William Chirolas -- World News Trust
Jan. 9, 2007 -- I just completed viewing the movie The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Kin Bartley and Donnacha O'Brian
sponsored by the BBC among others, which is posted all over the internet
(here is one location). I downloaded it to my computer so
that I can post it on various sites later today. To say that watching the people of Venezuela
restore Democracy after a coup by the Venezuelan military sponsored by the rich
was an emotional experience is to understate the feelings that well up.
Perhaps someone could tell me if/when this 2002 movie was
played on American TV or Cable, because I do not recall that it has been played
in our media. Indeed our media came to mind as the movie showed Fox Cable News
type editing by the privately owned Venezuelan TV stations -- editing the right
wing killing of Chavez supporters, showing the sadly ineffective side arm (One in four Venezuelan’s carry a side arm) return
fire, from behind protective structures, at the right wing snipers perched on
the top of surrounding buildings -- never showing that the crowd below was long
gone, never showing the snipers, and claiming it was the Chavez supporters that
caused the earlier deaths actually caused by the right wing snipers.
Then the right wing's gloating on TV after
the coup about how they had planned everything, juxtaposed with our leaders
like Colin Powell and GOP members of Congress saying how democratic the coup
was and how justified it was by Chavez's undemocratic rule and by those deaths,
was a startling proof of how not honorable our GOP leaders are. Seeing Ari at
the Whitehouse briefing stating the deaths were due to Chavez and the coup was
a will of the people democratic change in government together with the
assertion "that is what happened," made me appreciate the press
secretaries job under Bush -- a job filled so well by Ari and now former Fox
Newsperson Tony Snow. Indeed I have new appreciation
for our mainstream media and its willingness to broadcast as truth the lies of
the right wing rich/corporate/GOP, casting every truth brought forth by
Democrats as just one side of a discussion.
The idea that the left does not need guaranteed access to TV
-- be it by way of the Reagan killed Fairness Doctrine and a non-political FCC,
or by way of ownership of media by unions or foundations -- was shot out of the
water by this movie. American Democracy
appears to mean backing of a government by corporations and those that benefit
from those corporations -- it does not mean 50.1 percent of the voting age population
or more. And Corporations will not let
truth be broadcast if it hurts their owners/advertisers’ plans for the future.
Our CIA's involvement in protecting American Corporation's
economic interests has got to stop. The
CIA's acting as the United Fruit Corporation' militia was part of the recent
CIA bio movie "The Good Shepherd", and sadly it looks like at least
part of our CIA has never stopped putting "protecting American economic
interests" well above any concept of human rights or democracy.
I suggest America’s
rich should watch this movie and note the section where the rich estate owners
group meets and is warned by their leader that a lot of their servants support
Chavez politically, so they should not trust their servants (as the details of
their plans to destroy Chavez might get back Chavez).
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William Chirolas brings 40 years of real-world business experience in
local, state, national, and international tax, pensions, and finance to
the world of blogging. A graduate of MIT, he calls the Boston area
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