks Wilson's Economics Blog: Chavez and Mugabe at Copenhagen

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Chavez and Mugabe at Copenhagen

(HT The Drudge Report)  Andrew Bolt describes a scene from Copenhagen for the heraldsun.com.au in, "Putting our economy in the hands of Chavez fans" that should give pause to Americans as leaders from Western countries negotiate the wealth transfer to third world countries necessary to establish a global cap and trade system for carbon. 
President Chavez brought the house down.

When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause.

When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening...
But then he wound up to his grand conclusion – 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ - “our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.” He won a standing ovation...

And a mass-murderer at Copenhagen lectures us about our crimes:

The anti-capitalist theme was picked up on by Mr Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s veteran President, who is the target of Western sanctions over alleged human rights abuses. “When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it’s we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp and sink and eventually die.”

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