This

is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

Anyone

still attracted to the illusion of socialism and its promise of social justice

and wealth redistribution needs to check out what’s happening in Venezuela. Seventeen

years of Bolivarian revolutionary repression and ripping off an oil-rich nation

have left its people without food, electrical power or even toilet paper.

Now,

the despotic regime founded by the radical leftist, Hugo Chavez, has declared a

state of emergency.  It justified this

extreme measure by asserting the United States was organizing a coup – a

preposterous claim given President Obama’s friendly attitude towards Chavez and

his successor, Nicholas Maduro. 

The

people of Venezuela have already expressed how fed up they are with Maduro’s

misrule.  Last year, they gave control of

parliament to a coalition of opposition parties now pursuing a legal means of

removing Maduro from power.  They, not the regime, deserve our

support. 

This

is Frank Gaffney.