Every time I see them on the streets of Chicago I feel like yelling something or letting the horse loose. It hurts me, so I guess it must hurt them too. Please spread the knowledge and DON’T use them in any city you see them. Do something, say something. Stand up against Cruelty!
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I am not the author of this post, however, it was clear and short and straight to the point so I borrow it to share i with everyone.
Mr. Stone,
I haven’t seen your documentary “South of the Border” but from articles already circulating over the web I can see where this is going.
I want to invite you to my house in Caracas.
I want to invite you to stay here for a month, to live here as one of us Venezuelans,
I invite you to go to the supermarket and try to keep up with a minimal salary and have food in your refrigerator,
I want to invite you for a drink at night in a city where 80 to 120 people die each week in the hands of street violence, robberies and kidnappings.
I want to invite you to talk about the things which worry us about this goverment in one of the 132 radio stations closed by Chavez because their line-up was not in the standards of the “revolution”.
I want you to go and march with us when our goverment approves a law to change the educational system and where the state will decide to teach our kids “the way of the revolution” and then get
tear gas bombs thrown by the police and National Guard, and run with us as you see old people lying on the street suffocating from tear gas!
I want to invite you to a country where you see kids and people begging for food in the streets every day, and know all the money from the recent years of high oil prices is going to support revolutions in other countries.
I invite you to see the city I grew up in, falling apart in pieces!
You seem like a smart person.
It is easy to travel around South America and interview leaders…
Come a stay here with us, open your eyes, see the real side of the story: the story of the people, not the story of the leaders…
Hugo Chavez is a leader, full of ideas that are destroying our beloved country, and feeding HATE into our continent!
I invite you to make a documentary of the “true” reality and then be persecuted by Chavez because your documentary didn’t portray him as he wanted.
You are lucky to live in a country where you can make a film like “W” and won’t get death threats or be put in jail because your point of view was opposite to the one of your President at the time.
Andres Payares
I’m not into politics nor I claim to know much about the situation in my own country, Venezuela. But I do know that just by watching the trailer of Oliver Stone‘s “South of the Border“, I can see where this is going; I can see how he is portraying Chavez as a misunderstood, revolutionary hero of the masses.
Tariq Ali, the other writer of this film (considered a documentary -maybe a mocumentary-) is a Pakistani-born British political activist, an ANTI-WAR SPOKESPERSON. How ironic knowing that Venezuelans have been suffering an internal war for almost 10 years. Mr. Ali you just made the war worst with this film because you only heard one side, because you believe lies… How innocent of you. How naive.
Don’t be fooled, this is CHAVEZ-FUNDED propaganda. According to rumors, it only cost the Venezuelan Government about $40million…nada.
I wonder about the soul of Tara Tremaine, and her company, Good Apple Productions! I wonder how everyone involved in this, yet another scam, sleep at night. I wonder about their conscience. Money, money, money is all that moved you.
I hate getting involved with anything related to escualidos or oposición as much as I hate getting passionate about issues against the Venezuelan government, but Stone went too far.
I acknowledge that he was persuaded by a lot of money and even accept that Chavez is a funny, charismatic un-leader trying to play a power game with the whole population, but you don’t go and pretend to make a documentary about someone who has thrown the country back a few decades; you can’t make us forget the deaths, the pain, the lack of medicines, hospitals, jobs, food….
You can’t erase what has happened. It’s an insult to those who have been fighting endlessly, with their lives; Not me, I’ve been in the USA for over 15 years. But the millions who have suffered the consequences of a fake democracy, disguised as salvation, making the poor poorer.
Oliver, your job is to boycott your own film and say you’re sorry.
We all dare you to spend a month in any Venezuelan slum so you can perceive the harm done and what is yet to come.
I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for your karma. You sold your soul to the devil. Poor you.
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Making other people happy is, I think, the best feeling. So obviously I want to be bathed by that sensation all the time. Because of simple pleasure, I crave to see my friends smiling and achieving their goals, I aim to learn about strangers who do well, who beat the odds, who survive the unexpected; and those who make a difference.
I get such a high from their success in whatever it is they experience; a safe pregnancy, a promotion, a home run, a happy divorce, a new pet…
Right now I’m reading a book by Elizabeth Gilbert called: EAT PRAY LOVE and it’s simply delicious, spiritually lovely and so funny. I’m sure she doesn’t need the promotion because she’s a BEST SELLER author, but I think many women should read this book; moreover if you are stuck in a dead-end relationship. DON’T BE AFRAID!
Another thing is, this passionate author talked at www.ted.com and this is when I first learned about her; it captured my attention, heart, soul in such a way that I bought the book. So, the best thing when you feel down, when you think you’re not getting where you want to: achieving your dreams for example… is to watch her talk, here:
So, my dear stranger, my unknown admirer, my web-pal, my antithesis, my friend…. Make me happy by being happy…. ALL you have to do is SHOW UP. Good luck to you. ONE LOVE
Isa
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