Last week, the US Ambassador to Fascist Italy Venezuela, was chased through the streets of Caracas by supporters of Benito Mussolini Hugo Chavez after visiting a low income neighborhood to give out baseball equipment to local children.
As Ambassador William Brownfield’s convoy left the charity event, he was confronted by angry protestors throwing eggs, hitting the cars and shouting anti-American slogans. The police “escort,” simply looked on as Chavez’s cronies threatened the Ambassador and his staff. Naturally the US embassy complained to the Chavez government and naturally Chavez used the incident to blame the victim, in the latest Venezuelan example of pulling a Mussolini.
Chavez accused the Americans of provoking the event, furthermore he threatened that if the US ambassador did not stop provoking such attacks he would be expelled from the country. This blame the victim mentality is not unlike the circumstances surrounding Kristallnacht when Hitler’s cronies blamed the Jews for fanning the flames of violence and murder on that inauspicious day in 1938. [No we are not saying the destruction of Jewish owned businesses or the murder of hundreds is equal to the injuries sustained by the US Ambassador, it is simply an analogy likening the mindset of Hitler and Chavez]
In a nationally televised speech, designed to exploit the incident to its fullest potential, Chavez noted to Brownfield, “I’m going to throw you out of Venezuela if you continue provoking the Venezuelan people.” To his credit, Chavez is the consummate politician and has a keen sense of propaganda, no one, save Joseph Goebbels has ever been more adept at manipulating the public to his own ends. The people of Venezuela have been so swayed by the magic of Hugo Chavez that they have graciously accepted the fact that under Chavez press freedom and electoral choice have been eliminated while poverty and unemployment have increased.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4894478.stm
