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2007-04-19 Caribbean-Latin America

Venezuela Imposes Mandatory 4-Hour Weekly Socialism Re-Education

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-19 10:46|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There's 1/10th of the nation's productivity flushed down the crapper.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-04-19 11:33|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-04-19 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 [Begin heavy sarcasm]Wow! I never saw this coming! Who would have imagined it! [End heavy sarcasm]

The stalinization of Venezuela proceeds apace.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2007-04-19 11:33|| 2007-04-19 11:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Must be importing American primary/secondary school curriculum approved and developed by the NEA.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-19 11:45|| 2007-04-19 11:45|| Front Page Top

#4 "basic tools for analyzing reality, the environment, the role of the state and socialist scheme,"

In just four hours?
Nice...

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-19 11:53|| 2007-04-19 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 The 4 Hours Hate? Inflation, I guess.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-04-19 13:21|| 2007-04-19 13:21|| Front Page Top

#6 "And if you still don't understand, we will yell it at you through a bullhorn!"

Posted by Raj 2007-04-19 13:22|| 2007-04-19 13:22|| Front Page Top

#7 How long 'til the 're-education camps' start construction, somewhere in the Bolivian jungle?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-04-19 14:04|| 2007-04-19 14:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Nah, the recalcitrant ones will have to be sent to special camps where they can concetrate on being good socialists. They could be called, oh, I don't know, maybe concentration camps or something.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-04-19 14:58|| 2007-04-19 14:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Measles making a comeback in the land of 21st Century Socialism.

Posted by Shipman 2007-04-19 15:04|| 2007-04-19 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, if anybody hasn't been paying attention up to now, that's the official "line between authoritarianism and totalitarianism" that Hugo just goose-stepped over.

Full-on Cultural Revolution claptrap. Wonderful.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-04-19 16:06|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-19 16:06|| Front Page Top

#11 'We do the concentrating, they do the camping'

Posted by eLarson 2007-04-19 17:20|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-04-19 17:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe we need four hours of capitalist training every week for capitalist societies, too. Then again, maybe not because capitalism makes sense and we don't need support groups.

This seems like a precursor to the village meetings some communist societies have to keep the population under control. They meet every morning to discuss anything or anyone unusual they have seen in the last 24 hours. The police act on the input. Very effective means of keeping the population on the straight and narrow red path. They probably give a nickel as a reward to anyone who comes up with something interesting.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-19 18:00|| 2007-04-19 18:00|| Front Page Top

#13 How about 4 hour "Gun control" Classes, also called "Target shoting And safe handling"

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-19 19:35|| 2007-04-19 19:35|| Front Page Top

#14 I sometimes shoot, sometimes shot, sometimes shoot shot.
You figure it out.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-19 19:36|| 2007-04-19 19:36|| Front Page Top

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